Skyline High School - Origin Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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Cafeteria food vs. brown bags; students choose sack lunches The food is awful, said junior Charlotte Williams, there's nothing down there but reprocessed, artificial and soybean food. Students' opinions about eating in the cafeteria and bringing a lunch from home varied, but most students ended up trying to eat school food. Students chose cafeteria food for various reasons, some were too lazy to get up in the morning to make a lunch. I don't have time to make a lunch in the morn- ings. It's hard enough just getting out of bed.” commented senior Sharon Wilson. Bringing the same lunch food, day in and day out made sack lunches sometimes boring to many. Students had the choice between school food or a peanut butter sandwich. In most cases, students chose mysten,' burge for convenience. On the other hand, some were ve: creative in preparing a gourmet lunc Students came to school with homemac tamales, stew and vegetables. The lunchroom became more popular aft the arrival of the new salad bar. The bar a rived the third week in January. For minimal 12 cents an ounce, students cou enjoy foods such as turkey slices, pota salads, corn relishes, along with the reguh salad fixings: lettuce, tomatoes, radishes ar dressings. Salads were weighed prior to ac ding dressing or croutons. Salad was great every now and then, b1 there was still the problem of stale lui chroom food. The only choice students had was to be sa: and bring a boring peanut butter sandwic from home or be adventurous and try sorr mystery food from the cafeteria. ► Oh. yuck! Senior Todd Bethke eats a hamburger and fries from one of the short lines. Photo by Elizabeth Gomez 26 Student life

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Proud to be me. Drill lieutenant Karen Littrell knows w important a smile is to a performance as she stands the sidelines before the Roosevelt halftime. For houttes. a smile was part of the uniform. Photo by isti Hundt ▼ I can't believe It! The announcement of the homecom- ing court often produced many expressions. Lori Mar- shall shows a look of exhultation as she is announced senior princess at the homecoming dance. Photo by John Blackburn Tell-tale faces reveal feelings Students’ faces told many stories. Those people who usually kept quiet about their inner feelings, often walked around telling a story that they didn’t know they were telling. Feelings of anger, guilt, happiness and depression could be dicphered from faces. Insecurity and worry were other feelings which occasionally ap- peared on student’s faces. Some students suc- ceeded in concealing their feelings. But some feelings just couldn’t be controlled. One such feeling was embarrass- ment. This feeling was so hard to cover up because one usually became very hot and turned a bright red. When I am in an embarassing situation, I try to look as cool and as calm as I can. remark- ed one student. Facial features also told a lot about a per- son. Age, personality and attitude usually could be read off one’s face. Teachers also had revealing faces. It was always easy to tell the way a teacher felt by his face. ◄ Being promoted. Roger Spaulding is proud to ac- cept his new medals from his superior officers. Photo by Elizabeth Gomez Student life 25

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 My lunch is better than yours. After unpacking her lunch, senior Karen Litlrell starts to eat her sandwich and banana. Photo by Elizabeth Gomez ▼ Where are they? Awaiting her friends, senior Iaxpiita Brown looks around for her friends before starting her lunch, brought from home. Photo by Elizabeth Gomez Students go out of way for taste The same old com- plaining about the same old food gave some of the students, who con- sidered themselves daredevils, incentive to find a new source of midday munchies — so they turned to their own kitchens and brown paper bags, only to discover new complica- tions and complaints. One of the common complications was los- ing a lunch. There was nothing more embar- rassing than having to go to class and ask the teacher if he’s found a stray sack lunch. Another example of an uncomfortable situa- tion was bringing fried chicken. The chicken would often leave a grease stain on the sack, and students would try to hide it so others wouldn't poke fun at them. A few students wouldn't bring just a plain brown sack, the brought ''designer” bags. Some sacks had students' names on them, others had car- toons of Garfield, and some even had a print of chains and a padlock on them, a humorous way of warding off lunch stealers. There was just no way to beat the system. Complaints. Com- plaints. Complaints. And therefore, it seem- ed that students couldn’t win for losing or couldn’t eat for complaining. Student life 27