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

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lld nan r KITCHEN AIDE. Confined to the kitchen, sophomore Stacy Strik- land washes the dinner diShes for hrmxnie points. 145 You're Grounded RERUNS. Unable togo 0ut,junr ior Julie Roach settles for watching uLove Boaf' reruns and talking on the phone. BORED STIFF. Locked in his room, freshman Randy LaGrange thinks of all the things he could be do ing if he hadn't been doing what he was doing that resulted in his confinement.

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7Ae8alaf7m Youlll Never Get Out llMY PARENTS MAY STOP ME 9 A aln FROM SEEING MY FRIENDS, BUT MY DOGS ARE ALWAYS WITH ME fggggfiggen DOING TIME 3 e , lemi l BEST FRIENDS. For company and consolation, junior Staci Biggar plays with her puppyedoggies dur- ing her grounded time at home. Go home. Do not pass Willies. Do not collect your allowance. Day after day and weekend after weekend, someone suffered. Someone was grounded. HWhen I am grounded Pm usually sitting at home watching the rev runs, freshman Kirk Holladay said. Although watching television brought temporary relief from the boredom of being grounded, sometimes even that didnlt help. lll sat at home and pouted because all of my friends were going out, junior Bryan Kuykendall said. For others, however, being grounded was not that big of a pro blem. I went out with my parents to movies and dinner and did family fun things together, senior Kelly Medley said. Older brothers and sisters also helped when students were technically confined to the house. uI have an older sister who would take me out when I was grounded without mom knowing it, freshman Angela Middleton said. With the large number of parents who used it, being grounded was an effective form of punishment and most students took it seriously, if only because if they disobeyed they faced an extension of their original sentence. Sometimes, though, boredom in' spired radical measures. ul would sneak out to be with my friendsf' sophomore Tracy Boyer said. HAfter coming home every day after school for weeks, it got too boring and I got desperate. 144 Student life

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71ae8wf a; 7m WvaRvK: The Volunteer ourvLetter 0rd PROTECTION. Volunteer firemen Tay and Trace Bond, brothers, stay after the bonfire to make sure that there's no problem with smoldering remains of the Westlake uW . -'- Working for the weekend, working on the weekend and working during the week: some students got jobs to earn money, but in a world where nothing seems free, others volunteered their time for work without pay. Organizations like the Key Club and the National Honor Society re' quired members to volunteer their services to be a part of the club. Seniors were also required to donate their time without wages for a government project. But others volunteered simply because they wanted to. uI like saving lives or a house thatls on fire because it gives me a good feeling, senior Todd Mack said. Todd served as a volunteer fire fighter for four years. Even though the fire fighters don't receive pay for their services they admitted they en a joy their work. iii like the dangerous work because it feels great when you iwin, a battle against a fire, Todd said. Another popular type of volunteer work performed by students was working in a hospital. ttDOING VOLUNTEER WORK WASNT AS BAD AS I THOUGHT IT WOULD. BE. IT WAS A GOOD EXPERIENCEPQSELTW uI liked the fact that l was doing 146 Student Life something worthwhile, sophomore Jeanie Trower said. HFor some of the patients it was the bright spot in their day when weld come in and talk for awhile. But doing volunteer work at a hospital was difficult at times. ltThe cancer wing was very depressing because one week yould visit a pa tient and the next week theylcl be gone, Jeanie said. Peer counseling also became more popular as a type of volunteer work. uI enjoy counseling junior high students because Ilm getting a chance to set an example for othersf, junior Scott Petty said. On the other side of the spectrum were those who worked for wages, but even those often said the money was not the main incentive they had to work, and their jobs reflected a commitment that was not all materialistic. 2 HI enjoy working with children because I feel we can learn from them, senior ReAnna Williams, a teacherls aide at Lamplighter School, said. HThey're interesting because they,re independent still and they have their own ideas about the world.