Slatington High School - Reflections Yearbook (Slatington, PA)

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DISCO DECLINES These people from Homeroom 20, who obviously get into music, will watch as music makes the transition from the 70's to the 80's. Disco and Heavy Metal sounds are fading, while interest in the musical trends of the early 60's seems to have revived. These soph- omores from Homeroom 20 include Jeff Bailey, Paul Bretz, Kevin Byler, Dawn iefenderfer, Dean Dieter, Angela Fritzinger, Charles Hahn, Eugene Jones, Pat Kern, Kevin Krum, Mike Krupa, Richard Kuehner, Scott Kuntz, Brenda Nierer, Alan Rex, Glenn Sauerwine, Jeff Schmick, Brian Schweitzer, Anita Verba, Janice Wieand, Denise Allesch, Deb Arndt, Sherry Arndt, Danean Auman, Robin Balliet, Kelly Baum, Scott Bechtel, Keen Beltz, Sheryl Bennyhoff, Donna Berger, John Bolton, and Rich Bosco. 20

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 Ihe student who devised the experiment, Jeffrey Stoneman, felt that students have a natural instinct to bump into each other, no mat- ter how much space they are given in which to move about. So, a random sample of students were selected to participate in a test of the Stoneman hypo- thesis. They were given an area the size of a football field and no instructions. After 46 seconds had elapsed, the students began to madly crash into each other. The experiment was repeated un- til 3 of the students re- quired medical attention. On 106 test runs, the stu- dents exhibited a 96 percent collision factor. Even more startlingly, the students seemed to need a collision about every 19 seconds. These figures surprised the world of social psycho- logists, many of whom are now conducting their own tests of the Stoneman hypo- thesis. Stoneman, meanwhile, has received a federal re- search grant to investi- gate the bumping habits of social psychologists. The participants in the land- mark Slatington test were honored at a special dinner at the Allentown Hospital. They were: Mary Ann Oswald, Mike Parry, Susan Peters, Eric Ralston, Lisa Reitz, Randy Reitz, Dean Remaley, Deanne Remaley, Jay Reppert, Christine Rex, Kenneth Rex, Mike Rex, Donna Roth, Scott Rowlands, Carl Rucker, Joyce Schaeffer, Greg Schall- er, Darryl Schellhamer, Terry Schew, Charles Sch- moyer, James Schrayer, Mike Schuck, Angela Scott, and Rhonda Serfass.

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a new wave? According to Rolling Stone magazine, disco record sales have declined during the past few months. This surprising- ly quick bust of the disco boom may have been caused by the emergence of such New Wave bands as the B-52's, Ton Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Ramones, The Clash, and M. Also, many discos are phasing out their disco tunes and re- placing them with New Wave music that is just as dance- able as disco. Many disco radio stations have also be- gun abandoning their disco format in favor of Top 0 or harder Rock. This pat- tern has been repeated on radio stations in such di- verse locations as New York, Detroit, Miami, Indi- anapolis, and New Orleans. Hr 25 Although Mr. Svoronos and Mrs. Leslie teach a disco club at SHS on Fridays, their efforts have not im- proved the dancing tech- nique of Homeroom 25. When these people were asked to disco for their homeroom picture, they either wouldn't, or could not, or threatened to kill the photographer. These future Fred Astaires, Ginger Rodgers, and John Travoltas include Darryl Messinger, Craig Scheffler, Debbie Masteller, Tricia Martin, Lewis Rauch, Deb Reitz, An y Niemkiewicz, John Ortiz Glynis Miller, Dennis Pe- ters, Tim Roland, Paula Noakes, Roxann Pfrom, Brenda Rex, Vikki Marlatt, Angela Scarselletti, Trace Millward, Dave Marth, Deb Ritter, and Janine Rau.