Huntington North High School - Modulus Yearbook (Huntington, IN)

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20 STUDENT LIFE Friends From Faraway The new General Motors plant brought a lot of new changes to the old ways of Huntington. In 1985 GM decided to build a truck plant in the rural Roanoke area. On December 27, an open house was held from 9am — 5pm at Huntington North to welcome the employees of GM and their families. The plant was expected to employ 2000 plus workers. It was unknown how many families from Janesville, WI and St. Louis, MO are moving to Huntington. FAWN GRUBE Words worry “Washington Wives” AC DC, Def Leppard, Mary Jane Girls, Sheena Easton, and Cyndi Lauper were included in a list called ‘The Filthy Fif- teen’’ made up by a group of “Washington Wives’. Songs by the people on the list were said to have lyrics that these women didn’t want their children to hear. They suggested that we use a rating system to tell parents about the lyrics on albums. X BUSTIN’ gotie2 meant profane or sexually explicit, O meant occult, D A meant drugs or alcohol and V meant violence. Many teens were against the ratings. Some said they would even protest the idea if they could, but finally decided that it wouldn’t do any good, because if the “Wives” wanted it, they would get it. FAWN GRUBE PHOTO BY VICKI HARRELL PHOTO BY CLAY CARL Flu Floats Through Schools A flu epidemic surrounded and ca tured Huntington County Communit: Schools in late January of 1986. Oj Wednesday, January 29, 525 student were absent and by the end of the day absentees had grown to 561. That i when MR. VAN BAILEY, Dean Students, announced that school woul be closed Thursday and Friday, and a students would be expected to sta home to recuperate. All extracurricula activities were rescheduled to lat days, including the variety show. The long weekend proved to be e fective. When classes got started thy following week, the absentee rate slow ly went back to normal. | | FAWN GRUBE AS JUNIOR JANELLE OWENS watches, bookst manager JILL DAVIS counts out her change durin} lunch.

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JUNIORS FOLEY fata place Do you think it is all right for a girl to ask a guy, out? “pthink, definitely, because it’s about time girls felt the pressure of asking for a date.” =Dave Kellam, senior What is the funniest thing that has happen- ed to you on the night of a date? ‘| had twordates for the same night in my ‘car at the same time.’’- Mike McCoy, senior Really a Game’? hid) Er, well, um, | mean,. you wouldn’t want to go outwith me would you?” It used to be the boy in the hot seat of embarrassment, hav- ing to ask the girl out, but«not.any more. When our parents were young a areil without a date would stay that ma. girl was considered ‘‘loose’’ if Tis waiting for the phone to ring. vnow do something about it. As a some feel those same fears of Do you prefer to da tionships? senior IS Dating g around or have longer rela- guy, because 9 and decidé rejection that guys have always had. But those who get dates find it’s arisk worth taking. Once they go out, who pays really. doesn’t matter. Most couples expect the guy to pay, but some prefer going dutch or even having the girl treat. Pizza, movies, and dances could be found near by. In town the places.to go were still McDonald’s, Noble Roman’s or along the cruise route. We also enjoyed heading up to Fort Wayne to the teen hot spot, RockAmerica, or just taking in a movie, along with eating out at Chi-Chi’s. We did everything from a tradi- tional Friday night date where the boy asks, drives, and pays, to a ‘’girl’s treat’ evening at the Sweetheart Dance. We djel our r best to keep the dating scape om friend’s Ore SALLY name on

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E new GM plant in rural Roanoke area will add Pr 2000 new jobs to our local community. | 5 He Wants ito go to school Imagine yourself not having to go to chool Sounds pretty great, huh? Well, if jou asked Ryan White, a fourteen year Id student from Kokomo, he wouldn’t nink it was great at all. Ryan wanted to ttend school, but was caught up in the ontroversy of allowing or not allowing im to. Ryan was one of the unfortunate ictims of the incurable disease AIDS. -Ommunity members fearful of this isease voiced their worries and kept yan from attending school. With a court ruling, Ryan was able to | | | JUST after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, FL, the Challenger shows evidence of smoke on the right rocket booster. It is believed that cold weather was the cause of the explosion. RYAN White smiles after a Howard County health of- ficer pronounced him well enough to attend classes at Western Middle High School in Kokomo. return to school but was banned after just one day. The day he did attend, many parents chose to keep their children home; almost fifty percent of the student body were absent. Hopefully in the near future, discoveries will be made as to how con- tagious this disease really is, and a perma- nent cure will be found. MEG MACHALL Explosion Halts Future Travel Silence and gloominess filled the air. Everyone experienced total shock. Word spread like wild fire: the space shuttle Challenger had just exploded. People all over the world felt deep emotions because of the explosion. The loss of the seven brave crew members was hard, but maybe one member made it hit closer to home. Christa McAuliffe, a social studies teacher' from Concord, New Hampshire, was to be the first private citizen to fly on the shuttle. McAuliffe represented us, the citizens. She was chosen for the flight by the Teacher in Space Program. Thousands of teachers ap- plied for this ‘‘chance in a lifetime’’ in- cluding Mr. Max Fordyce, a science teacher here at HN. Even though some may have thought that space exploration would be slowed down by this tragedy, scientists are conti- nuing investigations to learn more for future space travel. PHOTO BY UPI CURRENT EVENTS