South Salem High School - Sword and Shield Yearbook (Salem, OR)

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12-Seniors Tina Day Kim Delapp Tracie Delk Aimee Derringer Suzanne Deiss jeff Dimick Diane Doerksen Stacey Dolato jeff Domrude Susan Doty Mark Dragoo Dan Duffus David Duncan Laura Dyer Michelle Eddy jennifer Ferrell Shannon Ficklin Becky Field Brenda Fields Diana Fincham

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.fy 1' iff -JJ af julie Clifford Mary Collins Sean Cook Kevin Cornutt john Coronel john Corrigan Brenda Cote Martha Cottew Doug Coulson Stacey C ozart Nancie Crawford David Crisi Patty Crump Shane Currier Dennis Dabler Amanda Davidson jack Davidson Erik Davis Karna Davis Sharon Davis Seniors-11

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-r '7 Natalie Fish Marianne Freeman Marcie Fry Tony Fulgaro Thyra Gardner Gary Gates Peter Gertenrich Eric Gettis Brenda Gibson jeff Gibson Michelle Gifford Elizabeth Gingerich year for seniors ut of high l hi H Reading comic books in World Lit, and trying not to laugh at the hat QMr. MacKnight, Scott Meinert, Andre Lafayette, Terry Martellj. school, on to college Well, here it is, our senior year! Time to relax and cruise in with four P.E.'s and two study halls. The easy life, as it was called when we were freshmen, the reward for three years of high school. Well, what hap- pened to it once we were finally seniors? The senior year had to be the most difficult year for all college-and career-bound stu- dents - not the easiest. People headed for universities must first contend with the S.A.T.'s and the achieve- ment tests. If this was an easy way to spend a senior Saturday l'd hate to see a difficult one. These two tests had to be the most mind draining, body punishing, and pressurized tests we had ever taken. They certainly were much harder than anything we took as underclassmen. What happened to the cruising part? For people headed into either a career or college, the final two semesters of high school, along with the level of classes that were taken were very important. To top it off, college applications must be filled out during this time. ln the final semesters we had to receive excellent grades if we were to be accepted by reputable colleges or bu- sinesses. Where were all these easy classes that we had been hearing about since we were freshmen? Were we wrong for taking a rigorous schedule instead of easy classes? During a supposedly relaxed Christmas va- cation, many seniors found themselves frantically filling out applications and writ- ing essays for college application deadlines. And what were freshmen doing during this time? Playing in the snow, of course. For all the people going into a career or on to a university, this was the last easy year! Maybe that was what they were talking about when we were freshmen. I would hate to think that they were lying to us. -A. Lafayette Seniors 13