South Grand Prairie High School - Signal Yearbook (Grand Prairie, TX)

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sa 5. +o 5 its oo ,kk Q 15-ig x l , I 'f like Home Sweet Home . Half of the reason some stu- dents went to class was to think up some way to go home. Such excuses included having the plague, car trouble, and a death in the family. Atten- dance secretary, Linda Em- mons said, you'd be surprised how many grandparents die around the holidays. Some of the more memorable excuses included girlfriends and boy- friends calling in for each oth- er. 'lOnce a boy called in and was so nervous that he said he was his mother instead of his father, said Mrs. Emmons. The one which gets the most chuckles is the the day the girl who called and said she couldn't come to school be- cause her hair just wouldn't do. exclaimed Mrs. Parker. Students needed that mid-se- mester break from academic pressure. Chris Hart always used the excuse, I was in a car wreck. based upon his driving record. Sometimes it is to fin- ish old homework, watch T.V. or simply catch up on the sleep lost the night before due to too many activities and not enough hours in a day. CHECKING IT OUT . . . As Chalonda Marcus sign the freshman clipboard, her dad veri- fies her legitimate excuse for leav- ing school by being there.

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ln ten years, l plan to be like Claire Huxta- ble on the Cosby show:l'll be an attor- ney man'ied to a doc- tor and tilty rich ibut without the five kidsll Linda Benjamin 1 lr H. -asf' M95 lf I had one wish it would be to play pro- fessional football as a quarterback and be happily married to April Watson. Shawn Duhon l hope to be a junior partner in a large in- vestment tinn. Soon after, l will retire and teach, hoping to do as good a job as Mr. Fitzgerald. Eric VanBlarcum In ten years, I hope to be out of medical school and two years into paying off the debt incurred b eight years of medi- cal school. David Barker Q ,Q Q' ri: ,,-i - .,t.....2 t g ACADEMICS -va SLEEPING AROUND . . . Many students chose to take a day out of school to catch up on their valuable sleep lost from last night's teml paper. NURSING AN EXCUSE . . . Shawn Murray gets his hand ex- amined in hopes of finding a way to check out.

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gvzleafldemoald My most embarrass ing moment was whe my boyfriend, whil warming up for a dis- trict game, went up' for a dunk shot andjfip lost his pants. My friends never let me live it down. Sherronda Williams sy I I Ten years from now l1l probably still be in school, but I hope to be experiik menting in psychobiology .-,' Hopefully I won't be fat andfkf have ten kids. Stacy Lancaster Well, I love to analyze scansian and meter in poet- ry. That's right up there with grouting the bathroom, tile. ' Julie Neal r' .Su QA 1 1 i 'N'w+ HITTING THE BOOKS . . . Theresa Lamb stmggles to get that last answer of her homework. HUNGRY FOR KNOWLEDGE . . . John Cinotto crams math prob lems along with a bunch of junk , t it CK We X ig, s Y' 1 ? ,W .1 fl YK 1' ' -:gi Y W F' wg E , N w fi is Ss V P ACADEMICS food on the night before his ex- 81715. . ' .ggi M n W in 'Z 47 num