Ashtabula High School - Dart Yearbook (Ashtabula, OH)

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Tfe Tim© Looking back at past students and activities, we really saw a lot of differences. Students no longer wore D.A.’s and bobby sox; instead denim skirts and slacks were the new fashion raves. We still had a girls' basketball team, but they wore brand new black and gold uniforms rather than the skirts and heavy knee pads the girls of 1925 had to wear. Girls' volleyball had also been added to the sports activities. In 1908 we had an orchestra complete with violins and cellos but by our time this had been replaced with an eighty-piece band. No one even played the violin anymore, instead electric guitars, and synthesizers produced the sounds of the seventies. One thing hadn't changed though and that was school pride. Sure we had a discouraging football season and some ovonts didn't work-out as well as we might have wanted, but for the most of us' Bula is Al. 13

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Looking back, the change we ve made in the way we've lived may havo shocked you. Could you imagine wearing the kind of bathing suits the girls of yesteryear wore? You would probably have sunk! How about riding a bike with your hoop skirts and petticoats? Maybe speed wasn’t as important then as it js now. We all became accustomed to running around and hurrying to places; our cars were souped-up and their primary purpose was speed. We didn't take time out for a lazy day of fishing or kite flying. Our days began bright and early at 7 AM and continued at a frantic pace until and later In the day we rushed to our jobs where we proceeded to dash around even more Teachers seemed to complicate our lives by continuously handing out detentions for tardiness which made getting to work even more hectic. Our lives were governed by clocks and bells. •W B