Columbus High School - Discoverer Yearbook (Columbus, NE)

Text from Pages 1 - 224 of the 1979 volume:

Voyage Across The Silver Screen The Voyage 1979 Columbus Senior High School 220 26th Street Columbus, Nebraska 68601 Published by the Columbus Senior High Journalism Department Printed by Josten’s American Yearbook Co., Topeka, Kansas The Voyage is a member of the Nebraska High School Press Association, Quill and Scroll, and the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. Copyright 1979 Columbus High School. Columbus. Nebraska Students spent considerably more time in 117 as assigned study halls hit CHS and the room served a dual purpose as a lunchroom and study hall. Page 72 Capturing all I s m contests all year, the band completed its most suggessful season ever Rage Q6 Contents OPENING 2 STARS 7 Do s and Donts Where Students Go Fashion Mako-up SENIORS 17 JUNIORS 35 SOPHOMORES 47 Twins Cars Weightlifting Jobs Art Photography The Sot 71 Room 117 Summer Homecoming Snowball Sweetheart Fine Arts Festival Prom. Honors Night ORGANIZATIONS 95 Band Chorus Orchestra Plays Thespians Debate DECA VICA Yearbook Newspaper Booster Club Student Council Quill and Scroll Chess Club SPORTS 131 Scoreboard Fall Winter Intramurals Spring ACADEMICS 167 Special Events Departments CLOSING 191 Administration Guidance Faculty Janitors. Nurses. Sec INDEX 202 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 212 PG nmn mmmi Heaven Can Wait starred at this year’s Prom Page 86 The Staff Leslie Nielsen Michelle Loseke Kay Davison Keith Groteluschen Julie Barnes Miles Beach • VI Advisor: Bob Korver Diane Bryan klTJv°enfie,d vJfnuy Settje .-so- All Sports gave spectators lots of action to watch but wrestling had to be the year’s highlight in athletics as the Discoverers captured the state title. Page 148 Property of Title 1 The Script: This picture began with the hustling and bustling of students finding their new lockers and rooms and looking for their old friends. The scene was much like the start of all other shows except for changes in faces. Old actors of ’78 had moved on to a new life while a new group of walk-ons entered the picture. Portions of our lives were staged while other parts were unrehearsed. A few new courses were offered at Columbus High. Among them was the class Calculus. It was made available to seniors who had taken Math III as an accelerated math class. A photography class was also offered to any student interested. The Script also included the stars’ daily routine. A new system was used during this year compared to past shows. It was the open-ended day. Students didn’t have to come to school until their first class and they could leave after their last class. Comments from the students about this set-up were all favorable. Open campus was still a privilege given only to seniors. But just as a movie moves along so does life, and the most important part of our show was .... The Stars: At CHS they are the students. The stars decide what happens in the show and how everything is done. Every picture has its own group of stand-out actors as does Columbus High School. These standouts help make the show better in certain aspects. Depending on how the actors acted, the picture could be happy, sad or even dull. But when their talents were put to use, great things happened. In the Colombus High School picture seniors held the major roles, the juniors were the understudies and the sophomores arrived as walk-ons. Each played an important part in making the show great. Seniors earned many honors throughout the year. Some were elected by their classmates as Homecoming, Snowball and Sweetheart candidates. These were by no means all the honors taken in school. With 13 sports offered, band, theater and numerous clubs, everyone had the chance to get involved. Some in the school did spectacular performances on the academic level also. Still others preferred to take an outside job and join outside activities. Throughout the year, many changes took place in the stars. Fads came and went but a few new ideas stayed around. Top Left: Astonished at being named queen. Sue Marsh is crowned by Randy Griffiths. Top Right: Greg Jones concentrates on getting his work done just right on a metals drill. Above: The arena at state wrestling was the setting for the Discoverers’ finale of their championship season. Right: Brent Arment gives his winning smile after a dual meet. 2 Opening Shots Far Top Left: Ken Van Dyke gazes out of the huddle before the first home swim meet, hoping that his lucky hat will work. Far Middle Left: Debbie Dush gets a chuckle Left: Intramurals gave students and teachers enjoyment though sometimes the competitive spirit won out. Here Mr. Callan shoots for two. Below: Mary Jo Korus adds the finishing touches before she makes her entrance in a Theater II production. Bottom Right: Jane Stracke and Lyle Nyffeler play a tune at the annual band concert Bottom Left: Dan Sharp shows who is number one at the basketball game against Kearney. Opening 3 Top Left: “Who’s got the spirit. Ma asks Pa (Mr. Dartman) to Ma (Ms. Schlobohm during a pep rally skit after school. Top Middle: Cathy Uhlmann and Jane Beckmann compare times at a CHS girls swim meet. Top Right: Bryan Richardson makes sure that his chemistry potion is combined just as the instructions state. Above: Ken Robinson reflects on his team's action during a breather in the football game. Right: Dolly Parton makes a special appearance at CHS’s spring choral concert. In reality. Mark Loeffler uses his falsetto voice to entertain the crowd. 4 Opening Shots Top Left: Mike Whetstone is a glow in the light from the Homecoming bonfire in the east parking lot Top Right: Lisa Nelson congratulates Maureen Lannan on being named varsity cheerleader for '79-80 at the Booster Club banquet. Bottom Right: Wes Ott gathers in his diploma at mid-term graduation. Above: After solving one of Mr. Neese's tough math problems. Lori Henggeler takes a moment to relax. (continued from page 2) Trends such as straight-leg jeans, boots, disco dancing, frizzed hair, spike-heeled shoes and slit skirts were tried throughout the year. Everyone of the stars did their part to give a good performance and when the stars were all set to go, then everyone prepared .... The Set: It was generally the same as it had been in past years. Columbus High had enrolled 925 students at the start of the school year with approximately 50 faculty members. All sections of the school were put to use because it was the highest enrollment ever. One room was set aside for those students who wished to skip out of class or just liked to get into trouble. This room, 104B, was commonly referred to as MjailM. CHS was set in a surrounding that fits perfectly into the show. Columbus was just the right size town with approximately 18,000 people. Some new additions to Columbus were a Buger King, several new shops downtown and apartment complexes. However, Brenner’s Furniture Store was lost in a huge fire. City and state elections were held November 7 with the controversial topics the “Bottle Bill” and the “Lid Bill” being voted on and defeated. The country had some hard times during the year with the deflation of the dollar. Gasoline also reached the price of 83$ by the end of the school year. But all settings have their good and bad parts. The president in office was Jimmy Carter and serving as vice-president was Walter Mondale. On the world-wide picture, the Roman Catholic church elected a pope and after a few short weeks he died. A new pope was selected, John Paul II. People all over tuned out the fighting in Africa plus the mass suicide in Guiana. The stars got into place, the the set was complete and the director called, “Lights, camera.” and the shutter switched to ... The Action: It began right away. On the sports scene, the action brought on by the stars was all the activities they were involved in. With 13 sports, there were always practices after school and some even before school. Practices began in mid-August for fall sports and the spring sports were finished in mid-May. The spectators during the action pointed out the outstanding athletes. All sports brought out several promising athletes. Main sports that were supported during the year were football, basketball and wrestling. Wrestling had to be the outstanding CHS sport. It had an undefeated season and took the state championship in Lincoln. Opening 5 Several school records were broken during the year by individuals excelling in their sport. Band had an excellent year along with the other music groups. The band’s rifle corps and flag corps were new ideas that changed the face of the band. Judges in contests seemed to have liked the change because they always rated high. The all-school musical was cancelled this year due to a lack of student participation. The musical was scheduled as “Camelot” with the leading roles chosen when the decision to cancel was announced. It was the first time in 23 years that CHS didn’t have a fall musical. Throughout the year, there were many clubs and activities to get involved in but only a few people joined in them actively. Jobs were a major reason there were fewer participants. Students felt the need to go out and get a job to earn more money. This usually occupied their afternoons and weekends. Besides the students, there were people who were also working and teaching on the set who were The Technicians: The technicians were the people who helped make the show possible. They made sure the set was ready to go when the school day began and cleaned up after. The technicians also included the directors of the show. The directors as administrators and teachers made everything run smoothly. Teachers instructed the stars in the educational script. Several new teachers joined the CHS staff in the drafting, art, English, and business areas. On the whole, the year’s effort went well. Some stars put in more time in making the show great than others did. But, all in all. everyone had a share of work to complete to make the year complete. At the end of the year, as in all past, the leading roles had to pass on the leads to the understudies. The seniors headed out into the world to star in their own show. The new school leaders have had a long practice and are ready to take over. However, that’s getting ahead of our story. This is about ’78-’79 and with everything ready, you can now embark on your .... Top Left: Karen Zimmerman can’t believe it's happening to her in Accounting. Top Right: I've had it up to here Lori Wurdeman indicates during a discussion. Middle: Ken Kwapnioski looks up while studying in the IMC. Above: Karen Koppel contemplates if taking that Physics test was really worth it. Right: Al Haney snarfs a hamburger. Voyage Across The Silver Screen 6 Opening Shots Students Division 7 aniel Webser defined a rule as a prescribed guide for conduct or action. Senior high students have a set of rules they must follow as posted by teachers and administrators that make the school day run smoothly. However, when the sophomores first arrived at school Remember to put the engine in your car in Automotives class. •Don’t pull fire alarms; some of your friends might be eating or actually studying. •Don’t forget to bring an apple to your favorite teacher. • Turn on the electric typewriter before you start to type. •Don’t get sick the day you make ice cream in Chemistry or bake a cake in Physics. •Don’t blow big bubble gum bubbles in teachers’ faces. •Be lazy the last few days of school. •Don’t light the bonfire an hour before the pep rally starts. Their First Mistake was to believe that the only rules were the ones given to them in pamphlets, on posted signs or told to them in assemblies. There were, after all, quite a few of them. However, in addition to the normal rules that run the school, there are the “unwritten” (until now) rules of student conduct. These “unwritten rules” are passed down each year from the upperclassmen to the sophomores. The following is a list of Dos and Don’ts that are typical in the CHS school atmosphere. •Wear a watch to school because the clocks are never right. •Don’t forget to bring your tennis shoes to P.E. •Try and hide your down slip from your parents. •Don’t change lockers the day your locker decoration is to be put up. •Wear warm clothes in the winter because the heat is turned way down. •Don’t make unneccessary phone calls on the office phone. •Be friendly to every one! •Don’t lose your jock. •Don’t put your cribnotes on your hand; put them on your calculator or slide rule. They’re easier to get off. •Seniors be good first semester so that you get open campus second semester. •If you forget to take your homework home think of a good excuse for the next day when papers are to be taken up in class. •Don’t throw snowballs in open school windows. 8 The Stars •Be a wild-n-crazy kid at school. •Go to the bathroom before you go to class since you can’t go later. •Get away with open campus if you can pass as being a senior or a teacher. •Know how to turn up the heat in the classrooms. •Don’t get caught doing handstands in the halls during classes. •Sharpen your pencil after the bell has rung, not before, because then it wouldn’t waste time. •Don’t make-out in the halls. •Don’t tell gossip around the teachers or faculty. •Make plans to study the night before the test because you won’t have studied earlier. •Don’t wear street shoes on the gym floor. •Have lots of fun math parties. •Don't plan on studying in study hall 117; no one else will be. •Hope it snows enough to cancel school the day before your English research paper is due. •Don’t concern yourself with other people’s business; it may prove hazardous to your health. •Be careful with your bugs in Biology. •Don’t be a sissy. •Be a STUD! •Don’t get caught cheating on a test. •Sit on the heater in the commons. It’s the only warm place in the school. •Don’t throw paper airplanes. •Don’t go into the wrong bathroom. •Have a blue slip and a good excuse if you are caught wandering in the halls. •Don’t throw chalkboard erasers when you are wearing black clothes. •Don’t eat the daisey’s. •Understand why Mr. Luther calls your parents and sends you to 104B. •Don’t be seen sneaking into school. •Make sure that teachers are teased a lot. •Sit next to the class brain in math and hopefully some of it will rub off on you. •Remember to take home your stinky P.E. clothes at the end of the first semester. They deserve to be washed at least once a year. Dos And Don’ts 9 1 hpre’s nothing to do! Columbus is a drag! Whaf a weekend. Couldn't find anybody! “t?ode around, got bored, went to Macs and SaCHSSsht°udents fill the halls with statements like these every Monday but once again they Thank God It’s Friday when the week’s over and they can go ‘out 3 Summer, spring and fall party grounds were closed this year due to abuse by some stu” dents Tailrace. Powerhouse and Lake North were closed off because Powerhouse was vandalized and a police car was vandalized at Lake North. Tailrace was closed because it is part of Loup Power’s property as is Powerhouse. MacDonald’s. Godfather’s. Pizza Hut and the new Burger King were some of the favorite eating places for CHS students. The theater and drive-in held interest only if their shows were good or in the drive-in’s case because it was an easy, convenient place to park. Football games, wrestling meets and basketball games were the big party nights during the fall and winter. Food places were crowded or a party was overflowing with people after these sports. Lose or not. CHS students were keyed for the after affects. (They were, that is, if they weren’t real avid spectators or the players.) Thursday nights start the Main Street ride. Sunday through Wednesday had few cars buzzing down it, but after Wednesday the street was filled. Hinky Dinky, Safeway and Equitable Savings and Loan would vow to that as their parking lots filled and the stores remained empty. UFOs filled the air down at Pawnee Park or Gerrard Park after school and on Saturdays and Sundays if the weather permitted. Fris-bees were flying, stereos were cranked or an amplifier was brought out while students got crazy. Home Box Office began this year so students did some begging and got channel five installed. It showed movies with no interruptions or cuts. It was a great way to spend a date or have friends over if ma and pa weren’t home. Dances at school or the Y attracted students but weren’t held every weekend so were just a change of pace for students with free time. 0 ✓ - ■ r 10 The Stars T - Top Page 10: Patty Brown and a friend take a ride on the octopus at the Soroptimist carnival. Middle Left Page 10: Students spent countless hours of free time watching the tube. Lower Left Page 10: Lonny Wehrer snags a frisbee before it reaches the ground. Lower Right Page 10: Cathy Micek boogies down at a tape dance in the cafeteria. Left: The theater was one of only a few sources of local entertainment available to students. Above: The Main Street ride is temporarily halted as vehicles wait for a green light. Top: The ride's not stopped long though, and during the night, students will make the circuit many times to become only blurs of light and action in the night's memory. Where Students Go 11 Below: Shoes came in a variety of styles but spikes and clogs seemed to be the most popular for girls. Bottom Right: T-shirts were very popular at CHS but only if they had a design on them. Designs ranged from sports to concerts to funny sayings to cartoon characters to movie emblems. A typical sample is worn by (standing) Tim Smith. Theresa Klein. Jeff Sohl. (kneeling) Rod Howerton and Mike Terry. Far Right: Marilyn Brent is pictured in one of the popular fall styles, a wool skirt and silk blouse. Right: Connie O’Kane and Rod Howerton display some of the 1979 Prom fashions — a tux and ruffled shirt for men and a silky, light colored, full length dress with shawl for ladies. ashion at Columbus High during 1979 held a large variety of styles. However, CHS students did seem to agree on one item-jeans. Walking down the halls it became very obvious that jeans held top priorty in almost everyone’s wardrobe. The jeans came in many styles, ranging from typical Levis for the guys, to the straight-legged, tailored look of the 40’s for the girls. Topping off the girls’ jeans were tailored vests, or long tunic blouses with belts. Menswear also appeared to influence the girls’ fashions, as they could be seen wearing small neck ties and bow ties. Topping it off for the guys seemed to be flannel shirts, T-shirts, and tight-fitting sweaters. Down-filled parkas and vests made up most of the coat scene, with suede jackets also becoming popular. High Low 12 Stars Fashion Above: The highest of fashion was displayed at Prom with tuxes, suits and long formals being worn. Miki Averett and Clark Grant were just one of the many couples dressed just right for the evening. Right: The latest in disco fashions were worn at Homecoming as exemplified by Theresa Klein and Tom Dion. D ressing up for school for the ladies meant calf-length wool skirts, topped off with silk shirts and vests or a simpler style of school-girl dress. Shoes were an added touch with high-heeled spikes and boots becoming the most popular. For guys, dress up school wear meant jean styled cords with sweaters. As for shoes, gaucho styled boots and hiking boots seemed to be their favorites. When stepping out on the town, CHS couples looked like they had stepped right out of a Boutique Disco had a lot of impact on high fashion as ladies’ dresses were silky and sexy with clingy fabrics and slits up the sides exposing the thigh. Men’s fashions included three-piece suits or silk shirts partially buttoned with tight dress slacks. High Low Fashion 13 ey. Forehead, where ya goin’?” “To the gym. You seen Toro?” “Naw. Hey, did ya hear ’bout Shoe?” “What happened?” “Ask Hot Dog. Gotta go.” Such a conversation heard across halls might shock a newcomer, but to any student at CHS it would only be natural. Hearing such nicknames as Atomic Bomb. I’ma, Spacey, and Scoop are so common you sometimes have to think to remember the person’s real name. It seems everyone, from The Comic to the jock, has had a nickname at some time. The nickname is usually a take off on a person’s real name, personality or some physical characteristic. Occasionally, it is a result of an incident the person may wish to forget. Even states and presidents have acquired nicknames. For instance, Nebraska started out as the Black Water State because of the color of its streams. Now it is more commonly known as the Cornhusker State after its famed football team. Some presidents sporting nicknames were George Washington known as “Old Fox”, Calvin Coolidge who went by “Red”, and William McKinnely who was called “Woobly Willy”. CHS had a large number of nicknames floating around campus. Here are a |few you can test your social knowledge on by seeing how many you can match with their owners. See the next page for answers. 1. Tobor 18. Chink 35. Spacey 2. Disco Jimmy 19. Hot Dog 36. Ziff 3. Beak 20. Pooch 37. Murph 4. Too Tall 21. Little One 38. Tuss 5. Spunky 22. Swift One 39. Thunderbird 6. Mush Mouth 23. Duckling 40. Ruffus 7. Jot 24. Orange Crush 41. A.C. 8. Forehead 25. T-E-D-D-Y 42. Wop 9. Sku-bub-by 26. Yankee Doodle 43. Strehler 10. Toro 27. Atomic Bomb 44. Fly 11. Saugie 28. Congo 45. Bunker 12. Stubbs 29. Birdman 46. Barney 13. Chevy 30. Gopher 47. Stoney 14. Bull 31. I’ma 48. Arbies 15. Scoop 32. Fish 49. Sunny Beach 16. Disco Doug 33. Shoe 17. Bunny 34. Dough Boy 14 Stars gj saiueu p!N 1. Bryan Fraser 2. Jim Herrold 3. Ralph Castner 4. Kurt Armstrong 5. Karla Keeshan 6. Mr. Korver 7. Scott Jackson 8. Greg Cruickshank 9. Steve Zaura 10. Jeff Moore 11. Jon Augustin 12. Mary Sterup 13. Patty Chavanu 14. Roger Bullington 15. Meredith Oakes 16. Doug Rice Nicknames Key 17. Vicki Benson 18. Lisa Dohmen 19. Lyn Moore 20. Joe Burrows 21. Jan Moore 22. Deb Long 23. Rick Jeffrey 24. Terry Erks 25. Ted Ciboron 26. Lori Korus 27. Lori Lesiak 28. Mitch Jensen 29. John Burdine 30. Ed Fry 31. Mary Person 32. Doug Wessel 33. Lori Schutt 34. Bob Dohman 35. Stacey Bessire 36. Joe Arlt 37. Alan Haney 38. Larry Kolbush 39. Dave Weverka 40. Mike Rambour 41. Curt Peterson 42. Mike Mancuso 43. Lynn Strehle 44. Bobbee Person 45. Sheri Bonk 46. Julie Barnes 47. Jaye Stone 48. Sonya Mueller 49. Miles Beach sqqrus - druajs :� q8m uiouoa qsrup aSue-io - s (J3 A-uai qjaq Uiouog a;3nes - uqsnSnv uop qqSiy a|ppm Aaoeds - ajissag Aaoers Jaiuao o8uoo • uas -uar qapiq qjaq aippiw Joqox - jasejj ueAjg qq8ig doi quiog 3iujo;y - teisaq jjoq uetuag doi aipooQ aa (uex - sruox uoq :yeq doi it-free, blushed cheeks; prominent cheekbones; shiny lips; high-lighted eyes; bouncing. Fluffy hair — such were the features CHS females are striving for. Little do they know about those promising cosmetics they use except for the fascinating details described by the manufacturers in ads. CHS teens are among 210 million people who are controlled by their breakouts, spending $500 million yearly on products that produce beautiful acne free skin. Walk into the average female’s bedroom and bathroom and you’ll find perfumes cluttering the dresser; make-up crowding the bathroom shelf; shampoos, rinses, conditioners and hairs-prays filling the bathroom; and facial masks, medicated creams, astringent and toner ruling the medicine cabinet. mascara, Maybelline creates the two- out to tone eye shadow, Coty starts a blush lems. that shades to your skin coloring. Maybelline invents the lip wand, and heads begin spinning. Beer shampoo hits the market, all flavors color the shelves, hairsprays don’t stick and now are good for the ozone layer, permanents sell for $33 in hair-styling salons, and now brunettes can add highlights too! Decisions, choices, mistakes and even after hitting a winner, students plunge right through it all again striving for the best. All of this for what? All those acne creams bought and wasted by too much foundations or never using soap. Zits pop up! Hair gets hit from all sides with ph and non-alkaline; blow-dryers, curling irons heat it to a burned crisp and new products keep coming prevent the new found prob- P 1 prl erfumes will make you provocative, sexy but not too far from innocence; create your own special aura. Suddenly perfume kills the plants, hands are searching for a window and fresh air is never seen again. Deodorants can now Tickle, be rolled on, sprayed on, powdered on, misted on, or just plain sunk in. While the student body is getting beautiful, smelling like flowers, freeing itself of zits, dieting, working frantically with the blow-dryers, the cosmetics industry is coming up with new expensive, infallible products — maybe someday. alk into a male’s room and a blow-dryer is running and zit cream is on the dresser or hidden in a drawer. Most girls take up to an hour on their faces, up to an hour on their hair and, of course, they’ve got to have the perfect outfit to match. A facial mask is donned once a week. What for? Of course that four hour date or an eight hour school day. They are all striving for that favorite model’s or actress's appeal. Of course, diets enter the scene now, usually unsuccessfully. Exercises are tired for two days and forgotten. Jogging is resorted to if all else fails and soon that does too! The universe is striving for instant beauty. Oxy 5, Clearsil, Noxema, Ten-O-Six, Sea Breeze, Stri-dex and many others are made for the dreams that include an acne free bod. All are guaranteed to work, so why do zits still invade CHS students? Alas, life isn’t lived in an ad. Thus dermatologists are searched for with frequent trips to Lincoln usually resolving the problem. Cover Girl produces the professional k Patti off a 16 Stars Adkisson — Barnholdt Adkisson, Rob Aerni, Cindy Aerni, Jeannie Alt, Jerry Anderson, Greg Anderson, Melody Andreasson. Lisbeth Arasmith, Teresa Arlt, Joe Arment, Brent Arndt, Chris Atkins, Donna Augspurger, Roland Augustin, Jaci Bakenhus, Lori Barnholdt, Jeff Seniors 17 Bartholomew, Jerry Bartlett, Anne Becher, Michelle Beckmann, Jane Benedict, Jennifer Bernt, Marilyn Berry, Jerry Blahak, Steve Blank, Sandy Blaser, Scott Bobert, Scott Bogus, Deanna Bollig, Todd Bonk, Sheri Boss, Kelly Boss, Stu 18 Stars Bartholomew — Buresh Brandenburgh, William Brandt, Jim Brestel, Kris Brewer. Karen Brewington, Patrick Brink, Andrew Bruner, Rodney Buggi Mary Bullington, Roger Burdine. John Buresh, Beverly Buresh, Terry Left: The first day of school brings tanned seniors together to have their activity cards pictures taken and to receive their schedules It was also a time of rehashing summer memories among friends. Seniors 19 Castaneda, Olga Cave, Patty Chamberlin, Lynn Chavanu, Vicki Chesnut, Pat Christensen, Darin Cielocha, Mary Lou Cook Donald Cook, Tammy Coy, Debbie Crebbin, Debbie Cruickshank, Greg Davison, Kay Deden, Jolene Dohmen, Corrine Drozd, Laura 20 Stars Castaneda — Geu Drum, Gerri Drum, Pat Dufek, Laurie Engel, Tracy Engquist, Denise Ernst, Connie Ernst, Kim Eusterbrock, Shirley Fisher, Bill Fluckiger, Mark Force, Dan Foutch, Scott Fraser, Bryan Friedrichsen, Michelle Gaver, Terri Geu, Kathy Seniors 21 Gilsdorf, Kristine Goedeken. Dan Gotschall, Pamela Graus. Alyce Griffiths, Randy Groteluschen, Keith Groteluschen, Mike Grubaugh, Lindy Right: John Travolta burst to stardom in Saturday Night Fever. The box office smash also featured Karen LynnGorney and a sound track by the Bee Gees. About young adults and the disco scene, the film popularized stylized dancing and clothing as pictured. Photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures. 22 Stars Gilsdorf — Hudson Hagar, Cary Hagelstein, Mike Hagelstein, Sherry Hamernik, Mike Hansen, Dave Harms, Kelli Harral, Cheri Hasselquist, Bruce Hayward, Kathy Hassler, Rolenda Hentges, Cheryl Herout, Jim Hiltner, Steven Hoffmann, Mike Hofpar, David Hudson Lynne Seniors 23 Hulsebus, Ron Ingold, Julie Right: Homecoming Queen Jan Rich is all aglow after her coronation October 20. Below: It’s country time in the commons as Julie Liebschwager. Lori Bakenhus. Debbie Dush. and Anne Bartlett swap stories while dressed in their western duds. Ingram, Mark Irby. Sarah Jackson, Larry Jacobs, Henry Janssen, Teresa Jasper. Cindy Jensen, Mitch Jerke, Susan 24 Stars Hulsebus — Lange Johnson, Colleen Kappenman, Denise Karges, Michele Keener, Glenn Kemp, Pamm Kemp, Tammy Kielian, Dave Koch, Jon Koppel, Karen Korus, Mary Jo Krepel, Ron Krings, Cheryl Seniors 25 Larrington, Judy Larson, Lori Lassek, Jackie Lee, Joanie Longnecker, Nancy Loseke, Michelle Mancuso, Steve Mann, Alan 26 Stars Larrington — Mitchell Marsh, Sue Medlar, Matt Medlar, Mitch Meister, Paula Micek, Bev Micek, Diane Michener, Terry Miller, Carrie Miller, Connie Miller, Gina Miller, Stephen Mitchell, Ken Seniors 27 Moore, Janet Moore, Lyn Morse, Joyce Mostek, Mark Mueller, Sherry Nelson, Kim Nelson, Lisa Nelson, Sandi Nettland, Laura Niedbalski, Tom Nielsen, Leslie Nosal, Julie Nyffeler, Jim Oakes, Meredith O’Kane, Connie Olson, Mark 28 Stars Moore — Rhea Olsufka, Kathy Ott, Wes Owens, Kevin Paprocki, Mel Parten, William Person, Bobbee Person, Matt Pilant, Kristy Plugge, Julie Powley, Nancy Presley, Blaine Prososki, Charlene Ramsier, Debbie Ramsier, Stacey Rathkamp, Paul Rhea. Bryan Seniors 29 Rich, Jan Robak, Kurt Robinson, Ken Roddy, Cindy Roelle, Wanda Rosendahl, Daniel Rosenthal. Lois Rullo, Tamara Ryba, David Saalfeld, Chris Sawtell, Marvin Scheidegger. Mike 30 Stars Rich — Souders Schneider, Mary Schreiber, Dale Schultz, Bill Schultz, LeRoy Sedlacek, Tammy Settje, Tammy Sharp, Dan Siedlik, Mike Sliva, Robert Smets, Kim Smith, Joan Souders, Scott Seniors 31 Speicher, Ken Spulak, Randy Stachura. Ronald Starzec, Al Sterup, Dave Stracke, Susan Struck, Jan Szudlo, Gerald Tagwerker, Joan Tate, Rick Thalken, Curtis Tooley, Pat Uhlmann, Cindy Van Dyke, Randy Vanek, Michael Vrbka, Greg 32 Stars Speicher — Wilson Warrender, Dave Weber. Mark Wehrer. Lonny Wendland, Gayle Weyerman, Suzzette Whetstone. Sue White. Diane Wielgus. Mike Wiese, Lisa Wilke. Carol Willman, Linda Wilson, Chris Seniors 33 Winkle, Bryan Wolfe, Jackie Wolter, Sandy Woodward, Lisa Wright, Donald Young, Cindy Zimmerman, Karen Zwick, Scott SENIORS NOT PICTURED Anderson, Michael Bredahl, Carl Curran, Chris Daniel, Tom Dush, Maxine French, Mary Gaver, Waren Hansen, Robert Heins, Ken Herrold, Jamie Hyland, Todd Isham, Rod Leptak, Darlene Lewis, Mick Makovicka, Scott Munson, Tom Nickolite, Julie Ott, Dean Putnam, Rick Ryan, John Schacher, Mike Schacht, Brad Schaefer. Ron Schneider, Karla Sohl, Janice Starzec, Patty Swanson, Jim Thomas, Mark Warnick, Lori Yanes, Dean 34 Stars Adkisson. Jeff Alt. Cheryl Anderson. John Anderson. Steve Applegate. Vicki Arment. Ken Armstrong. Danny Augustine. Dan Averett. Miki Barcel. RaeJean Barnes. Julie Barton. Jan Beach. Miles Becher. Teri Behlen. Michele Behrens. Tammy Beisner. Marlyn Belitz, Susan Bernt, Donald Blaser, David Adkisson — Blaser Left: Couples get a ‘ittle closer as the music slows down at the Homecoming dance. Above: A spirited band blasts out ‘‘Paloma Blanca during the Homecoming parade. Juniors 35 Blessen. Todd Boss. Debbie Bouc. Connie Brakenhoff. Connie Brakenhoff. Linda Brandt. Karen Bray. John Brega. Nancy Brockman. Ted Brooks. Pat Brunkhorst. Bruce Bryan. Diane Bukacek. Terri Buller. Scott Buresh, Karen Buresh. Steve Byrnes. Mary Carlson. Connie Carrig. Suzette Carvalho. Jill Chavanu. Bill Chesnut. Peggy Chollar. Theresa Christie. Vince Ciboron. Ted Clark. Marty Clay. Kathy Cleland. Terry 36 Stars Juniors 37 cxflflnpw) 1 Below: Kim Evert and Janice Coffey find a corner in the commons to do some studying during lunch. Below Left: Sophomores Stacey Stauber and Chris Gellermann boogie down at the DECA tape dance. Left: Curses!” yells the villain (Mr. Mueller) as the hero (Mr. Neese) arrives on the scene to get the spirit back for the CHS followers who had lost the spirit to the villain. Cook. Mike Courtier. JuLee Cresson. Val Cudaback. Wanda Dehning. Brian Determan. Mike Dickenson, Kenn Dierberger. Laurie Dimmit. Don Dixon. Kent Dohmen. Bob Dohmen. Linda m Blessen — Dohmen Dohmen, Sandra Donoghue. John Dotson. Sharon Dush. Debbie Dush. Jane Englemann. Richie Engquist, Dean Esparza. Korena Esparza. Robert Fajman. Chris Fallick. Julie Foland. Linette Franzen. Dean Frerichs. Kristen Gay. Todd Gellerman, Lynn Gerrelts. Brian Gilbert. Debra Gilson, Doug Graff. Joe Grant. Clark Grape. Kenny Griffiths. Tammy Grotelueschen. Danette Grotelueschen. Renee Grubaugh. Traci Gutzmer. Joni Haferland. Toni Hahn. Gene Haney. Alan Hansen. Maureen Hare. Dennis Harrington. Sharon Harms. Mike Haskins. Mark Hastings. Kevin Heesacker. Jodi Heins. Beth Hellbusch. Jenice Herrold. Jim Hervert. Susie Hitz. Jeff Hollatz. Therrin Holys. Janelle Howerton. Ron Hruska. Lauri Hull. Marilea Hulsebus. Kimberly Hurich. Mike Husak. Terri Ibach. Gary Isley, Jim Iwanski, Sue Jackson. Kenneth Jackson. Scott Jaeggi. Lori Jarecki, Mike Jeffrey. John Jenkinson. James Jenny. Lisa Johnson. Jodie Johnson. Julie Johnson. Susie Johnston. Dave 38 Stars Dohmen-Johnston Left: Mr Wibbels shows Gerald Szudlo what to do when being attacked. Below: Mike Hunch, Bob Esparza and Joe Graff listen intently in Automotives 1 wiJ m When viewing the silver screen during 1978-79, CHS critics noted several box office hits and stars. The average CHS student goes to the movies 15 times a year and the Columbus and Schuyler theaters ran plenty of the type of shows students like best. The most humorous shows were generally the favorites. Up In Smoke was voted number one comedy and all around favorite movie in the Voyage poll. This could be partially because it was the freshest in the minds of the students since it was playing at the theater at the time the poll was taken. Critics at large were not as enthused about Up In Smoke. Smokey and the Bandit was voted into second place in both comedy and all around favorite categories. The musical Grease was the third most popular movie of the year at CHS. This movie was loved by almost everyone across the United States except film critics. Favorite films of horror included Jaws, The Exorcist and The Omen even though these had come out in previus years. Haunting movies weren’t a favorite type of show but they were remembered for their eerie special effects. Favorite actors and actresses have a great deal to do with the crowd’s response to the shows they’re in and CHS students noted their favorites. Burt Reynolds starred in Smokey and the Bandit and was named top male actor. Robert Redford was second in the voting. His last hit movie was The Sting. John Travolta, a fast rising star, was rated third by CHS students. His hits were Grease and Saturday Night Fever. Both Reynolds and Travolta were noted as having plenty of sex appeal according to their female admirers. Warren Beatty and Travolta were the newest additions to the super star sex symbol list. Olivia Newton-John was the top contender for favorite female actress. She must have swept students off their feet because no other actress was mentioned more than once. Cheryl Ladd. Cheryl Tiegs and Far-rah Fawcett-Majors were voted foxiest actresses by CHS critics. Ladd and Fawcett-Majors gained sex symbol super star status as they bounced through Charlie’s Angels, a tv show noted for being highly sex orientated. Tiegs gained her fame from modeling and from Cover Girl and Virginia Slims commercials. Although many box office hits return to Columbus via television within a year or two. most CHS students don't enjoy the revised version of a movie. Therefore they paid $2.50 to see a show the first time around. When going to the movies, male students had to bring the minimum of a $5 bill because most girls indicated that they wanted to see a show with a date and with him paying. (What was that about Women’s Lib?) If students went to Schuyler and took their I.D. cards, two could get in for a total of $3 as Schuyler had reduced student prices. Juniors 39 Bottom: Jay Nyffeler and Steve Zaura help present their group's radio script in Speech Debate class. Below: Sarah Irby points out her favorite set of legs to Carla L'Huillier, Kristine Gilsdorf and Jennifer Benedict at Stu-Co's legs contest. Right: Luke Lemke ponders a tough problem in class. Justice. Susan Kantor. Michelle Kapperman. Steve Keeshan. Kim Kjonegaard. Tim Kluever. Beth Kobus. Lori Koch, Mark Kolbush. Larry Korgie. Pat Kreifels, Jerry Krings, Jeff 40 Stars Kreis. Diane Kuta. Terry Kwapnioski. Julie LaDoux, Brenda Lambrecht. Christie Landwehr. Lori Landwehr, Walt Lannan. Maureen Larrington. Dan Larsen. Traci Lasley, Ann Lassek. Judy Latham. Carol Launderville. Duane Lee. Laurie Lesiak. Rick Long. Deb Longnecker. Jeanette Lower. Debbie Lower. Mitzie Ludden. Rick Luthultz. Dale Magnuson. David Mancuso. Mike Mason. Rob McAndrew. Julie McNair. Jamie Micek. Cathy Micek. Denise Milburn, Dan Miles. Kathi Moore. Jan Moore. Jeff Moore. Kevin Morton. Gayle Moseley. Roxanne Murray. Bob Musil, Dan Naylor. Jeff Nelson. Janet Left: Oops! Contestant number 10 gave the girls in the audience a good show in Stu-Co's legs contest. Juniors 41 Niedbalski. Sally Novotny. Donna Nyffeler. Lyle Nyffeler. Warren Osterhoudt. Mary Palen. John Penfield. Lisa Peterson. Curt Phillips. Natascha Pieters. Dan Pollard. Dan Prokupek. Pat Rambour. Mike Ramsier. Sheila Recek. Gail Reimers. Susan Reiser. Linda Rice. Doug Richardson. Bryan Robak. Patti Robak. Paula Robak. Tim Robinson. Kay Ruschy. Robin Ryba, Steve Sackett. Tom Schacher, Tim Schaefer. Tim Schafer. Lisa Scheffler. Ron Scheidegger. Craig Schmitt. Brenda 42 Stars Far Lower Left: Traci Grubaugh. Kay Robinson. Kim Keeshan and Lynn Strehle have a wild and crazy time during one of their assigned study halls Left: Mike Whetstone contemplates a test he just finished in Chemistry class. Below: Senior and underclassman girls unpile after a gang tackle brought an underclassman runner down in the filly football game. Using a touchdown and conversion late in the game, the seniors posted an 8-6 win. Juniors 43 mal meal was milk. Pop was second with a few people drinking water. A very small minority of boys said they drank beer. Chocolate candies including M M’s (with and without peanuts), Oompas, Milk Duds, Chocolate Kisses, etc. were the most like candy. Candy bars such as Nestle’s Krunch, Heath, Salted Nut Roll, Hershey’s and Snickers were second and suckers and gum tied for third in the sweetstakes. Least favored foods of the gourmets were liver and spinach. Beets, beff heart, brussels sprouts and cauliflower were also noted as unpopular foods. Based on the information gathered in this Voyage poll, a lot of teenagers at Columbus High may be in fact becoming junk food junkies as they like to eat at fast food places frequently, they seem to like a variety of low-nutritional foods and they are turning away from foods that are high in vitamin and protein content. But maybe that’s the way it’s always been with teenagers. Above: Jon Walker. Roger Bullington and Luke Lemke show the class how to bake a cake chemically. Right: Meshell McDowell finds the sophomore composition class homework very amusing. 