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

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iylw on the nose 5' 'ij Making the i grade-that was the name of the game when it came to re- search papers, tests, and daily homework assigned quite frequently. How did students pull out the grades and participate in all the extra-curricular ac- tivities at school, one might ask? Most chose to solve this problem with their own method of brown-nosing, depending on the teacher in- volved. Brown-nosing is a gift! You have to know how to read a teacher before you go sticking your nose where it doesn't belong! For some just buy them food, said Frankie Rios. This method was like a form of cheating without the punishment. Was it successful? Accord- ing to Cheryl Jarrett, brown-nosing was so popu- lar because students are making the grade . generally lazy and always looking for a break. Person- ally a big smile and a quick hug is all you need. Cheating in the class- 2 0 ACADEMICS As a teaches it is fim to watch frankie and S,qQtt's ,pose :turn brownerl.,They're at ev- ery volleyball game hooping to impressgme withgenthusiasm. But It reaHy'doesn'T get them anywhere! , , i coach sarcoma OH PRETTY PLEASE! Begging for that extra point, tries to sweet talk her way to an Wi with Mrs. Roberts. Iphoto by Sean Rubinol Q5 POWER PLAY . . . Mrs. Farr wisely takes advantage of her student in need of extra points, John King, by using her loquacious ways to get him to do something for her. Iphota by Sean Rubinoj 4 'Q I l , AW V ifiliit . uf 't P ' fvafrfwt W ff

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'S 7 . Calculus formulates pizza Finishing their final bites of mouth-watering pizza, calculus students Barbie Flaten and John Knott accept their reward for perfect attendance eagerly as the lunch time hunger pains set in. iPhoto by Cindy Hughes! Exercising good attendance Freshman attendance winner Jennifer Wykes wanns up in P.E. as she smiles about the twenty-tive dollars she is about to receive. 4Photo by Kevin Brilesl swap punches Prairie national merit finalists David Barker and Eric Van Blarcum debate over a problem in last night's homework before school. iPhoto by Kevin Brilesl The two that we arrived, the stif- fened along with the competitors, due to our aca- demic reputation around town. The red and gold brought about everywhere a contest showed its face. From a speech tournament - math contests to just be- ing there, a winner always hands down pleased with the individual per- formances of our students. Al- though, as a team, we didn't fin- ish as well as expected, there is a to, vos X 5.281196 wtf, o5 st as-N 5.9 Q xi 50695 X0 'O e . of Q0 N9 'KS Q5 Kglxx. 42: ,ave ebbx Q seo 1029 s so 813' X9 5 19 362,-359 YA 0,9 Sex X, il ec, ol' 09- Q, 39' ea 966299-oe 32, '95 gothic ga ' walked the halls. Many of the '29 0 , 09 Q0 -ofa Q19 Q sored their own contests to en- courage an Academic spark among the students. Mu Alpha Theta and the MathfScience clubs both held district-wide X se' ee' ,y'i5'x eq 0 Q1 Q . c ga ex 6x-gx00ox0eXG0g-el- sox 0 icgxix' 9x0 X 631540 Talk about an incentive to learn! Many students, such as Char- lie Seager, October's sophomore representative, seeing visions of new tapes and extra gas money, drug their lifeless bodies to school on those dreaded Mon- day mornings, whether the Eng- lish paper was finished or not. Along the same lines, Mrs. Can- non's AP Calculus class won their own personal pizza party for best attendance. Mov- ing to the west side of the building, known as the Speech Department, a new group of over-achievers worked diligently all year long to preserve their first-rate repu- Q0 XX 5 51 e ex 'A qs Q X39 s H Q- G yt e 19 9 so 0 to at Q G - we 0 1 Q 5 L Y. Q1 X Q30 t Q96 at Q gx fl clubs and organizations spon- P'5o0Iv Sc0e5 Gio X055 190 we 9 -A Q, A '90 tournaments in which many first place ribbons found their homes on south-side mantles. The November 14th MathfS- cience Invitational in Azel, Tex- as was represented well with the Freshman-Sophomore team pulling out a first, third, and fourth place. Team Sponsor, Donna Costello l'm very lot of promise for future compe- titions. In addition this year the school district placed an em- phasis on punctual attendance, offering random rewards in all four classes each month in the amount of one hundred dollars. X9 N0 tation of years past. HI was real- ly surprised and proud to be the only sophomore to break into novice Lincoln Douglas so far. It was a major achievement for mef' said Apollo Bacarella. We rose to the occasion once again, leaving no blue untouched. First place became routine with our students winning hands down. 55 mo 95 t 'pence 5' ,Q X 625 QQ Klo 05 90 zcgxeive Dbxidzeg QQ s 3, 5 ste' eq' 9 2158 '69 B69 AQUQQ B x to 2 of Qs xx Y :X X' K' 5 x xox-at we 439 ' 0 o ' A 90 Z X ACADEMICS 2

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fu. .. V .-mf, W z w if Ab V , 1. .1 f T0 PLAY E mmf W M. Mqx fx . qv. it-f P liaa xy E f ' ' l g' i' E an ENOUGH IS ENOUGH . . . Brown-nosing it to the extreme, Kristin Murphy has her nose blackened for the Mickey Mouse effect on Cartoon Day. lphoto by Karl Bertai PASSIN' THE BUCK . . . English scholar, Boyd Hansboro, finds a way to please both Mrs. Sneed and his average with a little incentive on his part. Iphoto by Sean Rubinol sr RIGHT ON THE NOSE