Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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Every story has its climax — when all the motivations and complications reach a peak. This is the “high point ” of our story — the “ecstasy.” This is the moment when the band plays and the confetti flies. . .when the Regional-bound coach and team are escorted through town by a shrieking fire engine and forty “green and white -mobiles. . .when, at the fall sports banquet, a senior girl is presented with a silver football charm — by the coach — because she “hung signs until she just couldn’t hang an v more . . .when the Homecoming Princess is announced, and there ' s hardly a way to control that urge to scream and cry. . .when the Hi-Y ba sketball team can present %300.0C game profit to the Shriners ’ Fund for Crippled Children. . .and when the social problems teacher discovers his students listening, reacting, discovering for themselves — the truth. These are the high points as emotions reach a CLIMAX 14

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At last, there is the denouement, the unraveling of events, the resolution — that sigh of relief “when it ' s all over . . . the all-day luxury of sleep following an all-night term paper. . .the melodic jingle of the passing bell ending an hour-long dissection of a pair of cow’s lungs. . .the moving burst of applause in the T.J. auditorium — result of many perplexing rehearsals for the one-act, Impromptu. . .the mouthwatering oranges awarded the wrestlers for a long day of starving, exercising and grappling. . . the sparkling eyes of thankful children receiving the Christmas sleds and “trikes” repaired with “TLC by the VICA. . . the glittering Sectional Trophy — back in the VHS trophy case after an anxious year of feeling “second” to Chesterton. . . the announcement, “no more schedule changes” for the guidance counselors. . . the stack of graded finals and computed grade averages for the teachers. . .and for the students — access once again to “the old man’s wheels”. . .The End?. . . or the beginning. . . For all the characters of VHS — this is the “CAMPBELL STREET STORY