44 Stars • ilk .•••« .•••A ••••X £ ieI m Although most students said they aren't junk food junkies, could it just be possible? Polls taken at Columbus Senior High revealed that over 60% of the students said that they weren’t junk food junkies and only 13% of the kids classified themselves as health food nuts. McDonald’s, with Pizza Hut and Barnies trailing behind, won as the favorite eating place. Discoverers agreed with 1978 national statistics on the most popular places to eat out considering the restaurants Columbus had to offer. National data showed McDonald’s as the fast food king and Pizza hut was fifth. Burger King was shown as third and it is sure to challenge McDonald’s lead here after it opens and gets settled. Eating out was done approximately two or three times a week for the average student. Boys preferred pizza while girls liked hamburgers and both enjoyed about the same amount of tacos. Evening hours were listed as the favorite time to eat. Many boys and a few girls said that they like to eat all of the time and some of the peo- ple listed noon as their favorite time. The average beverage with a nor- battle against the eventual Class A state champions. Left: Senior Julie Plugge chants for a victory in the moon light during the Discoverer and Grand Island gridiron contest. However, the team fell short in its Shannon. Janet Shefcyk. Barb Shemek. Pat Sinclair. Pam Sims. Mark Sliva. Marg Sliva, Tom Smets, Jacque Smith. Gwyn Speicher. Debbie Speicher. Julie Steiner. Dan Steiner. Joan Stockman. Mark Stone. Jaye Stracke. Jane Streblow. Sharon Strehle. Lynn Struebing. Tom Suchan. Sandy Svoboda, Linda Swanson. Diane Swartz. Scott Tagwerker. Nancy Thalken. Brian Thelen. Lisa Thoms. Stanley Torson. Denise Trofholz. Lisa Tuma, Barb Tschantre. Kandy Tworek. Joanie Vanderloop. Geri VanDyke. Ken Voichoskie. Jennie Volnek. Dan Vorderstrasse. Larry Wagner. John Walker. Larry Wallick. Jeff Juniors 45 Warnecke. Donna Warrender. Dan Wasco. Lisa Weiland. Tony Weverka. David Weyerman. Toni Whetstone. Mike Wiehn. Remi Wiese. Art Wieser. Tarry Wilke. Jennifer Williams. Dana Williams. Gail Williams. Lynn Woerner. Chris Wolf. Steve Wurdinger. Danna Yates. Patti Young. Cheryl Zimmerman. Kathy Juniors Not Pictured Aerni, Tim Alt, Cheryl Alt, Chris Atkins, Patti Belt, Keith Bicket, James Dannelly, Mike Flemming, Kelly Hasselquist, Laura Hentges, Ken .Hipsher, Don Juhnke, Chris Korcek. Dave Lauderville, Danette Liebschwager, Tim Michalski, Kathy Nading, Kathy Olsan, Randy Peterson, Allen Peterson, Terry Philips, Brad Reed, Steve Rief, Janet Schoepf, Kelly Schumacker, Kathy Scott, Janice Tate, Tim Wilhelms, Terry Upper Right: Junior Lynn Gellerman shoots the ball up and in for two against Norfolk on December 8. Right: Mr. Wibbels applies a little pressure to his attacker'' Bryan Rhea. Wibbels explained and demonstrated several self-defense moves in his Modern Problems classes. 46 Stars Left: Karen Zimmerman leads the crowd in another spirited cheer. Above: Chris Wilson goes over a math problem with Cindy Aerni in the IMC. Ahlstrom. Kent Anderson, Ann Anderson. Rick Anderson. Steve Anson. Alan Armstrong. Kenneth Armstrong. Kurt Arndt. Paul Augspurger. Doreen Augustin. Jon Babka, Bill Batholomew. Tim Baumgart. Rick Becher. Doug Behrens. Bryan Beisner. Brenda Belitz. Tracy Benson. Vicki Bernt. Leroy Bernt. Sheryl Bessire, Stacey Birkel. Sandra Bloebaum. Nancy Bogus. Joseph Bollig. Jamie Borowiak. Genny Brandt. Cheri Brandt. Lisa Bredehoft. Cynthia Brehm. Bob Sophomores 47 Right: Dean Ott and Scott Jackson find a quiet place to study in the library Brown. Patricia Broxterman. Gary Bugay. Debbie Bukacek. Rick Burdme. Peggy Buresh, Karen Busse. Rick Busteed. Steve Carlson. Cheryl Carstensen. Roger Casey. Pat Castner. Ralph Chavanu. Patti Coffey. Janice Cole. Allison Coulter. Debbie Cruickshank. Scott Cudaback. Linda Curran. Mary Czarmck. Diane Daniel. Tracey Television, that big electronic eye found in most living rooms, has become a part of everyday life for most people of all ages but especially for teenagers. Some of today's tv programs are educational but others may be harmful to society according to some psychiatrists. The psychiatrists were increasingly arguing for less excessive violence on the tube. CHS teenagers judged Starsky and Hutch as the most violent show on tv today. Baretta and Vega$ were tied for second. Tv critics claimed that during the 1978-79 tv season, television programmers began a switch away from violence to a more sexual orientation. Charlie’s Angels and Soap were rated as the most sex-oriented programs by both girls and boys at CHS. A small percentage of girls also noted Flying High and Three’s Company as having a blatant sexual orientation. Prejudice on tv was very evident according to nation-wide Nielsen polls. At CHS some students also agreed with this opinion but more of them believed that television isn’t prejudiced in its sterotypes anymore. Discoverers greatly preferred situation comedies over police stories or family shows. This idea was rein- forced as students named their favorite show as Mork and Mindy, a program about a space traveler named Mork from the planet Ork who travels to Earth and lives with a girl named Mindy in Boulder, Colorado. M A S H was the runner-up favorite show. Most students said that the watch tv most often at night. Thursday and Saturday evenings were the evenings they spent the largest amount of time in front of the tube. Approximately the same percentage of girls and boys watch the evening news although only 9% said they watch it regularly. A lot of them indicated they liked to watch Johnny Car-son on the Tonight Show and Mike Douglas. Soap seemed to be the most controversial show on the air. It was a comedy about two sisters, their families and problems they confront such as homosexuality, affairs, mental breakdowns and black prejudice. In the Voyage poll it was listed as the third most popular soap opera and many students listed it as their favorite nighttime show. It was tied with Charlie’s Angels as being most sex oriented and it drew 50% of the votes as the most hated show. Although students primarily watched tv at night, some also enjoyed daytime television too thanks to the open ended day. The favorite soap opera was CBS's Young and Restless and General Hospital was second. There were sixteen game shows on tv during a typical weekday and teens picked Family Feud with Richard Dawson as host as their favorite. More boys than girls likes the second favorite, Match Game. Discoverers’ favorite cartoons seemed to be the ones they probably grew up with such as Bugs Bunny and the Flintstones. None of the new Saturday morning cartoons were listed. Robin Williams, Mork of Mork and Mindy, was the favorite tv actor. Paul Michael Glaser of Starsky and Hutch fame came in second. Cheryl Ladd and Farrah Fawcett-Majors were picked as the favorite actresses for their roles in Charlie’s Angels. Suzanne Sommers, the bouncing blonde from Three’s Company, was third. According to the poll data, most CHS families own two television sets while a large number owned three sets. A few families owned four tvs and an even smaller percentage owned only one. With that many tvs around. Discoverers evidently didn’t have many problems seeing their favorite shows. 48 Stars Davis. Sandra Dion. Tim Dion. Tom Divis. David Dixon. Sara Dohmen. Lisa Dohmen. Phyllis Dohmen. Shari Dozier. Richard Dubas. Carolyn Dush. Bev Dush. Lori Eihausen. Rick Elkins. Vernalie Engdahl, Troy Erks. Terry Ernst. Dana Ernst. John Evans. Gary Evert. Kimberly Ewert. Tom Fallick. Jaci Fendrick. Rita Fergin. Julie Fluckiger. Duane Fraka. Denise Franzen. Ty Fricke. David Frieze. Greg Fritz. Debie Sophomores 49 Fry, Ed Fulton. Scott Fyfe. Tony Garrison. Mike Gdowski. Robert Gellermann. Chris Gembica. Debbie Glur, Brenda Goc. Tom Goedeken. Gretchen Goering. Scott Gonka. Lori Gotschall. Greg Grachek, David Grassmeyer. Linae Griffith, Cola Groke, Robin Groteluschen, Brian Grubaugh, Brad Gustafson. Sandra Hadan. Polly Haddock. Joel Hagar. Pamela Haldiman. David Hammons. Jim Hansen. Martine 50 Stars Fry — Insinger Far Lower Left: Sophomores Teri Osterhoudt. Debbie Bugay. Diane Staroscik and Denise Staroscik joined other Pep Club members in chow-ing down at the first picnic of the year. Far Left: Sandy Birkel shot an arrow into the air. It came down she knew not where. Left: Martine Hansen found out where the arrow came down as she wasn’t the bunny Birkel was hunting. Above: Mitch Medlar. Phillip Sergent and Alan Winkle watch in on the activities around the bonfire during Homecoming week. Harouff. Mike Harrington, Joey Harrington, Julie Harrington. Patty Hawthorne. Tammy Heins, Jeff Heins, Randy Holley, Gary Hull. Terri Hulsebus, David Hurich. Debbie Ingold, Jolaine Insinger, David Henggeler. Lori Herout, Beth Herrold. Jodie Heule, Colleen Hicks. Kirk Hoer, Christy Hoge, Jim Sophomores 51 Above: Jodie Herrold psyches herself up in preparation for a 100 yard back stroke race. Herrold was the best back stroker on the underclassman dominated squad Right: Coach Ed Travers checks over an injured Dave Blaser during the j.v. football team’s win against Lakeview. Jeffrey. Rick Johnson. Becky Johnson. Jeff Johnston. Mary Joseph. Jon Kamm. Debbie Kampschneider. Deb Kantor. Jo Kappenman. Dale Keefauver. Dave Keener. Twila Keeshan, Karla Kinzer. Kent Klein. Theresa Kobus. Geralyn Korte. Kelley Korte. Kevin Korus. Lori Kosch. Kathy Kreitman. Ronnie Krings. Steve Kucera. Carleen Kudron. Roger Kunes. Mary Labens. Greg Langan. Mike Lange. David Laudenklos. Jim 52 Stars Jeffrey — Mimick Lesiak. Lori Levos. Melinda Lincoln. Mari Liss, Dale Little. Ben Lockard. Becky Long. Connie Longnecker. Julie Lopez. Joel Loseka. Brad Loseke. Todd Louis. Rita Lowry. Jeffrey Ludwig. Joel Martensen. Todd Mason. Sandra McDowell. Meshell McLeod. Vanessa Mead. Rebecca Miller. Jill Mimick. Sharon ATTITJIBIS White shirts with full white skirts hanging to mid-calf, complemented by white bobby socks and saddle shoes not to mention a bouncing ponytail and red lips .... Or the male counterpart with cuffed straight legged jeans, loafers, a white T-shirt and a crew cut were not typically seen on students in the halls of CHS in the 78-79 school year. A typical student at CHS would probably be ... Well, there probably wasn’t such a thing. The crowded Booster Club section and the “dress the same” mentality were a thing of the past. If CHS' students were into anything in ’79, it was probably “individuality”. With all this “individuality” going around, there were times when one might wonder if school spirit had gone UP IN SMOKE As Lynn Chamberlin said, “I remember when my sister was in school just a few years ago. Things have changed a lot since then. Nobody seems to care much except for wrestling ’cause we’re good in that.” Some teachers hypothesized that the change in student priorities was a direct effect of the “job syndrome”. This contagious disease” kept students at different places of business working for hard earned money which resulted in cars, clothes and college educations. This syndrome also has certain side effects such as less time for school activities. One area particularly affected by this syndrome was the combined efforts of the theater and music departments in the musical that wasn’t this year because of “lack of student support.” As Ms. Schlobohm commented, “I think any student involved in extra-curricular activities and holding down a job really has to have their life organized.” Whatever the cause, there has been a noticeable decline in the number of three sport athletes, the number of clubs and their activities and the number of students who do the crazy kind of group activities like filly football — all since 1971. No one knows what the final outcome of all this individuality will be but at any rate, CHS stars couldn’t be categorized, labeled or stereotyped any more. They did their own thing in a variety of ways, pursuing an assortment of interests. Sophomores 53 Mohr. Tim Molcyk. Marla Morris. Matt Moseley. Aimee Mostek. Luke Mueller. Lori Mueller. Sonya Mueller. Tracy Musil. Harlan Nagorski. Michael Nienkamp. Deborah Noll. Tracy Nyffeler. Bryan Nyffeler. Janell Obrist. Sue Olson. Lynelle Olsufka. Paul Osterhoudt. Teresa Paczosa. David Pagel. Tracy 54 Stars Mohr — Slizoski Palen. Jacqueline Patchen. Kathleen Penfield. Shari Person. Mary Peterson. Kristin Phillips. Julie Plankinton. Richard Plugge. Gregg Podraza. Gary Podraza. Jerry Poison. Geralyn Potter. Tamra Powley. Ann Presley. Colette Prunty. Janet Rains. Timothy Reed. Roger Reimers. Gary Rhea. Danny Richards. Becky Robinson, Todd Roddy. Joan Rossow. Kelly Royer. William Ryan. Thomas Sanders. Rod Schacher, Steve Schacht, Nancy Schneider. Billie Jo Scholl. Connie Schrad. Susan Scovel. Diann Seda. Connie Sergent. Phillip Shefcyk, Janet Siedlik. Steve Sinclair. Bruce Sleddens, Chris Sliva. Debbie Slizoski. Lori Upper Left: Rita Fendrick and Shari Penfield analyze a problem in Accounting I Middle Left: Tharrin Hollatz. Barb Tuma and Marilea Hull gobble down massive quantities of papas fritas (potato chips) and cer-veza (beer) during their skit as part of the Norfolk Spanish exchange. Hollatz played the part of an alien conehead from outerspace and joined his earthly cousins in their festive delights. Left: Scott Buller puts the finishing touches on an art project. Sophomores 55 Sloth, Heidi Smets. Jana Smith. Tim Smith. Tom Speicher. Mary Spreeman. Greg Stahl. Debra StarosciK, Denise Staroscik. Diane Staroscik. Kevin Stauber. Stacey Stephanek. Mike Stephenson. Kerri Sterup, Mary Stoakes. Jennette Stotts. Rebecca Stracke. Ken Swanson. Donna Swartz. Debra Terry. Michael Thoms. Carol Thomsen. Pam Tschantre. Frances Uhlmann. Cathy Van Dyke. Sandra Van Dyke. Sharon Van Dyke. Sue Volnek. Mary Wagner. Mark Wallick. Tim •Afl Musical survey results at CHS differed with the 1978 WOW results for top albums and hits. However, groups and male and female vocalists were rated the same in both surveys. Female CHS students voted for “Wedding Song” consistently with “Stairway To Heaven being their second most popular tune. The guys voted for less sentimental songs and voted for the hits “Bicycle and “Kiss You All Over. Surprisingly. CHS students didn’t vote for any of the songs from Grease or Saturday Night Fever. Bat Out Of Hell by Meatloaf was the top album at CHS. This album, however, was not one of the top best sellers of the year in Nebraska. The top five according to WOW were 1 Saturday Night Fever, 2 Grease, 3 Rumors, 4 Some Girls and 5 Stranger. The top five albums at CHS were Bat Out of Hell, 2 Double Vision, 3 Pieces of Eight, 4 See Forever Eyes and 5 I'm a Wild and Craz Guy. The top albums in both surveys were made by the top two groups favored at CHS. Styx and the Bee Gees. They were equally popular in the survey results. Meatloaf and Aerosmith were third and fourth most popular respectively. It seems natural for the Bee Gees to be number one since they had the number one and three songs this year. They also had the top selling album of all time this year. Saturday Night Fever. Styx has been a favorite with many hits from their albums Equinox, Crystal Ball, The Grand Illusion and Pieces of Eight. Billy Joel was the number one male vocalist. Ted Nugent. Shaun Cassidy. Andy Gibb, Rod Stewart and Barry Manilow followed. In 1978 Joel had just begun being recognized as a star with his album Stranger and the hit “She’s Always a Woman . Runner-up Nugent got into a heavier rock sound that the male students liked. His album Double Live Gonzo was a top seller. Olivia Newton-John seemed to have both male and female fans loving her music as she was the runaway top female vocalist. Her performance in Grease brought her a lot of recognition and fans. Her top songs were “You’re The One That I Want and “Hopelessly Devoted to You . Barbara Streisand was rated second even though she had no top hits this year. Although musical tastes at CHS differed from the state-wide survey, one area of information remains the same ... Rock-n-Roll is our favorite style of music with Country Western and Punk Rock coming a distant second and third. 56 Stars ------------------------------- Sophomores Not Pictured Badge, Lori Bartuschock. Nick Boruch, John Boyd, Steven Burrows, Joe Christiansen, Gene Determan, Dan Hammer, Vickey Hoppenstedt, Alan Johnston, Micky Jones, Greg Korus, Darrel Lovell, Owen Ott, Tim Penner, Susan Settlemyer, Tom Shepherd, Bob Sliva, Chuck Sohl, Jeffery Szelag, Kathy Thomas, Curt Waltermeyer, Tami Wilhelms, Robert Winkle, Alan v_______________s Sloth — Zehring Left: Ken Kwapnioski and Anne Bartlett go over the fundamentals and operation of the internal combustion engine in Automotive class. Wallin. Ruth Want, Dan Warnecke, Todd Wasco. Lori Watson. Angie Weber. Scott Weil. Troy Wessel. Doug White. Denise Wiese. Linda Wieser. John Williams, Scott Williams. Suzanne Willman. Sandra Wilsey. Mark Wilson. Becky Wilson. Gina Wunderlich. Steve Zaruba. Mark Zaura. Steve Zehring. Cliff Sophomores 57 58 Stars Below: Connie and Carrie Miller review their work for Physiology class. Bottom Left: Julie and Joey Harrington are one of the six sets of sophomore twins Bottom Right: One set of twins that share a lot of interests are seniors Ed and Bill Schultz. Right: Joame Lee. senior is a fraternal twin to Julie Lee (not pictured). Top Left Page 59: Jan and Jeff Moore, juniors, are one of the two brother-sister sets of twins in CHS. Top Right Page 59: Kevin and Kelley Korte. sophomores, are the other set of brother-sister twins Bottom Page 59: People seeing Denise and Diane Staroscik for the first time together often do a double take- ave you ever wondered what it would be like to have a twin? To always have someone your age around? Someone to share clothes with? If you’ve always wanted a twin, don’t feel bad. The odds weren’t in your favor to begin with. Twins only occur in one out of every 96 births. Perhaps this makes CHS a little special. In the ’78-’79 school year, CHS had 14 sets of twins, about 35% more than average. Although CHS had an unusually high number of twins, the twins don’t view themselves as any different. As Carrie Miller said. “We’re just Ordinary People The twins usually felt that they were much closer than their brothers and sisters. Most felt they were good friends and they usually ran around with the same friends. People usually have about the same reaction. Identical twins usually get the reaction “Which one are you?” according to Denise Staroscik. Connie and Carrie Miller said people “don’t know we are twins, but when they find out we are, they can’t keep us apart any longer.” ome advantages to being a twin mentioned were sharing school work, clothes, and even I.D.s. One set of twins said they could pass for each other on the phone in case they didn’t want to talk to someone. The Staroscik twins found it to be an advantage at school at least once in junior high when they switched P.E. and Health one day. Most agreed it was also nice to always have a friend around. Jeff Moore said he had no complaints “except when parents compare grades.” He also thought it was funny to see people’s reactions when they found out. The lack of others realizing their individuality bothered some of the twins while others said they were used to it and didn’t care. Some were also bothered by the extra attention. Twins that made CHS special were sophomores Tim and Tom Dion, Joey and Julie Harrington, Kelly and Kevin Korte, Tim and Tom Smith, Denise and Diane Staroscik and Diane and Donna Swanson; juniors Lori and Walt Landwehr, Debbie and Mitzie Lower and Jeff and Jan Moore; seniors Pamm and Tammy Kemp. Joanie and Julie Lee. Matt and Mitch Medlar, Carrie and Connie Miller and Bill and Ed Schultz. Twins 59 umbling engines suddenly roar down the road, chrome flashes in the sun or under lights, tires leave a patch and the smell of burning rubber fills the air. CHS students are out “just drivin’ around” again. There are a variety of cars in the united States today from big, luxurius Cadillacs to sleek, fast Corvettes. These auto species attract a variety of people, especially teenagers. CHS teens seem to have a special attraction to cars a9 many spend countless hours driving around or fixing up their cars. Fixing up the car can be anything from tires with raised white letters to chrome mags to a mirror finish $1,000 paint job to a tune-up of that powerful 450. When a teenager goes out to buy a car to fix up, what does he look for? Well, first his final choice must have a good body with out rust and an engine that is of fair size, preferably between a 327 and 450. It should have buckets and usually four on the floor or a console automatic. After the car has been purchased, the first thing a student usually does is to give it a super glossy mirror-like finish, usually blue or red or sometimes black. Next he gets dual cherry bomb mufflers, then as much chrome as he can add to give it a super shining appearance and then chrome mags with raised white letter tires. After this considerable investment, he can roll his street machine out of the Grease pit and drive around town, looking as good as the best of them. However, not all like to go this route. Others prefer to get a little car such as a Toyota, Mazda or VW to conserve on gas because of the pinch they’re feeling in their wallets due to high prices. Still others go for the factory customized sports car. Some even prefer the luxury models such as Cadillacs or Cutlass Supremes. It was all a matter of taste if one was to judge by the CHS parking lots. In a poll taken at CHS. students said that they spend approximately $10 a week on gas. They also said their favorite color for cars was red with blue coming in second. But to have a car, any car, was a top priority for most as CHS seemed to be a society on wheels. Above: Stan Thoms drives this mean '78 anniversary edition gold Trans-Am Right: This glistening 72 Chevelle Malibu is owned by Debbie Fritz. More and more girls are getting into customizing. 60 Stars Top: Robby Mason owns this sleek Super Sport Impala convertible Above: Lynn Williams is in the process of restoring this beautiful '68 Camaro convertible. Left: Leslie Nielsen cruises around town in this '79 Z28 Camero. Cars 61 ■VB uscular student bodies! Male and female students both partook in weightlifting activities for most CHS sports. However, weightlifting was not just limited to sports as P.E. classes also brought in good ole (ugh) weightlifting and other students used the weight room to remove unwanted pounds or to try and build up almost non-existent muscles. Several methods were used for Pumping Iron at CHS. The two most frequently used were the slow 4-count using 70-90 percent of the lifter’s maximum weight and the fast count pumping 60-80 percent of the lifter’s maximum weight for 30 seconds. Coach Neese encouraged slow count lifting although his wrestlers did not lift during practice. Most of the wrestlers did it in their spare time. Neese explained. “We do not have time to lift weights. I feel rope climbing and running are more important but lifting is important.” Coach Hegi had girls use the fast count method so that they'd build strength and quickness versus the desired goal for guys of building strength and bulk (more muscle tissue). Of the stations in the weight room, females generally hated rope climbing. Males differed in their opinions. Weak armed guys hated pull-ups — “They’re a drag.” Scrawny legged guys hated leg extensions, front and back. weat. groans, straining muscles and pain are common experiences in the weight room especially when lifting is synchronized with conditioning. Although not actually weightlifting exercises, running steps were closely associated with weights. Steps must have been the coaches’ favorite exercise as everyday after school kids were running, hopping and sometimes literally falling on the steps. The steps were the general warm-up for weights. Because of the increased use of the weight room by teams, classes, and students trying to get in shape, the facilities were at times over crowded and people had to stand in line to use the weights. CHS coaches, because there wasn’t any money to purchase more weights, worked at the boys basketball Regional C game played at CHS and donated the money earned to the purchase of more weights. Left: Donna Warnecke does a fast count with 70 pounds while at the bench press Above Left: It hurts a bit but Lori Badge pushes on. Above Right: Steve Mancuso concentrates on the free weight load he will attempt to muster. Top: Marilyn Bernt sets her mouth in grim determination to conquer the leg press as Mike Scheidegger works at the pull over station and others move about the weight room. 62 Stars Left: Vicki Benson struggles to get that one extra pull-up Above: Patti Robak works on leg extensions as Cathy Mi-cek takes a breather during tennis conditioning Top Left: 'Errrrr ... It’s going to move or else. Rita Fendrick gives a maximum effort at the leg press Top Middle: Lynn Williams Breathes out as he pulls the weight up Top Right: It’s man against iron as Tom Struebing labors on the weight machine on a near maximum lift. Weightlifting 63 Top Left: Laurie Dufek scoops out some beets for the Bonanza salad bar. Top Right: Paul Rathkamp and Jerry Bartholomew ring up an order at Bran-deis. Above: Lois Rosenthal (standing) and Shirley Eusterbrock (sitting on floor) model clothes as part of their duties at the Brass Buckle. Right: Ted Ciboron works as a carryout boy. Bottom Left: Randy Olsan deep fries some fish at Long John Silver’s. 64 The Stars Top: Bill Parten helps a customer at the Alco sporting goods department Above: Denise Kappenman and Jamie Herrold provide some friendly service at Burger King. Right: Sue Stracke sacks up a carryout order at McDonalds Middle Right Page 64: Lisa Trofholz sacks an order after ringing it up at Alco. Left: Bryan Richardson constructs some Big Macs. o ya wanna go with us to the game tonight?” “Can’t. I gotta work.” “Where’s your homework?” “I didn’t get it done because I had to work.” Approximately 63% of the students at CHS worked at part-time or full-time jobs, an unusually high number for a town the size of Columbus. Problems because of this high percentage have arisen at Columbus High according to most coaches and activities sponsors. Fewer kids are joining sports and school clubs. According to a survey by the guidance office, only 38% of those working are involved in extra-curricular school activities. The community seems to be benefitting, however. One local shopper at Alco remarked that “the city seems to be run by teenagers on the weekends. They’re all over.” Homework and a job could be a problem for some students too, but a lot of pupils either do their schoolwork before going to their jobs or after they get off. Some students do their homework while at their jobs. “My homework is mostly Chemistry and while things are slow, Kent Dixon who works here (Columbus Drive-in) too helps me study,” explained Danette Grotelueschen. Money seems to be the main reason why students work. The money is used for cars and “just to spend.” According to a poll taken by the Columbus Discoverer, the majority of kids work for an average wage of just a few pennies higher than minimum wage. Many of the kids realize that You’ll Never Get Rich but at least it is something. Other reasons for working included future job experience and it was a way of getting out of school. Students work at a variety of jobs such as babysitters, carpenters, farm help, lifeguards, machinists, nurses’ aides, painters, paper boys and secretaries. The most common jobs to find students at, though, are as the clerks and cooks at places such as McDonald’s, DeFreece’s, Y-Not, Deano’s Diner, Dairy Queen Pizza Hut, Burger King and Godfather’s. Almost as many students can be found as clerks in clothing and discount stores such as K-Mart. Alco, Tempo, the Depot, Sportswear and the Brass Buckle. Jobs were another drain on students' busy schedules but were the source of funds helping to pay for other activities. Jobs 65 Everything is more desireable when it is not yours for a long time but if it is too unreachable after too long, it becomes hopeless. You are becoming hopeless. Julie Barnes T houghts, ideas and experiences abound in the halls of CHS and every once in a while they found expression in a creative way. When that happened, students chose several media to express themselves. Many of these expressions were revealed in artwork during the Fine Arts Festival in May. There was enough to fill the gym. Others chose the written word to reveal their ideas and insights. The eight students in Miss Danielson’s Creative Writing class went farther than most as they experimented with various forms of writing and then summarized their work in the literary magazine Reflections. The Fine Arts Festival and Reflections, however, were more than just collection of artwork and writing; they were the imagination, creativity and inner being of students — CHS students. The shops lined up like proud women, a false front that showed only the elegance, carefully keeping the less desirables in back, out of sight. Around a corner and down a street it stood, the little painter's shop. Refreshing and different like a plain woman with a quick eye and sharp wit, it had nothing to hide, nothing to shamefully push in some dark corner of a back room. Kay Davison Once, back in time there was a night club filled with obscurity, saturated with pain. The people in the club were its members and it was their jailer. It held them without bond. The sad sax tried to cheer them. but it couldn’t reach them. Something was holding them back. One day, however, the music changed. The key to happiness was found. And the sax played on. Julie Johnson 66 Stars The early morning sunrise gave life a glow in the small villa just outside of Washington, D.C. Jessie Chriar was already busy outside putting together his mother’s kitchen furniture. He begain his task early for his day was filled with engagements. Jessie was the head of a small business firm. This business was his life. He and his twelve associates did their business in a rather unorthodox manner. After completing the assembly of the furniture, Jessie headed for town. He did not, however, go to an office, but instead a home in the residential area of town. It was the home of his friend and associate, Pete Givers. Jessie was greeted there by the rest of the staff. At Pete’s home the twelve were given their daily assignments. Their business was not the sale of goods, but of services. Each one of the group would give his service to a master for the day. His service would be anything from lawn work to doing the dishes. The thing about the business which was so unorthodox was the wages the twelve received. Jessie decided that it would be best to let the employer determine what the laborer would get as payment. If the employer felt the job was poorly done, he could simply say so and not pay the laborer. In most cases, however, the workers were handsomely rewarded. The kind of business done by Jessie and his staff was damaging to labor organizations in the area. The chief of the Hebron Labor Union, Pancho Piloft. decided that, for the sake of the laborers, Jessie must be done away with. Pancho, being a shrewd businessman, knew that Jessie’s treasurer, Jud. was a greedy man. Pancho paid a visit to Jud at his home one evening and offered him thirty thousand dollars if he would set Jessie up for a hit. Jud realized that he would have to wash a lot of windows and mow a lot of lawns to make that much money. And besides, he was tired of Jessie getting all the credit; after all, they all worked the same. Jud accepted Pancho’s offer. He told Pancho that the staff was planning on having a meeting at the Garden Supper Thursday night. Thursday night rolled around and the twelve men met and ate at the Garden as planned. Jessie had ordered the upstairs dining room for their supper. They all ate biscuits and Jessie said it represented the bread they were making. Then they drank some wine and Jessie said it was what they were bleeding from the labor unions. The men drank and talked for hours. Finally all but Jessie had passed out. Jessie rose from the table and walked to the parking lot. He was blinded by a pair of headlights. The car sped toward Jessie so quickly he was petrified. The car turned sideways just a few feet away. A shotgun protruded from the window. A blast rang through the still night and Jessie fell to his knees, muttered. “It is over,’’ and collapsed to his death. The blast awoke the sleeping men upstairs. They rushed to the lot and found Jessie lying in a pool of blood. The eleven men were speechless. Jud stood crying, then dashed madly onto the nearby freeway where he was struck down by a speeding truck. For three days the remaining ten men moped around as though their lives had ended with Jessie's. Finally that Sunday. Tom was at Jessie’s home with the others, paying respects to Jessie’s mother, Martha. On the wall was a poster which read: “Give The People What They Want.” All at once, Tom was inspired. He proclaimed to the others, “Jessie would not want us to quit, to give in to the union, would he? I doubt it. Let’s carry on his will!” The others agreed and when Monday morning came, those ten men were at Pete’s house collecting their assignments. Bryan Fraser Creative Efforts 67 Running fast Temperature’s rising Heavy breathing Speed, freedom Feet punching the earth. Fever's alive! Muscles are quivering Feeling so fast, young and agile. Compared to a star, maybe nothing. To me only, I am something Never lonely when running Give me the power to go forever. Feeling so alive So energized ... I have lost my energy No desire to run My body is tired My mind is indifferent Walking takes concentration I sit, bored, sleep won’t come. I am tired of fighting, conquering, losing. My body is heavy. Zombie-like I survive Till I become energized Then once again I am reborn. Julie Barnes 68 Stars While searching through a person’s past, one wonders why don’t the simple things last? Why does everything gradually fade away, like the shining rainbow on a summer’s day? Think of the joy that could be found, if favorite things could somehow be kept around. The rememberances of our childhood and our all-time favorite that breaks the icy exterior of our hearts and make them sing. Eventually the question will undoubtedly arise, does the past always look better through an older person’s eyes? What determines whether a person’s past was good or bad? Is it an opinion based upon the present, or the past experiences a person's had? Why are we so foolish as to attempt to gather up and hold the things which have long since past and have grown old? Why chase our past when it is always so unkind, and all we receive is another broken heart that only the power of time can soothe and bind? Memories of the past that bring tears to our eyes. Memories of the past that bring about long, heavy sighs. Where are the lovers and close frinds who have all gone, lost in the never ending flow as time unceasingly rolls on? Time’s unceasing flow, can anyone understand it, the lyrics of the past and their elusive spirit? The Photograph The image of life, which holds all of the contents of any moment, lies tucked between the pages ’til someone seeks it again. Keith Groteluschen o 3 CO c (TJ -O Todd Gay Creative Efforts 69 Smile, Please 'id you get the film?” “Who’s got an extra flashcube?” “Don’t sit on my camera!” Just about everytime students went anywhere, they were bound to see those creatures of light and darkrooms — photographers. Whether they had Instamatics. 