Slatington High School - Reflections Yearbook (Slatington, PA)

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Left to right, first row: Karen Saas, Laree Miller, Nancy Minnich, Sue Cunfer, Liz Edman. Second row: Mrs. Roeder, Angela Leaver, Kathy Kuntz, Suzette Nanovic, Lennie Bechtel, Liz Williams, and Kurt Bellhom. Progressing under the ex- cellent guidance of Mrs. Roeder, the SLATE staff produced a fine school paper this year, which more closely resembled a real newspaper. This year, the hard-working journalists added new twists to the old SLATE to create a completely new newspaper, conplete with professional-type printing, headlines, and realistic pictures. Lo- cal advertising was also used extensively. According to the adviser, in the first half of the year Suzette Nanovic was absolutely marvelous as the editor of the SLATE. Richard Shollen- berger, Kurt Bellhorn, and Lennie Bechtel took over the editorship in the mid- dle of the year and added some new columns, such as Bellhom1 s Brain-bogglers and Editor's Express to the SLATE. Hie seven per- iod day created some pro- blems for the staff, limit- ing the amount of time for gathering news during the school day. However, the entire SLATE staff should be commended for producing a paper SHS is proud of. 1) Second-half editor Bellhom examines this month's issue. 2) Mrs. Roeder listens during an interview. 22

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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.

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Voice of Each year all junior classes taught by Mrs. Roeder participate in the Voice of Democracy contest. This event in- spires students and en- courages them to consider their position as a con- tributing member of our complicated society. This year, Liz Edman, I) e m ocracy Diane Krause, and Liz Williams captured first, second, and third places respectively in a con- test that was judged both by teachers listen- ing to anonymous voices or a tape recorder, and by their classmates list- ening to live1' performances as part of English class. Scholastic Seri 111 m age Warren Bell, Suzette Nanovic, John Stettner, and Paul Peters represented Slatington High School in the annual Scholastic Scriirmage contest staged on WLVT-TV. After qualifying for their position by besting sev- eral other candidates during a school assembly, the team lost an extremely close match to Saucon Valley, a contest that was not decided until the clos- ing seconds. Advisor Edith Roeder commented that she was proud of our teams, including the 1980 squad with the other fine groups of the past. National Honor Society This year's National Honor So- ciety includes as follows: Len Bechtel, Warren Bell, Kurt Bellhom, Paul Peters, Greg Kester, Bruce Roberts, Randy Roberts, Brian Roberts, Roger Spadt, Carol Beil, Cathy Roth, Liz Edman, Brenda Hausamann, Rose Kistler, Linda Lorah, Paula Snyder, Cindy Miller, Steph Bishop, Colleen Kaul, Sherri Torbey, Sharon Christ- man, Karen Saas, Wendy Bil- liard, Pam Peters, Jane Hof- fer, Donna Sonnier, Suzette Nanovic, Charlene Snyder, An- gel Leaver, Deb Greiss, Mi- chelle Allesh, Kathy Kuntz, Di- ane Krause, Tracy Wehr, Robin Baus, Greg Schuck, and Melissa Metzger. 23