Westlake High School - El Paisano Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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l A When Everyone llHOMECOMING WAS A SUCCESS AND SPECIAL BECAUSE WE ALL WORKED TOGETHER TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. meow senior Got Real lCrazyl There comes a week every year when breezes get cooler and routines become set in concrete and an iner plicable excitement hangs over the Commons, the hallways and the gym. Early Monday morning, a few signs appeared in the stairwells proclaiming loyalty to llour guys . Mum advertisev ments from the FHA members and the remnants of cookies lay personale ized and discarded on top of football players, lockers. By Friday, the bricks 0f the walls had disappeared under layers of but, Cher paper and red, white and blue streamers. Posters threatened to stomp out Lampasas , and students came to class in Hawaiian outfits, togas and pajamas. Homecoming week may have seemr ed like some kind of pagan ritual to outsiders, but for students its arrival was a confirmation of fall and a Chance for the student body to uget crazy together. It was a week of school unity, Juna ior cheerleader D'Anclra Fisher said. Everyone was eager to help, and everyone was willing to do what it took to make homecoming a big sue cess. Monday and Tuesday afternoon, dedicated members of each class spent their time on hands and knees sloshing paint on paper, organizmg baking committees and decorating fouthall players' lockers with con; struction paper and foil. On Wednesday afternumn, puzzled adults leve hy Walsh'Tarleton where pickup trutlx'x, uld Jalmpies and floats sluwly maile their way up Pinnacle and tn the high sthiml parking lot. The lWIJlHLl 'lnllnlj Cdr Cilninn, d new idea organized by the Student Council, ended with a street dance, bonfire and live band Thursday brought the final rush of signapainting, decorating and last! minute touches. It was also rehearsal night for class skits which involved anywhere from the entire senior class to a few select freshman. uThe teachers greatly contributed to the high spirits during the week and spent time working on skits? DlAndra said. Friday culminated the planning, painting and painstaking work. Early in the morning, students arrived in the cafeteria tC put together a few last signs and to put together a last; minute skit. The pep rally, an hour; long affair, boasted flashing lights, screaming cheerleaders, mums and a lighted sign proclaiming the 1984 senior class The Class With Class . Excitement continued throughout the day. Friday afternoon a reception for former Westlake students was hosted in the Commons, and Older, familiar faces made up a large portion of the audience at the football game that night. uOne of the best things about homecoming was seeing all the exes, junior Laura Matthew said. lllt was the first time I'd seen a lot of them since summer. After weeks of preparation, homea coming was over, but one last contria bution was made by the football , players before they went to change for the Homecoming dance. llThe football team absolutely had to win the game that night because thatls the peak of all the activities, DlAndra said. HThat's the cause for all the excntement. FAST TIMES HIP, HIP, HOORAY In the spirit of the sen, ior homecoming skit. football players get radical and lift class president Craig Corona above their heads in anticipation of the clash with Lampasas. i 133 Homecoming

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71Lef3wtof7m FIRESTARTER. With care, junr ior Chris Hamm lights the XV for W'estlake at the homecoming bonfire. The bonfire drew crowds of Students on Thursday night prior to homecoming. COURT DECISIONS. Homecoming royalty members pose for Bradley Wilson, Picayune phty tographer. They are junior April NeWe ton, sophomore Jennifer Matteson, freshman Christie Chapman and , seniors Alison Snyder, Laura Mangum I and Queen Jamie Patterson. STILL LIFE. After the homecomv ing parade, automobile entries took the sidelines as the parking lot hosted an afternoon spiritvraising pep rally fol, lowed by a street dance. MUM,S THE WORD. Junior Jacque Jones works through her lunch hour to ready another homecoming mum. A traditiont the wearing of mums, took on a personal note as FHA X members handcrafted each sale. father, senior Jamie Patterson learns that she is the 1983 homecoming queen. Students elected the queen and her court by popular vote. i i i t t DADS PROUD. Escorted by her 1 I 13 7 Student Life

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7lzeBeAJfag7m oin e Same Old Things FOOD. Confined to campus during lunch, freshr man Mason Lincoln buys food at the snack bar. Every day freshmen and sophomores filled the cafeteria while upperclassmen routinely left campus. 1 llSOMETIMES ITS REALLY HARD TO GET GOING AT 4 AM, BUT ITS WORTH THE EFFORT WHEN 1 WIN. The alarm sounds at 7 a.mi every weekday morning. The bleary'eyed student rolls reluctantly out of bed and into the shower. After downing a bowl of the Breakfast of Champions, he begins his day: gains knowledge for seven hours, comes back home and finishes off the day with a little homework or television. Amid the politics of lengthening the school year and even the school day, students survived with set roue tines that began in August, and by May were a permanent part of their lifestyle. uI go to the same classes, get there about the same time every day and walk to and from class with the same people, junior Rusty Gregory said. Hlt gets real old, but it's over after awhile anyway. Students measured time on any; where from an hourly basis before a research paper was due to a yearly ba- sis as they looked forward to a special event or season. After football season we start preparing for the next season, junior Bobby Jones said. llThe preparation is a routine because I lift weights nearly every day. Some students, sporting calendars and appointment hooks, had a differ, ent routine for each day, but the conv stant influx of activities became an exhausting routine in itself. USometimes lld measure my time by the week, senior Susan Gillean said. uI'd have a paper due and a test and a meeting, and lid think lifl can just get through this week everything will be all right: Then the next week would come and it would start all over again.H Others had unpredictable routines. ul get up at 7 a.m. every morning eat the same thing-steak and tortillas-and get picked up for school at 8 a.m., junior Kim Fleming said. uThen, after school, I juggle, watch MTV lmusic televisionl, do home, work or practice karate. Even the busiest students had things that never changed in their day, like what they ate or did not eat for breakfast, when they made time for their homework and who they looked for in the halls. But for some, routine was welcome. especially if they got paid for it. uMaking pizzas at Gatti's can grow old, especially working four to six days a week freshman Alex Engle' man said. HBut I know that I am mak ing money and when that paycheck h in my hand the routine is worth it. 134 Student Life