110’s, Polaroids or the mores sophisticated 35 mm cameras, students were out in force this year capturing their friends’ activities, the crazy antics of those they knew and the special moments they shared with friends and family. Photographers, it seemed, were always there to urge you to damentals of composition, special techniques for enhancing a picture, darkroom procedures and skills, uses of various photographic equipment and the historical and scientific reasons behind the various aspects of photography. Students in the class had to turn in prints that they had proposed, exposed and composed. They were no longer snapshot shooters but fledgling photographers. even if you didn’t feel like it or didn’t want your braces to show. Because of increased interest in photography as an art, CHS offered a quarter long black and white photography class this year in which students learned the fun- Top: Keith Groteluschen used a basket weave screen to modify his picture Vase. Above: Wheels taken by Meredith Oakes shows an example of repetition in form in composition. Left: Pamm Kemp's picture Life is a multiple exposure of trees. 70 Stars Organizations 71 Far Right: Jon Walker dives into Wagners Lake Right: Melinda Levos swings into an incoming pitch in girls fast pitch softball action. Below: Patti Atkins whips the ball to the catcher as pitcher for the East 30 Inn team. Far Left: Sarah Irby comes out for a rest after a dip in the lake. Left: Leslie Nielsen gathers up her ski for another try at water skiing. Upper Left: How long can they balance on the tube? Joe Arlt. Mike Scheidegger and Jon Walker try for a group best effort. 72 The Scene Left: For many sophomores, school didn't end May 22 as driver’s ed started the next week. Above: Mr. Mueller warms up before a Merchants baseball practice Top: Students, if in a reflective mood, could take a drive in the country for something different to do. L.. -........................ dren screaming, baseball fans roaring, swimmers splashing, motorboats churning, screen doors banging, skateboards scraping the cement, the air is full of sounds of life. Sunburns strike everyone! Gallons of lotion or oil are poured onto bodies for either a sunscreen for those fair skinned or for a minimum screen for those seeking the savage tan. Soon, however, bronze bodies cover the sand at the lakes while frisbees and cycles fly about. It’s summer and School’s Out But what is summer really like for CHS students? And where do they go? For most, work fills some days, soaking up sunshine fills the rest. Detassell-ing, life guarding, working at a construction site, walking beans, working at a park, etc. are just some of the summer jobs offered to CHS students. However when not working, students were found at a variety of places scattered across town. Gerrard Park, the newest major park, hosted a lot of girls in the fast pitch softball league. A lot of male CHS grads were in the Men’s Slow Pitch Softball League. Pawnee Park was home for major and minor baseball leagues. CHS students are usually on the Juniors, Reds. Blues or Merchants. There is also the pool at Pawnee that is filled with screaming kids being watched by student life guards. Pawnee Park was also home for the Frisbee freaks, tennis freaks and horseshoe freaks. Socks Lake, Lake North, Wagners. Stires, many other lakes around Columbus and the river are used for swimming, laying out, canoeing, mushroom hunting, etc. When all this got boring, there was always bicycling, horseback riding, water skiing and all the things you could do when school was in session like watching tv, going to the movies or riding the drag. There was also all the different types of camps to attend and all those friends to visit that you weren’t now seeing every day. Whoever said summer was a vacation never tried to keep up with CHS students and their activities. Summer 73 A Year To Remember B enjamin Franklin once said. . but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.” 1978 seemed to emphasize both of these points and many others in rather unusual ways. Louise Brown was born in Oldham, England. She weighed about 6 pounds. She entered the world just like most babies but the whole world watched her. Louise was a first, almost like from a science fiction novel because she was the first baby ever to be born after being conceived outside of her mother’s body. People call her the test tube baby, and scientists claim that more babies are to be born in the near future. Louise’s birth caused quite an uproar from some religious groups and others who believe that artificial insemination is against God’s will. Doctors hope that this discovery will help other childless couples in the future. Death was very evident during 1978. The world lost some great people such as Edgar Bergan (the original Charlie McCarthy), Israel's ex-Prime Minster Golda Meir. artist Norman Rockwell, actor Will Greer, actor and author Robert Shaw, and the Happy Warrior, Senator Hubert Humphrey. Pope John Paul I died late last summer. As the majority of the world mourned his death, the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church selected his successor, John Paul II who took over the papacy, and for the first time in 455 years, the world had a non-Italian Pope. He is a Pole who is humorous, warm, and likes to be close to the common folk. In the jungles of Guyana (a small South American country) in November, more than 900 men, women and children took their own lives in a bizarre and tragic event. They were members of the People’s Temple, a cult originally formed in San Francisco and led by Rev. Jim Jones. The people drank strawberry flavored drink poisoned with cyanide after they were led to believe that the world was coming to the end and it was time for them to leave. The whole incident was triggered by U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan and a committee which was investigating the group for supposedly holding members trying to leave the cult. As the committee boarded a plane to go home approximately 30 cult members opened machine gun fire on the group killing all but two people. The mass suicide then followed. eace was in sight for the Middle East after President Carter brought Menachem Begin, leader of Israel, and Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, together. They met at Camp David in Maryland and accomplished many things. The U.S. in December restored its diplomatic ties with the People’s Republic of China. The Chinese seemed very interested in learning about the States and our culture. President Carter hosted a banquet and many tours for them. Ex-President Richard Nixon, as a special guest, was invited back to the White House as he was a promoter of peace between the two countries during his terms in office. In order for the United States to recognize Red China, we had to break relations with Taiwan. We only broke formal diplomatic ties however, and the United States is still trading with it. Many bitter feelings have came out as a result of this, but all sides are still trying to work things out. ’78 was a year of elections. The taxpayers of California led a revolt to cut state property taxes. This act encouraged most of the other states (including Nebraska) to at least consider a tax cut of their own. The famed Proposition 13 was aimed at helping taxpayers, but it was threatened by a rumor that predicted that public employees would lose their jobs, police and fire services would be cut, and school, libraries and parks might be closed. Sports dominated the year with top atheletes and many heroes. Eighteen-year-old Steve Cuathen rode Affirmed to win horse racings’ Triple Crown. Muhammad Ali won back the world's heavyweight title from Leon Spinks after losing it earlier in the year. Ron Guidry pitched the New York Yankees to the pennant and world championship against the Los Angeles Dodgers. All in all, 1978 was a pretty exciting year even though it was filled with tragic losses. Heroes were found to replace those lost. The American people became more involved with their government again, and steps were taken towards world wide peace. Above: Ron Guidry of the New York Yankees delivers a pitch in a game with the California Angels in Yankee Stadium. Guidry won the American League Cy Young Award for his 25-3 record. Right: The vat of death sits on a plank walkway at the People's Temple in Jonestown. Guyana with the bodies of some of the murder-suicide on the ground. 74 The Set Left: A flaming Pacific Southwest Airways Boeing 727 plunges toward the ground moments before crashing into a residential area of San Diego. California. The jetliner and a student pilot s rented plane collided in a ball of fire with the collision and crash killing at least 150 people. Top: Pope John Paul II leaves the Sistme Chapel after his first Mass as leader of the world's Roman Catholics. Middle: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin embrace as President Jimmy Carter applauds during a White House announcement that the two nations had agreed on the Camp David Accords Above: The American balloon Double Eagle II crosses the French coast near Le Havre in the first ever successful trans-Atlantic balloon crossing. World Scene 75 ssigned study halls! New to CHS this year, they were almost universally condemned by students at the beginning of the year as students were sure that they’d lose all of their freedom. However, as the year progressed, it became obvious that student freedoms weren’t curtailed nearly as much as had been feared. Assigned study halls in 117 were an attempt by the faculty to curtail the large amount of skipping last year. Students were now required to sit in assigned seats and roll was taken, things that had never happened in study hall before. The result was A Change Of Habit for many juniors and seniors. They had to readjust to staying in school for all of their scheduled time rather than quietly leaving during their “free” period as they had last year. Some didn’t make the change easily and as a result spent some time in 104-B. A “keep quiet” study atmosphere, however, was not maintained in 117. Although there was always a small handful of people that were studying, most could be seen playing cards, drinking pop and visiting friends. At the beginning of the year, Student Council purchased a new pop machine for the lunchroom and students immediately took advantage of it. With the cans of pop selling for only 30 t a piece, the machine emptied quickly and according to Mr. Griffiths, Stu-Co adviser, “It had to be restocked daily.” After several weeks of operating the machine, it became obvious as to which brand of pop the students preferred. Mountain Dew out sold Pepsi, Dr. Wells and Diet Pepsi by a 2 to 1 ratio. However, at 10:30 a.m. state law required that the machine be shut off so that lunches could be served. Students were able to chose from a variety of things ranging from ice cream and yogurt to a regular meal, all of which were served during periods 5, 6 and 7. Following the lunch periods, the pop machine was again turned on and the room that was just a lunch room returned to a study hall, Room 117. Right: Jane Dush, Sharon Harrington and Jodi Heesacker visit with other junior girls during a lunch period. Far Right: Sonya Mueller displays a little bit of traditional 117 ideas by studying for an English class during a free period. 76 The Set Above: Chris Woerner. Left: Tammy Haferland and Middle Right: Tim Rains visit with friends. Middle Left: Jeff Heins digs into a Sunday. Top Left: although there is a noisy and crowded atmosphere during lunch periods, students still enjoy the chance for a friendly visit Top Middle: Tammy Cook and Top Right: Lisa Wasco concentrate on their cards during some of the many card games. 117 Study Hall 77 omecoming 79 was a “little Bit Country and a little bit crazy. Excitement mounted as the candidates were announced . Football players and fans looked forward to the game Friday night with Fremont ... and students attended special activities during the week. Finally, the climax of the week came at half time as Al Starzec and Jan Rich were crowned king and queen. The Homecoming Dance was October 20 following a defeat to Fremont. The theme was “A Little Bit Country with Wild Wild West decorations including wagon wheels, bails of hay, farm scenes and the use of special spotlight effects. “More decorating was done in the commons this year, said Leslie Nielsen. Booster Club vice-president. “Everything went well. We had lots of help decorating. Playing rock, disco, top 40 and country rock from 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. was “Buckeye . ore activities were planned during Homecoming Week this year then in previous years. On Monday Student Council held a convocation. There was also a hayrack ride that evening starting in Duncan. Wednesday was dress up country day. A banquet for those involved in fall sports, Booster Club and their coaches followed the annual parade and pep rally on Thursday. The week culminated Friday. October 20, with the game and dance. In addition to Rich, other queen candidates were Kristine Gilsdorf. Cheryl Krings, Jackie Lassek. Lisa Nelson and Leslie Nielson. Roger Bullington. Scott Foutch, Luke Lemke, Steve Mancuso and Ken Robinson were the other king candidates besides Starzec. Top: The rock beat of “Buckeye provides disco rhythm at the Homecoming Dance Middle: We Lost the Spirit, a comical skit is performed by Mr. Dartman as Pa. Ms. Schlobohm as Ma. Mr Waas as Son. and Miss Bechtel as Daughter. Mr. Neese as the college son hero later stole the spirit back from Mr Mueller, the villain Bottom: Candidates for Homecoming are (seated) Cheryl Krings. Lisa Nelson. Leslie Nielson. Jackie Lassak, Kristine Gilsdorf. and Jan Rich Standing: Steve Mancuso. Roger Bullington. Al Starzec. Luke Lemke. and Scott Foutch. Not pictured is Ken Robinson. 78 Life Upper Left: Newly crowned King Al Starzec and Queen Jan Rich are the center of attention as they dance the traditional royalty dance Upper Center: Dee Kapperman and Cheryl Krmgs portray a couple of rough cowboys on “dress-up day during Homecoming Week. Upper Right: A strange student is seen in the commons during the Homecoming week festivities Above: The band wagon is full of spirit at the annual Homecoming Parade Left: Jan Rich screams with delight as she and Al Starzec are robed during half time of the game against Fremont. Homecoming 79 Ruby Red tu-Co’s Snowbal Dance was a bit different this year as it opened with the coronation instead of couples dancing for the first hour and then having the ceremonies. Mike Scheidegger and Jaci Augustine were crowned king and queen in the auditorium during the early ceremony on Dec. 22. Following the 8:30 coronation was the dance in the cafeteria from 9-midnight. The opening coronation was planned in hopes that more people would attend. However, as Michelle Loseke pointed out, “The idea of crowning before the dance didn’t work because only 20-25 people came and then they left.” Snowball was a small dance in comparison to Homecoming. The band, La Tigre, was noted as being more personal than the Homecoming band by some couples but others said that the group played too loudly. The newly crowned royalty couple opened the festivities with the royalty dance. They swayed in their rowed to the twelve finalists by the seniors. Greg Cruickshank. Greg Vrbka, John Burdine, Jan Struck, Scheidegger and Tom Munson were the king candidates. Lisa Woodward. Kathy 01-sufka, Michelle Loseke, Lynne Hudson, Jane Beckmann and Augustine were the queen candidates. Top Left: Kenny Kwapnioski and Karen get a little closer to whisper while dancing Top Right: Mike Scheidegger and Julie Hajak laugh at Craig Scheidegger being “a wild and crazy guy.' Far Left: Snowball couples have a fun evening dancing to the fast paced music Left: King Mike Scheidegger crowns Jaci Augustin 1978 Snowball Queen. 80 Life robes as couples looked on. The theme. “Twas the Night Before Christmas”, was chosen by the theme and decorations committee whose chairman was Karen Koppel. The dance was held in the cafeteria with snowflakes hung as decorations. A Christmas tree and the furniture of a traditional living room created a Christmassy atmosphere in the commons. Snowball royalty candidates are chosen on the basis of academic abilities and involvement in extra-curricular activities. The twelve females and males who had earned the most points were then nar- Top Far Left: Couples dance to the beat of La Tigre' Middle Left: Snowball candidates are (back row) Gregg Cruickshank. Greg Vrbka. John Burdine. Jan Struck. Mike Schei-degger and Tom Munson. Seated are Lisa Woodward. Jaci Augustin. Lynne Hudson. Jane Beckmann, Kathy Olsufka and Michelle Loseke Below: Jaci Augustin and Mike Schei-degger cuddle up for the royalty dance Left: Couples sway to the music at Snowball. Snowball Dance 81 upid joined in with CHS couples who bumped and shook their booties when discomania hit CHS at the annual Sweetheart Dance. Stu-Co tried something new this year as Red Tag Disco of Kearney provided the music complete with a light show, sound system and a D.J. Red, pink and white streamers decorated the commons and the cafeteria while cupids and hearts filled the walls. The highlight of the evening was the crowning of Sweetheart King Randy Griffiths and Queen Sue Marsh. Julie Barnes and Mike Rambour were selected as the junior attendants. Sophomores Heidi Sloth and Kelly Person represented their class. The American Madness of disco was a success according to couples attending the dance and to Student Council members. We made more money on this dance than we have on any other (dance) in a long time and I think the kids enjoyed it, commented Stu-Co Advisor Dixon. Sophomore Jodi Herrold said. I loved the disco. It was great and a lot more girls came because they could come stag and still get a chance to dance a lot. Other teens said they had a good time but one common complaint was the kids wished they knew more disco steps. 82 Life Far Lower Left: While disco was fun. couples preferred slow dancing Middle Lower Left: Steve Miller and Kim Smets show off a few fancy disco steps while Maureen Lannan watches Left: Cheryl Young and her date get down to the music Upper Left: 79 Sweetheart King Randy Griffith and Queen Sue Marsh are attended by sophomores Heidi Sloth and Kelly Person and juniors Mike Rambour and Julie Barnes. Upper Left: Senior Sweetheart candidates are (back row) Lon-ny Wehrer. Rolland Augspurger. Brent Arment. Scott Blaser and Randy Griffiths. Seated are Ann Walters. Connie Ernst. Kim Ernst. Patty Cave and Debbie Crebbm. Not pictured are Sue Marsh and Kent Schwartz Middle Left: Junior candidates are (back row) Jeff Moore. Mark Stockman. Kenn Dickenson and Doug Rice. Seated are Jodi Johnson. Lori Jaeggi. Brenda Schmitt. Maureen Lannan. Jom Gutzmer and Julie Barnes. Not pictured are Craig Scheidegger and Mike Rambour Lower Left: Sophomore candidates are (back row) Gary Podraza. Kelly Person. Jim Hammons. Tom Goc. Doug Becher and Scott Williams. Seated are Jodi Herrold. Julie Harrington. Polly Hadan. Brenda Glur. Heidi Sloth and Shari Dohmen Above: Couples dance to a slower beat Upper Right: Lisa Nelson and Mark Mostek get into the beat during a dance. Sweetheart Dance 83 Hi t had a lot of neat paintings and sculptures,” Janet Shannon observed. Indeed, a variety of creativity could be seen in the many types of art media displayed and even within the same medium. For instance, right next to each other were paintings of the Incredible Hulk and one of Mr. Nyberg having breakfast with a beer. Paintings, sculptures, pottery and weavings were scattered around the gym to form a collage of art work. The annual Fine Arts Festival on May 10 and 11 displayed many art projects by CHS students, enough to fill the gym. The festival was the showcase for plenty of hard work put in by teachers and students alike throughout the year. In addition to the art work, at High Noon Ms. Schlobohm’s Theater II class performed the play “The Joke’s On You,” written by CHS student Jeff Hitz. It was also presented two other times May 11. Completing the scene of talent on display, the lab band wowed students with selections of jazz and pop hits. Top: Jeff Heins admires an art display. Above: Linda Dohmen and Tammy Griffiths work on a weaving project. Right: Chris Alt likes a picture he sees. Far Right: One of several mixed media collages of art. 84 The Set Bottom Left: This picture by Dan Sharp was one of the most admired art works in the show. Bottom Right: Keith Groteluschen worked on a pottery project as a working demonstration of pottery techniques during the art festival Below: Lisa Dohmen. Diann Scovel and Kent Schwartz set up an art display. Middle Left: Mark Weber looks over some drawings while Deb Gilbert talks to a friend. Left: After finding a drawing that he wanted to purchase. Mark headed for the sales table that was manned by Mr. Dartman and Ms. Detlefsen. Fine Arts Festival 85 Above: Jim Nyffeler and Sue Reimers take a break from dancing to visit with friends. Top Right: Students dance to the music of Chateau. Far Right: Laurie Dierberger and Todd Gay relax on the swing during a break in the music. Right: Terry Cleland was one of a few juniors up early Sunday afternoon and at the gym to help clean up the aftermath of the heavenly evening. 86 The Set he class of 1980 requests the honor of your presence at the Junior-Senior Prom to be held on April 28th at the Columbus Senior High School gymnasium from 9:30 to 12:00” After months of preparation and fund raising, the invitations were mailed and the day finally arrived, Friday, April 27. The entire junior class could be seen running all over town, picking up everything from pillars to tree branches in order to decorate for the big Prom to be held the next evening. Although the decorating lasted until the wee hours of the next morning, it was well worth the effort as the doors opened promptly at 9:30 on a heavenly scene. As couples entered the gym, angels and stars seemed to be everywhere and the juniors’ theme of Heaven Can Wait instantly captured everyone. Couples were in a mood to live it up while they could and they set out to make it the best of all possible evenings. Music was provided by Chateau which played a variety of songs from 9:30 until midnight. After the dance which was too short for most, everyone went their different ways. Some people went to parties, others went to breakfast, some did both and some just went home. Almost everyone, though, agreed that it had been one heavenly evening. Top Left: Mrs. Wibbels presents Nancy Powley with a Hastings College Academic Scholarship. Top Right: Cindy Roddy receives her Platte College Scholarship from Mr. Goos. guidance counselor Middle Left: Sizzlin' Sisters Stacey Stauber. Robin Ruschy and Chris Sleddens disco for the audience. Right: Paul Rathkamp reaches for a high note as part of The Classmen barbershop quartet. Above: Julie Plugge and Kay Davison, emcees, start the Honors Night festivities. 88 The Set osters of rock stars, skateboards, tennis rackets, a stand-up of Superman, and a gas can. Such were some of the articles reminiscent of the 70’s that decorated the stage as Honors Night 1979 noted “The Point of No Return.” The evening of entertainment and awards on May 14 celebrated the end of the 70’s and the accomplishments of the class of ’79 in particular. It was the first of three special nights for 79’ers, the other two being Baccalaureate and Commencement. Sponsored by Stu-Co and Thespians, the evening featured entertainment by the barbershop quartet, “The Classmen”; Sizzlin’ Sisters; New World Singers; and Beth Heins. Various honors and awards earned during the previous year and all college scholarships were also presented. Some of the many awards presented included the Regent Scholarships given to Mike Hoffmann, Curt Thalken and Scott Zwick. Alan Mann, Zwick and Matt Person all received ROTC awards. Paul Rathkamp and Thalken also received West Point Academy appointments. The second special evening was the following Sunday, May 20. “Pray hard, think hard, and work hard,” urged the Reverend Hugo Rathkamp. He also informed the graduates to Make Way For Tomorrow Opening the evening's activities which were of a religious nature was Sue Marsh with the invocation. The Senior Choir then sang “Glory To Your Name”. Roger Bullington read some scripture verses and Melody Anderson sang a solo titled “Praise the Lord, He Never Changes”. The Reverend Rathkamp then gave his Baccalaureate address and Jan Rich closed the ceremonies with the benediction. Top Left: The Reverend Hugo Rathkamp delivers the Baccalaureate address. Top Right: Kurt Robak picks up his I Dare You Scholarship. Middle: The senior choir harmonizes during “Glory to Your Name”. Far Left: Kim Ernst and Mike Scheidegger sing a tune as part of the New World Singers' presentation. Left: Sarah Irby receives a Nebraska Council of Youth Scholarship. Baccalaureate. Honors Night 89 olemn, dignified, gowned graduates filed into the gymnasium packed with proud parents, friends and students. Everything was in accordance until somewhere in The Arrangement 90 The Set of chairs, the line of graduates began to slow. As the audience watched, the formal procession turned into a small human traffic jam. Jumping to the podium. Mr. Hopp stressed to the audience and graduates that these were the same students who had completed one of the best marching practices in the years that he had been at CHS. Understanding the audience applauded because they knew the tension of the occasion. After all the graduates had found their appropriate chairs, commencement exercises began. .Mr. Sterup presented the class and School Board President Jerry Roth handed out diplomas and congratulated graduates. Roth was assisted by Roger Bullington, senior class president. After receiving their diplomas, members of the class of ’79 sat back and listened to Mr. Delbert Weber give the commencement address. Weber, a 1950 CHS graduate and president of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, told the new graduates that the future is wide open and that they shouldn’t be syn-ical about their country or life. The CHS Instrumental Ensemble played the processional and recessional and the Reverend Roy Anderson delivered the invocation and closing prayer. Top: Mitch Jensen. Colleen Johnson, Mick Lewis and Julie Liebschwager wait for the diploma presentation. Middle: Where do we go now?” Some of the 79’ers have lost their chairs. Far Left: Ron Stachura and Kent Schwartz get crazy after the ceremonies. Left: Steve Mancuso receives his diploma from Mr. Roth. - Top Left: A happy Cheryl Krings is congratulated by Mr. Roth as Roger Bullington looks on. Top Right: Even a bad knee didn’t stop Alan Mann from participating in the ceremonies Middle Right: A variety of expressions fill the grads' faces as the recessional begins. Left: Mr. Weber urges the graduates on to greater achievements. Above: Flashing lightbulbs and cubes put sparkles and red dots before the grads’ eyes as family and friends recorded the events. Graduation 91 Top Left: Jim Nyffeler does his part for a one rating for the band at Pershing. Top Middle: Kay Robinson and Angie Watson lead a victory cheer during a break in district wrestling action Top Right: Rita Louis plays a space fairy in the Showbiz II production Space Adventure . Right: Football players ham it up during the fall sports banquet. Above: Jane Beckmann spends time after school making door decorations for the basketball players. 92 Random Takes Bottom Left: Mr. Bacon directs the choir in another number. Bottom Right: Joe Arlt notes his neighbor's progress on a tough math problem. Middle Left: Julie Fallick concentrates to make her drafting project exact. Below: The line forms at the counter phone as students wait to call home for permission to leave school. Left: Cindy Bredehoft takes a study break in 117. Random Takes 93 ('I.) CD CC E o O c CO CL Top Left: One of Randy Spulak's jobs as Assistant Sports Editor is to edit copy before it goes to press. Top Right: Wes Ott and his partner toga to the music at a tape dance. Middle Left: Cook Mary Ann Lehr dishes out one of the day’s choices. Left: Sophomore Beth Herout nails a weaving form together. Above: Kerri Stephenson and her sister Brenda do a commercial for Mush cereal in speech class. 