Taylor High School - Mallard Yearbook (Taylor, TX)

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oaded down with an over abundance of homework, L Lynn Mokry attempts to kick open the latch on her locker door while trying to balance her massive assortment of books. Books helped to label students who studied every night as those who took difficult college bound classes. Wearing her new academic sweater, Qa label ofa 90+ overall three year average! Julie Johnson watches other students receive their Rotary Club sweaters. Labeled as a photographer by her camera, Terri Walden focuses on the action of the Lady Duck volleyball game. 16 f That Special Touch aww aj! 'X XX xx 'fi 'X X Photo By Cynthia Karkoska

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IUX 1 xxx -.- lil ic' ,4 WWW, if Mr W 'wwf' T' WW ' .. ? 6, :e wi XM ,A Pho Karkoska Entering book numbers into the library's new filing computer, Dion Bradford types the information as Aida Trcvinio and Lupe Pesina call out the file numbers. Watching the screen carefully, Amy Hodon tries her luck at Toombstone Ci- ty while playing with her Texas In- struments home computer. Besides helping with school work and finances, home com- puters provided the basic fun of playing video games. Watering the shrubery around the house, Rob Marek talks to a friend on his cordless telephone. Cordless phones first made their appearance in business but soon in- vaded our homes. Electronic Toys f 15

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'Q YN qw R XXXXXX f X, 'Q XXXXNX a 4, abels Making a Name for Gurselves The eighties will be by all means remembered as the decade of labels. Calvin Klein, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Ralph Lauren became household words. The current trend was to wear some- one else's name. In the midst of all of the name dropping, we often forgot that we could be more easi- ly characterized by the things that we did rather than by something that someone else did. The photographer was un- mistakenly identified by the camera she carried with her everywhere. Hoops and other props made the Hi-Steppers easy to pick out of the student center crowd. Because they always car- ried their batons with them, we always knew which of the girls were twirlers, even if we didn't know their names. Letter jackets emerged as the most common form of identifying us and our accomplishments. Football players, basketball players, track team members, baseball players, and tennis team members earned letter jackets. Band members wore letter jackets. Seniors who maintained a 90 or above average for all four years received academic letter sweaters. Usually, these academically in- clined students could be easily recognized by the huge stack of books they carried. We didn't need to wear some- one else's name to be important. Our own achievements made us all special in our way. Our own labels that we earned for ourselves were the best. Opening her locker, Sylvia Gonzales at- tempts to put away some of her belongings before going home. A Hi-Stepper bag, pink hoops, warm ups, a drill team shirt, and a Hi-Stepper coat over her arm all label Sylvia as a senior member of the award winning drill team. Labels f 17