Elkhart High School - Pennant Yearbook (Elkhart, IN)

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COVER of the trench coats, Blazer cheerleaders en- couraged Blazermania inbetween quarters of the Central Memorial basketball game. VV ILD PANDEMONIUM cut loose at the Central Memorial game as the crowd encouraged the Big Blue to mangle Memorial. Blazermania 15

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NE MORE FREE THROW is encouraged by an ec- centrically dressed fan. idi Hidi Hidi Ho, Wiggly Woggly Wiggly Wo, Raise your hands up to the sky, Big Blue basketball bouncing by. Sound off 1-2, Sound off 3-4, Sound off ... ‘Go bananas, Go, Go, bananas...” ‘‘This is Blazer Country What are these mixed up cheers all about? Student hysteria is goin’ ’round—yelling, screaming, and laughing all the way through Blazer mania because a basketball game is no place to go and sit. There’s just too much action. Blazer fans have been launched into stardom. The stands spark with energy at every game to encourage e the team to victory. A common effort of fans, x. “ 1 cheerleaders, and lifters lifted the spirit count among Central students to a new high. The element that created this sudden stir was unknown, but it showed Blazers were behind the team 100%. A PATENTED MOVE on a A DDING A NEW DIMEN- S COUTING FOR SUSPICIOUS Memorial defender by Mike SION to the starting line- spirit signs, varsity Obbs gets the attention of the up are the lifters. Tom Braden — cheerleader Kim Nunemaker Memorial bench. lifts Robin Ravenscroft. checks things out. 14 Blazermania

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Twist Unwind through the entrance as quickly as possible, in- conspicuously showing their |.D.’s to the chaperones. As you walk through the doors of the old gym, you are greeted upfront with a scene of Hawaiian attire, sunglasses, ‘Risky Business” style, and leis of every color. Moving onto the dance floor you hear ‘‘Money For Nothing’ by Dire Straits beating out of the speakers. After a few wild dances of twisting, turning, and shaking everything out of your body, a slow song eae to play. rying out from the speakers is Klymaxx singing, ‘‘| Miss You.” You debate with yourself whether to wander around the dance floor for a few minutes, hop- ing for ‘‘him” to ask you to dance, or go off with your friends for a Coke. Over all of the loud music, you could only hear him say, ‘‘...you...dance?” Apparently you said yes, you would like to dance, because for the next three songs you slowly swayed to the music with him. By the last slow song, ‘‘Separate Lives,’’ your conversation was flowing easily, and you were in seventh heaven. At the end of the song he asked you if he could call you, and you said sure. The music gained its usual loudness as “Smokin’ In The Boy’s Room”’ started blaring. You said your ‘‘byes’’ and went back to your in- dividual group of friends. Jumping, shouting, and swaying to the beat of ‘‘The Conga” got the dance rolling again. With ten minutes left before you had to leave your ‘‘Wild Paradise” behind, the lights start flashing as the entire gym starts chanting along with the song, ‘‘Mony, Mony.” Laughing with your friends on the way home, you looked back on the dance and smiled. ‘‘It was a blast,” you thought. magine if you will ... a mass of students pouring C ELEBRATING THE VICTORY over Adams is Laura and her friends jamming at the Homecoming dance. 16 Dances W AITING FOR THE NEXT slow dance are Chris Rop and Darla Demorrow, who are discussing the success of the Winter Whisper sponsored by NHS. A LUMNI WELCOME BACK in Stu- dent Center also attracted a high school crowd to dance to the music of the '50s and ’60s. G ETTING CLOSE for a slow dance with Steve Brown gave Jenny Cortas a chance to lead which is a tradition at the Sadie Hawkins. HAPPY COUPLES, dressed in their country bumpkin finest, slow-dance the night away in the North Side cafeteria.