Taylor High School - Mallard Yearbook (Taylor, TX)

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, 1... fs., , 5. if 24 1 That Special Touch When the Party's Over Comes the Time to CRAM s we gathered up our books at the end of the day, we each p o n d e r e d t o ourselves: I've got a theme due in English tomorrow, a major test in plane geometry, and a major ,in chemistry. Thank goodness some of us didn't have jobs to go to after school. Most students especially those of us who were college bound, realized how imperative good grades could be, but sometimes the burden seemed too heavy to bear. We looked for fun, and whether we attended parties or just went to a dance, we found the excitement we craved. This new trend of letting things go became very apparent during the middle of the year. It also became apparent in our grades, which were rapidly going downhill. A middle ground needed to be established. A new pattern had been set, and studying was once again the name of the game. Surprisingly enough, we party-gocrs returned as students, and the parties dwindled down to only once or twice a month instead of the usual two or three times a week. As the end of the year ap- proached, final exams loomed ominously in the future. Those of us who had allowed our grades to slide ran around frantically, wondering what to study first. Notes had been lost or thrown away, papers could not be found, the list went on forever. Tension crackled in the air as the last week of school progressed. We had raised our grades enough to pass, and the only thing that worried us was those finals. On the last day of school, we all felt a sense of accomplishment, and we enjoyed the freedom of summe Waiting for help with his research paper Todd Lantzsch spends his lunch hour camping out in front of Miss Parsons' English room. Enjoying the solitude of an unusually com- fortable but out of the way place, Sandy Hurta studies her algebra in preparation for a test. TQ' I

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C Q of if 5 Z W i, if iv i X W QM '52 of A' ' ' M 'Q T33 A 3' 5 Photo By Cynthia Karkoska X-f Scattered books in a car show the good intentions of students. However, these same books will spend a lonely night without even being opened. Spending time studying in an unusually quiet Student Center, Lance Bland looks over his free enterprise homework. Studying f 25