Willis Middle School - Phoenix Yearbook (Chandler, AZ)

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XBOVE: Students woit for their food in the log ond Allison Pethick shore o lough dur- Jnch line. BELOW: Ninth graders, Joel Pre- ing fourth hour lunch. ABOVE: Ninth groder, Jere Christopher sips lemonode during fourth hour lunch. ABOVE RIGHT: Students in fifth hour lunch sociolize with their friends while waiting for the bell to ring, LEFT: A group of boys sit on the bleochers in the cofeterio to get owoy from the cold during fourth hour lunch.

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The Young And The Hungry: Lunchtime The bell rings ond os you wolk ouTside, o kid runs by you, neorly knocking you over. IT's IunchTime! LunchTime is someTimes used os o sTudy hour or jusT o Time To be wiTh your friends. IT's o Time where I con develop peopIe's spiriTuol beings, ond I hope ThoT somedoy They will communicoTe wiTh people from onoTher worId. This is how ninTh groder Kondido Apodoco describes her lunch. The oTher sTudenTs' responses were noT os involved. Eliso Guiier- rez, ninTh groder, sold she likes To 'iCommunicoTe . We like To eoT, Tolk, ond check ouT The guys. sold eighTh groders Gobby CorTer ond Jeono Dovis. SevenTh groder Robin Lorson likes To hong ouT wiTh her friends. SevenTh groder, Ben Hu, simply sToTed, I like To eoT. Some of The more populor IunchTime foods ore, french fries. plzzo, preizels, ond bogels. Bill Morris, eighTh groder sold ThoT he liked french fries. While PeTer MclnTosh usuolly chooses bogels. Then There is ninTh groder Brion Simons who is ofTen seen wiTh o bog of DoriTos ond o Twix. You moy encounTer some sTronge sighTs during your lunch hour. SighTs such os sevenTh grod- er Bryon Crowford who likes To climb Trees ond sell condy bors. This is how Sheri Lombson de- scribed whoT she sow one ofTer- noon. While woiTing for my lunch in The snock bor line, I encoun- SevenTh groder, Sheri, PIG Lombson is coughT indulging herself wiTh o bogel, m8cm's ond o slush, during fifTh hour lunch. 6 I Tered o very sTronge sighT. There were vorious colors of gum sTuck To The woll. Some people ore noT os forTu- noTe os oThers. SevenTh groders Monique VonHorn ond Wendy Lombson soy ThoT They hoTe Their lunch hours, buT They con'T geT Them chonged. EighTh groder Dy- Ion Flynn. sold his lunch hour wos boring becouse mosT of his friends hod fifTh hour lunch. The mojorify of people wiTh This problem don'T Think iT is foir ThoT you con'T chonge your lunch hour. If IunchTime ever geTs boring There is olwoys o soIuTion. This is whoT Sheri Lombson does, When I geT bored I Throw vorious Types of food oT people. Bogels wiTh creom cheese seems To sTick The besT. For The mosT porT, lunch is o Time To geT owoy from your school work, eoT ond hove fun. 3 5

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v Lockers Sometimes A Real Ordeal The bell jusT rdng. You jump up ouT of your desk ond run ouT The door. You spoT d group of people running in ond ouT of on dred. WhdT is This ploce? Everyone looks like They ore geTTing sldmrned inTo Thick meTdl wdllsl ls This d TorTure house? No, iT's The locker dreo QT Willis Jr. High. The lockers oT Willis ore olwoys crowded. They ore crowded be- cduse There ore more sTudenTs Thdn lockers. Mdny people shore lockers. One of Them is Down Connor, QTh. She shores o locker wiTh her besT friend, Meliso Cus- Ter, QTh. They hdve so mony books ThdT They hdve To hdve Two lockers. One is for junk ond The oTher is for books. When Down wds dsked if iT wos hdrd To geT To her locker, she re- plied, lT is very hdrd To geT To my locker becduse of dll The people crommed inTo my row! Joke Munoz, QTh, shores o lock- er, Too. When Joke wds dsked if iT wos hord To geT To his locker row, he sold, Yes, very hord becouse of dll The girls ThC1TsTdnd oround in my row dnd Tdlkl Some of The luckier people ThoT do noT shore d locker dre Jdson Cox, 7Th, Mike Anderson, QTh, ond Joon Cho, 8Th. They were lucky enough To geT d locker dll To Themselves. All in dll, The lockers ore noT The besT. They ore smoll, old, ond There ore noT enough of Them. Our school did geT some new lockers This yeor, buT There ore noT enough of Them. Well, QT ledsT iT's o sTorT. UnTil The school con geT new lockers, The sTu- denTs will hove To go on sTrug- gling To geT inTo The Ddnger Zone! AfTer sTopping by Their lockers following The compleTion of dnoTher doy of cldsses, sTudenTs foce The ofTernoon riTudl of woiT- ing for Their buses To orrlve.