Traverse City High School - Pines Yearbook (Traverse City, MI)

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The homecoming candidates competed with each other, during homecoming week, for student votes that would crown someone king, and someone queen. Our World Of Competition Many students spend hundreds of hours perfecting specific skills they have acquired through the years. With a school as large as the Traverse City Senior High, it’s not always easy to be the best in your class, therefore the students that have gained high recognition deserve an extra hand. For centuries people have been competing with one another in activities from sports to academics. In school, competition is an everyday event. Students compete for offices, for positions on athletic teams, for jobs, for boy-friends girlfriends, for grades, and the list goes on. Some people think it's easy to get lost in such a large school, but what they don't realize is that although the school is large, it offers a wide variety of options available to everyone. Cathy Strom says, “It’s a tough school to compete in, but it’s not impossible to be the best.’’ “Competition is there, but peer pressure isn’t as bad as it was in the Junior High. Everyone is their own individual now,’’ stated Laura Knight. “I’ve always been taught to be the best I can be and to give 110%,” stated a TC Senior. “The Traverse City High School gives me a chance to do what I want and even if you’re not the very best, they find a way to reward you. Webster's Dictionary defines competition as a competing rivalry. A rival is a person who is trying to get the same thing as another. The Traverse City High School is full of rivalry and competition. Through this the students learn self-discipline, respect, pride, and more about the real world. It won't be long and the students of today will be making tomorrow. Competition is one way of getting prepared for the future. Remember the first play-off game at Thirlby Field, when it was so cold you couldn’t stop your teeth from chattering? 4

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Mimi Spaulding and Tim Lamie walked across Thirlby Field nervously awaiting the announcers to call their names for the King and Queen of I9Ht . Students gathered on the school lawn before the homecoming pep assembly to celebrate the We Are The World’ fund raiser. Robin Lake cheers with the senior section during a pep assembly While the marching band played. ‘We Are The World’ the students sang and smiled for the camera. 3

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During Christmas week, students competed with each other in the Lovely Legs contest. Money raised from this event went to the Salvation Army. Candy Williams went to Mt. Pleasant with a B.O.E.C. club, and took second place in the Information Communication 2 area. 5