Thornwood High School - Thunderbird Yearbook (South Holland, IL)

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ove sweeps many ' riffifgfghuy 2 W Y ra Above: Anne Stankus and Kurt Pottinger share a warm embrace in between classes. seniors off their feet Two halves have little choice but to joing and yes, they do make a whole. But two wholes, when they coincide, that is beauty3 that is love. Love is an unexplained phenomenon that touches almost everyone at least once in his life. No one knows exactly what causes love, when it will happen or why it happens at all. Scientists, novelists, poets and psychiatrists have all studied love in an effort to crack the mystery of just what it is that makes people love something, whether it be another person or an object or simply an idea. There are many different kinds of love people can feel for each other. There is love between two old friends, the love parents and their children feel for each other, puppy love, and perhaps the most celebrated of all, romantic love. These types of love vary greatly but hold in common one unifying definition, love is the deep affection that binds two or more people together. How love happens has never really been explained, it seems to just happen. Maybe this is how the expression falling love was derived, as if finding love is some kind of accident. Love at first sight is one way of falling in love. Many people, however, met, courted, and waited for love to discover them and then to grow. Love is supposed to be the most wonderful emotion in the world, but losing love can be the most devastating. Peter McWilliams, a poet, expressed it this way: loving is the most cretive force of the universe. The memory of loving the most destructive. People are not discouraged, however, by love's destructive forces. They continue to take the bad with the good and learn to grow from the pain of their experiences. And through all the tears and the sadness and the pain comes the one thought that can make me internally smile again: I have loved. - 4,09- .xsf REBECCA SHARTZER Graduation 4354 ' Committee 3,43 French Club 2 PATRICK SHEFCIK BRENDA SHELBY MARY SI-IIMKUS Wrestlerettes 2 J 4 4 42' 'F-:Q fl , JEAN SHUTON Tennis 12.3.4 DANIEL SIADAK Baseball 1,2,3,4 ANTHONY SIKORA D.O. Vice- President 4 LAURA SIMMONS D.O. 4: V.I.C.A. 43 KommArts Klub 23 Horticulture Club 2 JULIENNE SINGLETON DANIEL SITKOWSKI H.E.R.O. 43 Swimming 1,2 LAURA SKORUPA D.E. 4: Horticulture Club 43 Wrestlerettes 1,2,3 FRANCINE SLAUGHTER SENIORS 233

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MARY ROWE Tribe 2, Vice-Chairperson 3,43 Yearbook 3, Assistant Editor 43 Office Aide 23 Guards 23 Quill and Scroll 3,43 SHS 2,3,43 NHS 2,3,4 RUBEN RUCOBA KommArts Klub 2,3, Secretary 43 Speech Team 1,2,3,4Q Group Interp. 2,43 Student Council 2,3,43 Band 1,23 Prom Committee 43 Graduation Committee 43 Presidents' Council 43 SHS 43 NHS 3, President 43 Top Ten Scholar3 Illinois State Scholar ROBERT RUDMAN Basketball l,2,3, Captain 43 Cross Country 23 MIG Court 43 Prom Court 43 SHS 2,3,43 NHS 3, Sgt.-at- Arms 43 Illinois State Scholar DAVID RUKLIC Cross Country 1,2 PETER RUSH Basketball 1 CHARLES RYAN ROBERTA SADOWSKI Gymnastics 1,2,3,43 Tumbleweeds 1,2,43 Gymnettes 23 Tribe 33 Arrow 3,4 ADELYNN SALATO Tribe 2, Chairperson 3,41 Student Council 3,43 Presidents' Council 3,43 Prom Committee 3,43 Homecoming Court 43 NHS 3,4 TERRY SALOMON LAURA SANDERS Co-ed Bowling 2,43 Horticulture Club 4 JAMES SANDONA KEN SANTEFORT Wrestling 1,2 MARIZA SANTIANO D.O. 43 VICA 43 Lab Aide 43 Graduation Committee 43 KommArts Klub 1,43 Bookstore Aide 13 Girls' Club 13 Together Club 2, Vice- President 4 NANCY SCANLAN Volleyball l,2,3,43 Gymnastics 1,2,3,43 NHS 3,4 JOANNE SCI-IAFFRICK Band 1,2,3,43 German Club 2, Vice-President 3,43 KommArts Club 23 May Queen Court 43 NHS 3,4 CARL SCHASSBURGER Football 1,2 JEFFRY SCHELINSKI Baseball 1,2,3,43 Wrestling 1 MARY SCHELL Volleyball 1,2,3,4Q Basketball 1,2,3,43 Softball 1,21 NHS 3,4 BRIAN SCHOENROCK D.O. 43 V.I.C.A. 43 Band 2 ANGELA SCHROEDER Yearbook 2, Assistant Editor 3, Editor-in-Chief 43 Co- ed Bowling 1,2, Typist 3, Secretary 43 Tribe 3,43 Presidents' Council 43 Graduation Committee 33 German Club 13 Girls' Club 13 Quill and Scroll 3,43 NHS 3,43 Top Ten Scholar3 Illinois State Scholar ERIC SCI-IUERMANN Arrow 43 Camera Club 23 Office Aide 2 TERRENCE SCHULTZ D.E. 3,4 TIMOTHY SCHULTZ Camera Club 1, Treasurer 2,4, Vice-President 3 CHRISTINE SCHURKE MARY BETH SEGNERI D.O. 43 V.I.C.A. 4 MICHAEL SEMANYK D.O. 3,43 V.I.C.A. 3,4 CHARLES SESSA Gymnastics 1,23 Band 1 JAMES SHANKLIN 232 SENIORS 3 x Q 3 is 3. gs 3 Ly I .,.....-v Z img R X I, - V ,,,.,, Qi 'UN . 1231: cw' all 43 1-'P 'I if Y, , 4 , 'C' ff Q-v'v

