Anita High School - Spartan Yearbook (Anita, IA)

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The spirit of entertainment in AHS was very good this year. Many students participated in various ac- tivities for both the school and community. Pic. 1. At the homecoming parade, the junior high band added to the procession for the first time. Spirit Of Entertainment Pic. 2. The speech and music depart- ments went together and brought the school and community a musical this year. Yoy're A Good Man, Charlie Brown was performed by Teresa McKinzie, jack Barber, Jeff Konz, Jyl Turner, Rhonda Bartelson, and Scott Phillips. Pic. 3. For the second year the flag corps led the high school marching band down the route at the homecom- ing parade. Pic. 4. The swine choir performed at many concerts ana at organizations this year. Pic. 5. Entertaining at the basketball games, the pep band livened the crowds during half time of both the boys and girls games. 4

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’Ti m-i Americans witnessed the pre-dawn fueling hitch and take-off of the Columbia Spaceship on the local TV stations on Monday March 22, 1982. It was on its third, busiest and longest test flight. With Columbia en route to space. Mission Control reported one of its auxiliary power units had overheated and they were or- dered to shut it down. (Pic. 2) Columbia soared 150 miles with Lousma and pilot C. Gordon Fullerton in control. Lousma is a 46-year-old Marine Colonel. He was aboard Skylab 2 in 1973 for 59 days. Fullerton, a 45-year-old colonel has been an astronaunt for 16 years but has never flown in space before. (Pic. 1) New laws that were initiated in 1982 had a great influence on many students at AHS. On March 24, 1982, a law was passed forbidding motorists to drive jacked up vehicles. The Iowa legislation made it illegal to drive a vehicle which has had the suspension altered to raise the front or rear end more than five inches higher than the vehicle manufacturer's original specifica- tions. However this law does not include vehicles 25 years or older, any vehicle primarily designed for off-highway use which is used in the owner's occupation, vehicles with governmental agency license plates, and vehicles that are reconstructed or spe- cially constructed. Authorized emergency vehicles and any vehi- cle used to apply agricultural chemicals are also exempt from this new law. The other law that was passed during 1982 was the law that cracked down on teenage drinking and drug abuse. The stricter law was passed in hopes to cut down on the teenage alcohol and drug abuse. The next, and probably the most welcomed change in the world, is the falling gas prices. The price fell 2.3° in February 1982 and had dropped 1.7% in January 1982 which left i» around $1.10 per gallon. Although all of these changes influence each person in a different way, none of them will affect AHS students as much as the changing of the conferences. Travel expenses and the desire to compete with schools of the same size were the chief factors involved in the conferece changes. The Rolling Hills Activities Conference will include Walnut and Elk Horn-Kimballton (of the West- ern Iowa Conference), Exira (of the Coon Valley Confer- ence) and C M, Anita, Orient-Macksburg, and Bridgewater-Fontaneele (of the Little Eight Conference). The new conference will offer a full schedule of boys and girls sports along with music and a science fair. The five remaining schools of the old Little Eight Conference joined with Guthrie Center, Van Meter and Martinsdale St. Mary's to form the second new conference, The West Central Eight. These new conferences take affect starting the 1982- 83 school year. During the past year, everyone had been faced with different kinds of changes and have adjusted their lives to meet the demands of these changes and look forward to what tomorrow has to offer us. fylliy Hills Conference 3

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