94 Random Takes ainbow Creations crossed over the rainbow this year to reach the pot of gold. Rainbow creations was one of three Junior Achievement (JA) companies from Columbus. Members of the company captured the JA Company of the Year Award for the Omaha district which was the first time any company in the district outside of Omaha had won the award in the 17 year history of JA. Other awards given were to Lisa Long for Production Executive of the Year and Michele Behlen for Outstanding Young Businesswoman and Treasurer of the Year. Michele was also a finalist for a three-week trip to Shizuoka, Japan. In order for the company to accomplish all this, a lot of hard work and extra hours were put in by every member. Extra committee meetings took place on Thursday nights and Sunday afternoons while regular meetings were held on Monday nights at Fleischer Manufacturing, the sponsoring company. The group's products this year were also different and according to President Ken Kwapnioski. they capitalized on small inexpensive items. Everyone usually pitched in helping but a couple of people in production management usually got The Odd Job such as cutting a few thousand chenille bumps for walnut squirrels or scavenging the city for medium sized tree limbs. The company produced a variety of products including the squirrels, wooden pen sets, wishing wells and magnetic hearts, Christmas trees and owls. Advisors to the group were Theresa Petr, Barb Bejvancesky and Dave Janky. Below Left: Ken Kwapnioski and Lisa Long play a little volleyball at the organizational meeting for JA in early September. Below: Mary Zwiener. Terry Cleland and Shan Penfield make some magnetic owls as part of production Bottom Right: Joan Steiner. Michele Behlen and Renee Hellbusch enjoy the banquet at Dialogue '78 in Norfolk. (All photos courtesy of Theresa Petr.) Left: Members of Rainbow Creations are (standing) Carol Latham; Terry Cleland; Donna Novotny; Ray Prososki; Mary Zwiener; Steve Hellbusch; Michelle Fix; Robert Bowe; Janet McDonald; Shari Penfield; (sitting) Lisa Long, vice-president of manufacturing; Joan Steiner, vice-president of personnel; Ken Kwapnioski. president; Julie Kwapnioski. vice-president of marketing: Michele Behlen. treasurer; and Renee Hellbusch. secretary. Random Takes, JA 95 Band Roster (Front Row) Kay Davison. Julie Fer-gin, Ann Lasley, Laurie Dierberger. Susan Belitz. Sandy Birkel. Cathy Uhlmann. Sandy Gustafson. Susie Hervert. Deb Nienkamp. Shari Doh-men. (Second Row) Dennis Hare. Beth Heins. Danette Grotelues-chen. Kim Nelson. Cindy Uhlmann. Sandy Blank. Michelle Behlen. Nancy Bloebaum. Lisa Dohmen. Kathy Kosch. Debbie Fritz. Meshell McDowell. Denise Fraka. Jann Nyf-feler, Doreen Augspurger. Mark Loeffler. Laura Nettland. Dan Want. Deanna Bogus. Tom Hansen. (Third Row) Julie Barnes. Stacey Stauber. Ann Powley. Genny Borowiak. Ann Anderson. Marla Molczyk. Jane Stracke. Dave Keefauver. Carol Latham. Rod Sanders. Greg Spree-man. Ed Fry. Scott Zwick. Julie Schwartzer. Susan Stracke. Jan Barton. Rob Mason. Tom Dion. Andy Brink. Bill Schultz. Jerry Krei-fels. Ed Schultz. Greg Frieze. Jamie Bollig, Lisa Penfield. Mike Vanek. Jaci Augustin. (Fourth Row) Gayle Wendland. Scott Goering. Dave Di-vis. Mark Haskins. Mike Cook. Walt Landwehr. Mike Hagelstein, Miles Beach, Scott Fulton. Scott Buller. Steve Busteed. Lyle Nyffeler. Gene Hahn. Nancy Brega. Band Director Mr. Marik. Matt Person. Ralph Castner. Dean Ott. Tim Dion. Susan Lloyd. Dave Lange. Tracy Pagel. and Jim Nyffeler. Right: Jaci Augustin blows on her sax during a solo for the concert band. Bottom Left: The woodwind section plays the melody of a number at the winter concert. 96 The Set Above: B.S. (Band Spirit) was really evident in the CHS contingent at Pershing when its all l's ratings were announced. Left: Rifle corps members are Suzette Carrig. Carol Thoms, Joyce Morse and Fran Lange. Middle Right Page 96: Flag corps members are (kneeling) Terry Cleland. Miki Averett, Debbie Lower. Kay Davison. Janet Prunty. Tracy Belitz, (standing) Connie Bouc. Mitzie Lower. Michelle Loseke. Robin Ruschy. Marilyn Bernt. Denise.Warnecke. Stacey Bes-sire. Sue Reimers and Deb Lesiak. e had a flawless year, a flawless marching season, a flawless concert band and a flawless jazz band and that was all I could ask for!” exclaimed Band Director Mr. Marik. This year's marching band started something new, a band camp, which was held in mid-August. Members practiced from 8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. for two days, working on music and parade and field formations. The long hours, however, soon paid off as the band received straight l’s at the Columbus Days contest, the Wisner-Pilger contest and the State Marching Festival at Pershing Auditorium in Lincoln. Sometimes I thought the pressure they (other members) put on us would never let up but it was worth it,” commented sophomore Greg Frieze. Criticism seemed to be a major part of the practicing but everyone realized that it was necessary and accepted it. Band Spirit (B.S. as it was affectionately known) was also highly emphasized. A rifle corps was added to the flag corp. It was made up of four girls and according the Mr. Marik, its size will increase in the future. One of the things I remember best about marching season was Mr. Marik telling us a couple of days before a performance, ‘If you’re not there. I hope you’re at your own funeral because I'll never excuse anything else,’ said Jane Stracke. The March Or Die idea was also mentioned by many others when reminiscing about the year in band. Concert band also was a success with its superior performance at the District Music Contest in Wayne. Also this year, band members began raising funds for an out of state trip next year by selling kitchen products and by bringing international recording star Maynard Ferguson to Platte College for a guest performance on May 4. Band 97 _ ter the screaming is over, the instruments are then loaded and the members step back into the bus carrying another first place trophy. These musicians who were Mad About Music put everything they had into their shows. As a result, the CHS Jazz Band placed first at both contests it entered during the 1978-79 festival season. The winning season started off slowly. Origin-ally there were to be two jazz bands but because of a shortage of trombones, it was decided that the two proposed bands would combine and thus create a larger than normal, 21-piece band that blew away the audiences it performed for. Among the festivals the band attended was the Westside Jazz Festival. Even though lead trombone player Gene Hahn was sick and as a result parts had to be rewritten on the trip to Omaha, the band still pulled through with many fine comments from the judges who never realized that anything was wrong. Other gigs during the year included the annual pops concert and a concert in Frankfurt Square. Also this year, the CHS Jazz Ensemble operated not only as a school organization, but also as an independent band which performed in front of many conventions at the Holiday Inn and at the Elks Country Club. These performances earned the band enough money to go on an overnight trip to Sioux Falls, South Dakota where the band performed at Augustana College along with other bands from across the Midwest. Afterwards, band members reclined at the Holiday Inn, swam and played pinball, poker and pool to all hours of the night to get the most possible out of their reward for working so hard. Below: Jaci Augustin makes her alto sax talk to the audience during a solo at the Pops Concert. Far Lower Left: Santa (Scott Zwick) boogies down during a basketball halftime show. Far Left Inset: Dave Divis and Mike Cook set the beat for a chart during the band's performance in Frankfurt Square. Middle Left Inset: Lyle Nyffeler provides the bottom tone for a halftime show. Middle Right Inset: The band's brass section blows away a crowd during the district wrestling meet Far Right Inset: Julie Schwartzer concentrates on her solo during a chart called The Summer of '42 which was taken from the movie. 98 The Set Right: Members of the Jazz Band are (sitting) Dave Divis. Ed Fry. Scott Zwick, Jerry Kreifels. (row 2) Carol Latham. Nancy Brega. Greg Spreeman. Rob Mason. Julie Schwartzer. Tracy Pagel. Miles Beach, (row 3) Lyle Nyffeler. Mike Cook. Gene Hahn. Tim Dion. Beth Heins. Andy Brink. Dennis Hare. Steve Busteed, Mr. Marik. Mike Vanek and Jaci Augustin. Jazz Band 99 I ighlighting this year’s choir schedule was the Mixed Choir’s invitation to Hastings College to perform. “They performed very well at Hastings,’’ acknowledged choir director Mr. Bacon. Another highlight for the Mixed Choir was its concert at the Federated Church. The Sound Of Music 100 The Set Top: Girls Glee members ring bells as part of an original song by Mr. Bacon Middle Right: 1979 chorus all-staters are (seated) Beth Hems. Lynne Hudson, Jeannie Aerni, JuLee Courtier. Kay Davison. Lisa Jenny, (standing) Kathi Miles. Kristine Gilsdorf. Melody Anderson. Jerry Bartholomew. Mark Loeffler. Paul Rathkamp and Jim Nyffeler. Far Right: Kathi Miles accompanys on guitar during a Girls Glee number. Right: Ron Hare. Bryan Nyffeler and Deb Kampschneider sing as part of Sophomore Choir while Mrs. Augustin accompanys Above: Jeannie Aerni sings a solo at the Federated Church Easter concert. filled the sanctuary with an Easter feeling. “I felt this was our best performance because it was neat singing with the organ,” stated singer Kay Davison. This year the choirs also performed original songs written by Mr. Bacon and Mr. Koudelka, a student teacher. The Mixed Choir did “So Lonely and Blue with Beth Heins singing solo. At the Christmas concert, the Girls Glee sang “Alleluia with accompanying handbells. Mixed Choir also sang “Perfect Love by Mr. Bacon at the Easter concert. Top Left: Terri Hull and Dana Ernst get into the music. Top Middle: Janelle Holys. Mitzie Lower. Jacqueline Palen. Teri Osterhoudt and Theresa Klein blend their voices during a Girls Glee concert. Top Right: Doug Wessel. Scott Williams and Tracy Belitz harmonize. Above: Jaci Augustin plays the alto sax as part of the Mixed Choir's rendition of “Jazz Man.' Left: Mixed Choir members Susan Lloyd. Kim Ernst. Deb Gilbert. Mike Scheidegger. Doug Rice. Dana Williams. Kay Davison. Jeannie Aerni. Paul Rathkamp. Larry Vorderstrasse, Vince Christie and Chris Scholl perform at the May 10 vocal concert. Choirs 101 hort and fat to skinny and tall to short and fat — disappear. “I know it’s Monday but Let’s Do It Again The Columbus High swing groups seemed to change shape very often. However, it wasn’t that unusual what with the mirrors they used to improve their choreography. “The mirrors have been a great help in improving choreography, especially for improving uniformity of arm and hand movements. However, the mirrors bend a little in the middle and make us all look short and fat,” commented Music Director Bacon. Bacon singled out April 10 as the best overall concert for the swing groups although the groups all earned a one rating at the district contests. “We had some very fine performances at Districts. We sang some of the most difficult music heard at the contest,” Bacon said. Bacon and many swing members pointed out that part of the swing choir idea is acting. “Sizzlin’ Sisters has a problem of concentrating so hard on our singing and dancing that we forget one of the most important things — smiling. At Districts when it came time for us to sing, the New World Singers were sitting out in the audience all smiles reminding us to smile. The whole stage then lit up. On the judge’s paper we got straight ones. On the bottom under the comments he wrote nice smiles.” noted singer Connie Bouc. Top Left: Chris Sleddens. Beth Heins and Janice Coffey sing out as Sizzlin' Sisters during their part of the April 10 concert. Top Right: Angie Watson and Gary Reimers get together for some disco moves in Sophomore Swing. Middle Top Page 103: Robin Ruschy performs with the Sizzlin' Sisters. Inset: Sonya Mueller. Doug Wessel. Sharon Van Dyke and Greg Spreeman do a Sophomore Swing number. Right: The New World Singers entertain the audience at the April 10 concert. 102 The Set Top: Members of the Sizzlin’ Sisters are Tracy Belitz. Susan Lloyd. Beth Heins. Deb Lower. Mitzie Lower. Janice Coffey. Robin Ruschy. Stacey Stauber. Connie Bouc, Brenda Glur and Chris Sleddens Middle: Sophomore Swing members are Gary Reimers, Sharon Van Dyke. Tom Dion. Janet Prunty. Doug Wessel. Terri Hull. Greg Spreeman. Sonya Mueller. Ron Hare. Angie Watson and Dana Ernst. Not pictured is Teri Osterhoudt Above: New World Singers are (front) Kay Davison. Sue Whetstone. Melody Anderson. Kim Ernst. Kathi Miles, (row two) Doug Rice. John Burdine. Jim Nyffeler. Tracy Engel. Paul Rathkamp. Bryan Fraser. Jerry Bartholomew. Mike Scheidegger. Mitch Medlar. Mark Loeffler. (on ladder from top) Jeannie Aerni. Lisa Jenny. Laurie Lee. Suzette Carrig and Lynne Hudson. Music Swing Groups 103 ___ ne advantage to having a small group is that we are able to travel like to churches. You can’t do this with large groups.” Miss West, orchestra instructor, was satisfied with her five member orchestra but she wouldn’t mind seeing a large CHS orchestra either. The CHS orchestra which consists of Gerry Poison. Jann Nyf-feler. Gene Christiansen. Kirstin Peterson and Rebecca Stotts did well for itself this year. They provided Beautiful Noise at many churches, for social groups and in the U.S. 30 Mall. This was not all of their achievements. however. Poison, Nyffeler and Peterson were named to the All-State Orchestra. West said the orchestra program is growing. Next year, she said, there should be at least 8 to 10 members in the orchestra and looking down the road, the program should continue to grow based on the number of students in the elementary and junior high school program. The orchestra performed at two concerts this year, a winter concert in February and a concert in May which involved alumni and members of the band. Orchestra members were also involved in the district music contest at Wayne State College. West was a first year teacher at CHS. “Sometimes it’s really bad but most of the time it’s fantastic. I've learned so much from the kids. I’ve taught them a lot but learned twice as much.’’ West taught both the junior and senior high orchestra. The orchestra may be small but there is a lot of enthusiasm within it she said. Top: Miss West conducts the orchestra during a supper concert for parents Bottom: Becky Stotts fiddles a score of music during the concert. 104 The Set Far Left: Gene Christiansen concern trates on his string bass chords. Left: Lisa Thomazm plays her cello Below: One of Miss West's many or chestra students in the elementary program intently plays his tune Bottom Left: Gerry Poison Bottom Middle: Jann Nyffeler. and Bottom Right: Kirstin Peterson blend the sounds of their string instruments for some beautiful music. Orchestra 105 uspense mounts as suddenly the lights black out. The girls begin screaming hysterically as the strobe light and piercing feedback start. Mike and David begin to light the candles on the candlabra when a red spot light flashes on revealing the crumpled bleeding body of Mr. Stanley. Such was the beginning of the night’s terror when five students and two teachers decided to spend the night in the college theatre to wait for the notorious ghost. They lived to wish they were Safe At Home In the play, the students were rehearsing “Romeo and Juliet when told the ghost will visit that night leading them to decide to stay. After discovering who the “ghost” really was. they found themselves locked in with a dead phone and no means of escape. The night’s terror then began with mock attacks on two of the students and serious threats to the lives of the two teachers. Helen Blestar and Grace Shotwell. Eventually the group was surprised to discover the real person behind the terror and also heard his story of a life of disappointments which he blamed on those connected with the theatre. T HI he cast included Suzette Carrig as Helen Blestar. the director; Tami Waltermayer as Jessica, a janitor; Jeff Hitz as Mr. Stanley, the other janitor; Jann Nyffeler as Miss Shotwell. an English teacher at the college; and the students Alice, Mike. Terry. David, and Sharon played by Michelle Loseke, Jerry Bartholemew, Ann Lasley. Tharin Hollatz, and Nancy Bloebaum. The play, one of the shortest CHS has ever put on. lasted only an hour and was generally well received. Some guys that brought dates enjoyed it because their girls clung to them during the more frightening parts. One student said, “It was one of the better plays we've had in the last few years.” Top Left: David (Tharrin Hollatz) punches Mike (Jerry Bartholomew) in a fake fight to fool the killer. Top Right: Mrs. Stanley (Jeff Hitz) threatens Sharon's (Nancy Bloebaum) life if Mike and David don’t duel. Bottom: (The concerned students and Helen (Suzette Car-rig) gather around Miss Shotwell (Jann Nyffeler) who has been stabbed by the killer. 106 The Set Top Left: Those behind the scene that made it all happen were (back) Chen Brandt. Mark Leoffler. Kim Evert Tammie Rullo. Kevin Hastms. (front) Susan Belitz. Becky Wilson. Traci Belitz. and Ann Powley Center Left: In a scene from Shakespeare's “Othello Mr Stanley (Jeff Hitz) tries to kill Helen (Suzette Carrig) but his plan backfires when she flips him Bottom: Jessica (Tami Waltermeyer) and Mr Stanley (Jeff Hitz). two janitors in the Fine Arts building, argue over who gets the broom Top Right: A ghost story begins the night s adventures told by Alice (Michelle Loseke) and Sharon (Nancy Bloebaum). Above: Terry (Ann Lasley) verges on hysteria when she is told that Miss Shotwell is deal Helen (Suzette Carrig) and Alice (Michelle Loseke) try to comfort her Winter Play 107 Upper Right: Paul Barringer (Scott Zwick) requests Sylvia’s company for coffee. Lower Right: Discussing Alice Blake's overdue book as a result of her accident are Paul Barringer (Scott Zwick). Bea Schachter (Susan Belitz) and Charlotte Wolf (Mrs. Callan). Above: Sylvia Barrett (Kay Davison) trys to talk Helen Abruzzi out of dropping out. Inset: Ye loyal sons and daughters.” Principal Dr. Clarke (Mr. Nyberg) stresses the importance of singing the school song correctly. Maybe it I get a job. I'll be ' Happy to recontinue. Miss Barrett.” - I'm never miserable in If I could die for you Paul.” - Alice somebody with a job.” - Jose Harry A. Kagan (Rod Howerton) English.” - Vivian Paine Blake (Deb Lesiak) Rodriquez (Tharrin Hollatz) (Denise Fraka) 108 The Set Upper Left: Sylvia (Kay Davison) makes a final attempt to persuade Joe Ferone (Jeff Hitz) to stay in school. Lower Left: Mr. McHabe (Mark Loeffler) reprimands Sylvia (Kay Davison) soundly for allowing Joe Ferrone to leave the room to go to the bathroom during a test. Above: An attentive class consisting of Linda Rosen (Lisa Penfield). Rachel Gorden (Lizbeth Andreasson) and Carole Blanca (Tracy Belitz) ask Miss Barrett. Why not call you Teach? s What good's integration if I still get hard I’ve got a letter from my Stop the bomb before it's too assignments. - Edward Williams. Es- friertd Sylvia. - Ellen late! - Lou Martin (Kevin Has- quire (Tim Liebschwager) (Gretchen Goedeken) tings) means you're stuck with it. “Keep in file in numerical order” means throw in wastebasket. “Inter-personal relationships” is a fight between kids. “Ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline” means call the cop. “Literature based on child’s reading level and experiential background” means that’s all they’ve got in the book room. “Nonacademic-minded” is a delinquent, and “it has come to my attention” means you’re in trouble. With this list of explanations Sylvia Barrett, played by Kay Davison, began her first teaching job in a large inner-city New York high school, Calvin Coolidge High. Her idealistic views came crashing down after her first classroom experience. Up The Down Staircase the '79 all school play, was unique in that much of the faculty in the play was played by CHS faculty members. These members included Mr. Waas as Mr. Bester, the chairman of the English department; Mr. Nyberg as Dr. Clarke, the principal; Mrs. Cal-lan who played Charlotte Wolf, the librarian; Mrs. Becher as Ella Frie-denberg, the guidance counselor; Miss Lund as Frances Egan, the school nurse; and Mrs. Kyster as Sadie Finch, the school clerk. The main conflict centers around Sylvia’s efforts to keep a particularly troubled boy, Joe Ferone (Jeff Hitz), in school. By the end of her first term she is convinced she has done no good and considers leaving. She decides to stay, however, and is rewarded when Joe returns the second term. Bea Schacter played by Susan Belitz became Sylvia’s guide through her torrent first term. Other faculty members were Paul Barringer (Scott Zwick), a fellow English teacher, and Mr. McHabe played by Mark Loeffler, the administrative assistant. Gretchen Goedeken played Ellen, Sylvia’s friend from college. All-School Play 109 Top Left: Miss Schlobohm awards Kay Davison a letter for “Best Student Director” at Honors Night. Top Right: Honorable Thespian officers were Deb Le-siak, secretary; Michelle Loseke, vice-president; and Kay Davison, president. Not pictured is Treasure Tracy Engel Center: Deb Lesiak feeds her face at the Thespian initiation picnic. Bottom: The honorable Thespian leader. Miss Schlobohm. directs an initiation with Deb Lesiak as understudy. ost people think of Thespians as a group of wild and crazy, far-out, loony, unbalanced theater bums. Basically true. This year’s group appeared no different. However, in their attempts to change their image and become a dignified honor group, they planned and executed some dignified activities. One such activity was a Christmas convocation in which they were assisted by the jazz band and the New World Singers. They also performed a serious pantomime, with the help of seventh grader Jay Augustin, of an old Christmas legend. To further their dignified image, they combined efforts with Stu-Co to present a successful Honors Night under the theme “Point of No Return . Thespian members brain-stormed to come up with such relics of the 70's as Superman and a gasoline can. By initiation time, though, it was obvious how hopeless it was for such a zany group to become dignified as In The Park senior members instructed initiates to act like a dog around a car and to kiss tree roots. 110 Set Most AFS meetings included a slide presentation or food demonstration to learn about other countries. Top Left: Lori Wurdeman returned from Asuncion. Paraguay with a suitcase full of souvenirs, many memories and a better understanding of people in other countries. Left: Mike Tuma returned to CHS in February as did Lori so that they could complete their requirements at CHS and graduate with the class of 79. ( f you could take off a year and live in another country with a family, learning their language, habits and customs, how long would it take you to catch the first flight out? This became a reality for two AFS students. Olga Castenada from Guatamala and Carla L’Huillier from Australia, and for Lizbeth Andreasson. another foreign exchange student from Sweden. With the exception of Carla who left the second term for another school, these girls spent the year studying and learning at CHS. Two CHS students. Mike Tuma and Lori Wurdeman, also spent a year in a new environment. Mike spent a year in Peru while Lori was in Paraguay gaining unique experiences. AFS was fairly active this year doing things like trick or treating on Halloween Top: Foreign exchange students Lizbeth Andreasson and Olga Castaneda both were part of the cast for the all-school play. Up The Down Staircase . Here Lizbeth informs the audience of the latest gossip in the Clarion. Left: AFS students Olga Castaneda and Carla L’Huillier relax in the shade. Above: AFS officers were Jane Beckmann, secretary; Lois Rosenthal, vice-president; and Lori Schutt. historian. Not pictured are Sarah Irby, president. and Kent Schwartz, treasurer. Thespians, AFS 111 eventy-nine was a better year for the debators because they brought home trophies from every tournament except the state championship which is the only tournament they won one in last year,” commented Ms. Jacobs-Kain, the debate coach. “We were real hot. Two trophies and two medals in one tournament was one of our major accomplishments.” Jacobs-Kain combined her speech and debate classes this year and as a result Voices could be heard resounding down the hall 10th period as the class did everything from formal, stylized debating to extremely humorous demonstration speeches. “Everything we did was real interesting,” said debate student Sonya Mueller. “The teacher was real interesting too.” Tom Ryan noted that for him, “The first debate was the most interesting.” The group also gave after dinner speeches after a meal at Pizza Hut and had an awards banquet at Godfather’s late in May. Do I have to help her? was the first thing Kent Kinzer asked. Ms. Jacobs-Kain replied that he had to as it would be part of his grade. His worst fears became reality as Sonya Mueller became Pierre of Paris who was going to demonstrate the latest in men's make-up. As the whole class and a crowd in the hall split up laughing. Mueller applied layer after layer of the goop. Kinzer became resigned to his fate and even hammed it up as Mueller put the final touches on. He was resigned that is until he realized that there were only two minutes until the bell and that then the halls would be full of students. How do I get it off?” he asked. Wouldn't you know it, Mueller had forgotten to bring anything to take it off with and at that moment Kinzer burst from the room in a panic, searching for the nearest bathroom. Page 112 Left: Dave Keefauver files some new note cards to be used in the next debate tournament Page 112 Right: Scott Goering presents his case in a practice debate session. Far Left: Kent Kinzer. Todd Loseke. Ms. Jacobs-Kain and Dave Keefauver note the latest information in Debate Issues that the group can use. Left: Gretchen Goedeken gives a speech in class Below: Kirstin Peterson. Tom Ryan and Gretchen Goedeken were award winners in local speech contests. Peterson won the american Legion oratorical contest. Ryan and Goedeken won medals in the Optimist oratorical contest. Debaters for '78-79 are (sitting) Mary Kunes. Ms. Jacobs-Kain. Sandy Birkel. (standing) Mary Lincoln. Gretchen Goedeken. Kerri Stephenson. Kent Kinzer. Jann Nyffeler. Tom Ryan. Sonya Mueller. Scott Goering and Dave Keefauver. ttending a conference in Kearney, members of DECA began the year by learning new ideas and setting goals. CHS Distributive Education Club of America members traveled to Kearney to plan the year's activities and rap with DECA representatives from twelve Nebraska schools to compare ideas. The first activity sponsored by the club was football concession stands. A good turn out of DECA people helped raise over $700 from five games held at Pawnee Park. DECA raised an additional $180 when they held a tape dance in the lunch room. The October dance was a successful money raising event with the help of Wes Ott, who donated his equipment and time. At the annual Halloween party. Pam Zywiec and Michelle Becher won original costume awards as Ronald McDonald and Minnie Mouse. The traditional party games were on the agenda and a spook house with plenty of Dark Places was built by Mark Weber. Kim Smets. Julie Plugge. Kathy Olsufka. Cary Hager and John Burdine. Three members of DECA attended the State conference in Omaha to compete against DECA people from other Nebraska schools. Lois Rosenthal competed in Fashion Merchandising while Kim Smets and Bill Parten competed in General Merchandising. Kim Smets received a third place certificate after doing well in the finals. A dog named Ralph was the first dog to walk in the March of Dimes Walk-a-thon sponsored by DECA. Ralph pledged about $94 for the 20 mile walk on a hot April 21. A smaller than expected turn out included 80 walkers and a five joggers, one of which was first year Vice-Principal Luther. In summation, Kim Smets, president of DECA. recommended the club in addition to the marketing classes which are the prerequisite for the club. “I learned the same thing in class but I had a lot more fun in DECA. Below: Hungry walkers enjoy the food donated for the Walk-a-thon by area businesses. Bottom: Advisor Trabert hands out soft drinks at the first stop of the 20 mile journey. Lower Left: Pamm Kemp checks off two walkers at a rest stop 114 The Set Upper Left: DECA officers are (back row) President Kim Smets. Advisor Trabert, (front row) Vice-President Mark Weber, and Secretary Treasurer Tammy Haferland. Upper Right: Vice-Principal Luther jogged the entire course for the March of Dimes. Center: Julie Plugge registers Connie Long and Frances Tschantre before the walk Lower Left: Ralph the dog walks along in a crowd of people. He was one of the top fund raisers at the event. Above: The styles of dress were informal at the tape dance and the atmosphere was familiar. DECA 115 andy! Whenever students got a case of the munchies. they knew that all they had to do was trot up to the drafting room during a break in classes, get in line and purchase their favorite brand. The candy sales were the main money raising function for VICA and the profits financed the club members’ trips to state and national competitions. VICA members continued a winning tradition at these competitions under their new adviser, Mr. Amundson. The group prepared for months for the state competition by selling the candy, practicing opening and closing procedures for club meetings competition, and working on drawings for competitions. On April 8, Adviser Amundson and VICA competitors set out for Lincoln in one of the school vans. After arriving, the first day at the Lincoln Hilton was spent mainly on orientation for everybody but that night the competitions began. The group’s officers set out for the opening and closing competition. On the second day, most of the action happened. Jennifer Benedict went off for her job interview and Jan Struck, Cheryl Krings, Miles Beach and Dennis Hare boarded The Bus that took them to STCC for the architecture and engineering competitions. After a long day of pressure and anxiety, everyone went back to the Hilton to freshen up for the awards banquet. It was an enjoyable evening as CHS took two golds, one silver and one bronze medal. Jennifer got a gold in job interview, Cheryl a bronze in architecture and Dennis and Miles took one-two respectively in engineering. It was another good year in a winning tradition. Top: VICA officers are (sitting) Dennis Hare, Scott Cruickshank, Jennifer Benedict. Cheryl Krings. (standing) Adviser Amundson. Dan Vol-nek. Ken Robinson and Jan Struck Middle: Todd White prepares to draw a circle on a contest drawing. Right: Dave Lange puzzles over a dimension on his detail drawing. 116 The Set Top Left: Wes Ott deejays at the VICA tape dance. Top Right: Cheryl Krings earned several honors with this drawing at the NWK Voc-Tech Spring Drafting Exhibit. Left: Robby Mason concentrates on the line value of the circle he is drawing using a template. Above: Candy sales helped VICA raise money for expenses at state and national competitions. VICA 117 e re going to do something different this year,” exclaimed yearbook adviser Korver. so the annual staff set out brainstorming for the yearbook. At first the staff was very unorganized in its attempts to come up with ideas, but then it happened ... school pictures were taken and the staff set down to alphabetize the mug-shots of the students. The editor soon found that many of the staff didn’t know how to alphabetize. So time was lost because of realphabetizing, but the staff soon got back on its feet. This year, as you may have noticed senior pictures are in color. This was done at great cost because yearbook sales were down this year. There was also a yearbook selling contest among the staff. Korver announced that he would buy an annual for any staff member who sold 150 yearbooks or more. Joanie Tworek and Keith Groteluschen were the only two who won them. This year the staff had Great Expectations for the yearbook. They used many new ideas. Among these ideas was the theme. The editor unbeloved by the staff members. (just kidding) came up with. “Voyage Across the Silver Screen”. The staff then used movie titles in their copy in order to relate to the theme. During a typical class period, the staff could be seen doing .. well, doing almost anything. There was much shouting across the room like “Korver. where are my pictures?”. “Korver. read this”. “Beach, don’t play with the cameras”, and “Nielsen, get back in the room”. There were also occasional sounds of a typewriter and frequent complaints from Korver about the stories. These complaints quite often led to Korver’s famous lectures which usually ended up with the staff being totally confused. All of this confusion, chaos and creativity resulted in this book such as it is. Top Page 118: This year s yearbook staff is (on'top) Julie Barnes. Academics Editor Kay Davison Miles Beach, (standing) Alan Mann. Sports Editor Keith Groteluschen. Editor-In-Chief Leslie Nielsen. Joanie Tworek. Cindy Settje. (sitting) Assistant Editor Lisa Penfield. Business Manager Michelle Loseke and Diane Bryan Above Left: This year s photo staff consists of head photographer Tammie Rullo and phtographers Kathy Olsufka. Pamm Kemp and Jeff Toro' Moore Above Right: Kay Davison puts the finishing touches on a spread. Top Right Page 119: Michelle Loseke sees a funny possibility for a layout Top Left Page 119: Students who ordered a 78 yearbook were allowed out of their 10th period classes to come to the gym for a yearbook autographing party when the '78 books arrived Middle Far Right: Keith Groteluschen makes a sale to Denise Micek and Marilea Hull during annual sales week Far Right Bottom: Editor Leslie Nielsen offers some help to Lisa Penfield on a story Right: Diane Bryan refuses Korver s criticism on a story she is writing up during class and tries to hide her copy 118 The Set ever a typical day”, commented Dan Force, editor of the Discoverer. “Something always different is happening. Only a few people are actually in class, the others are out holding interviews or getting ads from businesses. The ones there are either writing headlines or pasting-up the next issue. Someone always seems to be coming in bringing their late stories with some good excuse.” It was then Force’s job to make The Front Page layout fit and look interesting. Meredith Oakes, news editor, noted that the newspaper is a really good class to take especially if you plan to go on into journalism, plus “there’s no more junk articles. Now they all deal with school and the stories are ones the students are interested in.” replied Gregg Cruikshank, sports editor. Cruik-shank also said he wishes more sports features were done since the students know about the sports events by the time the paper is out. “Advertising was the main income for the paper, and with new stores in the Columbus area, there were bigger and better ads.” stated Cindy Uhlmann. advertiser. “However, it takes a lot of time outside class.” Stuffing papers was one ritual every two weeks that also involved time. With the printers in Henderson, Nebraska, some printing problems arose. The paper had to be driven there on Wednesday so it could be back at school Friday afternoon. Some late papers came out because of winter snow storms. Left: Tom Struebmg pecks out his intramural sports story in record time. Top: Jaye Stone concentrates on getting her editorial finished by deadline Above: Gregg Cruick shank looks over possible pictures for the next issue s sport section. 