Assumption High School - Assumption Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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A cool-guy image is just the thing to go along with Sean Meister's black beast of a Cadillac. Junior Shiela Knittel couldn't be prouder of her new Comoro, shown here gleaming in the midday Seon O'Brien's Jaguar has class written all over it, sun Qf the student parking lot perfect for the Homecoming dance He and Glenn Beckwith escorted dates Cathy Fury and Jennifer Rada cars 17

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Horrible heaps hobnob with hard-core hot-rods In hodgepodge parking lot, sleek Camaros share space with crumbling wrecks H ave I got a deal for you! Wel- come to the Assumption Used Car Lot, my name is Big Al. Just look at this beauty sitting over in the corner ... O.K., maybe the parking lot wasn't at the seedy used-car-lot- stage quite yet, but you have to ad- mit that we had some, well, rather unique cars. Take Senior Paul Martin's 1973 VW Thing for instance. The car, which resembles a German tank more than the family Ford, had a re- movable hard top, a feature espe- cially nice tor Summer cruising. It's really not a very practical car, con- sidering the weather in Iowa, but it's a lot of fun, explained Martin. The parking lot was graced with its share of nice cars, of course. Al- though it was definitely not the Yup- pie-BMW scene, a fair number of parents' Cadillacs and Lincolns man- aged to show up. But did teens want luxury? Not at the sake of perfor- mance, as Senior Steve Barnes “I only wash my car may- be once a year because the paint falls off when 1 do. The paint is all that’s holding it together.” Brad Verdon proved. His red 1978 Comoro Z28, with a 350 four-barrel V-8 engine, has reached a top speed of 120 m.p.h. It's fast and it gets me in a lot of trouble! , Barnes commented. Another performance class car found regularly at school was Senior Jeff Butch McCloskey's 1969 black Avanti II Known simply as The Avanti it drew looks with its low sleek sportscar shape. But lest you thought only upper class autos existed, there were plen- ty of junkers to be found in the lot outside school Juniors Steve and Chris Wolfe traded off driving their grandfather's 1976 Buick LeSabre. It's got to be the longest car ever made said Steve, who also com- mented that it used up around a tank of gas per week. Senior Brad Verdon bought his 1970 Chevy Ca- price when it was already 1 4V2 years old tor an even $100. It's been a good, reliable car, even though it's ready to fall apart, Verdon re- marked. 16 cars

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 Many of the Diocesan priests gather around the Bishop to celebrate Catholic School's Week. During an all-school Mass, Mrs. Ruth Heuermann distributes Communion to freshman Erika Boo- mershine. Participating in the Advent Communal Penance Service with Fr Richard Hoffman, is |umor Sean Heiser.