Wabash High School - Sycamore Yearbook (Wabash, IN)

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, i ■ Tricia tries to tell her parents (who won ' t listen to her) about her problem with her uncle in Out of the Trap , performed by Bridgework Theater. ▲ Tricia tells a friend on the school ■ Tricia ' s uncle gets mushy with bus about the incident with her un- her in Out of the Trap , cle in Out of the Trap . Abuse Convos 2 1

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sfamw cnouHD The first of two of this year ' s convos was directed toward drug abuse. The speaker for the drug abuse convo was David Toma, who has been a drug addict, cop, and counselor. Toma spoke to a crowd of 3,000 stuaents from the four county schools: Wabash, Northfield, South- wood, and Manchester. Toma explained to students that It ' s your life , it is your decision to do what you want to do with it. Toma also spoke about the many drugs and their different effects on the user: loss of feeling, bhnd- ness, deformation of babies, and possibly, if a drug is used long enough, death. Toma ' s vast knowledge of drug abuse comes from his past ex- perience as a police officer in New Jersey, where he down in the gutter with tf junkies and started listening to them instead of locking them up without caring for them. This year ' s second convo was about sexual abuse. The convo came in the form of a play called Out of the Trap . got the The play was performed by the Bridgework Theater from Goshen, Indiana. Out of the Trap was a play that taught students ho to recognize and avoid sexual abuse. In the first half of the play, a character named Tricia has problems with her uncle, who tries to sexually abuse her. Tricia tries to tell her parents about the problem and then confides with a friend, who finally listens to her. In the second half of the play, the actors showed students how to prevent sex- ual abuse and how to find help if they need it. Students from the four county schoo s anxiously wait for Toma to hit the stage. Caring Gestures. These are the poses of a man who cares. Toma spent hours talking with students from all four county schools and more hours in private sessions. 20 Abuse Convos

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7 ' 7 i t t t ccdSfu nU I roar of thunder radiated from the gym as passerby peered out of their car windows to see what all the commotion was about. Was it an eart hquake? A firing squad? No, it was the Fifth Annual Sports Spec- tacular. On March 15, the tradition con- tinued as classes competed for the glory of victory. They hopped with all their might in the sack race, gave it their best shot in the basketball throw, whizzed by on tiny tricycles, and cheered on their parents in the take-it-off-relay. Sunglasses and hats of every color, shape, and size imaginable decorated the stands. Freed from the usual restraints enforced upon them at school events, students were able to be a little wilder, a little swifter, and a lot noisier. Several members of the junior class, identifiable by their Hawaiian shirts, raced onto the floor and did the cockroach, a dance made famous by Na- tional Lampoon ' s Animal House . At the dance contest later that even- ing, freshmen Nick Eccles and Bey Chay strutted their stuff to Jungle Love by The Time. Sophomores Brian Eccles and Wendy Craft put their emo- tions in motion to Billy Squier ' s Rock Me Tonight . Juniors Al Plummer and Bill Wilma Dials did the hippy hippy shake to the psychedelic sounds of Wild Thing . The strains of Jungle Love echoed once more as seniors Chris Cosby and Sherrie Long, assisted by Jeff Long, John Rauh, and Tim Engel, walked away with top honors. ▲ Towing the line. Seniors R. Spencer, [. Thomson, and M. Lambrinos pull hard but succomb to the juniors. Lii Sports Spectacular