120 The Set Top Left: Julee Courtier reads some of the newspapers other Class A schools send the Discoverer staff Middle Left: Ad Salesperson Lori Schutt finds an unusual ad to add to her reference file Top Right: Members of the Discoverer staff are (standing) Susan Belit Meredith Oakes. Juliee Courtier. Diane White. Cindy Uhlmann. Lori Schutt. (top kneeling) Carol Latham. Jenifer Wilke. Brenda Schmitt. Jaye Stone, (bottom kneeling) Randy Spulak. Gregg Cruickshank. Dan Force. Tom Struebing. Jim Herrold. and (laying) Scott Jackson Left: The staff jomgs together to get the paper out Newspaper 121 illed with team loyalty and school spirit, the '78-79 Booster Club started off the year with its traditional initiation picnic at Pawnee Park. Teaching the new members the cheers and getting to know one another was the main agenda for the evening followed by a ride downtown in pickups and the initiation of the sophomores as they were asked to show their loyalty to the seniors by walking down 13th Street singing We love you seniors, oh yes we do ...” Finishing off the get-together was the annual football scrimmage. The highlight of Booster Club’s fall season was the Homecoming week. Under the direction of Vice-President Leslie Nielsen and sponsors Mr. Dartman and Miss Bechtel. Homecoming week took on many new activities such as a hayrack ride and Homecoming banquet with the idea of getting students more involved. With the arrival of the winter sports season, school unity became the main goal of Booster Club as its members seemed to be dividing among the two main winter sports, basketball and wrestling. However, which ever sport was being attended, the familiar voice of Dartman could be heard yelling Scream and Scream Again Throughout the entire year. Booster Club members put out an extra effort to create the feeling of school pride and unity among the students. They held pep rallies and convocations as well as ran through the halls during homeroom on the days of the games. They also could be seen making posters every Thursday after school so that they could decorate the commons. Maties also got involved with the poster parties by making door decorations to hang on the doors of the players the night before the games. oney making projects this year included bake sales, selling programs before the games and running the concession stand during the basketball games and wrestling meets and selling buttons that read “Columbus, year!” The Booster Club year ended with the traditional banquet. New cheerleaders and chantleaders were announced as well as new officers and maties. The seniors were then honored and the star members were announced. Far Upper Right: The junior varsity cheerleaders put on the skit for a winter pep rally They are (back row) Denise Micek. Maureen Lannan. Mary Kunes. Beth Kluever. (front) Susie Williams. Jodie Johnson and Heidi Sloth Middle Right: '78 79 chantleaders are (back row) Polly Hadan. Kristine Gilsdorf. Traci Larsen, (front) Kay Robin son. Traci Grubagh and Angie Watson Right: Pep Club officers are Treasurer Debbie Coy. Secretary Michelle Friedrichsen. Vice-President Leslie Nielsen and President Jacki Lassek. Left: Varsity cheerleaders are (back row) Cheryl Krmgs. Karen Zimmerman. Lisa Nelson, (front) Su san Justice. Denise Kappenman. and Lori Jaeggi Below: Columbus maties are Ship - Lisa Woodward: C • Julie Plugge. 0 - Kristy Pliant. L - Jennifer Benedict. U Michele Kargas. M Michelle Loseke. B -Sarah Irby. U - Jan Rich. S Sue Whetstone. Ship -Connie Ernst Bottom: Discoverers maties are D -Connie O'Kane. I - Jane Beckmann. S - Joyce Morse. C - Diane White. 0 - Teresa Janssen. V Teresa Arasmith, E - Denise Engqqist. R Diane Micek. E Meredith Oakes. R Jolene Deden. S Kelly Boss. Ship Michelle Becher. Booster Club 123 Top Left: Senior Karen Zimmerman leads a cheer at a home football game Top Right: Varsity cheerleaders and the stage band help make a pep rally exciting Above: Ten Osterhoudt and Sharon Van Dyke help Booster Club raise money by selling programs before the football game. Right: Sue Whetstone and Connie Ernst display different emotions during a tense moment at the Norfolk wrestling dual. 124 The Set Top Right: Wrestling mascot Ken Robinson and chant-leader Traci Larsen take note of the crowd's enthusiasm Top Left: Sarah Irby and Jackie Lassek check last minute details for the Homecoming banquet with Mr. Dartman and Miss Bechtel Above: Hands rise towards the ceiling as another cheer erupts from the spirit boosters Booster Club 125 Top Left: Lisa Dohmen and Jerry Podraza come in from the snow to boogie. Top Right: Mr. Dixon. Doreen Augspurger. Kristy Pilant. John Burdine. Angie Watson. Lynn Strehle. Mike Whetstone. Judy Lassek. Nancy Bloebaum. Sue Whetstone. Leslie Nielsen. Traci Grubaugh and Mr Griffith attended the state Stu-Co convention. Left: Mr. Griffith and Mr Dixon. Stu-Co advisers, review the books before a Stu-Co meeting Middle Left: Randy Griffiths and Sue Marsh dance the royalty dance as Sweetheart King and Queen. 126 The Set Far Left: Susan Justice lets the good times roll at a Stu-Co tape dance. Left: Attending summer workshops for Stu-Co were John Burdine, Lynne Hudson. Kristy Pilant and Sheri Bonk. Below: A group of sophomore girls evaluate the boys' legs in the Stu-Co legs contest. It was won by Paul Rathkamp Bottom: Stu-Co trick-or-treaters Julie Plugge and Jim Nyffeler help raise funds for UNICEF. The Committee ances, money and attendance problems were the major concerns for Student Council this year. Money wasn't a major problem for the group as in past years as the new pop machine did a record breaking business. Instead, the group had to decide how to spend the excess money. Carpeting for the commons and a light reflecting ball decoration for dances fell through due to delays and other problems. At state convention, CHS representatives also learned about different moneymaking projects so that lack of finances wouldn’t hinder any planned projects. Money had always been a problem in the past because Stu-Co traditionally lost money on the major dances it sponsored but this year it even made money on Sweetheart as Red Tag Disco provided the vibes instead of a band and thus the cost of the dance was considerably reduced. However, “dances were hard to organize this year,” Mr. Griffith said. Attendance problems caused confusion on committees assigned to plan the dances. One dance was called off at the last minute because of the confusion of Only one officer survived the year because of attendance problems. Mr. Griffith hopes the group will solve the attendance problem next year by changing the meeting period to an earlier one so those students on work release or open ended day will attend. Bottom Right Page 126: Student Council members are (top row) Nancy Bloebaum. Tracy Noll. Sandy Van Dyke. Jann Nyffeler. Denise Staroscik, (row two) Kevin Staroscik, Scott Goering. Doreen Augspurger. Angie Watson, Rita Fendrick. (row three) Judy Lassek. Mike Whetstone. Lynn Strehle. Kent Dixon. Denise Micek. (row four) Kevin Hastings. Traci Larsen. Traci Grubaugh. Susan Justice. Jan Barton, (row five) President John Burdine. Julie Plugge. Sue Whetstone. Dan Sharp and Lynne Hudson. Student Council 127 amburgers. hotdogs. homemade ice cream, canoeing and unexpected dips in the lake were part of the Thrills And Spills at the May 19 journalism banquet. Publications staff members and journalism students met at Mr. and Mrs. Uhlmann's cabin for some fun in the sun and a chance to relax after a year of work. Various gag awards were presented to staff members and going away presents were presented to Adviser Korver. Randy Spulak and Diane White were awarded as the best newspaper staff members while Kay Davison swept the best annual staff member honor. Next year’s newspaper and annual staff members were also announced. The annual Quill and Scroll initiation was April 31 in the cafeteria. During the candlelit ceremony, senior members of the publications were recognized for two years’ work. President Gregg Cruickshank, Vice-President Dan Force. Secretary Meredith Oakes, Treasurer Randy Spulak and other two year members of the group also initiated first year publication staff members who had done outstanding work. They joined a national honor society for high school journalists whose purpose is to forward the causes of excellence in Ngh school publications and responsible, accurate journalism. Top Left: Keith Groteluschen places the candle of initiative in the holder as part of the Quill and Scroll initiation introduction Top Right: Scott Jackson scrambles onto the dock after the female members of the publications sank the canoe while he and Jim Herrold were still in it Middle: Two year members of Quill and Scroll are (sitting) Tammie Rullo. Meredith Oakes. Diane White. Michelle Loseke. Les- lie Nielsen, (standing) Randy Spulak. Dan Force. Gregg Cruickshank and Keith Groteluschen Not pictured is Kay Davison. Above: Initiates to Quill and Scroll are (sitting) Jaye Stone, Julie Barnes, Brenda Schmitt. Lori Schutt. Lisa Penfield. (standing) Jim Herrold. Scott Jackson. Cindy Uhl-mann and Susan Belitz. Not pictured are Miles Beach and Diane Bryan. 128 The Set Top Left: Journalism students and staffers listen as another gag award is presented. Top Right: Cathy Uhlmann, Leslie Nielsen. Kay Davison and Michelle Loseke look at some instant pictures shot during the festivities. Middle Right: Head cook Randy Spulak grills some more food while Tom Struebing and Peg Burdine prepare to chow down. Left: Tammie Rullo presents Jeff Moore's gag award. Above: Other staffers get a laugh as Randy Spulak explains the gag award for Tammie Rullo while Cindy Uhlmann plays with her Muppet Mouth puppet award. Quill And Scroll 129 King, Queen, Rook, Bishop, Knight and Pawn occupy the chessboard. A mind is boggled. Suddenly a move. Aha! A capture. Checkmate! No where to go. The tension is gone. The game is won. However, girls didn’t seem to be interested in this kind of action as CHS’s new Chess Club had 15 members, all male. Helpmate was the seeming strategy for awhile as players gave away more games than they won but improvement was shown toward the end of the club’s tournament. The group met Thursday nights after school and members played on those nights when there weren’t conflicting activities. Matt Person and Bryan Richardson won chess books for winning the most games in the tournament. Members of the club included Person, Richardson, Mick Lewis, Alan Mann, Tim Kjonegaard, Jerry Kreifels. Dave Magnuson, Dean Ott. Al Winkle, Bryan Winkle, Dana Williams. Roger Ku-dron, Scott Zwick, Wes Ott and Mike Cook. Top Right: Dana Williams and Dave Magnuson watch Jerry Kreifels and Tim Kjonegaard match wits. Top Middle and Right: Dave Magnuson makes a move and then enjoys his opponent's quandary. Middle Right: Oh. that move! exclaims Mr Nyberg. Right: Matt Person notes Alan Mann's strategy in his move into Mick Lewis’ defense. 130 The Set CHS Opp CHS Opp 59 Fremont 113 56 Lincoln High 110 51 McCook 31 45 Grand Island 38 15 Lincoln S.E. 68 55 South Sioux 18 55 Lincoln N E. 115 33 Lincoln East 50 Millard Invite 9th 100 Grand Island 67 Husker Classic 6th 43 Norfolk 40 Trans. Nebr 2nd 75 Des Moines 97 Big Ten 6th 27 Hastings 55 State 19th CHS Opp 38 Lincoln High 58 9 Hastings 37 46 Scotus 36 54 Beatrice 52 47 Fremont 46 49 Hastings 51 35 Lincoln NE. Fremont 42 40 Lakeview 39 54 Scotus 48 34 Lincoln 44 57 East Grand 46 43 Island Norfolk 64 54 Kearney 52 38 63 54 Norfolk District 58 48 Fremont JV record: 5-10 51 CHS 35 54 53 71 67 61 46 41 56 53 51 66 62 46 47 56 62 53 Lincoln High Norfolk Hastings South Sioux Lincoln NE. Grand Island Beatrice Fremont Hastings Omaha Benson Fremont Lincoln East Lincoln S.E. Grand Island Norfolk Kearney District Ralston Norfolk Opp 75 62 62 72 81 84 56 73 59 77 63 98 65 65 68 47 53 63 JV record: 6-10 Soph record: 2-8 Norfolk Seward Lakeview Scotus Lincoln High Grand Island Beatrice Trans Nebr Beatrice Kearney Hastings Kearney Fremont District Omaha N. Fremont 8-15. 16-14. 15-13 10-15. 15-13. 9-15 15-10. 8-15. 15-9 8-15. 15-2. 15-5 14-16. 16-18 8-15. 7-15 10-15. 11-15 5-15. 15-7, 15-12 3-15. 11-15 15-5. 15-7 1-15. 7-15 5- 15. 10-15 15 10. 154 6- 15. 14-16 JV record: 7-3 Soph record: 4-0-2 CHS Opp CHS Opp 41 South Sioux 42 57 Fremont 26 86 Hastings 86 108 Lincoln N.E 63 Trans Nebr, 1st 29 Lincoln East 54 Big Ten 3rd 30 Grand Island 55 Husker Classic 6th 66 North Platte 17 State 13th 37 Norfolk 45 65 Lincoln High 18 JV record: 3-1 CHS 72 Ralston 49 Lincoln S.E. 33 Grand Island 52 Beatrice 27 Norfolk 48 Kearney 57 Lincoln East 41 Fremont 35 Lincoln N E. Kearney Invite Millard Invite Trans Nebr Big Ten District State JV record: 9-1 West Point Invite Clarks Invite Grand Island N W, Invite Opp 0 5 21 0 21 6 3 9 11 1st 2nd 2nd CHS Opp 21 Beatrice 7 7 Norfolk 14 7 McCook 12 0 Lincoln S.E. 26 6 Grand Island 23 14 Hastings 7 6 Lincoln High 21 7 Fremont 18 16 South Sioux 20 JV record 3-4 Action 132 1978-1979 Sports Scoreboard CHS OPP. 0 Grand Island 9 0 Norfolk 9 0 Fremont 9 2 Norfolk 1 Kearney 8 0 Fremont 9 Kearney Invite 7th Fremont Invite 9th Trans. Nebr. 4th Big Ten 9th JV record: 0-1 CHS Opp. 0 Lincoln S. E. 9 0 Kearney 9 1 Fremont 8 7 Norfolk 2 9 York 6 Lincoln 0 High 3 8 Norfolk 1 1 Fremont Fremont 8 Invite 6th Trans. Nebr. 3rd Big Ten 4th State 4th JV record: 1-0 CHS Opp. 223 Beatrice 239 Lincoln S.E. 198 192 Norfolk 217 219 Grand Island 208 209 York 198 Aurora 200 196 Norfolk 230 Aurora Invite 5th Trans. Nebr. 4th Big Ten 2nd State 7th V JV record: 1 CHS Opp. 72 Grand 176 Island 127 Beatrice 120 125Vi York 112V G.l. Relays 4th Columbus Invite 3rd G.L Invite 4th Fremont Invite 5th Norfolk Jnvite 8th Trans. Nebr. 4th Big Ten 6th District 4th Non-Qualifiers 2nd State 23rd CHS Opp. 59 Grand Island 130 53 Scotus 39 Lakeview 50 49 Norfolk 60 78 York 113 Kearney Indoor 4th Schuyler Invite 10th Trans. Nebr. 4th Big Ten 9th District 7 th State 16th CHS Opp. 22 Scotus 35 35 York 21 27 Beatrice 29 39 Norfolk 16 43 Fremont 18 Trans. Nebr. 4th Big Ten 8th District 5th Scoreboard 133 ball he team played better than a 2-7 season,” explained junior Jeff Moore. Despite the record, the varsity squad never lost its stamina and had a Never Say Die attitude as the team came back from close, disappointing loses to give another effort. Team unity provided that extra impulse to keep on trying. The unity was strengthened through the support from players on the bench. Whether out on the field or on the bench, the players agreed that the team unity was a direct result of the tricaptains Roger Bullington, Ken Robinson and Al Starzec. These players gave the team the type of leadership that no coach could have given to the team members. One or all three were always on the field during games and practices insuring that the team had a commanding figure to follow at all times. The people on the side lines played an important position also. One was Todd Gay who remarked. “You have to earn the right to play.” Even though he was displeased by not being able to play, he added. “The people out there deserved the right to play.” Some of the people who earned support and praise from teammates comprised both the offensive and defensive personnel. Mike Rambour and Scott Foutch ran up impressive records in rushing and scoring with only one yard separating their totals. Each exceeded 370 yards and 24 points for the season. In addition to the Rambour-Foutch pair, quarterback Roger Bullington and tight end Ken Robinson completed several spectacular pass completions. The pair accounted for more than 200 yards and 4 touchdowns. Bullington’s total passing mounted to 500 yards at about 50% completions. Coach Rood praised. “He’s one of the best all around quarterbacks we’ve had in several years.” Defensively. Al Starzec and Brent Arment stood out on the field. Starzec as a nose guard was the leading tackier with 100 to his credit. In the back field, Arment dared quarterbacks to pass. He picked off three passes making him leader in this category. CHS's varsity football team includes (back row) Tom Struebing. Steve Buresh. Todd Gay. Scott Foutch. Mike Siedlik. Alan Mann. Luke Lemke. John Burdine. Tom Munson. Bob Dohmen. Al Starzec. Dean Franzen. (middle row) Scott Weber. Dennis Hare. Kent Dixon. Scott Swartz. Randy Spulak. Steve Mancuso. Mike Rambour. Mark Stockman. Ken Arment. Doug Rice. Brent Arment. Todd Bollig, (front rw) Scott Cruickshank. Joe Arlt. Ken Robinson. Greg Vrbka. Jeff Moore. Roger Bullington. Mike Mancuso. Lynn Gellerman. Curt Peterson, and Gary Podraza. Above: Joe Arlt (21) congratulates Ken Robinson (84) for a touchdown against Hastings. 134 Action Upper Left: Randy Spulak (23) hits high and Doug Rice (9) hits low to stop Hasting s No 43 as Joe Arlt (21) and Brent Arment (36) hurry to assist Upper Right: Coaching staff for the 78 season was (back row) Head JV Coach Trabert. Defensive Coordinator Luebe. Head Coach Rood. Assistant JV Coach Travers, (middle row) Line Coach Young. Assistant Defensive Coach Iwansky. Trainer Ellis. (front row) and student managers Kelly Fleming and Joe Burrows Above: The JV football team includes (back row) Assistant Coach Travers. Tom Struebing. Art Wiese. Scott Weber. John Ernst. Gary Podraza. Mike Harouff. Tim Dion. Jamie Bollig. Tom Dion. Steve Bur-esh. Steve Siedlik. Kent Kmzer. Phil Sergent. Tom Ewert. Scott Cruickshank. Jeff Johnson. Head Coach Trabert. (front row) Matt Morris. Cliff Zehring. Dave Blaser. Alan Winkle. Tim Bartholomew. Chris Gellermann. Tom Goc. Terry Erks. Bob Shepherd. Kevin Staroscik. and Joel Ludwig. Left: CHS's passing attack showed improvement, headed by Roger Bull-ington (7) with the protection of linesmen like Kent Dixon (58) and backs like Scott Swartz (24). Football 135 n O Swimming Above: Coach Hoops emerges from the pool after being tossed in in celebration of the Trans-Nebraska victory. Upper Right: Alyce Graus preforms a reverse dive for the Trans-Nebraska audience. Center: Team members include (back row) student managers Alan Anson and Rick Eihausen. Karen Miller. Sandy Van Dyke. Coach Johnson. JuLee Courtier. Jody Herrold. student managers Ken Van Dyke and Kirk Hicks, (middle row) Karla Lo-seke. Jamie Herrold. Meshell McDowell. Angie Watson. Liz Davis. Bev Wichman. Kelli Lovci. Coach Hoops, (front row) Cindy Vanes. Sandy Davis. Heidi Sloth. Lisa Woodward. Alyce Graus. Diane Staroscik. Linda Gray, and Denise Staroscik. Right: Liz Davis heads for the finish line. 136 Action l f you try, you are a winner, is the philosophy of the CHS girls swim coach. Mr. Johnson. I am just as happy with the girl who places last but betters her time by ten seconds because that’s what it’s all about -achievement. Individuality was stressed by assistant coach Hoops when discussing the season. The greatest thing about swimming is that it is an individual sport, and people can reach their own individual goals. The Swimmer voted most valuable to the team was Alyce Graus and freshman Linda Gray was the most improved. Sandy Davis, Heidi Sloth, Sandy Van Kyke, and Jody Herrold were recognized as the outstanding swimmers by their teammates. Everyone can be a wipner in swimming. pointed out Coach Hoops. Johnson acknowledged that the season was successful with many goals being met. One of the initial goals accomplished by the swimmers was their victory at the Trans-Nebraska meet. We were really excited about Trans, remarked Coach Hoops. Johnson cited his personal highlight of the season as being the state meet, especially the diving competition, in which Alyce Graus placed fifth. f the ten records broken, Sandy Davis broke six and she along with Kelly Lovci, Liz Davis, and Karen Miller broke the 400 yard freestyle relay record. The remaining three records were broken by diver Alyce Graus. Many members of the team were concerned that there was a lack of recognition towards their team this year. We don't get as much recognition as we deserve, asserted swimmer Jamie Herrold. Coach Johnson suggested that an additional diving coach would be a plus towards the success of the team. Swimming is a two faced sport; diving is completely different than swimming and it requires just as much time and constant coaching and it’s pretty hard to do that. We need about two coaches for the swimmers and an additional diving coach ... if we had that we'd be on par with the Omaha and Lincoln schools because that’s what they have. Divers Diane and Denise Staroscik also mentioned the need for a diving coach. Upper Left: Denise Staroscik. Linda Gray, and Liz Davis encourage Diane Staroscik at Trans-Nebraska. Center: Sandy Davis swims for a record breaking finish Left: Jody Herrold kicks in the last lap of the freestyle at Trans-Nebraska. Girls Swimming 137 Tennis fourth at state surpassed n goals set by the 1978 nis team. Coach Duranski and team members had set out to place better than the previous year’s sixth place finish and succeeded. Team unity played a major part towards the sucess of the team. “We really had a united team. That’s probably one of the reasons why we did half-way decent,” stated Roland Augspurger. Goals set by the team were achieved. Nonetheless, the team felt that they could go All The Way until Kearney stopped the number two doubles pair of Craig Scheideg-ger andTodo Martensenm the semifinals match. Coach Duranski commented that the varsity squad was strong this year. For instance, the varsity shut out York, 9-0. He noticed that the JV team wasn’t as strong as expected although the underclassmen gained the necessary experience. For the ’78 season, Roland Augspurger was the number one single es player with Todd Robinson at the number two spot. Paul Rathkamp and Mike Scheidegger were number one doubles players while Craig Scheidegger and Todd Martensen made up the second pair. he tennis squad’s record for the season was 4-4 in duals with the JV winning their only meet with Norfolk. At the major meets, the team faired sixth out nine at the Fremont Invitational, third out of five teams at Trans-Nebraska, and fourth out of nine at the Big Ten meet. Upper Left: Craig Scheidegger blitzes his opponent with his serve at York. 6-1.6-2. Upper Right: Sophomore Todd Robinson has a difficult time with the only win against Fremont in their first dual. Far Right: The junior varsity number three player. Curt Armstrong, concentrates on his back hand Right: Todd Martensen aids the team to a victory over Nor folk. 138 Action Top: Team members include (back row) Dan Davidchik. Mike Vanek. Scott Goer-mg. Jon Joseph. Coach Duranski. Ken Armstrong. John Bray. Duane Launderville. Greg Labens. (front row) Paul Rathkamp. Mike Scheidegger. Roland , Augspurger. Todd Robinson. Craig Scheidegger. and Todd Martensen Center: Mike Scheidegger serves to a second place finish in the number two singles match at the Fremont Invite Above: CHS gains a victory over Lincoln High with Roland Aug-spurger’s number one singles win. Left: Paul Rathkamp reigns as the sole winner of the Fremont rematch. Boys Tennis 139 Golf ard workouts and extensive practicing helped the girls golf team achieve a top ten placement at state. Senior Connie Ernst’s fourth place finish put The Finishing Touch on the team’s seventh place showing at state. “What we fought for, we got and we really wanted to be in the top ten at state,” declared junior Maureen Lannan, “and we did it. We got in the top ten.” Other teammates commented that they thought they could have done better but overall they were pleased that they reached their goal. onnie Ernst was voted most valuable player for her second place effort at Trans-Nebraska and her first place finish at Big Ten. Coach Rathe evaluated the season as being an up and down year. “To start with, we would play well one meet and the next meet we’d play terrible.” Rathe also suggested that the team could use a few student managers and especially more golfers. “If we don’t get more, they might drop the sport.” Upper Left:Conme Ernst utilizes the practice green before a meet. Upper Right: Carol Latham assists Ernst by lining up her putt. Right: As a freshman. Sarah Selig lettered and went to state. Far Right: Practicing before the meet. Pam Thomsen follows through with good style. 140 Action Upper Left: Carol Latham drives to a score of 45 at the Norfolk dual, her best of the season Above: Connie Ernst scores an impressive 39 at the Norfolk dual. Left: Varsity golfers were (back row) Connie Ernst. Carol Latham. Maureen Lannan. Coach Rathe, (front row) Pam Thomsen and Sarah Selig. Girls Golf 141 Golf CO GQ he 1978 boys golf season reflected the efforts of a young team during a rebuilding year. Senior Jan Struck was the only veteran returning. Highlighting the season was Struck getting A Piece of the Action at the state meet. Struck was commended by Coach Bartholomew and many teammates as the most outstanding player. Bartholomew and many team members noted a need for team support. “Golf along with other minor sports needs more recognition for the school,” commented Lynn Williams. Weather was not a prominent factor in the outcome of the season. “We had pretty good weather. It was cold at times, but that happens,” Bartholomew pointed out. The coach discussed the shifting of the golf season from fall to spring. “They’re in the process of voting right now to put the season back to spring. Our districts have voted to move it back to spirng, but the delegates assembly has yet to pass it. The change will help us because the fall sports killed us.” Top: The boys golf team includes (back row) Kevin Korte. Bryan Winkle. Ed Fry. Dave Lange. Lynn Williams. Jan Struck, (front row) Coach Bartholomew. Richie Englemann. Troy Engel. Scott Williams and Dan Milburn Middle Left: Troy Engel places third at the Norfolk dual as Richie Englemann prepares for his next shot Middle Right: Ed Fry attempts a bunker shot Right: Lynn Williams places first in the junior varsity meet with a 46 at the Norfolk dual. 142 Action ■ Left: Kevin Korte had a short season as a sophomore, competing in only two meets. Below: David Lange was runner-up to Struck throughout the year Lower Left: Jan Struck drives on to a repeated first place finish. Lower Right: Coach Bartholomew hands out scorecards before the Norfolk dual Boys Golf 143 Above: Members of the 78 volleyball team are (sitting) Deb Swartz. Sonya Mueller. Terri Hull. Geri Poison. Becky Wilson, (kneeling) Kay Robinson. Julie Barnes. Jan Moore. Vicki Benson. Mary Sterup. Karla Keeshan. Jo Kan-tor. (standing) Coach Hegi. Traci Grubaugh. Kim Keeshan. Ann Powley. Judy Lassek. Jaye Stone. Brenda Schmitt. Rita Louis. Lynn Strehle. Brenda Beisner, Susie Johnson, (top) Lyn Moore. Jane Beckmann. Karen Koppel. Marilyn Bernt and Cindy Aerm. Not pictured are Carolyn Dubas and Coach Korver Right: The strength of this year's squad was the number of people competing for a varsity position which created a strong bench. On the bench now are Lyn Moore. Julie Barnes. Kim Keeshan, Kay Robinson. Traci Grubaugh and Marilyn Bernt. 144 Action Top Left: Lyn Moore sets the ball for an attack by Brenda Schmitt while Marilyn Bernt approaches the net to set up the International 4-2 fake attack. Top Right: Jan Moore dinks the ball past the Hastings' defense Middle Left: Susie Johnson and Karen Koppel keep a close eye on the action in order to keep accurate statistics. Above: Marilyn Bernt connects for a kill against Seward. Left: Coach Hegi issues a new strategy during a time out. In a rebuilding year that saw many underclassmen getting a lot of varsity action, the Discoverer volleyball team compiled a 6-8 season record. The j.v. team finished with a 7-3 record and the sophomores completed their season with four wins and two ties. Junior Brenda Schmitt was voted most valuable player by her teammates. Along with Schmitt ten others earned letters including four seniors. five other juniors and one sophomore. Winning Big 10 Conference honors were Cindy Aerni and Schmitt. CHS won the unofficial city championship in an early season Reach For Glory They easily downed Lakeview on Sept. lZ. Two days later against rival Scotus, they lost the first game of the set but came roaring back in the last two for a 7-15. 15-2. 15-5 win. Probably the pivotal game of the season was when Beatrice beat CHS in seasonal play there. Coach Hegi was very displeased with the referees and said that with descent refs. CHS would have beaten Beatrice. “I’ve never seen such lousy refereeing. The officials had no control over the game.” CHS came back to beat BHS in the Trans-Nebraska tournament. However, the chance for at least a .500 record and momentum for the second half of the season seemed to slip away. In districts CHS tried to salvage the season as it slammed Omaha North 15-10, 15-4 but then choked as Fremont defeated CHS 6-15, 14-16. Columbus had the lead 13-9 in the second game of the set. After Fremont tallied three more points, CHS scored again but that was the last for Columbus as FHS pulled away for the win. Jaye Stone commented that the team had “too many practices. We just had too many long practices which kind of made me want to hate the sport.” However. Cindy Aerni said that “these practices were necessary to work on basic skills.” Although Coach Hegi was disappointed at the attitude of the girls toward practices, she said. l really feel the girls returning next year are going to find out that they will have a strong season. A lot of the girls have had varsity experience this year and will come back next year strongly and that’s something to look forward to.” Volleyball 145 CO o o 0 Country 4 Upper Left: Cross country coach Callan shouts encouragement from the finish line Upper Right: Brian Grote-luschen. Marv Sawtell and Ron Stachura lead York s number one runner up Camp Luther's first major hill Above: Ron Hare passes the two-mile mark. Center: Team members include (back row) Coach Callan. Tom Ryan. Brian Groteluschen. Marv Sawtell. (front row) Ron Hare. Dave Divis. and Gene Hahn. Right: Gene Hahn leads a Fremont runner through the last half mile 146 Action Left: The Groteluschen-Ryan duo lead up a difficult hill at Luther Center: Ron Hare was the most improved runner. Upper Left: Ryan leads through the valley of Camp Luther. he main ingredient (in cross country) this year was the sophomores being so competitive with one another and that made the whole team more competitive,” emphasized Coach Callan. The Duellists that Callan referred to are Brian Groteluschen and Tom Ryan who ran against each other for the top two positions throughout the year. Also, in the front running, senior Marv Sawtell contested for the first position. After running more hills and flat stretches during practice, sophomore Ron Hare was able to run at a more consistant pace. He explained that running parts of the course for time contributed most to his improvement. The team agreed that running more meets on the Camp Luther course helped them to be stronger at home as well as at away meets. Of the numerous treks that the cross country team practiced on, including Camp Luther, the consensus named a 6-mile, country road, complete with varying sized hills, as the team favorite. CHS was this year’s host for the Trans-Nebraska meet in which they finished foruth. Tom Ryan was the only medalist with a ninth place showing. Callan conceded that the Beatrice meet produced the best team effort because they ran together as a group. The 78-79 season record holders were Brian Groteluschen for the Camp Luther course and Tom Ryan for the Lake Babcock course. Their times were 14:49 and 12:36 respectively. Deficiencies arose once again. The depth of the team was very inadequate, causing few good group efforts. Callan cited the cause as being a runner usually enjoys only 3 or 4 good races per season, also. One perspective solution may be the annual summer road race sponsored in part by the area cross country coaches. This race was designed to inspire interest in long distance running, just before the cross country season. Also, due to the lack of physical contact in running. Calan indicated that his team didn’t realize that they do have to physically attack in the race in order to run well. The word cross country usually antagonizes most runners since it involves a 21 2-mile race. But Callan disagrees, “after one half of a season of workouts, they (beginning runners) feel 2Vi miles is a gift.” Cross Country 147 olumbus Senior High wrestlers went undefeated in winning the 1979 Class A Championship. Coach Neese led a record setting 12 state qualifiers to Lincoln where six of them placed to capture the first place trophy. Randy Griffith defended his 185 lbs. division title to reign as The Champion for a second year. Doug Rice at 138 lbs. and Brent Arment at 145 lbs. took third place honors at state. In the 167 lbs. division, Mike Rambour was caught high in his final match, sending him to fourth place. Junior Brian Thalken and sophomore Rick Jeffrey took fifth and sixth place medals in the 112 lbs. and 105 lbs. class respectively. Although the coaches were hesitant to pick an outstanding wrestler for the season, Randy Griffith, Brent Arment, and Doug Rice were a few of the wrestlers named for their spectatular achievements. Because only one person could wrestle at the 155 lbs. position, two excellent wrestlers fought throughout the season for the varsity spot. Scott Blaser wrestled more often at 155 than Ken Robinson but Robinson was no less a part of the team. According to Coach Neese, whenever Robinson wasn’t wrestling he was there cheering Blaser on. Neese attributed this kind of attitude toward the team’s superb unity. In order to get those team members who do not wrestle much to compete, the schedule had meets against Elgin and St. Edward in which the less experienced junior varsity competes with Class D and C varsity. These meets gave 24 wrestlers the opportunity to compete and the urge to be a part of the team. A major plus for the season came from the fans who traveled in huge numbers to most of the meets. In fact at Big Ten about one-half the gym was filled with cheers for Columbus wrestlers who had traveled all the way to McCook. At state the six finalists were cheered on by the largest cheering section in the auditorium. Coach Neese praised the assistance he had from his junior varsity coaches Waas and Travers. It was coach Wass that ran the districts meet at Columbus allowing Coach Neese time to work with the varsity wrestlers. The assistant coaches also handled all of the junior varsity meets and gave special attention to any wrestler who needed their assistance. Top: Randy Griffith defeats Omaha Central's Mark Rigatuso a second time for a second championship Above: Brent Arment struggles with Bellevue West's Doug Hassel to win third place. 2-0. 148 Action Left: Rick Jeffrey suffers a defeat against his Norfolk opponent. Jeff Brudigan. Lower Left: Mark Stockman pins his man at Districts Below: Doug Rice locks onto Terry Maul at the Kearney dual. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Assistant Coach Waas. Head Coach Neese. Assistant Coach Travers Line 3: Statistician Jamie McNair; Rick Bukacek-98. 2-2; Tracy Pagel-119. 3-3; Scott Fulton-126. 5-2: Chris Gellermann-119. 7-3-1; Scott Jackson-119. 