West High School - Shaheen Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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All mine john Schultz likes to dress up as an Indian. Honestly. With three other Boy Scouts, john, a junior, spends his summer performing Indian ceremonial dances at Scout camp. What do his friends say when they find out? Well, he admits, they usually ask me, 'Why?' 'Thafs a good quesuon. You could ask the same thing of these people and their hobbies: v Senior Paula Wells, who decorates cakes. 0 Senior Trudy Arp, who lifts weights. 0 Senior Randy Jensen, who rebuilt his car. ' Senior Sheri Telle, who has a yellow belt in kara- Ie. ' Senior Bruce Daasch, who built rockets. ' Junior Annie Hall, who keeps horses in her backyard. Or you could ask senior Dan Gilpatrick, who does magic, and sophomore Dave Meumann, who writes mu- sic, why they want to do that the rest of their lives. The simple answer is that it's their pastime when they're alone, when they have no Friday night game or after-school engagement, no i parties or homework. That explanation's only drawback is that instead of just passing time, these things often dominate it. Sometimes, it's a mania, says Bruce of his rockets. When he first started build- ing them, he remembers, I didn't sleep, I'd sit up all night, trying to figure out if my plans were feasible. It was like I was possessed. Possessed - maybe that's why Trudy works out at the Nautilus three mornings a week before school. Maybe that's why Sheri spends 13 hours a week at her karate, Paula bakes and deco- why Performing Indian ritual dances with other Scouts makes john Schultz lr.I feel really great. While you're out there at camp, it's the most important thing in the world. The ceremonies are performed in the summer. rates up to 15 hours in a week, why Randy worked under the hood of his car all day for two months. Cold weather prevents Randy from doing major work during the school year. It also ruled out rocket launchings for Bruce, who had learned all he wanted to anyway and moved on to an- other pursuit. Yet, people still know they did it. And those people react. They tell me I'm crazy, Bruce says. Nobody else understands why anyone would spend so much time on such things. Naturally, there are a lot of questions and laughter and funny looks. For Annie, the surprise is not over the horses, it's over where she keeps them: not on a farm, but in the residen- Sisters Louise and Anna Hall have grown up with horses. Except at times in the winter, when she has to carry water out to them, Annie loves having the horses, They're something that's always there, she says. Annie can't ever forget that ei- ther, You should spend at least 3 26 Feature

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ff S To best prepare for the play's some- times-difficult physical comedy, seniors Darla Blocker and lohn Noll don their period costumes for the last weeks of rehearsals. While psyching-up for the first dress rehearsal, sophomore Paige Hoyt laces up her corset. I, up-V 2' . Nu f at I lf , f E W.. ,vga A ef 'I .-'sf' ' Y Y . il is 6 131 Gfv. if 'fs' Q ff L -it f Q A - W-...W A -x I . l .6 , L, ws: ! ,L , 1 .--w, In K . .aa 1 ' ' pf i . 5 r .Q .S zi R 5--,t ,ffsihlfg its f ls? I .N - :Na ' e ,J it .aka ,,-Q To passers-by, it looks crazy and makes little sense. They don't know what brought on the squeals, the jumping-up-and-down, the hug be- tween sophomore Patty Duncome and junior Susie Mackie. It's the cast-list posting - an emotional event, full of surprise, joy and disap- pointments. The object of senior Scott Ander- son's affections in the play is his cashbox, which he keeps hidden, like a true miser, in a statue. All-School Play 25

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tial area where she lives. Her galloping down a city street or sidewalk gives pass- ers-by fl jolt. None of our neighbors complain about it, she says. But there is an old man - a real griper - over on 49th Street who doesn't like it. He always threatens to call the cons. ironically, Sheri and Trudy get pretty much that same reaction from some guys at Nautilus and the karate school. They're considered trespassers on male domain. Worse, they aren't always taken seriously. Then again, that may not be a disadvantage. I know I try harder be- cause of it, says Trudy. I'm more determined than fthe guysl are, says Sheri. And proving themselves pays off. Trudy proves her- self so well that this one guy whose father compared him to me watched me doing my exercises and said, Boy, I'm gonna have to get working! Sheri has progressed three levels in less than a year. And, for the first time in her life, feels control over her body. In fact, her dedica- tion to karate has af- fected her whole lifes- tyle. Her diet is more natural and vegetarian, she relaxes with medi- tationg she's changed her total outlook. I used to have a very hot temper, she says. Now I'm more mellow. If some- one says some- thing nasty to me now, I just let it pass . . . Ikaratel has sort of taught me a way of life. Whenever someone de- cides to make his pastime his career, it's even more than that. Dave Meumann's devo- tion to music happened al- most by accident. After get- ting nowhere with guitar les- sons in seventh grade, he started playing around at the piano. That led to song- writing, because he plays by ear, he has a natural feel for improvisation and the way a tune is put together. And since he decided that that was what he wanted to do, he admits, I spend just about all the time I can get at vt' . . I , af- ' JY.. N hoursa day with them, so they don't They may be stronger or bigger, Even during his free periods, Dave fiC6d- l like SPOffS, he SHYS, but get too out-of-hand. says Sheri Telle of her male karate Meumann spends time at the piano. music just takes too much of my opponents. But they better be While he doesn't neglect his time. ready for me. schoolwork, other things get sacri- Feature 27 ,-mb