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Off The Wall 1981 Voyage Columbus Senior High School 2200 26th Street Columbus, Nebraska 68601 Contents Opening 2 STUDENT LIFE 6 Slang Summer Election Night Life Jobs Individual Fitness World Events Just Bein' Crazy Food Fashion Games Cars ACTIVITIES Homecoming Snowball Spring Royalty Prom Art Shows Creative Writing and Art Honors Night Graduation Band Jazz Band Choirs Swing Choirs Fall Musical Winter Play Thespians AFS DECA VICA Yearbook Photography Newspaper Pep Club Student Council C-Club Junior Achievement SPORTS 88 Fall Winter Spring ACADEMICS ... 128 Features Departments PEOPLE ... 152 Administration Faculty Staff Seniors ... 161 Juniors ... 177 Sophomores ... 187 Closing ... 196 Index ... 199 Acknowledgments ... 208 Contents 1
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Off The Wall. That's an unusual theme for a yearbook. Really different. Almost ... off the wall. Life at CHS seemed anything but perfectly normal on most days. It seemed that things that were crazy, exciting, or just plain weird happened at regular intervals. If it wasn't Blues Brothers day or a toga dance, it was seniors sleeping on the floor in the Commons or Arabs in the halls. That's what made the year and all of high school fun — the endless variety of things that were new or just different, ridiculous or rowdy, obvious or subtle, and limited only by the imaginations of students and their friends. School began in a seemingly normal manner, but soon the unusual reared its smiling head and things really got started. First was the Cong Show pep rally. This presentation featured groups such as the Boy Cheerleaders and the rock group The Chipmunks. The finale was a routine by the one and only Blues Brothers which brought down the house. The pep rally ended with the traditional chanting of graduation years and other numbers. Things kept rolling from then on. Fashions and fads were different this year, with bright colors and, in general, the unusual being the sought- after look. Doctor shirts were popular, especially among the members of one intramural basketball team. The all- purpose phrase, unique to CHS, was Keyed! To be keyed meant to be enthusiastic about something. Popular activities for CHS students included backgammon, electronic games (Pac Man, Asteroids, etc.), Frisbee, and, of course, partying. The type of music generally favored was rock with some tendency toward country western (of all things), with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kenny Rogers gaining fans. Far-out new wave music was heard but wasn't the rage at CHS. New wave groups (Devo, the B-52s, the Plasmatics, etc.) were heard on TV and the radio and were talked about but not widely listened to. The radio station of choice was Z-92, which played album rock and featured such diversions as Space Commander Wack. TOP: Students mob the concession stand to collect their long-awaited 1980 annuals. This is the view from inside the concession stand. ABOVE LEFT: Tom Goc and Mark Wagner (background) seem amused by the Arab in the hall (Dave Grachek) on AFS International Day. ABOVE RIGHT: This poster is really off the wall — the hall bulletin board wall, to be exact. 2 Opening
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