3-0; Bob Shepherd-132. 4-2; Brad Grubaugh-132. 2-1-1; Curtis Thalken-145. 0-1; Jim Hammons- 155. 5-5-1; Mike Harouff-145, 1-0; Craig Scheidegger-145. 3-0; Kent Schwartz-185. 0-0; Jim Nyffeler-185. 2-0; Student Manager Darin Christensen Line 2: Student Manager Joe Bogus; Bryan Nyffeler-98. 1-0; Rod Sanders-105. 12-7; Jeff Sohl-112. 7-9; Al Haney-119. 9-1: Steve Kapperman- 126. 8-2: Bob Wilhelms-132. 2-3; Terry Wilhelms-138. 12-5-2; Kelly Person-145.19-1; Tex John- ston-155. 3-1; Ken Arment- 167. 12-3-1; Tom Settlemeyer 185. 13-5; Gene Christensen- hwt, 13-5; Gary Podraza-167. 1-0; Student Manager Dave Blaser. Line 1: Student Manager Jerry Podraza: Jim Herout-98. 9-; Rick Jeffrey-105. 12-12; Brian Thalken- 112. 21-10; Lonny Wehrer-119. 20-8; Tom Sackett-126. 19-4; Bryan Rhea-132. 15 6; Doug Rice-138. 22-3. Brent Arment-145. 27-2; Scott Blaser-153. 13-5; Mike Rambour-167. 20-4; Randy Griffith-185. 23-1 Mark Stockman-hwt. 13-4; Ken Robinson-155 6-2; Joe Arl t-132. 4-2. (Photography by Jim Frieze Studio) Wrestling 149 Dual e - the century Top: Mike Rambour struggles to a 9-8 decision over Mike Molini in the deciding match of the Norfolk dual. Above: The Columbus fans reaction at the conclusion of the dual of the century. T he ultimate high school rivalry met at the Norfolk High School gym where the Columbus Senior High wrestlers met the Norfolk Panthers. There were 2300 fans, television news cameras, radio broadcasters, and two of the best matched wrestling teams on hand for one of the most exciting duals between the high school rivals. The CHS varsity was determined to meet the challenge set by Norfolk according to Coach Neese. Norfolk had set as their number one goal, to defeat CHS in the wrestling dual. The Discovers smashed that goal and continued their undefeated season by mastering Norfolk, 27-21. CHS did not start out strong. With three ties from Jim Herout. Brian Thalken, and Ken Robinson, and Brent Arment and Tom Sackett having the only victories up to the 167 lbs. weight class, the Columbus fans were silenced with the scoreboard showing 21-12, while the Norfolk crowd grew with excitement. But then came that vital match, according to Coach Neese. “The key match was Rambour’s. We had to have it to stay in the meet and Mike went out and got it.” Rambour fought to a 9-8 decision over Mike Molini. From this point on the electricity of the arena switched over to the other side of the gym. Randy Griffiths evened up the score, pinning Troy Broders. It was up to Mark Stockman’s heavyweight match with Rick Graae to decide the outcome, but Coach Neese was confident. Stockman proved his superiority over Graae, pinning him in record time. For CHS the battle had been won and all hell broke loose. The varsity had started off from a win by the junior varsity who conquered Norfolk 31-20. Action in the JV meet resembled the varsity meet in that the higher weight classes pulled it out in the end. 150 Action Top: Jim Herrout starts the varsity meet with a 2-2 tie against Norfolk’s Randy Sterba Top Center: A 4 4 tie by Brian Thalken did not give Norfolk a further edge Bottom Center: Ken Robinson drew the third tie against Greg Stan-dermeier. Bottom: Randy Griffith evens the score by pinning Troy Broders. 152 Action Basketball -22 k ki oal we hadn't expected to achieve but did was ranking in O state. We were ranked twice during the season. This is something that our girls basketball program has never had before,” announced Girls Varsity Basketball Coach Klutman. Cindy Aerni was singled out by Coach Klutman as the most outstanding player. ‘‘She received East Big Ten honors and All State honorable mention. JV Coach Trabert mentioned Jan Barton, Carol Latham, Patti Cha-vanu and Sonja Mueller as some of the key jv players. Coach Klutman said there were at least two important games during the varsity season that captured The Thrill Of It All “In the Columbus-Scotus game I felt we went in and dominated everything. Another outstanding game was the first time we played Fremont. We beat them over in Fremont, 47-46. It was a game that turned things around. We proved we could beat them,” Klutman pointed out. Team members and coaches both commented on a need for more support from the school. “The crowds amounted to parents and a few friends of players. We've had times when opposing team would bring more of a crowd than what we had at home,” said Trabert. Brenda Schmitt, Cheryl Young and Deb Long suggested that they would like to be cheered on by a boys pep club and a band. Top Left: Members of the jv team are (top row) Jan Barton, Carol Latham. Cheryl Young, Jan Moore. Deb Long, (middle) Coach Trabert. (front row) Patti Chavanu. Lisa Doh men. Peg Burdme. (seated) Karla Keeshan and Sonya Mueller. Top Right: Jaci Augustine shoots from the corner for two in the Norfolk game. Far Right: Cindy Aerni pulls up short to shoot a jump shot in the overtime loss to Hastings. Right: Varsity girls basketball team members are (top row) Denise Warnecke. Lynn Moore. Cindy Aerni. Jaci Augustine. Maureen Lannan. (middle row) Carol Latham Jan Barton. Brenda Schmitt. Coach Trabert Patti Chavanu. Coach Klutman. (front row) Deb Long. Lynn Strehle and (seated) Jan Moore. Far Left: Lynn Strehle dives for the ball Left: Denise Warnecke looks for an open team member after pulling down a rebound. Lower Left: Maureen Lannan shoots a jump shot over the Hastings defense. Below: Patti Chavanu crouches in preparation for a shot during the Norfolk game. Basketball GO HS went 0-15 until the basketball team hooped its first victory in the last game of the regulation season. Head Coach Rathe reasoned that the varsity squad lacked four good quarters per game causing fifteen consecutive losses. Rathe’s squad was continually outscored by opponents like Lincoln who trounced CHS by 40 points in the season opener. Although the win-loss record did not improve from this point, the basketball team came to within three points of Hastings and South Sioux City. It was not until the last game of the season that The Long Wait for a victory paid off. CHS took control of the Kearney game early and won it. The Discoverers led the entire game to post a 58-47 victory after generating a lot of spirit for the seasor finale. It has been only three games earlier where the varsity roundballers had gone to four overtimes with Lincoln Southeast. Despite the three point loss, players and fans alike realizec that the team could play well with a team thal eventually went for the state championship. The following two games were reminiscent ol the earlier season but led up to the last game against Kearney. With a victory behind them, Rathe took the varsity to Ralston for districts. CHS stopped the Rams of Ralston at four points in the first quarter. The Rams never overtook the lead, advancing CHS to the semifinals against Norfolk. Having been defeated twice before by the Panthers, the Discoverers ended the season with a very disappointing loss when hopes had been high for a different outcome. Improved offensive attacks were part of the reason for the improvement in the team in the latter half of the season. Working for the better shot unified the players and kept the team together through the difficult year. Coach Luebe guided the junior varsity roundballers to a 6-10 season while Coach Mueller led the sophomores through a 2-9 season. Top: Luke Lemke (25) and Chris Wilson (31) defeat their Hastings opponent’s chance of scoring. Right: Varsity basketball players are (back row) Lynn Gellermann. Luke Lemke. Jim Herrold. Coach Rathe. Jan Struck. Chris Wilson. Jon Walker, (front row) Scott Swartz. Roger Bullmg-ton, Pat Tooley, Scott Cruickshank. Bryan Fraser, and Gregg Cruickshank. 154 Action Far Left: Lynn Gellermann (40) scores against Norfolk's Mike Paulson (35). mounting a game high of 16 points in the first Norfolk match Left: Gregg Cruickshank (22) drives hard for a bucket against Omaha Benson s Phil Bailey (31). Cruick-shank's talent on the court made him an outstanding player for the season along with Gellermann and Chris Wilson, according to Coach Rathe. Below: Roger Bullmgton (32) has one of his best games against Kearney's Don Hoelting (10) which shows his improvement in the last six games of the season. Lower Left: Junior varsity basketball players are (back row) Coach Luebe. Steve Anderson. Brian Dehning. Kurt Armstrong. Larry Kolbush. Dave Grachek. (front row) Scott Swartz. Chris Woerner. Mike Mancuso. Mike Whetstone. Warren Nyffeler and Scott Cruickshank. Lower Right: Sophomore basketball players are (back row) Ken Stracke, Ralph Castner. Kevin Korte. Phil Sergent. Dave Lange. Todd Martensen, Cliff Zehring. (front row) Greg La-bens. Terry Erks. Jon Joseph. Steve Krings. Steve Zaura and Coach Meuller. Above: Rick Eihausen breast strokes to a hard finish. Upper Right: The Boys swim team includes (back row) Kirk Hicks. Tom Ewert. Brad Loseke. Ken Van Dyke. Matt Morris. Mark Weber. Randy Van Dyke. Mike Hoffman, (middle row) Assistant Coach Hoops. Jeff Lowry. Rick Eihausen. Alan Anson, (front row) Coach Johnson, student managers JuLee Courtier and Sandy Van Dyke. Paul Harding. Terry Krepel. Wayne Zimmerman. Scott Roselas and Craig Walgreen. Center: Brad Loseke competes in the lanes as well as breaks records in the diving competition. Left: Mike Hoffman is a repeated gold medal winner on the team. Swimming he 1978-79 boys swim season did not go as well as they had wanted it to. Their goal was to place 15th at state but only succeded in placing 19th. Other goals were to break a few school records and to win at least one of the conference championships, but they didn’t succeed here either. On The Water Front the boys swim team suffered because of injury and illness. “I think at one time or another every swimmer on the team was out.” Next year Coach Johnson wanted to work on team unity in his swim teams. A few team members also thought there was a lack of unity in the team as their coach did. Mike Hoffman was voted most valuable swimmer by his teammates. His placing 8th at state boosted the team to 19th, although his goal was to be in the top six. Earlier in the season Hoffman’s appendix ruptured and kept him from swimming for a few weeks which hurt the team’s performance during his absence. 156 Actior. Left: Mike Hoffman explodes off the blocks. Bottom Left: Coach Johnson gives a pep talk to a swimmer after he did better than expected. This was Johnson's last season at CHS Below: Randy Van Dyke signals victory after the anchor leg of the 400 free style relay. Boys Swimming 157 Final Standings Wads 8-2 Junior All-Stars 7-3 Toejam 7-3 Chains II 6-4 High Society 5-5 Barnies II 4-6 Enforcers 4-6 Hulk 3-7 Barnies 1 1-9 Born Losers 0-10 Left: Kent Arment (44 s) and Dan Milburn (background) struggle against Mike Deter-man (20) as Brian Gerrelts (80) waits for the result Below: The Wad's championship team includes Blaine Presley. Steve Mancuso. Mitch Jensen. John Burdme and Jerry Alt. Bottom: A mob of Enforcers and Junior All-Stars battle for a rebound. although this basketball tournament didn’t see regulation uniforms and referees in striped shirts, the 1979 Intramural Basketball season drew a large crowd of basketball enthusiasts. Defeating High Society in the last game of the season, the Wads pulled out the championship in a tight scoring game. The 15-14 victory gave the Wads an 8-2 record, bettering a 7-3 total by Toejam and the Junior All-Stars. Again the Teachers went undefeated for a second year, though they were not eligible for the title. Scoring the season’s highest game total of 75 points, the Wads conquered Barnies II by 54 points. Steve Mancuso led his team with a season record 27 points. Number two on the high scorers list was Toejam’s 68 points when they defeated Barnies II. Randy Spulak slated 26 points in the game to make him the second highest scorer of the season in a single game. In third, Mike Harms shot for 25 points as High Society’s leading scorer against the Born Losers. Randy Spulak scored 116 points during the season, leading the point totals with Al Starzec in second with 109 points. Paul Rathkamp had the third highest total of 106 points. To many of the players, intramurals provided a chance for them to get involved in school activities. Not only did they compete aganst each other but it was a way of Getting Acquainted with people in the school who they wouldn’t normally have met in a class. The games were played on Monday nights with each team playing at least once in one of the five games. 158 Action Upper Left: Jerry Alt flies through the air preventing a pass by Chris Scholl. Above: Blaine Presley evades the hand of Dean Franzen for a score Left: Mr Rood gets a shot off under the press of Tom Munson while Dan Goedeken looks for any rebound. Lower Left: Mark Mostek loses the ball to the opponent behind him. Below: Scorekeepers Cindy Aerni and Beth Heins keep an accurate total on points and fouls so the game runs smoothly. Intramural Basketball 159 Track inda Svoboda sailed 17 feet 416 inches at the Girls State Track Meet for second place in the long jump. Her jump tied the school record that she set in a dual against Norfolk. As well as setting records, Svoboda, sometimes known as The Quiet One scored consistantly for the girls team. As a whole, the highlight for the team was the Lakeview-Scotus meet which was the first victory for girls track in the history of the sport at Columbus Senior High. Brenda Schmitt totaled 10 of the team’s 53 points by winning the shot put and discus. Linda Svoboda won the long jump with a 16 feet 5 inch jump while Cindy Aerni was victorius in the 220 which was her first meet of the season. Vicki Benson was the fastest over the 80 yard hurdles at the meet. Here, as in many of the meets that followed, the team unity carried the girls through a very improved season. Records in the two mile relay, mile relay, long jump, high jump, 60 yard dash and mile run were broken. Mary Person, Gerry Poison, Bobbee Person and Karla Keeshan set the new mark of 10:41.8 in the two mile relay and the foursome of Gerry Poison, Sheri Bonk, Patty Chavanu and Karla Keeshan combined for a 4:24.8 clocking in the mile relay. Svoboda jumped 17 feet 4V6 inches twice during the year and tied the school mark in the high jump at 4 feet 10 inches. Becky Wilson sprinted the 60 yard dash in 7.9 seconds, setting the school mark in the first year event. Finally, Bobbee Person bettered her mile run time by 17.8 seconds with the new record set at 5:59. Another set of records were made this year as several meets were run off in meters in accordance to the state’s attempt to convert all meets into meters. According to Assistant Coach Korver, the times were comparable between the metric and standard distances, some being better and others being slightly slower. On the negative side of the track season, shine splints hampered the team. Also the team lacked the neccessary depth for the major meets. Fortunately, these obstacles didn’t hurt the team as the unity between the girls maintained the team spirit. Left: Brenda Glur clears a hurdle on her way to the finish line in the district track meet prelims. Below: Linda Svoboda and Patti Chavanu strain for the tape in the 100 yard dash at the Lakeview-Scotus-CHS triangular Bottom: Bobbee Person cruises in on the final leg of the two mile relay at the Norfolk dual. The girls almost pulled off a major upset in the meet as the team was only down by one point going into the final event. 160 Action Top Left: Members of the '79 girls track team are (sitting) Olga Castaneda. Bobbee Person. Sheri Bonk. Cindy Aerni. Lisbeth Andreasson. (kneeling) Sandy Birkel. Mary Sterup. Beth Heins. Jamie McNair. Brenda Glur, Sonya Mueller. Karla Keeshan, (standing) Brenda Schmitt. Rita Louis. Donna Dubas. Kathy Zimmerman, Diane Bryan. Becky Wilson. Patti Chavanu. Mary Person. Vicki Benson. Donna Warnecke. Linda Svoboda. student manager Jo Kantor, Gerry Poison and Coach Hegi. Not pictured are student manager Cheri Brandt and Coach Korver. Top Right: Cindy Aerni burns down the track to stay with Killman from Beatrice in the 100. Aerni and Killman both qualified for the district finals while the North Platte runner on the right took third in the heat. Middle Right: Brenda Schmitt follows through on her winning toss of 105'8 at Trans-Nebraska. Right: Vicki Benson heads out of the exchange zone after getting the baton from Diane Bryan in the 880 yd. relay. Above: Mary Person begins to open up a lead on the rest of the pack during her leg of the two mile relay at Trans-Nebraska in Kearney. Girls Track 161 onstant volleying back and forth, practicing serves, smashing, lobbing. Every day practice went on after school. What kept the girls on the tennis team from giving up during their losing season? What ever it was, Coach Courtier was pleased to see that eighteen girls were not discouraged by the statistics and played to improve themselves and finish the season. According to Coach Courtier, Diane Staroscik, Judy Lassek, and Julie Barnes showed the most improvement. She added that Lassek’s improvement came all at once when she began turning more and hitting harder. Another hard hitter was Marilyn Bernt whose serve was extremely powerful whereas Cathy Micek’s was described as ‘wicked’ since she adds her left-handed touch. Fighting for the number one position on the team, Bernt, Micek, and Leslie Nielsen switched around continuously in the top six positions. Coach Courtier explained that You Can Never Tell who’s coming up in practice. Due to lack of practicing space, bad weather and playing inside a lot. the tennis coach had a great deal of difficulty determining who was playing well one week to the next. Chosing the doubles team was left to the experimentation of pairing Karen Koppel, Jodi Herrold, Micek and Bernt. Incidentally, the most points were scored by the number two doubles team of Barnes and Lassek. Coach Courtier explained further that the team’s loses were also attributed to the fact that the underclassmen had not played tennis before. The first weeks of practice were dedicated to teaching them how to play the game whereas most of the other teams were already improving their game. Upper Left: Sarah Selig is the only freshman to letter and play varsity. Upper Right: Judy Lassek plays as one half of the number two doubles team Above: Senior Leslie Nielsen lobs the ball back from the base line. 162 Action Left: JuLee Courtier concentrates on her forehand stoke. Far Left: Cathy Micek and Karen Koppel paired off most consistently as number one doubles. Lower Left: Julie Barnes eyes the ball during her serve. Center: Cathy Micek displays her backhand as she is left-handed. Below: Marilyn Bernt reaches high as one of the best servers on the team. Bottom: The 1979 girls tennis team includes (back row) Susie Johnson. Liz Laux. Tracey Bollig. Lisa Bo-bert. Bev Wickman. Coach Courtier. Patty Robak. assistant manager Julie Ingold, (middle row) Nancy Sackett, Sarah Selig. JuLee Courtier. Jodi Herrold. Heidi Sloth. Diane Staroscik, (front row) Marilyn Bernt. Karen Koppel. Cathy Micek. Leslie Nielsen. Judy Lassek and Julie Barnes. Girls Tennis 163 t - Members of the 78-79 track team include (back row) Head Coach Luebbe. Scott Bobert. Lynn Gellermann, Tom Munson, Paul Rathkamp. Chris Wilson. Scott Foutch. Coach Callan, Coach Waas. (middle row) Coach Young. Ron Stachura. Keith Groteluschen. Ken Arment. Tim Kjonegaard. Steve Buresh. Marv Sawtell. Dennis Hare. Tom Struebing. manager Lynn Chamberlin, manager Lori Larson, (front row) Dean Franzen, Mike Rambour. Bob Dohmen. Curt Peterson. Tim Schaefer. Dana Williams and manager Dana Ernst. Above: Dean Franzen shoots the shot out over 50 feet as part of the only three man contingent in Nebraska from one school where each threw over 50 feet Middle Left: Tom Goc sails over a high hurdle. Left: Tracksters qualifying for state included (standing) Scott Weber. Dean Franzen. Bob Dohmen. (kneeling) Scott Foutch. Scott Bobert and Paul Rathkamp. 164 Action Sophomore members of the boys track team included (back row) Scott Cruickshank. Jamie Bollig. Scott Weber. Kurt Armstrong. Ralph Castner. Brian Groteluschen. Matt Morris. Jeff Johnson, (front row) Bob Shepherd. Mike Harouff. Tom Goc. Dale Kappenman, Tom Ryan. Dave Divis, Ron Hare and John Wieser. Right: Matt Morris begins his turn in the discus. Above: Marv Sawtell challenges two York runners for the lead in the two mile run as Tom Ryan and Ron Hare keep close to the leaders. very CHS trackster knew the routine of a conference or invitational track meet. On the bus ride to the meet, tension built, races were planned and excitement mounted in a chamber of calm anticipation. After stepping off the bus, one could tell what kind of meet this one was going to be. The weather, number of teams, type of track and the team members’ attitudes set the scene for demoralizing defeat or A Perfect Day The first events at a meet included the discus where Mike Rambour threw upwards of 134 feet toward the season’s end. In the long jump, Chris Wilson mastered 21 ’4” early in the season but due to an injury, he didn’t repeat his performance during the rest of the year. Paul Rathkamp cleared 6’4” at Big Ten as his personal best and the two mile run featured Marv Sawtell with a 10:33.4 as his best. Two outstanding tracksters competed in the pole vault. Scott Foutch cleared 13’9” at state and Curt Peterson set a school record of 14’3” at the Columbus Invite. CHS had three excellent shot putters go to state. Scott Weber threw 52’6Vfr , Bob Dohmen threw 51’2%M at Districts and Dean Franzen had a throw of 51 ’3%” at Districts. In the triple jump, Wilson again performed well with 43’63 4 as his best. Scott Bobert was a state leader with 14.9 over the high hurdles. Tim Schaefer was CHS’s number one sprinter with a 10.3 clocking in the 100 yard dash. Bobert also led in the low hurdles with a 19.6 time and likewise Schaefer led the 220 crew with a 23.1 In the mile run, Ron Sta-chura turned in a best of 4:41. The only relay team to place consistently was the 880 yard relay consisting of Bobert, Schaefer, Mike Mancusco and Steve Buresh. Their best was 1:34.2. The track season came to a climax when six athletes qualified for state and the team placed fourth at Districts. Hopes had been high for all of the state contestants but Scott Foutch was the only CHS athlete to place when he earned fourth in the pole vault. Boys Track 165 Top: Linda Svoboda explodes off the board to sail 17’4ViM at Norfolk to set the school record. Far Right: Cindy Aerni and Scott Foutch pose with the athlete of the year trophy. Right: Scott Foutch leaves his pole after clearing the bar at 13’6’' at Districts. 166 Action As the 78-79 school year came to a close, It brought the wrap-up of a good year in sports. Wrestling was, without a doubt, “the season” as the matmen led by Randy Griffiths captured state. However, that group wasn’t the only one to experience success. Both girls golf and boys tennis had high state finishes and girls swimming had the best season ever in the school's history. Both boys and girls track also were much improved over previous years as Linda Svoboda led the girls and Scott Foutch the boys to higher placings in meets all season long. The sports year was culminated on Honors Night as Cindy Aerni and Scott Foutch were named athletes of the year. Academics 167 (. t was a good experience for everyone and a good way to end the unit instead of taking a test,” noted Terry Erks. “The square dancing day is for the kids and their enjoyment, and I think a lot of kids would be disappointed if we didn’t have it,” commented P.E. instructor Courtier. Each year the P.E. students are involved in a unit of square dancing and for the past couple of years, a caller has been asked to come. He ends the unit by putting all their skills together and putting them into use. However, when the caller comes, comments can be heard from the students as “Do I have to dance”, “This is really a lot of fun”, “I’m mixed up” or even “You're stepping on my foot”. Still, the caller Bob Johnson from Norfolk was heard saying. “Let’s try this The Second Time Around or take that pretty little thing and promenade her around the ring.” The sophomores had varying reactions to the day. Gretchen Goede-ken implied that “it didn’t last long enough because just about the time everyone started having fun. it ended. “It was a very exciting student activity,” stated Mike Harroff. Others had another point of view such as Pat Casey. He said, “It made it a lot easier for people to skip out of classes” and Danny Rhea said he took advantage of that. Looking back, the majority said it was well worth the three weeks of preparation and gave P.E. a new exciting look. Right: Tammy Potter waits her turn to square up Far Right: Some students knew the disco steps and trusted their feet to do the right thing while others were constantly checking their toes to make sure that all was ok. Above: Round and round they go. Students danced for an entire morning. 168 The Script Top Left: Mary Person and Jim Laudenklos keep track of the action in their square as they get ready to enter the fun. Top Middle: Kirk Hicks swings “that pretty little thing Jackie Palen to follow part of Bob Johnson's instructions. Top Right: Yes sir pardner. several students came dressed for the day’s festivities Above: Sue Obrsit. Tracy Noll and Gma Wilson line up for some disco steps. o Square Dancing 169 it was Monday. February 26. 1979. and Mr. Griffith and his physics students’ weeks of preparation were rewarded by a clear day for the century ’s last total solar eclipse in North America. At approximately 8:45 am. thirteen of Griffith’s students set out to prove their teaching abilities as they headed for the public grade schools of the community with their hands full of various instruments. The new teachers met their first students at 9:15, and began their brief classes. Using every thing from flashlights to volleyballs, they began to explain the position that the earth, moon and sun were in that caused the eclipse. ut that was just the beginning. then the real task began - trying to project the eclipse on to paper so that the students could view it. “It was really funny, said Lynn Chamberlin. “Every time that we would get the eclipse focused through the telescope, off a mirror, and on to the ceiling, the sun would move and we’d have to start over again.“ “It was fun though. added Karen Koppel. “and it was really interesting. I went to teach the kids, but I’ll have to admit I learned an awful lot myself. “We are just lucky that we got to see it.” said Michelle Loseke. “After all. it’s Once In A Lifetime thing, there won’t be another eclipse like that for 38 years.” B ut the grade schools were not the only ones that were viewing the eclipse. Schools all over North America were getting involved, and CHS was no exception. Griffith set up a large telescope in his room, and at 9 :42. when the eclipse began, students and teachers from all parts of the building began wandering in to get a look at the ordeal. By 10:38 the eclipse had reached it’s maximum here, (89%). Some teachers began to dismiss classes for a few minutes so that they too could get a piece of the action. But nothing lasts forever, and by 11:30 the sun w as almost back to normal and so was CHS. Top Left: Senior Luke Lemke explains to North P.irk students how the earth, sun and moon cause an eclipse Top Right and Above: CHS students and teachers view the eclipse through a specially equipt telescope set up by Mr Griffith 170 The Script r r L_ rw. Top Left: The eclipse drew a lot of attention as students wait in line to get their look at the solar phenomenon Top Right: Mr Griffith explains to Cindy Aerm. Karen Zimmerman and Mike Tuma an experiment that recorded the wavering intensity of light as the various stages of the eclipse passed Middle Left: A multiple exposure captures some of the stages of the eclipse Above: Students curiously wait their turn for a peek Left: Senior Joe Arlt projects the eclipse on to paper for the students to see Solar Eclipse 171 Business As Usual 172 The Script « he letter on the opposite page is very atypical of the average CHS business student. Students passing business courses were known instead for their high degree of competence and proficiency. Many seniors enrolled in Office Occupations after completing various business courses. Under the direction of Mr. Jackson, the program placed the students in clerical and stenographic work in Columbus businesses such as N.P.P.D. Other students took typing classes so that they’d be able to type those dreaded Advance Composition and U.S. History research papers. For various reasons, more students than ever were taking typing classes, proving once again that at CHS it was business as usual. Top Left: Lori Landwehr and Christy Lambrecht. Middle Left: Debbie Dush, Above: Deb Coulter. Deb Kampsch-neider. and Bev Buresh. and Bottom Left: Charlene Prososki peck away at their assignments. Top Right: Deb Gil- . bert reaches for the Correct-A-Type to get rid of the occasional error. Bottom Right: Lisa Trofholz proofs her finished project. Business Featur� 173 Top Left: Ed Stone (Tom Ryan listens to a police inquiry about the latest murder. Top Right: It's the first day of school and the students (Jerry Podraza. Sheila Ramsier. Gretchen Goe-deken, Geralyn Kobus and Angie Watson) talk about summer until the new girl arrives. Right: The monster attacks Ed Stone. Above: Cobalt (Mike Harouff) and Zepon (Curt Peterson) decide that the earthlings are too spaced out and leave for their time machine. sary for the productions. They spent nine weeks of class time preparing their play and were graded that night on its performance. The first play was a space adventure written by Curt Peterson called Space Adventures. The adventure included the discovery of an Earth ship, USS Arizona, by Zepon (Curt Peterson) and Cobalt (Mike Harouff) from the planet Zorkon and a trip through a time machine to Los Angeles in the year 2000. T HJ om Ryan wrote the second play The Demolishes a suspenseful mystery involving grue- some murders which the police can’t solve. So Ed Stone (Tom Ryan), private eye, steps in and almost dies by the murderer’s, a monster, hand. A surprise ending climaxes the play when Stone kills the monster whih turns out to be an ordinary human.In The Joke’s On You by Jeff Hitz, the Governor (Blaine Presley) and Alfred (Jeff Hitz) make The Perfect Couple in their capers to play a joke on a drunk named Joe (Mitch Jensen). t 6:00 p.m. on April 9, cars began pulling into the CHS parking lot. Unsuspicious looking persons emerged from these cars and entered CHS through the stage doors. Behind dressing room doors, these unsuspicious looking persons slowly transformed into policemen, spacemen, a fat man, a queen, a teacher, even a ghost and monster. 7:30 p.m.: These transformed persons took their places and prepared to begin. By 8:30 it was over. “Showbiz II” was history. “Showbiz II” was an hour of one act plays written and performed by members of the Theater II classes. The classes wefe responsible for all the sets, lighting, make-up, costumes and everything else neces- 174 The Script They make Joe believe he is the governor and a millionaire. But the joke backfires when Joe spends most of the money before finding out the truth. He then takes the Governor’s daughter Diana (Maureen Lannan) with him when he returns home to England where he’s really the crown prince. In the last play The New Girl by Beth Heins, a new girl (Connie Seda) causes quite a stir because she is different and is living in a haunted house. Three of her classmates (Sheila Ramisier, Angie Watson and Beth Heins) try to find out what’s behind the strange girl’s actions. “Showbiz II” culminated nine weeks of hard work and lots of effort in the Theater II classes according to Miss Schlobohm. Top Loft: Governor (Blame Presley) and Alfred (Jeff Hitz) plot their joke on Joe Top Right: Claaaass! We ll get along just fine this year if you do the work.” yells out Mrs. Peterson (Mary Pat Johnston). Above: After his joke backfires, an infuriated Governor tries to get to Joe (Mitch Jensen) but Diana (Maureen Lannan) protects him Left: Maureen Lannan applies make-up to Sue Van Dyke in preparation for their play. Showbiz 11 175 Marketing arketing is a good class to take if you plan to go into small business. Big Business retailing or wholesaling.” pointed out marketing teacher Mr. Trabert. A larger enrollment was seen in marketing with more students registered this year than in any year in the previous four years. Many students commented that marketing was a rewarding class for them because they gained work experience for future jobs. In addition to the material taught in previous years. Trabert added new topics such as running a cash register, preparing for a job interview, filling out job applications and making a job resume. Top: Pamm Kemp gets comfortable to listen to a lecture by Mr. Trabert. Inset: Rae Jean Barcel questions Mr. Trabert on a marketing strategy. Above: Dan Sharp. Mark Weber and Kim Smets discuss plans for the 1979 Walk-a-thon. Left: Mr. Trabert takes a moment to listen to the problems of a student. 176 The Script Industrial Arts V Top: Rod Isham concentrates on a problem in Beginning Mechanical Drawing. Middle Left: Jim Jenkinson uses precision in making a metal dish on the lathe. Left: Dave Blaser creates a shower of sparks as he practices making welds. Far Left: Tim Cielocha, one of the many Scotus students who take CHS's vocational classes, drills a hole for a cabinet. Above: Dan War-render receives help on electrical wiring from Mr. Veal. uring the 1970’s an emphasis has been placed on In-dusrial Arts in public school systems nation-wide. Columbus Public Schools is no exception. CHS offers courses ranging from Architecture to Automotives — Welding to Woods. After graduating from their skills classes many students receive jobs as draftsmen in local plants such as Behlen’s and Middle State. They are The Professionals of the future. In the engineering and architecture fields, students are very competitive and have entered many contests. One such contest in Kansas City netted Columbus three blue ribbons two reds and four whites. Cheryl Krings received a medal for the overall best drawing in the contest. Because of the growing demand for skilled workers, students who use their hands in areas such as woods and metals are recieving higher wages in today’s society. Other students use classes such as Automotives to do repairs on their cars. These range from minor tune-ups to major over-hauls and by doing their own work the students learn a lot and save themselves some money. Marketing, Industrial Arts 177 Economics [|| n a large room combine 12 [| tables, a comparable number ora chairs, several sewing machines, 5 kitchenettes, students to taste. 