Academy of Our Lady / Spalding Institute - Summa Yearbook (Peoria, IL)

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Life in the Irish Lane A student's life doesn 't stop once he or she leaves campus for the day. Television, travel, fashion, music, food, and entertainment help fill up the remaining hours. - You're never too old for Bugs Bunny Remember when you were five or six, and you would sneak downstairs at about 6:30 A.M. to watch cartoons? It was the highlight of the week. Five straight hours of cats being hit over the head with frying pans, Superheroes saving the world from destruction, and Scooby Doo begging for Scooby-snacks. High-school students, mature young adults, would seem to be too old for car- toon-watching. They're not. What better way is there to unwind after school or to waste a Saturday morning than watching Land of the Lost? There is one significant change in the way high-school students view cartoons, as opposed to six-year- olds. No more do they get up at six o'clock in the morning. Ten o'clock is the time a mature adult gets up to watch the Saturday morning cartoons. SpaIding's Cartoon Favorites Bugs Bunny 260lo Smurfs 140lo Flintstones 1496 G.l. Joe 12010 Jetsons 1O0lo Transformers Solo Dungeons and Dragons 80lo inspector Gadget 40lo Scooby Doo 396 Spalding invades slopes Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall. Ninety-nine bottles of beer. If one of those bottles. . . The song is a sure indication that someone is having a bus trip. Two bus trips to Wisconsin ski slopes were organized by the senior senate members. One was for seniors onlyg the other was open to all classes, as long as the student could survive the five and a half hour bus ride. The bus and admission to the slope were included in the cost of the trip. Ski rental was extra. Expert skiing was extra, too. Falling down was part of the fun. Senior Tom Gor- man said, They all liked the Chinese downhill. Everybody piled up and crashed. 8 Father George Wolf does some exhibition skiing - going down the hill backwards. Senior Jeff Boundy gathers up his skis and poles after getting off of the bus.

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I X0 ls.. ,. R Dressed up for I-lomecoming's 5o's clay, Senior Michelle Krumholz touches up Senior Julie Langan's lipstick. At the ring day ceremony, Junior Bill Ker- nan receives his newly blessed ring from Sis ter Marcia.

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Fashion lives, despite the dress code Navy blue. Top button buttoned. Oxford cloth. Polyester plaid. Doesn't seem to leave much room for fashion statements, does it? Somehow, though, students manage to add a personal touch to the dress code. Jewelry, ties, bows, shoes, socks, coats, sweaters, and haircuts are used to spice up the fashion life at Spalding, both legal- ly and illegally. Tennis shoes, sweaters in colors other than navy, and socks in colors other than blue and white are the most common ways people ignore the dress code. lf successful, these efforts enable people to exhibit their wardrobes and to be com- fortable, as well as to defy authority. Failed attempts can result in financial loss due to confiscated sweaters and Ctopj Junior Mary Kate Riddell's hairstyle isn't tabovel A student takes advantage of the dress common, but it shows some popular features in code's flexibility on shoes by wearing spotted hair: layering and spiking. socks with flowered slippers. loss of time due to detentions. The more faint-hearted often choose to go the law-abiding way and stay within 'the code.' Jewelry is a prime area of di- versity. Earrings range from single pearls to long dangling arrangements. Thin gold chains adorn some necks: others support heavy rhinestone necklaces, recently purchased at Goodwill. Hairstyles exhibit the same difference in tastes. Buzzed heads are every- where. Even the flat-top has been re- vived. Girls wear short-short cuts, bobs, long braids, and shaved portions. At a glance, students may seem to dress exactly alike, but, whetherthe style is classic, punk, or Madonna-wear, no one is totally the same. Sophomore Michelle Peeples wears jewelry typical of fashionable students: an elaborate pin and more subdued earrings in her double-pierced ears. SpaIding's Choice 82010 LaGondola 'I 7 Ofc Battle of the Gondolas The rivalry between two Italian restau- rants, LaGondola and Spaghetti House and Avanti's, became more serious than the usual who makes the better gondo- la? question. Avanti's began a legal bat- tle to force LaGondola to stop using the name gondola for its submarine sand- wich. Eventually Avanti's won the suit, and LaGondola began calling its sand- wich the torpedo lt was also required to drop the and from its name, making it the LaGondola Spaghetti House. Avanti's came out on top in a student poll, despite the fact that it has only two locations, both in Peoria. LaGondola has locations in Peoria, East Peoria, Bartonville, Creve Coeur, and Morton. 9