Hammond High School - Dunes Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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Penny Bridgmon, Beth Crosslin, and Veda Cunn- Preparing a little too late for the camera, ingham give a Three Musketeer handshake to be Alex Michnik is in the process of combing friends forever. his hair. Respectfully listening to Ms. Ennis ' speech. Seniors of 1983 wait patiently for their diplomas. Following tradition, Senior Class President Paul Craska presents lunior Class President Angela Cunningham with the Temulac. 12 Student Life Graduation

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Laura Reynolds lifts her dress nervously as Jim Kitchell removes her garter after completing the Grand March. Royalty (Homecoming Queen Susie Vukovich and King Mark Nondorf) consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues. - Agesilaus II Waiting for dinner to be served, Terry Adair and Rosi Ezell wonder whose idea it was to make prom night on Friday the 13th. Elizabeth Ennis shows her appreciation for the dozen red roses she is receiving from the Class of 1983 by giving Phil Stanish a big KISS. Student Life Prom 1 1

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COMMENCEMENT A New Beginning Today, )une 5, 1983, the gym- nasium is not filled with a Wildcat basketball game, a sock hop, pep ral- ly, nor a P.E. class. No, those events will only be memories to the celebrated participants of the day ' s ceremony. The basketball backboards have been moved out of the way, and a portable stage rolled in. Confetti squares left over from Homecoming, that were hidden in a hard to reach spot, have been swept up and metal folding chairs have been set in neat rows. Sweaty P.E. students have ex- ited for home and proud relatives, administrative heads, the band, and soon to be H.H.S. Alumni have entered. It is now 2:00 p.m. and time for an event that 235 students have worked and planned twelve hard years to attend - The H.H.S. Ninety-Seventh Annual Commence- ment Exercises. The program officially opens after the Class of 1983 makes its grand en- trance to the tune of Pomp and Cir- cumstance. Faculty members. School Board members. Valedic- torian Desi Earl, Salutatorian Dan Ventimiglia and Senior Class Presi- dent Paul Graska give speeches while several Seniors, dressed in purple or white mortar boards and robes, un- conciously recount the past month, the climax of their high school careers . . . There was Senior Ditch Day. Neither teachers nor parents com- plained when Seniors didn ' t attend classes that day. That certainly was odd! The legal hooky players used the day to fulfill yearnings that they had all year — to sleep all day, to ride The Edge at Great America, to paint Chicago red, etc. Then on May 18th, deserving twelfth graders received recognition for academic, athletic, and social suc- cess at Honors Day. The Class of 1983 shared its spotlight with Doc Feuerbach during the all-school pro- gram. This assembly, in which the Class of 1983 presented an electric adding machine to Doc, was the last time the entire school body and Dr. Feuerbach would be together before Doc ' s retirement. Seniors honored each other at the Senior Banquet. Awards such as: best legs, prettiest smile, class clown, etc. were given to a female and male whom other Seniors believed had the most outstanding qualities for the award. Suddenly, all wandering minds return to the gymnasium as the Seniors stand and march up to the stage to receive the piece of paper that abruptly starts the alienation of the new graduates from the student body. After the ceremony, the graduates cry together because they realize that commencement means beginning - a beginning of a new way of life, a life that won ' t constant- ly be shared as in high school. Tyra Norris. Paul Warner, Ricky Smith, Connie Baxter, and lames Addison march into one of the biggest moments of their lives. Student Life Graduation 13