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

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Tell y'all a story 'bout a man named Jed . . . l l ' 7 ,. Do you know the theme song to The Spalding Re run Beverly Hillbillies by heart? Can you name Favorites I all the members of the Brady household, including the dog? Can you describe ten The Brady Bunch QSQ6 specific episodes of Gilligan's Island? What do the names Lumpy and Eddie Haskell mean to you? Leave It To lf you can answer these questions, you Beaver 21Qb are probably a cult follower of the after- noon re-runs. During the day you may seem intelligent, well-read, and cultured, Dynasty 1696 but when you get home after school, you regress into a more primitive state. The Munsters causes you to laugh wildly. WKRP 1Oqb I Even though you've seen the episode be- fore, you become involved in the melodra- Mork and Mindy 8136 ma of Dynasty. The dumber Mork s jokes ' are, the more you laugh. You can spend I hours talking about your favorite epi- GfllfQ3I7'S lSf8I'Id 796 H- s ss ss as sedeseFH9ream-efde-anrrie.You1:an re- s- W-sf-as as sssss As sas+s-s-++dM- peat from memory lines of dialogue from . television shows made before you were Dncferent Strokes 3qb born. Although not everyone is a cult follower The Jeffersons 3196 of afternoon re-runs, almost everyone has one favorite show. ln a school poll, stu- dents were asked to name their favorites. Dallas 396 See the chart for the results. www-A Jim Toftie, a member of the Breakfast Club morning radio team, is pictured in the WWCT 106 studios. N 10 Spalding's Radio Favorites WYE! 66 Gio WKZQZ 31 Glo Others Ofo Spalding is rockin' with the best Not the same song every time you turn on the radio. Those are the words to a commercial for WWCT 106. Their arch- rival radio station, WKZW 93, promotes itself with a flashy television commercial featuring sultry models drenched with wa- ter. In a school poll, a majority of Spalding students chose 106 as their favorite radio station. Sophomore Lori Kingery said why she prefers 106 to KZ 93: They play different songs all the time. Other radio stations named as the fa- vorites of a small number of students were WXCL, WGLO, WSWT, WBMQ, WLS, WCCI, and WBMX.

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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

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Finally, something to do in Peoria There's nothing to do in Peoria. The number of teenagers saying that phrase has decreased since October of 1985. On Friday, October 18, Stage 2 celebrat- ed its grand opening. An under-21 dance club, Stage 2 filled the void left when Con- fetti's moved and discontinued its under- 2t nights. For a four dollar cover charge, teenagers can dance on one of several dance floors, watch videos on a huge screen, drink free soda, and generally en- joy the night-club atmosphere usually re- stricted to adults. Senior Tracie Setterlund takes her tree soda from Anthony Braggs, a senior and an employee of Stage 2. A large dance floor, lights flashing in the darkened room, and crowds of people make Stage 2 a popular place to be. Spalding's Cola Favorite 5530 Coke 47 Ofo Maybe l'll just have water. Coke is it. A Pepsi generation. De- spite the fierce competition that has al- ways existed between the two colas, the rivalry has always been relatively simple. One person says Coke is better. Another says Pepsi is better. Others reject both in favor of Dr. Pepper, 7-up, Sprite, or root beer. During the past year, though, the Coke-Pepsi competition has become more complicated. Coke began the changes by develop- ing a new Coke formula to replace the original Coke recipe. But the company found that messing around with the real thing wasn't a good idea. Eventually, 'old' Coke was revived as 'Classic' Coke. Meanwhile, Pepsi capitalized on Coke's changes: if Coke is the real thing, why was it changed? With new, classic, cherry flavored, caf- feine-free, sugar-free, and nutrasweet co- las to choose from, deciding on a bever- age can become time-consuming. 11