Minnechaug Regional High School - Falcon Yearbook (Wilbraham, MA)

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Volunteer work can be fun. Entrance to the Senior Kick-Off Dance. Kirsten Vinson works hard washing cars at the Key CLub Car Wash. VOLUNTEERS 3

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How many golds did Carl Lewis win in both the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics? Working hard the day before school started, senior class president Tom Mango helps clean the courtyard for the Senior Kick-off Dance. Helping the yearbook, Bethany Sager and Kara Ruscio bring in film to have it developed. At the Teddy Bear Picnic this fall, Chrissy Froehlich works for Key Club at the face-painting booth. 4, I told you to ask me a question I could answer. — Kirsten Root Lending a Hand £ 12. You mean all medals, right? — Tom Mango Answer: 6 gold med als 3 VOLL NTEERS Tia Rovithis gives up a Saturday morning to work at the Wilbraham Children ' s Museum ' s Teddy Bear Pic- nic. Here she helps the children make bear hats for themselves out of paper bags. Whether we know it or not, we all volunteer our time to helping out. It could be a friend in need, a class project, or be- coming involved in school clubs and the community. During school, many students fill up their studies by helping out a favorite teacher for that block. These students can be found in the AV Office running off tests and dittos, or correcting papers that the teacher did not have time to do themselves. Being an aide has its advantages, because you are not tied down to being in a class for an entire period, you can be up and around the school running er- rands. On weekends, stu- dents volunteer their time to helping out around the house, baby- sitting for the neighbors, or giving up their spare time to help out a club. The Key Club at Minne- chaug is a good example of a volunteer club. Its members are always helping out the commu- nity. Laughing Brook is also another place where you can find students lending a hand. Most important- ly, lending a hand means being there when you are in need. The students at Minnechaug are always around to help a friend who needs someone to be there for them. We can always count on our friends to make the best out of a bad situation. No matter where you go in Wilbraham or Hampden, you will al- ways be able to find a Fal- con giving up some their free time to lend a hand.

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What do you think caused the exceptionally warm summer in ' 88 and the mild, almost snow- less winter of ' 89? Jf he disappea L 0r ozone i Hr N ' layer. K:. ■. J1 - Tar ring a Daly What do I think caused it? I ' ve no clue. I don ' t know. — Jen Riek n H I Greenhouse ! Effect — Terry Tousignant fl The sun — Rob Estrada Answer: The Greenhouse Effect $ AFTERSCHOOL Spare Time Before basketball practice, Steve Fiedler and Kevin Trombly stop in at the Village Store to pick up some food for after practice. Tom Mango relaxes in the library before practice by reading a news- paper so that he can study for his history current events test the fol- lowing day. 1:51! The bell has just rung. Now what do we do? The answer is easy. Homework is definitely out of the question. Mow are we going to spend our Tree, unscheduled time from now until tomorrow at 7:30 A.M. when the first bell rings? Well, some of us aren ' t lucky enough to have uns- cheduled time. Over one hundred of Chaug ' s stu- dents participate in sports, and practices take up most of their afternoon. Then there are all of the students that belong to a club. COPE, Key Club, and Art Club all meet at sched- uled times, so if we belong to any of these clubs, we have to work our schedule around them. There are so many different activities to get involved in to keep you busy. But if you are one of those students who has no interest in that stuff, then what do you do? Some kids have jobs in order to earn money so that they can go out on the weekends. Oth- ers just go home, kick their shoes off, and relax in front of the television with the snack of their choice. The phone lines seem to light up at 2:15 when most students are home or at a friend ' s house. Then there are those students who are either too overworked by the day at school or com- pletely bored, that they go home to get some sleep. Whatever these Minne- chaug students are doing, is definitely not thinking about things that are school-related (well, at least not until after dinner).