1 or 2 teachers and suffi- cient textbooks. After thorough-® ly mixing, the product should re-y semble a Home Ec class. The biggest change in thdn Home Ec classes this year was a larger number of guys. “I think now the guys are Breaking The Ice and aren’t so embarrassed to take the class,” Mrs. Mueller said. “Some take it because they really want to be self-sufficient when they leave home for college.” The Single Survival classes ' were over 50% male. “Home Ec is a good exper-« ience for students because they learn so much that they’ll use in life no matter what they become.” Miss English comment- • ed. “Not only in nutrition, also in •ecology and consumer educa-tion. A look at their schedule shows that the different Home Ec classes kept very busy. They took field trips to Tri-County Beef, the cheese plant, to shop for comparison, to Bonanza to practice ettiquette and to shop for decorating a home. They also had an open house at Christmas, fixed a Thanksgiving-dinner and held a pre-school for about 24 pre-school children one week. Even with all their projects, they still studied about marriage, family planning, child development. death, cake decorat-ing, foreign foods, microwaves and metrics to name a few. Top: Blaine Presley. Jim Herout. Pat Too-ley and Scott Blaser enjoy their cooking at Thanksgiving Middle Left: Visions of rich, chewy brownies dance in Phyllis Doh-men's head as she prepares to bake them. Middle Right: Mary Lou Cielocha and Ten Becher work toward a tempting Thanksgiving dinner. Far Right: John Boruch stuffs a pillow in Single Survival Here: Debbie Boss helps out in Home Ec as a teacher’s aide. 178 The Script yBWy hat teacher, for the sake of his class of course, has sprawled across the hood of a hijacked school bus trying to save his kidnapped students, been shot at by another teacher, and was arrested in class for assulting a student with a barbell? Give up? Mr. Korver’s journalism classes are Notorious for being a little bit different. They still do some work out of a book but they are also trained for positions on the newspaper, annual or photography staffs. This year Korver provided most of the “hot” news for some of their stories while doing or telling about the above activities. There was plenty of writing, so much so that by semester’s end his students were complaining about having terminal cases of writer’s cramp. peech class this year was taught by Ms. Ja-cobs-Kain. Students learned how to write a variety of speeches and debates. The students then had a chance to join the Columbus High debate team. Their work wasn’t just restricted to the classroom either. An after dinner speech contest was hosted for them at the Pizza Hut in October. They also did wild and crazy skits in class which included some way out hunting stories and speeches on “Why I Hate to Write and Give Speeches.” Top: Students in Korver s journalism classes have a variety of reactions to a writing assignment from Left Sue Obrist's intent concentration to Right Jon Joseph s question to Middle Right Melinda Levos' headache to Middle Left Bryan Nyf-feler’s wariness. Right: Dave Kee- fauver blows up a balloon tor a speech while Mary Kunes and Gretchen Goedeken listen to an after dinner speech. Above: It must have been funny as students laugh nt a barb in an after dinner speech at the Pizza Hut. Home Ec, Journalism, Speech 179 Foreign Languages 1 Top: Miss Boettcher and her students read through a play written in German. Middle: Kim Ernst bites into a tastey morsel during the German banquet. Above: Terry Cleland. Carol Latham and Miki Averett practice their skit for the Columbus-Norfolk exchange. Right: Painting window decorations was one activity in the classes for their special celebrations. I® I® ablo Espanol? “Ich vestehe dich nich nichts, ich spreche Deutsch?” If the numbers of students taking foreign languages keeps increasing, yes would be the answer to the above questions. Classes of first and second year German and Spanish students were a little larger this year. Spanish classes this year hosted Norfolk Spanish students on a tour of the school, a luncheon and a supper just prior to the Columbus-Norfolk basketball game. They also had a big Christmas celebration, taking One Week off from studies to decorate the room, play games, see films, hear speakers and eat Spanish foods. German classes also celebrated the Christmas season in about the same way except that their games included gambling and a banquet in the Home Ec room. This meal was filled with rich desserts, wild game and tastey vegetables. German students also celebrated the German Oktoer-fest and Fruehling. 180 The Script English nglish class offerings were the same this year as in previous years though there were three new faces teaching them — Mrs. Becher, Mr. Nyberg and Mr. Waas. They joined Mr Anderson, Ms. Danielson, Ms. Jacobs Kain and Mr. Korver in offering a wide variety of courses. In most of these' classes. The Key to passing was reading the books, participating in the discussions, passing the tests and writing clear essays on the inner meanings found in the books. To test how good you are at finding hidden meanings, find all of the English class titles in the following passage. Sometime after its frontier movement, and sometime before its search for form, every utopian society must face the bloody face of war. When this occurs, Everyman, who normally spends his quiet life in search of identity, examines his existence very closely, and begins to feel a part of some Shakespearean tragedy presented on the stage of his world. “It can’t happen here!” he may cry, but no fantasy, no speech, no debate, can help him escape the fatal situation his society’s leader and the group to0 which he belongs have enmeshed themselves in and now must confront. When compelled to take arms, often Everyman will rail against his society's sin, and loneliness is his reward. He knows thal if he consents to society’s dictates, he may never be allowed a second effort il the miserably thin thread of his life is cut short by the horrors of combat. Tc him this is no romantic revolution. It is 2 Christian epic turned Augustan satire. Indeed, his only remaining option may be flight, escape from a culture that requires of him his life. This cloak and dagger solution to Everyman's loneliness is no panacea; individualism and idealism both suffer in this allegory of tragedy. Top Left and Right: Debbie Sliva and Rod on her es ay while Jamie McNair reads Kar-Sanders ponder over their tes� in Mr. Waas' eem Abdui-Jabbar. Above Right: Ralph course Sin and Loneliness Middle: Rick An- Castner thinks about his next sentence for his derson. Ken Armstrong and Tim Aerni get informative essay in Sophomore Composi-started on their next reading assignment in tion. Right: If you're really good at hidden Second Effort. Above Left: Lyn Moore works meanings, you found 21 course titles. Foreign Languages. English 181 Music ___ Iright, try it again. Go back to measure 155 and count! Okay, Once More With Feeling This and variations of this are often heard by students who find themselves, sometimes as early as 7:45, behind a stand in the band room. Involvement in music classes takes a special kind of dedication as anyone who has ever been out marching in frosty 0 degree weather with a heavy instrument, numb fingers and a runny nose will tell you. Choir is no less taxing. Although the hours are usually better and the benefits the same, the call of duty often goes above and beyond class time as with band. “I think choir is a good experience for students. We cover a lot of technical skills and music of different time periods which gives them an appreciation of music and some of its history,” Mr. Bacon commented. “We have had a very good year with probably a larger collection of exceptional people than ever before.” “Aside from the obvious musical knowledge, I think band developes self-discipline and a sense of commitment which will hopefully carry over in life after high school. The discipline needed equals that for any sport, team or individual, because band is really both. And we don’t have a bench so everyone has to give their best effort,” Mr. Marik said. Top: Members of the band's brass section belt out a tune. Inset: Lynne Hudson reaches for a high note. Above: Male members of the swing choir practice their routine. Left: Members of the CHS orchestra are Gene Christiansen. Kirstm Peterson. Becky Stotts. Miss West and Gerry Poison, not pictured. 182 The Script Theater � « general hubbub is created as students are occupied at several different tasks. Some are painting a back drop, others slouch in auditorium seats memorizing or pretending to memorize lines, others are cleaning assorted odds and ends off the stage and surrounding areas. Such is a typical theater class. Theater classes study make-up, lighting, set construction and everything else involved in putting on a show. As Ms. Schlobohm said, the theater class is designed to help a student build self-confidence and often helps them find their special talents as well as giving them an awareness and appreciation of performing arts.” The Climax for the Theater II classes was performing plays they wrote themselves. The series of plays was performed April 9. “I think everything was generally more organized this year was Schlobohm's evaluation, but I think that was more me than the students. Top: Julie Harrington and Jill Miller set out to transform Tim Ott’s looks. Far Right: Joel Lopez puts the finishing touches on the Space Adventures set. Right: Lyle O'Dale (Jerry Alt) and Jennifer O'Dale (Connie Seda) leave town in The New Girl. Above: Diana(Maureen Lannan) gets to know Joe (Mitch Jensen) better in The Joke's On You. Music, Theater 183 Alternative Special Education Top Left: Bob Sliva studies a work sheet in Miss Lund's class. Top Right: Mr. Mueller helps Bob Murray on a study unit Middle: Jeff Adkis- son and Nancy Tagwerker take a study break. Left: Miss Lund helps’ Colleen Johnson solve a checking account problem l J nowing how to rent an apartment, work with contracts, buy on credit, use a checking account and decide on a career were some of the things students in alternative and special education learned this year. Mr. Mueller in alternative education and Miss Lund in special education taught practical things such as these to prepare their students for life after graduation. Lund said that one of The Greatest things about the special education field is that many CHS teachers are willing to have special students in their classes and are willing to make an extra effort to work with them. 184 The Script Physical Education Above: Alan Haney gets into the swing over Laurie Lee Right: Debbie Swartz of things for a hit during softball. Top watches the birdie during play in the Right: Jodi Heesacker shoots for two badminton unit. Alternative Ed.. P E 185 S • % tretch 2-3-4-5.” “Hit the ball.” .“Lift that weight.” “Don’t Shove.’’ “Physical Education students participate in a variety of activities many of which they wouldn’t experience on their own. Ideally our graduates will have found one or more activities that they wish to continue in their adult life. It is important that adults remain active to maintain a higher quality of life, stated P.E. teacher Mrs. Hoops. Many students acknowledged that P.E. was rewarding because they learned many skills and got chances to be part of a team. Some said that they didn’t exercise on their own so P.E. was the only exercise they got. HI f there are 920 students in CHS and if classes are held 24 hours a day and if an additional Two People go into class every 10 minutes while 10 students skip out every 15 minutes, how long will it take to empty the school? Such are the problems faced by math students, not the principals. “Math teaches you to solve problems and reason to the correct conclusion which is what life is all about,” cited Mr. Nitsch, math teacher. Although many students dislike the discipline in thought that math requires, others felt it aided them in science classes and was a good subject to take if they were going to college. Many stated that math assisted them in everyday life like figuring income tax and managing money. Something new added to the math program this year was Calculus. It was aimed mainly at the student who had taken Algebra I in the eighth grade and wanted to further his knowledge. Top: The calculator — It doesn’t matter if you're taking Basic Math or Calculus, it's a math student's best friend. Far Right: Mr. Neese and his students clown around in Basic Math Right: Miss Owens and her bionic arm'' race across the blackboard explaining a problem. Above:. Jane Dush becomes stumped in Algebra II. 186 The Script Science Top: Peggy Chesnut draws some fluid challenge — baking a cake without an as Laurie Dierberger mixes a solution, oven. Above: Bryan Winkle and Todd Right: Physics students Jon Walker Gay practice CPR on Respiration An-and Roger Bullington assume a new me in Physiology. Math, Science 187 Social Studies Top Right: Karen Zimmerman takes notes in Sociology Middle Right: Richie En-gelmann is shown an example of his mom's work during County Government Day Far Right: Mr. Jeffers lectures on a cause of World War II. Right: Joni Gutzmer examins a document during County Government Day Above: What's that?” Mark Thomas picks up some new info in Modern Problems. ocial studies classes this year didn’t just reveal about the past. Students learned about world politics and what has caused the many problems that the world has today. Classes weren’t just all lectures as there were many films including one on the Ku-Klux Klan and Students even viewed a 1932 Tarzan movie. Mr. Beckenhauer and Mr. Steinbrook brought to class many examples of weapons used in the world wars. Students also studied many topics: prohibition, the battles of World War II, the leaders of Europe and social events of the 50’s, 60 s and 70’s. This year as in past years there were candidates to County Government Day. Students going learned how county government works by visiting the offices of the county politicians. t 188 The Script Business |BbmI earning fundamentals of shorthand, typing and accounting, students were gaing skills that would help them in in the business community in the future. Students in the accounting classes received lessons in how to keep records and manage books and papers in a business fashion. With the donation of three cash registers by McDonald’s. students also gained a knowledge of how that machine worked. Some students in the business programs were in the work release program under Mr. Jack-son which enabled them to get secretarial and accounting jobs on a part-time basis. Other students could be seen up in the typing rooms. Their heads would be bent toward the humming machines and their flying phalanges would be darting across the keys. It was business as usual. Left: Sandy Nelson adds up a column of numbers. Below: Mr. Jackson lectures on letters of inquiry in Office Occupations Below Left: Sharon Van Dyke rolls in a new sheet of paper for another try on a typing project Bottom Left: Steve Zaura analyzes a problem in Accounting I. Social Studies. Business 189 Art, Crafts HJhe art room is always highlighted by the unusal and the unexpected whether it be an exploding pug-wheel or a steel life that comes to life. Most people take art classes because they won’t have too much homework, they can talk quietly while working on projects and some say it’s easy credits, that is if you have any ability. With the many materials used in art classes, sometimes it’s hard to get your hands to Come Clean depending on the project. Miss Detlefsen, art teacher, said she tried to meet the needs and interests of all students in her various classes. At the end of the year, students showed their skills and finished products as part of the Fine Arts Festival. Top Left: Bruce Sinclair models a life-like head in sculpture class. Top Right: Lynne Hudson paints the window of the art room for a lettering project. Middle: Tammy Cook works on a project in fibers class. Left: Dan Shemek paints a project. Far Left: Student teacher Miss Grove demonstrates sculpture techniques as Kathy Nading. Mary Zwiener and Dave Fricke look on. WWLrLh The End K UUW. he unknown one You Can t Down With Good Friends Around nd it came to pass in the days of Carter, a great cry arose from those under the bondage of the grade point average. And the Administration heard the cry and decreed that all those having completed 12 years of servitude should be allowed to go free. And lo, much praise and thanksgiving went up at this decree from the group of people known as seniors. But the Administration hardened its heart and said, “I cannot let them go so easy. I will test their merit and see if they be deserving.” So the semester test torture was devised and the Administration sat back to observe. And lo, there was much weeping and gnashing of teeth as those, especially under the taxmasters Chemistry and Physics, met this dread trial. And others, enslaved to Advanced Comp, were faced with the fearful Research Paper and they stumbled beneath the load and cried out in their distress. Once more the Administration heard their cry and its heart was softened. So certificates of freedom known as diplomas were made out for all those enslaved known as seniors. And on that day of exodus known as graduation, the seniors gathered together their books and calculators and their herds of pens and pencils and went out of the land of High School with much jubilance. But before the seniors were far from the land of High School, the Administration’s heart was again hardened and it called forth all the colleges and universities in the land to enslave the freed seniors. And lo, some were able to escape the fate by the hand of the Boss. But many were trapped where the Mountain of Employment met the Sea of Personal Goals and once more were brought under the bondage of the grade point average. Kay Davison Top Left: Tammie Rullo cuddles up with one of the art works at the Art Festival Top Right: Kent Schwartz urges “The Hulk and His Molecules” in intramural action. Middle Left: Jeff Hitz pulls a gun on Suzette Carrig during a scene of Murder on Center Stage. Middle Right: Rod Sanders and Cindy Uhlmann admire Scott Souders'sign. Bottom Left: Doug Rice looks aghast at how much weight he has gained since wrestling season was over. The scale game was played by all the varsity wrestlers during a wrestling convocation. Bottom Right: Pbpbpbpbsh! Stacey Stauber disagrees with a referee. Art, Ending 191 The Voyage came to a close in late May and the set was closed and put away. Desks, books, tables and chairs were stacked up for the summer months and the floors were waxed. Windows and doors were locked as the building wouldn't be used for awhile. The 78-79 school year had been a quick one. Days and weeks had blended into months so rapidly that when May 22 came, it seemed that the whole show had only started the previous week. It was nowonder that it seemed so quick as students and faculty, friends and family had rushed from activity to activity, homework to jobs, home to school in a seemingly endless stream of action. There was always something to do. Seniors had to be the most excited about the end of 78-79, but as some said, they were really going to miss it all because they had had so much fun, so many friends they will miss and a final chance to be a star at what they did best. Life, it seems, demands more and many of those who stood out in high school would only be part of the crowd after graduation. Spring fever had hit by mid-March and everyone was restless and wanted to be outside when the weather was warm. By May, students were more than ready for that long awaited summer vacation. However, schoolwork had to be finished before school closed. Research papers were assigned to U.S. History and Advanced Comp students towards the end and these students had to put in one last great effort at the books. Faculty members were also waiting for their three month vacation. Each had something planned for summer, as did students, even if it was just relaxing. But before they could leave, tests had to be given, equipment put away and grades figured. Everyone wanted and needed a change of pace, time to reflect on the past performances and to mentally prepare for another effort. It was the end of quite a year. Top Left: Home sweet home at CHS is a comfy locker. Top Right: Jerry Bartholomew checks for respiration in CPR training during Physiology class. Right: The New World Singers had an exceptional number of extremely talented singers according to Choir Director Mr. Bacon. 192 Closing Shots Top Left: Volleyball Coach Hegi explains what exactly is to be done after the time out. Middle Left: Mr. Mueller, the skit's villian. is not afraid even though the story's hero, Mr. Neese. says he'll save the day. Top Right: Lunch looks delicious today as Brenda Beisner selects hers from the choices. Above: Basketball games give friends such as Mike Whetstone. Terry Wilhelms. Larry Kolbush and Scott Jackson a chance to get together for some fun. Left: The halls are momentarily clear of the hustle and bustle of kids as third period draws to a close. Closing Shots 193 Top Left: Mrs. Hoops takes the microphone and instructs her sophomore square dancers. Top Right: One Art Club project was painting Christmas scenes on McDonald’s windows. Above: Another batch of yearbook copy stumps Julie Barnes. 194 Closing Shots Top Left: Mike Cook provides the beat for the jazz band at the Frankfurt Square concert. Top Middle: Julie Speicher keeps her eyes on the birdie. Top Right: Laurie Lee solos at a vocal concert. Middle Right: Sandy Van Dyke greases down Brad Loseke in preparation for his butterfly race. Right: Sandy Willman. Joel Lopez. Polly Hadan and Jerry Podraza pal around at a tape dance Above: Michelle Becher listens Intently to a lecture in Marketing. Left: Mr. Anderson whistles a foul in intramural action. Middle Bottom Page 194 Mark Haskins hungrily awaits the results of his chemistry experiment. Middle Left Page 104: Kathi Miles and Mike Scheidegger can't believe the action on the mat at a wrestling meet. Closing Shots 195 jo4-B for V2 day.” “You need 10 more credits to graduate.” “There will be a snow day today.” “P.E. will be co-ed next year.” Such seemingly life and death decisions for students were reached by school administrators and guidance counselors every day. These decisions were issued only after a careful consideration of the known facts because these people were aware of the impact they’d have on student lives. Not all the decisions reached were popular with students, however, so Life At The Top was no bed of roses. Besides the normal administrative routine, several changes highlighted this year. At the top of the administration was the school board. It had the final decision on all policies. New to the board was Mr. Jerry Engdahl. The new board president was Mr. Jerry Roth and new vice-president was Mrs. Cathy Johnson. Mr. Dave Swartz was the new district business manager. He had been a vice-principal at CHS the year before and now was in charge of district fiscal matters. Even more important to CHS students were the changes at the high school. Mr. Luther was the new vice-principal in charge of student affairs. He started the school year by candidly telling students that he would treat them as adults until they proved that they weren't responsible enough to be treated that way. He enforced the rules fairly and squarely unless you happened to be sitting in 104-B and then, of course, he was picking on you or so it seemed. By the end of the year there were even students in school who realized that he was not such a bad guy after all. He just saw to it that students lived by the rules for the benefit of all. Probably just as big a change was the resignation of Mr. Sterup, principal. His duties included controlling the school budget, evaluating curriculum offerings, overseeing building maintenance and evaluating staff. He could also call most students by name and knew what their interests were, no small task in a school of 950 students. 196 Closing Trying to meet the needs of 950 students with problems was the task of Mr. Goos (Far Left) and Mrs. Wibbels (Left). They had to monitor students' credits. solve teacher student conflicts, help seniors apply for scholarships, work out schedule conflicts, listen to students' personal problems and the list goes on and on. Top 196: Mr. Luther goes through a variety of expressions during his first Discoverer interview. Middle 196: Members of the school board are (standing) Mr. Jim Ball; Mr. William Redrow; Dr. Fred Bel-lum; Mr. Jerry Engdahl; Mr. John Tooley; (sitting) Mr. David Swartz, secretary; Mr. Jerry Roth, president; and Mrs. Cathy Johnson, vice-president. Left: Mr. Sterup. principal, talks to Warren Nyffeler about an electronics project. Top: Mr. Swartz looks over some figures before his presentation of them to the school board Middle: Dr. Bellum. superintendent of schools, is in charge of implementing the board’s decisions and supervising the day-to-day operations within the district. Above: Mr. Hopp. activities director. congratulates Mr Marik for the band's earning all l’s at state competition. Administration. Guidance 197 Mr. Randy Amundson Mr. Larry Anderson Mr. Boyd Bacon Mr. Bart Bartholomew Mrs. Candace Becher Ms. Terri Bechtel Mr. Don Beckenhauer Ms. Roma Boettcher Mr. Robert Brega Mr. Gary Busteed Mr. Ron Callan Mr. Jim Classen Mrs. Dorothy Courtier Ms. Lana Danielson Mr. Dean Dartman Ms. Jean Detlefsen Mr. Chris Dixon Mr. Ralph Eickhoff Ms. Mary Ann English Mr. Gordon Essink Mr. Roger Goos Mr. Alan Griffith Mrs. Karen Hoops Mr. Cliff Hopp Mr. William Jackson Ms. Constance Jacobs Kain Mr. Roy Jeffers Mr. Bob Korver Mr. Clayton Luther Mr. Dick Luebbe Ms. Chris Lund Mr. Larry Marik Mr. Dave Massman 198 Closing Faculty Mr. Mark Mueller Mrs. Shary Mueller Mr. Lanny Neese Mr. Bernard Nitsch Ms. Diane Nitz Mr. Kevin Nyberg Ms Judy Owens Mr. Larry Rathe Mr. Wally Richards Mr. John Rist Mr. Jed Rood Ms. Ruth Schlobohm Mr. Ken Schreiber Mr. Gordon Steinbrook Mr. James Sterup Ms. Sandy Sypherd Mr. Jon Trabert Mr. Ron Veal Mr. Greg Waas Mrs. Marty Wells Ms. Cindy West Mrs. Cathy Wibbels Mr. Edsel Wibbels Mr. Leon Wragge Mr. Jack Young Left: Mr. Classen explains an automotive analysis machine to Ron Wilcox. Above: Ms. West and Mr. Koudelka. a student teacher, show CHS students the latest in disco steps at the DECA tape dance. Faculty 199 Right: Paraprofessionals who helped in the English. Social Studies and Home Ec Departments are Mrs. Dorris Busse. Mrs. Nancy Blank and Mrs. Gayle Callan. Below: Front office workers are (sitting) Mrs. Peppier. Mrs. Stauber, Mrs. Emerson, (standing) Mrs. Schulenberg and Mrs. Ewert. 200 Closing Left: Janitor Leo Hellmers checks on the progress of a student dance so he knows when the cleanup process will begin. Above: Media personnel are Mrs. Loretta Dixon. Mr. Ken Schreiber and Mrs. Lee Augustin. Left: Janitors at CHS are: (front row) Mrs. Irene Kelsey. Mrs. Bev Hellmers. (middle row) Mr. Levi Bentzenberg. Mr. John Gleeson and (back row) Mr. Leo Hellmers. Below Left: Cooks for '78-79 are (standing) Marg Smets, Mary Jane Thoms. Louise Rosendhal. Inez Rongish. Mary Ann Lehr, Dorothy Toufar. Helen Nitz. Josephine Bernt. Lucille Hollman. (sitting) Irene Oleson. June Nee-meyer. Ruby Johnson and Loretta Nitz. Below: School nurse Mrs. Marilee Kyster takes Mike Scheidegger's temperature. Left: Bob Murray selects one of the options for his lunch. Above: Mrs. Mary Jane Thoms slices cheese for grilled cheese sandwiches. running a school involves more than just teachers, administrators and students to be educated. Behind the scenes are people whose jobs are to provide a comfortable atmosphere, nutritious food and the necessary paper work that keeps the school functioning smoothly. In the offices and media center, friendly personnel supplied forms, information or books needed for those end of the year research papers as if by Magic All the work done at CHS involves plenty of time. A cook's day starts at 5 a.m. and janitors are here from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. However, not all this time is dull and humdrum. Custodian Leo Hellmers noted that he ended up waxing the flag pole as a result of a practical joke by Mr. Neese. One morning the cooks came to work but couldn’t get in as someone had filled the door locks with glue. After watching students perform for a year, after cleaning up after student activities, and after helping students, the technicians who kept the CHS machine running knew that the only thing they could expect was the unexpected. School Personnel 201 Bakonhus Lofi .... Barcel Rae Jean Ball Mr. Jim Band ..... Barnet Jui� e ... Barnholdt Jeff ......... Bartholomew Mr Bart ...... Jerry ........ Tim .......... Bartlett Anne .......... Barton Jan........... Basketball (Boys) Basketball (Girts) Baumgart Rick ......... Beach Miles ........ Beautiful Noise Becher Mrs. Candace Doug ......... Michelle ..... Teri ......... Bechtel Ms Terri ..... Beckenbauer Mr Don ........ Beckmann Jane .......... Begin Menachem . Behlen Michele ...... Behrens Bryan ......... Tammy ......... Belsner Brenda ........ Marlyn ........ Bel It Susan ........ Tracy ........ Bellum Dr. Fred ...... Benedict Jennifer ..... Benton Vicki ........ Bentzenberg Mr. Levi ...... Bernt Donald ........ Mrs. Josephine Leroy ......... Marilyn ....... Sheryl ........ Berry Jerry ......... Besslre Stacey ....... Big Business ____ Blrkel Sandy ........ Blahak Steve ......... Blank Mrs. Nancy ... Sandy ......... Blaser Dave ......... Scott ......... Blessen Todd .......... Bloebaum Nancy ........ Bobert Lisa ............ 17. 24 35. 176 ... 197 96 97 35. 83. 96. 118. 128. 144. 163. 194 106. 142, 143. 198 18. 64. 100. 192 •........47. 135 18.24.57 35 96 152 154155 ... 152-153 35. 96. 99. 118 ............... 104 ............... 198 47. 83 .. 18. 123. 195 ......35. 178 .. 78. 125. 198 .......... 198 4. 18. 81. 92. Ill, 123. 144 ..........................75 .....................35. 96 35. 96. 107. 108. 121. 128 ..... 47. 97. 101. 107. 103 ............ 197 18. 40. 116. 123 47. 63. 144. 161 ............201 .......18 15. 47. 97 ...... 176 46. 47. 51. 113. 161 ................. 18 ............... 200 .............. 18. 96 35. 52. 135. 149. 177 ..... 18. 83. 149. 178 47. 96. 106. 107. 126. 127 ......................... 163 Scott ....... Boettcher Ms. Roma ____ Bogus Deanna ....... Joe ......... Bolllg Jamie ........ Todd ........ Tracy ....... Bonk Shen ........ Booster Club Borowiak Genny ........ Boruch John ........ Boss Debbie ...... Kelly ....... Stu ......... Bouc Connie ....... Boutique ...... Bowe Robert ...... Brake nhoff Connie ...... Linda ....... Brandenburgh William ..... Brandt Cheri ....... Jim ......... Karen ...... Lisa ....... Bray John ........ Breaking The Ice Bredehoft Cmdy.......... Brega Mr Bob ...... Nancy ... Brehm Bob .... Brestel Kris .... Brewer Karen ... 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AFS ....... Ahlstrom Kent .................. All-School Play All The Way Alt Cheryl ................ Chris .................. Jerry .................. American Madness (The) Amundson Mr Randy ............ Anderson Ann .................... Greg ................. John .................] Mr Larry ............ Melody ................ Rick ............. 210 35. 184 .... 17 196 152. 154. 160. 161. 166. 171 .......... 17. 100. 101. 103 181 .......................... Ill ....47 108. 109 138 ...............35 84 17. 158. 159. 183 .... 82 116. 198 _____ 47. 96 .......... 17 ...........35 195. 198 17. 100. 103 47. 181 .......35 ... 47. 155 Steve (11) .... Steve (10) ... Andreasson Lisbeth ....... Anson Alan .......... Applegate Vicki ___ Arasmlth Teresa ........ Artt Joe............ Arment Brent ......... Ken ........... Armstrong Dan ........... Kenny ......... Kurt .......... Arndt Chris ......... Paul .......... Arrangement (The) Art Atkins Donna ......... Augspurger Doreen ........ Roland ........ Augustin Jaci .......... Jon ........... Mrs Lee ........ Augustine Dan ........... Averett Miki ...... 17. 109. 111. 161 .............. 47. 136. 156 ......................... 35 ................... 17. 123 17- 93. 134. 135. 149. 171 2. 17. 134. 135. 148. 149 35. 83. 134. 150. 164 ...............35 ... 47. 139. 181 47. 138. 155. 165 ....... 17 .......47 ...... 90 66 69. 190 47. 97. 126. 127 ..... 17. 83. 139 17. SO. 81. 97. 98. 99. 101. 152 .............. 15. 47 .................... 100. 200 Babka Bill ___ Bacon Mr. Boyd Badge I ori 93. 198 202 Closing Steve Terry ..... Burrows Joe ...... Bus(The) Business ... Busse Mrs Dorns Rick ...... Busteed Mr. Gary .. Steve .... Byrnes Mary ........ 36. 134. 135 Come Clean 19 Comic (The) ... Committee (The) 135 Cook 116 Don 172-173. 189 Mike Tammy 200 Coulter 48 Deb Courtier 198 Mrs Dorothy . 48 96 99 JuLee 36 c Cellan Mrs. Gayle ...... Mr Ron Carlson Cheryl .......... Connie ......... Carrlg Suzette ......... Cars .............. Carstensen Roger .......... Carter President Jimmy Carvalho Jill ............ Casey Pat ............. Castaneda , Olga............. Castner Ralph............ Cave Patty ........... Chamberlin Lynn ............ Champion (The) Change of Habit (A) Chavanu Bill ...... Patti ........... Vicki ........... Chestnut Pat ............. Peggv Chess Club ........ Chollar Theresa ......... Chorus ..... Chorus Groups _____ Christensen Darin ........... Christiansen Gene ............ Christie Vince ........... Cl boron Ted ............. Cielocha Mary Lou ........ Tim ............. Clark Marty ........... Classen Mr. Jim ......... Clay Mthy ............ Cleland Terry ........... Climax (The) ...... Closing Coffey Janice ........... 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Shan ...... 48 198 114 .......... 4. 78. 85. 125. 198 ............................ 139 49 136. 137 100. 101. 103.108, 109. 110. 118. 128. 129 ........................ 112-113 ........................ 114-115 .........................20. 123 ..............................37 ........................ 37. 158 .........................85. 198 ..........................37. 83 37. 86. 96. 187 .....................37 .......... 49. 96. 99. 135 13. 49. 96. 103. 135 49. 96. 98 99. 146. 165 ........... 126. 198 ........ 37. 127. 134 ................200 49 ........ 37. 134. 165 ................. 20 37. 84 49. 85. 96 126. 152 ..............49. 178 38 49. 83. 96 Donoghue John............... Don't Shove .......... Do's And Don'ts _______ Dotson Sharon ............. Dozier Richard ........j.... Drama Drozd Laura .............. Drum Gern ............... Pat ................ Dual (Norfolk Wrestling) Dubes Carolyn ............ Donna .............. Duellists (The) ...... Dufek Laurie ............. 