Charles M Russell High School - Russellog Yearbook (Great Falls, MT)

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Arizona State Untvaratty 1. COLLEGE CRISIS — Totally boggled by the ASU bulletin, senior Chris Evans is in dismay over the decision of which college to attend. 2. CHECKING IT OUT — Trying to sweet talk his way out of class, senior David Wright runs out of lines to use as senior Sherry Hand waits to send him back to class. KICK ONE UP FOR THE DRILL TEAM — During a mid-morning practice with the marching band, junior drill team members Chris Madson and Jill Cereck along with sophomore mem- bers Roxanne Eli and Debbie Quitmeyer prepare for an upcoming performance. A RASPBERRY FOR THE BISON — After the Rustler girls basketball team was defeated by the Bison 93-54, senior Dana Kuglin decides to show the Bison how he feels. lntroduction-7

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DEVO IN DISGUISE — Incognito, seniors Connie Colla and Katie Grant get ready to dazzle the crowd with their punk look during one of the girls basketball games against the Bison at the Bison Fieldhouse. READY FOR TAKEOFF — Unafraid of adventure despite a broken arm, junior Bill Becorest proceeds with strengthening up his leg muscles during his weight training class. HEAD HONCHO - Giving the usual morning rundown, Principal Don Petersen ad- dresses the student body over the intercom system. MAKING A PASS — Trying to break away from being tackled, senior split end Brent Goodrich (81) uses the pass-pattern play to fake out a Bozeman player in order to receive a pass during the football game held in Bozeman. The Rus- tlers overpowered the Boze- man Hawks with the final score of 49-0. 6-lntroduction Rustlers face their futures PROCEED On Rustlers. There comes a time to face reality, find a job, go to college, and get your own place. Long after graduation day you ' ll still be a proud Rustler, cheering for the green and gold. The only difference will be that you are faced with inflation, an unemployment rate of 10.1 percent, and an interest rate of 13.5 percent, instead of massive finals, compositions, and speeches. For many Americans, the economy today is making their goals harder and harder to reach. All things, however, are not so hard to come by. Many things may be acquired with nothing but an overwhelming abundance of Rustler spirit and pride. Rustlers take this spirit and pride and combine it with a 1 student body and faculty to generate a high temperature, one might call it a fever - Rustler fever.

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Sr ACH It was a devastating day for Great Falls when our stack was pulverized into a 100-foot stump. People who had worked at the Anaconda stack and had built their lives around it, winced as the stack was blown in half, making it look like a wounded dinosaur. Waiting for the dust to clear and reveal the sad ugly truth, slowly the people, including myself, quietly departed. Once I saw the smokestack, I knew that in a few minutes I would be home. What have they done to this most loved stack? Blown it up just because of a crack? On that day that it was to fall, Half of it stayed proud and tall. The crowds cheered at the sight of just half, They said, Ha-ha, what a laugh. At 5 p.m. that very day, The rest of the stack gave way. Well how much money did all of this cost? Just to put to the ground this stack we lost? So, go look out your window and don ' t expect to see That once proud landmark that is famous to me. l-lntroduction THE LOSS OF a person makes us realize that we never really had the chance to fully appreciate them, until they are gone. On Sept. 18 one of our friends was lost. Some people tried to save him from his execution, but the majority thought his penalty was set and it just couldn ' t be changed. The night before his death he stood proud throughout the night, saying his goodbyes to all who stopped to see him. On the final morning the time ticked down until 10:05 when the executioner flipped the switch, and our stack blew up. The stack had been in the Great Falls area for 70 years, which made it hard to give up OUR 506-FOOT FRIEND. GO A smokestack once towered over the skyline of Great Falls, No more. A smokestack that was once looked to as a symbol of home for many, Now it ' s gone. The businessmen and Politicians didn ' t want the bother of a stack, They got rid of it Thousands watched the heroic last stand of a stack, It finally crumbled. Now the horizon of Great Falls is naked and bare. We have lost something special. The main question in my mind was if it was so weak, why did half of it still stand after the first initial charge? The sun is coming over the horizon and your eyes are not quite awake. You begin your morning routine as usual. As your eyes glance at the stars still lingering in the sky, something seems to be missing. But you disregard it, and continue on. During the day emotions seem to be confused more than usual. Then the realization hits you-it ' s gone. The stack has been destroyed, ripped out of your life. That sense of home that you ' ve known so well has been taken away. No more will that big land mark register that idea of home as you come to those last few miles on the road to Great Falls. Slowly the memory will fade; the bitter feelings will disappear, but the gaping hole in the sky will always be there to remind you of the struggle to keep the stack in the sky and in your history and heritage. Great stack, we salute you. You died hard and we won ' t forget you. As the last of the smokestack crumbled, cheers could be heard throughout the crowd, indicating mat the stack wasn ' t just a pile of bricks to everyone and it left some people wondering . . . How far should we go to protect those things that are of value to us? When we look back at all the happenings of the year 1982, the crumbling of the AWESOME Standing solemn and eminent, king of its domain. Never to be challenged by fate, righting an inevitable war of existance; glory and grandeur its only weapons; old age its only fault The sentence of death had been determined; its weapons stripped away; its last nobel stand emotion YET DISTINGUISED.