Carroll High School - Cavalier Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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Klaa me, you fool. Seniors Paul Davis and Joann Magsann demonstrate a friendly lover ' s quarrel. — Mar- sha Mellow Step into my office. Junior Lynne Echtenkamp Invites friend Matt (Jsher into the security of her lock- er. — Marsha Mellow you ' re Cooll Sophomore Jarrod Lawson shows everybody how friendly he really is.— Marsha Mel- low What a party. It was great. One of the many Car- roll groups discuss some good gossip during pass- ing period. — Marsha Mellow

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I Friends, lovers, students? WARNING: Public displays of af- fection not allowed in the halls of Carroll anymore. This and other regulations forbidding physical contact in- vaded Carroll. But these rules didn ' t affect student life and relationships. Kids still showed their feelings toward each other whether it risked detention or not. Many of these regulations didn ' t affect the students here. Friendships were great in number at high schools across the U.S., and Carroll had plenty. The predictable cliques formed, but overall Carroll had friendly p eo- ple. This year the familiar group date emerged as a popular pastime. A large number of kids jumped in a car, buzzed into the Fort, unloaded the jelled mass into a restaurant (any fast food place) and started chowing down. Along with the eating came talking, gossipping and the most important, LAUGHING. (The sign of a good friendship was laughter.) After this group left the res- taurant, they packed into the car and he ed to a party spot. Even if there was i ing to celebrate, teens wanted to PAF and partying was much better with friends. Everybody enjoyed group dates and group parties, but many students stuck to a best friend . Teens these days felt more comfortable talking with a friend than with a parent or counselor. With this re- emergence of best friends, many friend ' ' , ships grew stronger. Throughout the high school years friend- ships formed, friendships dissolved, cou- ples got together, couples broke up. That ' s the way life was. The society at Carroll ex- perienced these problems, but they still re- tained that friendly attitude towards others. No matter what the circumstances or what the authority figures said, teens were al- ways going to have friends, and they showed their affection any way they pleased. — Bond, James Bond M 22 FRIENDSHIP

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Wi e are the World. We are the Children. Phrases like this were heard repeatedly over American airwaves this year. The mu- sic teens were listening to was aiding peo- ple in many lands including the U.S.A. Many artists, either singularly or in groups, sang to help others. They were either bring- ing the problem into the public eye or were raising money to help correct it. One man who made a major contribution was Harry Bellafonte. Famine Relief for Ethiopia seemed to be a major concern world wide, and it hit a chord in Harry Bellafonte. One fine night in 1985, a myriad of performers joined together in a secluded studio, and the work began. Quin- cy Jones took his seat, slid his glasses down his nose, and dug in; and after 10 hours. We Are The World was polished and recorded. This effort to aid famine victims struck a struggling musician in Britain, and a con- cert of bodacious proportion began to form. Bob Geldof, musician and idealist, began thinking about how he could help the vic- tims of drought and starvation. His first idea. Band Aid, was a small success com- pared to what was going to occur in the near future. A concert of major proportion began to appear. A large meeting of performers at Wembley Stadium (London) and a revival of old groups formed first. Then the concert in the U.S. took shape, and finally the media was brought in for worldwide broadcast of the largest concert in recent history. used to lie there in misery, in a soaliing wet cold sweat every night before Live Aid . . . I couldn ' t sleep, I was so freaked, so worried because we had no contracts with any artists. All I had was their word they ' d be there. —Bob Geldof The 16 hour concert raised 70.5 million dol- lars to aid the suffering in Africa. This effort by Geldof earned him a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Live Aid concert lit the intentions in many people. It brought to life many problems, and many things were being done to help solve them. Willie Nel- son and John Cougar Mellencamp looked j into the U.S. seeking a problem ar tk. found it in the American farmei Farm Aid, country ' s version of Live Aid, hit j the media in mid-summer. The work of Nel- son, Mellencamp, and many others helped the farmers out of some of the trouble they were experiencing. The concert didn ' t dr.i ' A the large attention that Live Aid did, but it did help. Along with the group projects, other performers did their part as well. The year was dominated by two perform ' ' ers, Bruce Springsteen and Madonna. But of these two, Bruce did a tad bit more to- ward helping others. First, he joined a group of performers united against Apart- heid and helped sing Sun City. Then on his album, Born In The U.S.A.. he speaks of his childhood and late teens throughout his songs. My Hometown probably exempli- fies this best. Things like concerts and al- bums brought U.S. citizens back to reality. The performers of the 80 ' s have affected the economic situations across the globe, and this year it was proven that Rock-n-Roll was music as well as a major force In rorh politics. 24 MGSIC