Van Alstyne High School - Panther Yearbook (Van Alstyne, TX)

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x'i 5? Whopper double cheese please! Stu- dent Counc1l Premdent, Derek Bengt- son, and sponsor, Mrs, Howard, help prepare hamburgers for the Hamburger Supper held In October before the Howe football game. Blue, white forever! Several hlgh school studenis helped Cheer the Pan ther football team to the Area playoff game by dlsplaymg the proud Panther colors Student Life 5 j

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1.?! ,s s was Q. a wa $066 W061 Qafww 5:: Classrooms provide the environ ment that broadens one's horizons, makes one not only want to reach for the stars but the moon too??? Yes, this is the goal of every dweeb in town, but the students at Van A1- styne prefer a different point of view. This point of view includes not only having fun inside the class- room but outside as well. The school year is tilled with many activities to keep students on the go. Fall Festival and Homecoming play a major role during the first months of Division school. Toward mid February sen- iors are looking forward to May 29 tgraduationt as the upper classmen wait patiently for prom night. Each of these activities is able to create the memories that every stu- dent remembers as the best of times. Going to the prom with that special person or graduating at the top of the class serve as just a few. Howev- er, when the tables turn as they did this year, each activity DONE LIKE NEVER BEFORE, the outcome proves to be what memories are definitely made of. U

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Van Al- styne High Schoohs Fifty Year R e u n '1 o n on Sep- tember 20, 1 9 8 6 , brought to m i n d memories of the past, times of the present and thoughts of the future. Graduates came from all over, the oldest being Pru- dence Haven of California, from the Class of 1941. Many things were different than they are now. Latin was taught and the only sport girls could participate in was basketball. There was not a band Class but pri- vate lessons were given during the day. There were DONE goxa Wan gym The golden oldies. Ladies from the Classes in the roaring twenties remember the Good Ole' Days ot high school. E 6 Student Life h Out With The Old ... also services at the chapel every morning. Mimi Dix- on, a graduate said, We rode our horses eleven miles to school and tied them up outside. If it rained or the weather was bad I spent the night at my best friend's house because it was too far to go home. Another factor of the Fifty Year Reunion was the dedi- cation ceremony for the new catetorium and Middle School. School Board Presi- dent, David Bengtson, said, tllt took two years to plan for and was completed last summer. He and others gathered for the cremony which was followed by a barbecue dinner. In addition to it being Van Alstyne's reunion it was also Homecoming Day. There was no Homecoming then but the big football game was on Thanksgiving Day. It was Coach CE. Pad- gett's first year and they were playing their rivals, Whitewright. Coach Pad- gett said, As a coach at Van Alstyne, l have many fine memories of the school and the students in it. I'm glad I spent five years here. One of those memo- ries is that the football play- ers had to wear leather hel- mets, buy their own shoes and take cold showers. Last year on Homecom. ing Day, in addition to the annual dance for the High School, there was also a dance for all the past gradUe ates. There was music from all the way back to the twen- ties on up to the eighties.