Northrop High School - Bear Tracks Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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The staff of the 1987 Bear Tracks wishes to thank all of the parents and businesses who supported this publica- tion through advertising. Us Fort Wayne lights up the sky with Christmas magic. photo Tami Clark 210 COMMUNITY

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Varsity member Brian Roth steals the ball from a McDonald ' s all-star player. photo Scott Edwards Dave Rey struggles for open ground against Carroll. photo Scott Edwards The ball is cleared away from Mike Krebs and Rick Confer. photo Scott Edwards Soccer Club led city The 1986-87 season provided the best year ever for the Northrop soccer club. The indoor season, played at Tah- Cum-Wah recreation center, was labeled as, respectable by Martin Blundall, soccer coach. Although Blundall was a bit disappointed by varsity play, he was ex- cited over the reserves ' performances. The outdoor season was tremendous for Northrop. Their regular season record of 8-1 led the city and drew the first real attention to Northrop soccer in a long time. In the city tournament Northrop brushed through the first two rounds with victories over Huntington North and Bish- op Luers. Homestead then blocked Nor- throp 4-0 in the semifinals. Although Blundall and the team were disappointed with their play they were happy because this tournament marked the first time in soccer club history to make it to the semi- finals. Three players were voted to the city all- star team by a coaches poll. Dan Mer- chant, goalie; Jason Miller, defender; and Jeff Fox, halfback all made first team. — Jeff Lovell SOCCER CLUB 209

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git City Shows Its Pride A community — some- where people live and work, right? Wrong. A community is more than people living and working. A community is a part of every person in it. The more a person puts into it, the more they get out of it. Fort Wayne is a community of over 175,000 people living together in a place they are proud of. All of these people work together to achieve a goal — to make their commu- nity the best it can be. There is a sense of small town togetherness in this not- so-small town. This together- ness can be felt the most in times of need. For example, almost every year this commu- nity experiences a flood. Dur- ing this time of crisis the whole community pulls together to get through the bad times. After all of the hard work put into a community the peo- ple can take a look at their city, a place they worked to make better, and they can be proud of their accomplish- ments. Fort Wayne has many things to be proud of, such as the General Motors plant, which brought jobs and big business, the Grand Wayne Center and all of the other fine things in our community. It doesn ' t stop here though. Generation after generation will work to better their com- munity. Nothing will stand in the way of progress and noth- ing will keep people from working for their community, a community that also works for them. — Gina Snowberger Santa Claus makes a stop at the Ft Wayne National Bank building, photo Tami Clark COMMUNITY 211