1978 S.E.G.A. Gymnastics Team

1978 Beverly Hills Honor String Quartet

1978 Boys Split $100 Reward

1978 Restroom Doors and Corvette in House

Restroom doors never struck me as a topic for a newspaper story, or an editorial before, not would I have thought that restroom doors could overnight become a major topic of conversation throughout the South Belt area.

Yet, there had not been one say since school started last Tuesday that I have not heard this statement or a close facsimile, "Did you hear what they did to the doors at Dobie?"

It seems that as long restroom doors are standing in place doing their job by obediently moving on their hinges, nobody talks about them. But just them be removed from those same hinges and suddenly they make news, everybody's talking!

So has been the case of the Dobie restroom doors this past week. 

When the students returned to school on Tuesday, they found the restroom doors had been removed from the girls' restrooms.

It is reported that the boy's restrooms are also lacking doors, a condition . . . .(lost below the fold)

Mr. Sory confirmed that the doors had indeed been removed, but the removing of the stall doors had been due to a communication breakdown between Dobie personnel and the custodians doing the work.

Instead of removing the doors, Mr. Sory reported that the custodians should have removed the doors going from the hallway into the restrooms. Since my conversation with Mr. Sory, the outside doors have been removed, on both the boys and the girl's restrooms.

The reason for the removal of the doors, according to Mr. Sory, is to discourage students from smoking. 

In a prior unsuccessful attempt to stop students from smoking in the restrooms, the girl's restroom stall doors have been modified, that is, cut down so that school personally may look into the stalls to check to see if the students are smoking. The doors remain modified. . . .

This has caused some problems, such as boys pushing other boys into the doorless girl's restrooms; confusion on which bathroom is which when the identifying signs were attached to the now missing doors, and feelings of "invasion of privacy" among the students. 

Granted, there is a brick wall blocking hallway vision into the restrooms, but it would appear that this same wall would also accommodate a place to hide behind and smoke, out of the sight of those patrolling the halls. 

The big question is, will the "modified open restroom concept" stop the smoking and, if so, does that justify the lack of privacy, and loss of dignity apparently being experienced by our 14 year old and up students? 

1978 Jonnie Varner's 5th Grade Meador Class Spirit of the 50s

1978 Thompson Young Journalists

1978 Thompson Champs 8th Grade A Football Team

1978 Thompson B-Bop 50s Day

1978 Dobie Lariaette Officers

1978 Dobie Longhorn Band on the Field

Beverly Hills Baby Bears Day 1978

1978 Beverly Hills Drum Majors

apologies to missing the caption below the fold!

(Oh, and, as usual, every time Houston comes a'calling, the South Belt declines to dance.)

1978 Beverly Hills Band Officers

1978 Thompson Band Officers

1978 Texas Air National Guard to William Tell

1978 J. Frank Dobie Flag Corps

1978 Dobie Longhorn Drill and Rifle Team

1978 Thompson Twirlers

1978 Cowgirls Getting Ready

1978 Dobie South Houston American Legion State Championship

1978 Summer Fun Drawing to a Close

1978 Come Fly Away with Me

Is it just me, or does Ben Po bear a striking resemblance to a young David Hasselhoff here?

1978 Dobie Varsity Cheerleaders & Prom Funding

I was focused on the photos I could scan, but the story to the right caught my eye, particularly the amount allocated each year for the senior class prom. 

$8,000 in 1979 translates to a budget of nearly $28,000 today!

1978 Exchange Students Find a Common Interest

1978 Sagemont Recreation Club Swim Team

1977 Thompson Baby Bear Days

1977 Thompson Punt, Pass & Kick Winners

1978 Frazier Music Program

1977 Sagemont Cowboys Crowd

1977 Sagemont Cowgirls Perform at Bowl

1977 6th Grade BH Punt, Pass, and Kick Contest Winners