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

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E o O o Huiiieeoiiiiiifi spirit fjciicrsi tes Spirit is alive and well and living at Wayne. Memories don ' t just happen; the ' re made. The operation ' s a snap; it ' s the recovery that ' ll kill ya. s spirit is a fragile thing. It cannot be ordered from the ware- house as desks and tables, pencils and chalk can be. It cannot be adopted every five years as textbooks are. It is not a quan- tity but a quality, not doing any particular thing but the way in which all things are done. No one knows where spirit lives or what causes it to stop off at a particular school for a period of time. Some claim that a great and long tradition of excellence is the attraction. Others claim that it stops only where the athletic program is successful while still others say that a school, an entire school of students, teach- ers and administrators, must decide that living together for three years is worth doing well, that warm memories of one ' s high school years can last a lifetime. Though Wayne only existed for five years and the teams just started to roll, the people of Wayne themselves decided to make a home for spirit at Wayne. The week preceeding the Gen ' s mighty struggle with their homecoming foe, the Elmhurst Trojans, saw a flurry of both commercial and non-commercial activity. The halls bloomed with new life from the many Beat Elmhurst posters and various and sundry other colorful decorations. While the Sophomores added to the colorfulness of the event with their traditional mum sales and the Seniors Wayne Brigade attempted to comfort the crowd with their sale of stadium cushions, the Juniors astounded everyone by not only sell- ing tootsie rolls but balloons and links on a spirit chain as well. Each day of the MEMORIES ALIVE IN ' 75 homecoming week had a theme to focus the efforts of Generals toward a common goal. Mon- day ' s theme sock ' em and stomp ' em, caused many a Gen to wear mismatched shoes and garrishly colored sock combinations. Outland- ish hairstyles turned Tuesday into a hairdresser ' s nightmare, and clothes were turned inside out on turn ' em back Wednesday. Presi- dent Ford and Henry Kissinger visited Wayne ' s halls to boost the spirit of General Land as students dressed like famous Americans lending the week a bicentennial flavor with only Mr. John Sawyer coming as himself. The traditional red and blue was worn on Friday, topping off the resurgence of General spirit. Friday ' s pep session found Foxy Fox and Juvenile Jordan straining to remember exactly what they were being punished for as Silly Sawyer saved the day for all but Larry Pooley. Larry ' s per- formance as a Trojan having an operation to remove his yellow streak ended tragically with the premature folding of the operating table. (a) Intrepid reporter Lisa Block is shadowed by debonaire cameraman Bernice Pep- pier who team up as a very odd couple in search of that most elusive of all commodities; the spirited interew. (b) Adding their madness to the homecoming pep session, Seniors perform the deli- cate operation of removing the yellow streak from an Elmhurst Trojan, alias Larry Poo- ley, who had a great fall before making it to the recovery room. (c) Volunteers from the football team reluctantly help cheerleaders with a kissing skit but are relieved to find out that the bewitching kisses came from none other than their very own mothers. (d) As the homecoming theme proclaimed MEMORIES ALIVE IN ' 75 balloons, pos- ters, and streamers liven up the plain white walls down the school ' s main thoroughfare and infuse the school with spirit. (e) Senior Cindy Graves turns her wardrobe inside out and decorates her pockets with Wayne Brigade sponsored spirit buttons in hopes of simultaneously boosting sales and spirit as she invades the cafeteria.

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beats tests Outsiders also invaded the halls ot Wayne. Mr. Steven Teeple deliv- ered senior portraits and returned the following week to snap under- classmen ' s pictures in the auditorium during history and P.E. classes. Josten ' s representative Gary Muncy introduced the new select-a-side ring at the Sophomore ' s class ring assembly. Shaken from their sec- ond and third period classes Gens rocked to a wide variety of music sprinkled with comedy during a concert presentation by FREE FARE, a touring group from St. Petersburg, Florida. The following night they performed a similiar concert, this one open to the public. Gens also took time out from their classes for testing. Sophomores puzzled over questions about everything from math to mechanics as the Armed Services ' test granted Gens the opportunity to discover hid- den vocational talents. Juniors, unable to escape the test scene, con- gregated in the tiered lecture room to take the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Tests (PSAT) which determined their eligibility for state schol- arships. ?( r, 3 (a) The traveling organization FREE FARE stopped at Wayne to entertain the Gener- als in the auditorium with electrifying, wall shaking music and fun-filled singing commer- cials about McDonalds, a favorite high school hang-out. (b) Congregated in the tiered lecture room Sophomores anxiously await important directions from the Armed Forces instructor to oid them in attaining the best possible scores which will affect scholarship chances. (c) In getting to the heart of journalism, sophomore Dan Hill and junior Gary LeMay find needed support on a large roll of unprinted paper while touring the Fort Wayne newspaper plant with fellow Basic Journalism classmates. (d) Professional photographer Mr. Steven Teeple and his assistant busily distribute long awaited senior proofs to anxious upperclassmen who stopped in the commons between periods or during classes. (e) During Mrs. Helen Bunnell ' s third period class, five talented Human Development students role-play the disadvantages as well as the advantages of alcohol consumption during a high-society social event. (f) Mr. Gary Muncy (alias the ring man ) is found to be very popular during the lunch mods while Generals gaze at the variety of styles and colors available in class ring selections. October — 27

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