Ashtabula High School - Dart Yearbook (Ashtabula, OH)

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Assemblies often change our everyday schedules A Brief How many people were there who didn't want to get out of class for an assembly? If you were like most people, an assembly gave you one more day to write an English paper or the chemistry lab one more day to live. For most of us, assemblies were a welcome reprieve from an ordinary day. The most popular ones were pep assemblies. They were organized by the cheerleaders, who worked hard to maintain enthusiastic half-hours, and to promote school spirit for that weekend's game. The pep assembly we enjoyed most was Homecoming During this, all the members of the Homecoming Court were introduced with their escorts, and the football team was psyched up for that all-important game. Two annual assemblies were the AFS assemblies, held in the auditorium. In the fall, the foreign exchange student, Patricia Wambui, made a brief speech upon arriving at our school. At the spring assembly, she delivered a farewell speech to the student body. On November 8, the Student Council presented a musical assembly during the second period. The name of the group was Freedom Jam,” and they travelled here from St. Petersburg. Florida. Their program traced the musical history of our country from Colonial times to the present Using music and excellent organized comedy skits, they presented a show that was surely enjoyable to all who attended Leading a cheer during a pep assembly are the varsity cheerleaders The cheerleaders worked hard to organize the assembles, and we had tun raivng school spirit. 16 Assemblies

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 Many skiers come away with bruises and soreness. downhill ome new faces to the sport of skiing found out that it was really not as easy as it looked. There were people stuck in the snow; people who fell off lifts; and numerous collisions which caused a lot of bruises and sore bones. This group was organized by Mr Billy, who had skied for twenty years and had advised ski club for thirteen. Some of the people went up just because they liked skiing. Some were daring and went up just to learn and have fun, but first-time ski- er Joe Savarise said, What drove me to the slopes was the large number of full-figured blondes on skis. Joe was unfortunate not to, literally, run into any of these girls while skiing, but did find a couple of trees and a snow bank. The course they skied on was called Peek 'n Peak in New York State, and the price the club paid for eight weeks was very reasonable. As Tim Clancy noted, You couldn't beat the price, and we all had a lot of fun skiing as a group Needing tome help up from the hard ground is sophomore Deena Doyle Deena often found her self in this position because of her Mile skirtg experience and tough his Senior skier, Teresa Puri grubs on her favorite food. Dohtos The skiers were often hungry after skung and falmg down so they were always eating snacks to gam back energy Skiing 15

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Two members of the band “Freedom Jam perform for the school. They were from St. Petersburg. Florida, and the free assembly was presented by the Student Council. Performing a funny skit about the history of our country is the lead singer for the band “Freedom lam. The assembly was one of many we enjoyed during the school year. With winner of the Senior Women's Halloween costume contest for the most original outfit is Lori Haytcher The costumes were judged in a special assembly during sixth period. Trying desperately to find his assigned seal m the auditornan is Rob George The subject of assigned seats for assembles was a very controversial one for the student body Assemblies 17