Wayne High School - Sentry Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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IL 1. Adjusting the chin strap on his helmet, junior Charles White stops in Foster Park to converse with his friends. 2. Summer entertainment can be found at the raceway, where one can observe or participate in the quarter-mile drags or the oval races. 3. Listening to R.E.O. Speedwagon at The Lantern , senior Kent Hesterman and his date pre- fer sitting to mingling with the crowd. 4. Converging at a local hamburger joint after a game, students discuss those things the excitement of the game made them forget. 3 4 1 2

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Park, Mall, Lantern for unwinding after As if his life at school weren ' t enough with world-shal ing decisions, the student at Wayne was weekly faced with the problem of what to do over the weekend. Although Fort Wayne has long been acclaimed as the fun and sun capitol of the midwest, it was sometimes difficult for the average student to find something to do that wouldn ' t get him into trouble and ruin his evening. Sometimes, refuge could be taken at The Lantern where one had his choice of dancing, sitting, or getting thrown out. How- ever, dances were irregular and could not be counted on every week or even every month. provide places exhausting week As soon as warm weather started, Foster Park was swarmed with work-weary kids all looking for a place to meet with their friends. Southtown Mall also provided the student a place away from home to unwind and have a good time, unless he was picked up for loitering or looking suspicious. Aside from private parties, drive-ins, the races, or maybe some bowling or a movie, students at Wayne found refuge in perhaps the most inconspicuous place of all: inside the four walls of their bedrooms. Weekends were wild this last year. But, you had to be a soldier to realize it.

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1 3 2 A page 16 1. As part of one work-study program offered at Wayne, senior Dan Wiles fulfills his apprenticeship working in a local funeral home. 2. Sometimes, doing a 5 to 7 Sunday morning radio show is not particularly easy for junior James Bond, who is usually just as asleep as his audi- ence is at that time. 3. Flowers, greenery, ribbon, flower pot, and a little of senior Rhonda Perry ' s creative talent com- bine to form a symmetrical arrangement. 4. Hospital workers like senior Debra Nunn aid the medical staff by running errands, delivering flowers and transporting patients.