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JEAN SMALL O.E. 43 Co-ed Bowling 13 SHS 23 Illinois State Scholar JOANNE SMALL Marinas 1,2,3, Vice- President 43 NHS 4 LYNN SMITH D.O. 43 Horticulture Club 33 KommArts Klub 2 ROY SMITH SANDRA SMITH Softball 1,23 Swimming 1,2 LARRY SMITH D.O. 43 V.I.C.A. 43 Co-ed Bowling 1,2 BARB SMYKOWSKI Executive Board 43 Tribe 43 Wrestlerettes 2,33 Girls' Club 2,31 SHS 4 KENNETH SOSNOWSKI Tribe 2,3,43 Boys' Club 43 Prom Committee 43 Graduation Committee 43 French Club 3 3 Secretary 23 Illinois State Scholar 3.313 NANCY SPADONI Co-ed Bowling 2,3,43 Yearbook 3,43 Wrestlerettes 1,23 Mathletes 1,22 NHS 3,43 Illinois State Scholar SUSAN SPARREY D.E. 3,41 Track 13 Guards 1,2,3 DIANE SPEHAR Wrestlerettes 1 LAURIE SPENCER Band 1,2,3Q Wrestlerettes 1 SHARYN STALEY Tribe 43 Girls' Club 3,43 Wrestlerettes 2 RUSSELL STAMETS Band 1,2,3,4l Arrow 43 Kaleidoscope 1,2,33 NHS 3,4 ANNE STANKUS Choir 2,3,43 Treble Tones 2,3,43 Thespians 2,3,43 Executive Board 2,3, Secretary 43 Tribe 3,43 Volleyball 13 NHS 3, Secretary 4 CHRISTINE STASIEWICZ Softball 1,2,3,43 Volleyball 1,23 Basketball 1 'S' Seniors display pep Seniors give your battle cry! shriek the Varsity cheerleaders. To this the seniors retort V-I-C-T-O-R- Y! And usually, or always, in the case of the Class of '81, the seniors raise the most thunderous spirit for Thornwood. Surviving, as well as flourishing, Pep Assemblies con- tinue to be the favorite school tradition according to the seniors. They linger on in the memories of Kathy Gate- lis as a time to get ROWDY and let it all hang out. Since Thornwood first opened its doors ten years ago, school traditions have come, gone, and been revived. One restored tradition took place after Varsity basket- ball games. Informal dances reappeared in the cafeteria for student entertainment. A new tradition commenced through the work of Stu- dent Council to recognize T-Bird athletic squads. Stu- dents were urged to don blue and gold apparel in order to aid in the fight against student apathy. Dee Dee Caudle summed up the importance of school traditions, They are an integral part of a school's sys- tem. They're what hold the school together for so many years. Above: Pep Assemblies provide a means for arousing enthusiasm among the student body. At the traditional homecoming assembly Patti Drabick and Ruben Rucoba introduce members of the football team in an effort to increase the number of spectators at the various sporting events. 234 SENIORS 6:40 nr' an--nv' if' C as ' . , JW p. Xxsk I ,is Q -1 K Q Q----f 'tam we