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Lori................. .. .. 38 .. . 185 ... 8 9 _____ 38 _____ 49 183 _____ 20 .....21 .....21 150-151 ---- 4q .... 161 147 21. 104 ..........139 ........... 49 3. 24. 38. 173 . 38. 76. 186 ........... 49 Eclipse 170-171 Elckhoff Mr Ralph 198 Elhausen Rick .................................. 49. 136. 156 Elkins Vernalie ..........................................49 Ellis Tim ............................................. 135 Emerson Mrs Verdelia 200 Engdahl Mr Jerry 197 Troy 49 Tr� cy ...................................21. 103. 142 Engel mann Rich 38. 142. 188 English 181 English Ms. Mary Ann .................................... 198 Engqulst Dean ..............................................38 Denise .......................................21. 123 Erks Terry .............................. 15. 49. 135. 155 Ernst Connie ................... 21. 83. 123. 124. 140. 141 Dana .............................. 49. 101. 103. 164 John ........................................ 49. 135 Kim 21.83.89.101.103.180 Esparza Korena ........................................... 38 Robert ...................................... 38. 39 Esslnk Mr. Gordon .................................... 198 Eusterbrock Shirley .......................................... 21 Evans Gary ............................................. 49 Evert Kimberly 37, 49. 107 Ewert Mrs Gloria .......................................200 Tom .................................... 49. 135. 156 lndex 203 Hadan Polly Hadcock Scott Haddock Joel ..........................22 ......................50. 155 ........................... 89 ...................... 38. 39 ...................... 13. 38 ...........................38 ...........................50 .......1............. 22. 136 ...... 184 ......................... 118 ............... 126. 171. 198 ........................... 50 2. 22. 83. 126. 148. 149. 151 ...................... 38. 84 ...........................50 .......................38. 96 ........................... 38 ...... 50. 146. 147. 165 ...... 22. 83. 118. 128. 165 .......................22 ........................ 190 .................... 50. 149 ................22 .. 38. 43. 122. 126. 127. 144 ......................... 197 .......................... 74 .......................50. 96 ................ 38. 83. 188 50. 83. 122. 195 .............22 Haferland Tammy ....... Toni ......... Hagar Cary ......... Pam .......... Hagelsteln Mike Sherry ...... Hahn Gene ........ Hajak Julie ....... Haldlman David Hamernlk Mike ........ Hammons Jim ......... Haney Alan ......... Hansen Dave ........ Martino ..... Maureen .... Tom .......... Hare Dennis ...... Ron .......... Harms Kelly ........ Mike ..... Harnan Scott ........ Harouff Mike ......... Harral Cher.......... Harding Paul ........ Harrington Joey ......... Julie ........ Patty ........ Sharon ....... Haskins Mark ......... Hasselqulst Bruce ........ Hassler Rolenda ..... Hastings Kevin ........ Hawthorne Tammy ........ Hayward Kathy ........ Heaven Can Walt Heesacker Jodi ......... Hegl Ms. Nancy ... Heins Beth ........ Jeff ........ Randy ....... Hellbusch Jenice ....... Renee ....... Steve ........ Hellmers Mrs. Bev .... Mr. Leo . Helpmate ...... Henggeler Lori ......... Hentges Cheryl ....... Herout Beth ......... Jim .......... Herrold Jamie ........ Jim .......... Jodie ....... 51 22. 77. 115 .........38 ..........23 ..........50 ......23. 96 23 38. 96. 146 ...........80 ............50 ............23 ....... 50. 83 38. 149. 185 ............23 .... 50. 51 ........... 38 ........... 50 116. 134. 165 146, 147. 164 38 ...........50 135. 149. 174 .............23 ............156 ........ 51. 58 51. 58. 83. 183 .............51 ....... 38. 76 .......38. 96 ............23 ............23 107. 108. 127 ............51 38. 96. 99. 100. 102, 103. 159. 161 .......................... 51. 77. 84 ...................................51 201 200. 201 ..... 130 .... 5. 51 ......23 .............65. 136 38. 121. 128. 154 51. 52. 83. 137. 163 Geu Kathy ........ Gilbert Debbie ........ Gllsdorf Kristine ...... Gilson Doug ......... Glee son Mr. John ..... Glur Brenda ........ Goc Tom ........... Goedeken Dan .......... Grctchen ...... Goering Scott ......... Golf (Boys) Golf (Girls).... Gonka Lori .......... Goos Mr Roger ..... Gotschall Greg ......... Pam .......... Grachek Dave ......... Graduation Graff Joe ........... Grant Clark ......... Grape Kenny ........ Grassmeyer Lmae ......... Graus Alyce ........ Greatest (The)___ Great Expectations Griffith Mr Alan ....... Cola ........... Griffiths Randy ......... Tammy ......... Groke Robin ......... Grotelueschen Danette ....... Renee .......... Groteluschen Brian .......... Keith ......... Mike ........ Groves Jane .......... Grubaugh Brad ........... Lindy .......... Traci ......... Guidance ........ Guidry Ron ............ Gustafson Sandy .......... Gutzmer Joni ............ ...................21 .......... 38. 85. 173 .. 22. 40. 78. 100. 122 ....................38 ..................201 50. 83. 103. 160. 161 ..... 50. 83. 135. 164 .............. 22. 159 50. 109. 113. 174. 179 50. 96. 113. 127. 139 ............... 142143 140 141 .............50 ......... 88. 197. 198 Faculty .............. Fajman Chris .............. Falllck Jaci ............... Julie Fashion (High Low) Fendrick Rita ................ Fergin Julie ............... Fine Arts Festival ___ Finishing Touch (The) Fisher Bill ............... Fix Michelle ........... Fleming Kelly .............. Flucklger Duane .............. Mark Fluffy .... Foland Linette ............ Football Force Dan ................ Foreign Languages Foutch Scott ............... Fraka Denise .............. Franzen Dean ................. Ty .................. Fraser Bryan ............... Frerlchs Kristen ............. Frlcke David ............... Fried rlchsen Michelle ....... Frieze Greg ................ Fritz Debie................ Front Page (The) Id Fulton Scott ............... Future Shock Fyfe Tony ................ ...... 198199 ............38 ............49 ..... 38. 93 12-13 49. 55. 63. 127 .........49. 96 ....... 84-85 140 21 95 135 ____ 49 .....21 16 ..... 38 134-135 21. 121. 128 ......... 180 ......21. 78. 134 ..... 49. 96. 108 38. 134. 159. 164 .................49 15. 21. 103. 154 ................38 ....... 49. 190 ........ 21. 122 ...........49. 96 49. 96 120 50. 96. 99. 142 .... 50. 96. 149 ............ 188 ..............50 Garrison Mike ........... Gaver Terri .......... Tow.............. Gdowskl Bob ........... Gellermann Chris .......... Lynn ........... Gemblca Debbie ......... Gerrelts Brian .......... Getting Acquainted ........... 37. 50. 135. 149 38. 46. 134. 154, 155. 165 38. 158 .... 158 204 Closing king OF THE Gypsies Hervert Susie .........................................38. 96 Houle Colleen ...........................................51 Hicks Kirk.....................................51. 156. 169 High Noon 84 Hlltner Steve .............................................23 Hltz Jeff .................... 38. 106. 107. 109. 175. 191 Hoer Christine......................................... 51 Hoffmann Mike .........................................23. 156 Hofpar David .............................................23 Hoge Jim ...............................................51 Hollatz Tharrin ............................ 38. 55. 106. 108 Holley Gary ............................................ 51 Hollman Lucille ......................................... 201 Holys Janelle ..................................... 38. 101 Home Ec 178 Homecoming 78-79 Honors Night 88 Hoops Mrs. Karen ....................... 136. 156. 194, 198 Hopp Mr. Cliff .................................. 197. 198 Howerton Rod ..................................... 12. 38. 108 Hruska Lauri .............................................38 Hudson Lynne ......................... 23. 81. 100. 182. 190 Hull Marilea ................................. 38. 55. 118 Terr. ..............................51. 101. 103. 144 Hulsebus Dave ..............................................51 Kim .............................................. 38 Ron ...............................................24 Hurlch Debbie .......................................... 51 Mike 38. 39 Husak Terri ......................................... 38 I J Jackson Kenneth 38 Larry 24 Scott 38 48. 121. 128, 149. 193 Mr William .. 189. 198 Jacobs Kaln Ms Connie 113. 198 Jacobs Henry 24 Jaeggi Lori 38. 83. 123 Janitors 200-201 Janssen Teresa .... 24. 123 Jareckl Mike 38 Jasper Cindy 24 Jeffers Mr. Roy 188. 198 Jeffrey John 38 Rick 52. 149 Jenklnson James 38. 177 Jenny Lisa 38. 100. 103 Jensen Mitch 15. 24. 90. 158. 174. 183 Jerke Susan 24 Jobs 64-65 Johnson Mr Barry ... 136. 156 Becky . 52 Mrs Cathy 197 Colleen 25. 90. 184 JOM 52. 135 Jodi 38. 83. 121 Julie 38 Ruby 201 Susie 38. 144 145. 163 Johnston Dave 38. 149 Mary Pat 52. 174 Jones Greg Joseph 2 Jon 52. 139 155. 179 Juniors 35 46 Justice Susan 40. 123. 127 I bach Gary .............................................. 38 Industrial Arts .................................... 177 Ingold Jolame ..................................... .... 51 Juke ........................................ 24. 163 Ingram Mark ........................................... . 24 Inslnger David 51 In The Park 110 Intramurals .................................... 158-159 Irby Sarah ...................... 24. 40. 89. 111. 123. 125 Isham Rod .............................................. 177 Isley Jir- ...............................................38 Iwansky Mr Roger ......................................... 135 Sue ................................................38 Kamm Debbie ..... Kampschnelder Deb ........ Kantor Jo ......... Michelle ... Kappenman Dale ....... Denise ..... Kapperman Steve ...... Karges Michele ... Keefauver David ...... Keener Glenn ...... Twila ...... ...............52 52. 100. 173 ... 52. 144. 161 ...............40 ...............52 25. 65. 79. 123 ....... 40. 149 ........25. 123 ...52. 113. 179 ..............25 ...............52 Keeshan Karla ..... Kim ....... Kelsey Irene ..... Kemp Pa mm ..., Tammy ... Key (The) Kiel Ian Dave ...... Klnzer Kent ...... Kjonegaard Tim ....... Klein Theresa .. Kluever Beth ...... Klutman Mr. Steve Kobus Geralyn ... Lori ...... Koch Jon ....... Mark ...... Kolbush Larry ..... Koppel Karen .... Korgle Pat ....... Korte Kelley ..... Kevin _____ Korus Lori ...... Mary Jo ... Korver Mr. Bob ... Kosch Kathy ..... Koudelka Mr. Jim Krelfels Jerry ...... Kreis Diane ...... Kreitman Ron ........ K repel Ron ........ Terry ...... Krings Cheryl ..... Jeff ....... Steve ...... Kucera Carleen .., Clint ...... Kudron Roger ..... Kunes Mary ....... Kuta Terry ...... Kwapnloskl Julie ..... Ken ....... Kyster Mrs. Marilea 52. 144. 152. 161 40. 43. 144 ..............201 25. 114. 118. 176 ................25 ............. 181 ................25 ...........52. 135 ..... 40. 130. 165 ..... 12. 52. 101 .......... 40. 121 .............. 152 .............52. 174 .40 ................. 25 40 .... 40. 155. 193 6. 25. 144. 145. 163 ................ 40 ..................52. 58 52. 58. 142. 143. 155 15. 52 3. 25 118. 198 .... 52. 97 ........... 199 40. 97. 99. 130 41 .............52 . 25 156 25. 78. 79. 91. 116. 117. 123 40 ....................... 52. 155 52 25 52 . 52.97.113.122.179 41 41.95 ...... 6. 25. 57. 80 95 201 L Labens Greg ... Linda .. LaDoux Brenda Lambrecht Christie 52. 135. 155 ........... 25 41 .... 41. 173 lndex 205 Landwehr Lori 41. 173 Walt 41. 96 Langan 52 Mike Lange Dave 52. 96. 116. 142. 142. 155 Fran Lannan 25. 97 Maureen .... 5.41.83.122.141.152.174.183 Larrlngton Dan 41 Judy 26 Larsen Traci Larson 41. 122. 124. 127 Lori 26. 164 Lesley Ann Lassek 41. 96. 107 Jackie Judy Latham 41. 126. 127. 144 163 Carol Laudenklos 41. 95. 96. 99. 121. 140. 141.152. 180 Jim Laundervllle 52. 96. 169 Duane .... Laux Lix Lee 163 Joame Julie Laurie Lehr 26. 58 26. 58 41. 103. 185. 195 Mary Ann Lemke 94. 201 Luke Lesiak 26. 40. 44. 78. 134. 154. 170 Debbie 26 97 108 110 Lori 15. 53 Rick 41 Let's Do It Again Levos 102 Melinda Lewis 53. 179 Mick 90. 130 L'Huilller Carla Llebschwager 26. 40. 111 Julie 24. 26. 90 Tim . . 109 Life At The Top Lincoln 196 Mari 53. 113 Liss Dale 53 Little Ben Lockard 53 Becky 53 Marcia Loeffler 26 Mark 4. 26. 96. 100. 107. 109 Long Connie 53. 115 Deb 41. 152 Lisa Longnecker 26. 95 Jeanette 41 Julie 53 Nancy Long Walt (The) Lopez 26 154 Joel Loseke 53. 183. 195 Brad 53. 156. 195 Michelle 26. 81. 97. 107. 110. 118 123. 128. 129 Todd 53.113 Louis Rita Lower . 53. 92. 144. 161 Debbie 41. 97. 103 Mitzie 41. 97. 101. 103 Lowry Jeff ...... Luddfln Rick ...... Ludwig Joel ...... Luebbe Mr Dick .. Lund Ms. Chris Luther Mr. Clayton Luthottz Dale ........ ........... 53. 156 ..................41 ........... 53. 135 135. 155. 165. 198 ........... 184. 198 .... 115. 197. 198 41 mad About Music ...... Magic Magnuson David .............. Make-up .......... Make Way For Tomorrow Making A Living ...... Makovlcka Scott .............. Mancuso Mike ............... Steve .............. Mann Alan ............... March Or Die ......... Marik Mr. Larry .......!.. Marketing ............ Marsh Sue .... Martensen Todd .. ..................... 98 .................. 201 ................41. 130 .................... 16 ..................... 89 ............. 189 ..................... 64 41. 134 26. 62. 78. 90. 134. 158 .. 26. 91. 118. 130. 134 ..................... 97 ...... 96. 99. 197. 19 .................... 176 ........ 2. 27. 83. 126 ...... 53. 138. 139. 155 Rob ____ Sandi .. Massman Mr. Dave Math .... McAndrew Julie ... McDonald Janet McDowell Meshetl McLeod Vanessa McNair Jamie .. Mead Becky . Medlar Matt ... Mitch .. Melster Paula .. Mlcek Bev ____ Cathy .. Denise Diane Mlchener Terry ...... Mllburn Dan ........ Miller Carrie ..... Connie ..... Gina (Cutsor) Jill ....... Stephen Miles Kathi ...... Mlmlck Sharon ------ . 41. 96. 99. 117 ............... 53 ...............198 .............. 186 ...............41 ...............95 44. 53. 96. 136 .............. 53 41. 149. 161. 181 ............... 53 ...............27 .. 27. 51 ...............27 ...............27 ..... 41. 63. 161 41. 118. 122. 127 .........27. 123 ...............27 ....41. 142. 158 ......... 27. 58 ............27. 58 ...............27 ........53. 183 ...........27. 83 ....41. 100. 194 ...............53 Mitchell Ken . Mohr Tim . Moore Jan Janet Jeff . Kevin Lyn . Morris Matt Morse Joyce Morton Gayle Moseley Aimeo Roxanne Mostek Luke ... Mark .. Mueller Lori ____ Mr Mark Mrs. Shary Sherry ... Sonya ... Tracy ____ Munson Tom ....... Murray Bob . Music Musll Dan .. Harlan ............................. 27 ..................................... ................................54. 96 .................. 144. 145. 152 .................• 28.58 •. .V.V.V. V.'.V'' ‘ 41 • 58- 83 � � 8. 134 ---- 28. 144. U5. 152. ill ......................... 54. 135. 163 .......................... 28. 96. 123 .................................... 41 ................................... 54 41 .................................... 54 .......................... 28. 83. 159 ................................... 54 ........... 37- 78. 155. 184. 193. 198 ................................ 198 54. 76. 102. 103. 113. 144’ 152 16? .................................. 54 81. 134. 159. 165 ......................... 41. 184 201 ............................ 182 .................................... ................................... 54 Nadlng Kathy Nagortki Mike . Naylor Jett Neemeyer June ... Mr. Lanny Nelson Janet Kim ....... Lisa ...... Sandi ..... Nettland Laura ..... Never Say Die Newspaper .. Nicknames .. Nledbalskl Sally ..... Tom ....... Nielsen Leslie .... Nlenkamp Deb ....... Nltsch Mr. Bernard Nltz Ms. Diane Helen ... Loretta Noll Tracy .. Nosal Julie — ...........................,... 190 ..................................54 .................................41 ................................201 .......... 37. 78. 149. 186, 193. 198 .................................41 ............................. 28 ................. 5. 28. 79. 83. 123 ........................... 28. 189 ............................. 28. 96 ................................ 134 ........................... 120-121 14-15 ..............................42 ................................28 28. 78. 118. 122. 126. 128. 129. 163 ................................. 54 .................................198 .............. 198 ................................201 ................ ...............201 54. 127. 169 .........28 206 Closing Notorious 179 Novotny Donna 42. 95 Nurse 200-201 Nyberg Mr Kevin 108. 130. 198 Nyffeler Bryan 54. 100. 149. 179 Jann 40. 54. 96. 105. 106 113. 127 Jim 3. 28. 86. 92. 96. 100, 103. 149 Warren 42 96 98. 99 .. 42. 155. 197 o (Mm Meredith ........... Obrlst Sue ................ Odd Job (The O'Kane Connie ............. Oleson Irene .............. Olsan Randy .............. Olson Lyn ............... Mark ............... Olsufka Kathy .............. Paul ............... Once In A Lifetime Once More With Feeling 117 One Week ............. On The Water Front Opening Orchestra Osterhoudt Mary ............... Teri ............... on Dean ................ Tim ................ Wes ..... Owens Ms Judy ............ Kevin .............. 28. 121. 123. 128 ..... 54. 169. 179 ................95 ...... 12. 28. 123 .............201 ................64 ................54 ..............28 ......29. 81. 118 ................54 ............. 170 ............. 182 ........... 76-77 ............ 180 .............. 156 .............2-6 ......... 104-105 42 51. 54. 101. 124 ......48. 96 .......... 183 5. 29. 94. 117 .... 186. 198 ...........29 Person Bobbee ............. Kelly .............. Mary ............... Matt Peterson Curt Kirstin ............ Phillips Julie .............. Natascha Photography Piece Of The Action (A) Pieters Dan ................ Pliant Kristy ............. Planklnton Richard ............ Plugge Greg ............... Julie ............... Podrare Gary ............... Jerry Pollard Dan ................ Poison Gerry .............. Pope John Paul II ....... Potter Tami ............... Powley Ann ................ Nancy Presley Blame .............. Colette ............ Professionals (The) Prokupek Pat ................. Prom .................. Prososk! Charlene ............ Ray ................. Prunty Janet ................ .... 29. 160. 161 55. 83. 149 55. 161. 169 ..... 29. 96. 130 42. 134. 164. 174 55. 105. 113, 182 .........55 42 ---- 70 ........ 142 .........42 29. 123. 126 .........55 29. 45. 88. 115. 123 55. 83. 134. 135. 149 55. 126. 149. 174. 195 .....................42 .... 55. 105. 144. 161 .....................75 .............. 55. 168 ...... 55. 96. 107. 144 .................29. 88 29. 158. 159, 175. 178 55 177 ....................42 86-87 .............. 29. 173 ....... 95 .......... 55. 97. 103 let One (The) III A Scroll .... 160 128-129 Red row Mr William ...................................... 197 Reed Roger .............................................55 Relmers Gary .................................. 55. 102. 103 Sue .................................... 42. 86. 97 Reiser i Lynda ........................................... 42 Rhea Bryan 29. 46. 149 Dan .............................................. 55 Rice Doug ................ 42. 83. 101. 134. 135. 149. 191 Rich Jan ............................. 24. 30. 78. 79. 123 Richards Becky .............................................55 Mr Wally .................................... 198 Richardson Bryan .....................................4. 42. 64 Rlst Mr. John ........................................ � 98 Robek Kurt .........................................30. 89 Pattie 16. 42. 63. 163 Paula 42 Tim .................................i.............42 Robinson Kay ........ .............. 42. 92. 93. 122. 125. 144 Ken ................. 4. 30. 116. 134. 144, 149. 151 Todd ............................... .55. 138. 139 Roddy Cindy.........................................30. 88 Joan ............................................. 55 Roelle Wanda ............................................30 Ronglsh Inez .............................................201 Rood Mr. Jed ..................................... 159. 198 Roselas Scott ............................................ 156 Rosendahl Dan ................................................30 Louise ....................................... 201 Rosenthal .Lois ....................................... 30. Ill Rossow Kf y 55 Roth Mr Jerry 197 Royer Scott ...........................................55 Ruby Red 80 Rullo Tammie ................. 30. 107. 118. 128. 129. 191 Ruschy Robyn ......................... 42. 88. 97. 102. 103 Ryan Tom .................... 55. 113. 146. 147. 164. 174 Ryba David 30 Steve ........................................... 42 °agel Tracy ............ Palen Jackie ........... John ............. P across David ............ Paprockl Mel .............. Parten William .......... Patchen Kathy ............ P.E................. Penfleld Lisa ............. Shan ............. Peppier Mrs. Maxine . Perfect Couple (The) Perfect Day (A) .... 54. 96. 99. 149 55. 101. 169 .............42 .............54 .............29 .........29. 65 _____________55 185 42 96. 109. 118. 128 ............. 55. 95 ...........200 ........... 174 ............164 Rains Tim Ralph The Dog ----- Rambour Mike ....... Ramsier Debbie ...... Sheila ...... Stacey ...... Rathe Mr. Larry ... Rathkamp Paul Reach For Glory Recek Gail ......... 55. 77 ... 116 ... 42. 83. 134. 149. 150. 165 ............................ 29 ..................... 42. 174 .............................. 29 ................ 141. 154. 198 29. 64. 88. 101. 103. 139. 165 .............................. 145 42 Saalfeld Chris ..... Sackett Tom ....... Nancy _____ Sadat Anwar _____ Safe At Home Salty .. Sanders Rod Sawtell Marv ...................30 ..............42. 149 ................. 163 ...................75 ............... 106 ................. 187 55. 97. 149, 181. 191 ........ 30. 146. 164 lndex 207 .................55 ................................. 42 ...................55 ....................42. 164 ...........................42 42 42. 80. 138 139. 149 30 62. 80. 81. 89. 101. 139. 195. 201 42. Schacher Steve ..... Tim ....... Schacht Nancy ----- Schaefer Tim ....... Schafer Lisa ...... Sc heftier Ron ....... Scheldegger Craig Mike ...... Schlobohm Ms Ruth . Schmitt Brenda ..• Schneider Billie Jo ............ Mary ............ Scholl Chris ................ Connie .............. School's Out ......... Schrad Sue ................... Wayne ......... Schreiber Dale .................. Mr Ken ................ Schroeder Mary .................. Susan ................. Schulenberg Mrs Jan ........ Schultz Bill .................. Ed..................... Schutt Lori ...... Schwartz Kent .................. Schwartzer Julie ................. Linda ................. Science ................. Scovel Diann .................. Scream And Scream Again Second Time Around (The) Seda Connie ................ Kathy ................. Sedlacek Randy ................ Tammy ................. Sellg Sarah ................ Seniors Sergent Phil ........ Settje Cindy ................. Lisa .................. Tammy ................. Settlemyer Tom ................... Shannon Janet ............ Sharp Dan .......... Shefcyk Barb ............. Janet Shemek Dan ............. Pat Shepherd Bob ......... SledUk Mike ......... Steve Sims Mark ... .................4. 78. 198 83. 121. 144. 145. 152. 161 ..........................55 ........................ 31 ......... 43. 101. 159 .................. 55 ..........................72 ..........................55 ......................... 43 ....... 31 198. 200 .......43 ....43 ______200 31. 58. 96 31. 58. 96 31. 111. 121. 128 31. 85. 90. 111. 149. 191 ...... 43. 78. 96 ........................ 31 ....................... 187 55. 85 ....................... 122 ....................... 168 ....................55. 183 ........................ 31 .........................43 .........................31 ....................... 162 ........... 17-34 ........... 51. 55. 135. 155 ........ 43. 118 ........................ 43 .........................31 149 45 3. 31. 127. 176 .............45 ............55 .......... 190 ............. ..... 135. 149 ...... 31. 134 .... 55. 135 ............45 Sinclair Bruce ..... Pam ....... Sleddens Chris ..... Silva Debbie .... Marg ...... Robert ____ Tom ....... Slizoskl Lori ...... Sloth Heidi ..... Smets Jacque ____ Jana ...... Kim ....... Marg ...... Smile, Please Smith Gwyn ...... Joan ...... Tim ....... Tom ....... Snowball Social Studies Sohl Jeff ........ ..............55. 190 45 .... 55. 88 102. 103 ............. 55. 181 45 ............. 31. 184 ...... 45 ...................55 56. 83. 121. 136. 163 ...................45 ..................... 56 ... 31. 83. 115. 176 ................201 ....................... 70 .... 45 ... 31 ... 56 ... 56 80-81 188 12. 149 Sophomores Souders Scott ......... Sound Of Music Special Education Speech Journalism Spelcher Debbie ........ Jul.e ......... Ken ........... Mary .......... Sports Scoreboard Spreeman Greg............ Spulak Randy ......... Square Dancing Stachura Ron ... Stahl Debt .. Starosclk Denise Diane Kevin Starzec Al . Stauber Mrs. Edna Stacey ... Stelnbrook Mr Gordon Steiner Dan .... Joan ____ Stepanek Mike ... Stephenson Brenda Kern .... Sterup David Mr. James Mary Stoakes Jennette Stockman Mark .. Stone Jaye .., Stotts Rebecca Stracke Jane ... Ken ___ Susan . ..............47-57 .................31 ............... 100 ............... 184 ............... 179 .................45 ........... 45. 195 .................32 .............. 56 ........... 132-133 56. 96 99. 102. 103 . 32. 94. 121. 128. 129. 134. 135 ......................... 168-169 ..................... 32. 90. 146 ...............................56 51. 56. 58. 127. 136. 137 ...... 51. 56. 58. 136. 137. 161 ................... 56. 127. 135 ................ 32. 78. 79. 134 ............... 200 ....... 37. 56. 88. 96. 103, 191 ..............................198 .........................45 ................... 45. 95 ..............................56 .............................. 94 .................... 56. 94. 113 ...............................32 ....................... 197. 198 ............... 15. 56. 144. 161 ..............................56 ............... 45. 83. 134. 149 ......... 45. 120. 121. 128. 144 ................... 56. 104. 182 ...................... 3. 45. 96 ......................... 56. 155 ...... 32 65. 96 Streblow Sharon 45 Strehle Lynn .................... 43. 45. 126. 127, 144. 152 Struck Jan ..................... 32. 81. 116. 142. 143. 154 Strueblng Tom ........ 45. 63. 96. 120. 121. 129. 134. 135. 165 Student Council ............................ 126-127 Suchan Sandy .............................................45 Summer 7?-73 Svoboda Linda ............................ 45. 160. 161. 166 Swanson Diane .............................................45 Donna ............................................ 56 Swartz Mr David 197 Debbie ................................ 56. 144 185 Scott ........................... 45. 134. 154. 155 Sweetheart 82-83 Swimmer (The) .................................. 137 Swimming (Boys) 156-157 Swimming (Girls) ........................... 136-137 Sypherd Ms Sandy ....................................... 198 Szudlo Gerald 32. 39 T Tagwerker Joan ............. Nancy ........... Tate Rick ............ Tennis (Boys) Tennis (Girls) ..... Terry Mike ............. Thalken Brian ........... Curtis .......... Thank God It's Friday Theater II Show Their First Mistake Thelen Lisa ............ Thespians Thomas Mark ............ Thoms Carol ............ Mary Jane Stanley ......... Thomsen Pam ............. Thrills And Spills . Thrill Of It All (The) Title Page ......... Tooley Mr. John ......... Pat .............. Torson Denise .......... Touf ar Dorothy ........................................... 201 Trabert Mr Jon ....................... 114. 135. 152. 176. 198 Track (Boys) 164-165 Track (Girls) 160 161 Travers Mr Ed ................................... 52. 134. 149 Trofholz Lisa ...................................... 45. 64. 173 Tschantre Frances ......................................56. 115 Kandy .............................................. 45 .......... 32 .....45. 184 ...........32 138-139 162-163 ..... 12. 56 45. 149. 151 ....32. 149 ......... 10 ... 174 175 ..........8 ...........45 ....... 110 ....... 188 ...........56 ....... 201 ...........45 56. 140. 141 ....... 128 ....... 152 ..... 1 ........ 197 32. 154. 178 208 Closing Turn Barb ... Mike ____ Twins Two People Tworek Joame . ...45. 55 111. 171 ... 58 59 ..... 186 .. 45. 118 Uhlmann Cathy ................................ 4. 56. 96. 12. Cindy.................... 32. 96 121. 128 129. 191 Up The Down Staircase 109 Vanderloop Geri ..... Van Dyke Ken ....... Randy ... Sandy _____ Sharon ... Sue ...... Vanek Mike....... Veal Mr. Ron . VICA ........ Voices ..... Voichoskle Jennie ... Volleyball .. Volnek Dan ...... Mary _____ Vorderstrasse Larry .... Vrbka Greg ....... .................... 45 ............3. 45. 156 ........ 32. 156. 157 56. 127. 136. 156. 195 56. 102. 103. 124. 189 ............. 56. 174 ...... 32. 96. 99. 139 ............ 177. 198 ............. 116117 ................. 112 .................... 45 .............144 145 Trrrrr........45.116 ................... 56 ..............45. 101 .......... 32. 81. 134 Waas Mr. Greg Wagner John ... Mark Wals Debra .. Walgreen Craig ... Walker Jon ____ Larr Larry alllck Jeff ..... Tim ...... Wallin Ruth ____ Waltermeyer Tami _____ Walters Ann ...... Want Dan ....... 78. 149. 165. 198 ..............45 ..............56 ..............33 ..............156 33. 44. 154. 187 ..............45 ..............45 ..............56 ..............57 ............. 107 ..........33. 83 ..............57 Warnecke Denise Donna Todd .. Warrender Dan ____ Dave ... Wasco Lisa ___ Lori ___ Watson Angie Weber Mark . Scott .. Wehrer Lonn •g Weil .......................... 33. 97. 152 .............................. 46. 62. 161 ....................................... 57 ....................................46. 177 ........................................ 33 .................................... 46. 77 57 57. 92. 102. 103. 122. 126. 127. 136. 174 33. 85. 115. 134. 135. 176 .....................57. 165 Weightlifting 11. 33. 83. 149 .........62-63 Troy ........... Welland Tony ........... Wells Mrs. Marty ..... Wendland Gayle .......... Wessel Doug ........... West Ms. Cindy ...... Weverka David .......... Weyerman Suzzette ....... Toni ........... Where Students Go Whetstone Mike ........... Sue ............ White Denise ......... Diane .......... Todd ........... Wlbbels Mrs. Cathy ..... Mr Edsel ....... Wlckman Bev .... Wlehn Remi ........... Wielgus Mike ........... Wiese Art ............ Linda ........... Lisa ............ Wleser John ........... Terry ....... Wild. Wild West Wilhelms Bob ............. Terry ........... Wilke Carol ........... Jennifer ....... Williams Dana ............ Gail ............ Lynn ........... Scott .......... Suzie ........... Willman Linda ........... Sandy ........... Wllsey Mark ............ Wilson Becky ........... Chris .......... Gina ............ Winkle Alan ............ Bryan ........ Winter Play ...... ................57 ................46 .............. 198 ...........33. 96 57. 101. 102. 103 .... 104. 182. 198 ............... 46 ...........................33 .......................... 46 10-11 5. 43. 46. 126. 127. 155. 193 . 33. 103. 123, 124. 126. 127 ...............57 33. 121. 123. 128 ........... 116 88. 197. 198 39. 46. 98 163 . 46 . 33 46. 135 .... 57 ....33 ....57 ....46 ....78 .....149 149. 193 .....33 46. 121 46. 101. 130. 164 ................46 46. 63. 142 57. 83. 101. 142 .........57. 121 .....33 57. 195 .....57 .... 57. 127. 144. 161 33. 47. 154. 155. 164 ..................57. 169 .....51. 135 34. 142. 187 .... 106-107 Woerner Chris ... Wolf Steve ... Wolfe Jackie .. Wolter Sandy Woodward Lisa ..... World Scene Wragge Mr. Leon Wrestling Wright Donald .. Wunderlich Steve ... Wurdeman Lori .... Wurdlnger Deanna 46. 77. 155 ......... 46 .............34 .............34 34. 81. 123. 136 74-75 198 148-149 ............ 34 .............57 ........6. 111 46 Yates Patti ............. Yearbook ...... You Can Never Tell You'll Never Get Rich Young Cheryl ............ Cindy ............. Mr Jack ........... ........ 46 ..... 118-119 ......... 162 .. 64 .. 46. 83. 152 .......'.. 34 135. 165. 198 Zaruba Mark ...........................................57 Zaura Steve ............................ 40. 57. 155. 189 Zehrlng j Cliff ................................ 57. 135. 155 f Zimmerman Karen ................ 6. 34. 47. 123. 124. 171. 188 Kathy 46. 161 Wayne .......................................... 156 Zwfck Scott ............................. 34. 96. 98. 108 Zwlener Mary .................................. 34. 95. 190 Zywlec Pam ..............................................34 lndex 209 ome students don't know about all the hectic deadlines, frustrating days when things just aren’t working out and days when you want to tear up everything that’s written. However, the book finally made it out in the end. Mr. Korver, advisor, the yearbook staff and photographers put in quite a few extra hours to produce a top quality book. On Friday and Saturday nights, anyone could drive by school late and notice Korver’s car out front and lights on inside school, showing he was busy working. A big thank you goes out to him for all the time he spent helping us out. Deadlines for pages came so quickly that most of the staff was caught by surprise and without their pages done. When each page was turned in late, it meant that the book would come out later, so the staff worked hard to make the deadlines. One major change in the staff this year was the size. The ’78-79 book had a staff of 25 and this annual had a whopping 9. This meant considerably more work on everyone’s part. Kay Davision did a fine job with writing stories for her pages and Keith Grotelus-chen with the sports section. Michelle Loseke, our business manager, worked with the money and the handling of book sales. Nevertheless, there were times when we seriously considered leaving for the Bahamas and spending the money. Anderson, Frieze and Senior Studios were a big help with getting senior pictures in color. Permission from Pari-mount Pictures to use their movie titles was granted to us by Mr. C. A. Caliguiri. Thanks also goes out to our Josten Yearbook representative Mr. Bill Jandric. Everyone who purchased ar annual is thanked, since without you there would have been no yearbook. Congratulations to the classes o 79, ’80 and ’81 for a spectacular year (fi oJtuL WbuJUjbn 210 Closing Autographs Autographs 211 Autographs 212 Closing