Bedford Junior High School - Transition Yearbook (Temperance, MI)

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Student Council President Andy Atkinson tries to boost spirit at a pep assembly. Councll members attend the January meeting and discuss the Valentine's Card sa.le and the Valentine's Dance. All of these meetings are held in advisor, Ms. Zielinskl's room. Front Row Pres. Andy Atkinson, Vlce Pres. Rhonda Elgin, Sec. Raschelle Elgin, Treas. Shawn Carver. Row 2 Doug Rice. Chad Greeley, Matt Fornwald, Tammy McCarley, Jennia Jenkins, Mindy Shively, Andrea Shealy, Jill Wunder, Row 3 Todd Wielinski, Brad Holmes, Mark Lindsey, Shannon Bihn, Jennifer Patton. Roxanne Reed, Beth Saunders. Row 4 Michele Bartnik, Jody Blochowski, Geoff Moore. Back Row Matt Parachek. lay Villarreal. Terri Riddle, Trent Wisehart, Alex Davis. Freshman student council members Da mar Sikula, Jay Villarreal, and Michelle Bartnik discuss the plans or the next dance at the student council meeting. 113

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Rafe Mclntire Carol Carpenter, Sean Sexton, Jay Villarreal Mike Wooiford and Jeff Case, Freshmen form a chorus line at a dance. Council Members Bring Fun to Student Body. Boogying down at the dances, sending a sweetheart a valentine, and getting into the school spirit during spirit week; all of these activities and more, were made possible by student council. Student council members worked hard to bring good times to the student body. They sold Valentine's Day Cards, sponsored a Hallo- ween Contest and held the Mock Election in the spring. Student Council brought entertainment to school. The band Life performed in March for the entire stu- dent body. Spirit week was a week filled with Fun and excite- ment , according to seventh grader, Greg Pisanti. Dances! Three dances were held throughout the year. They were the Fall Dance, the Valentines Day Dance, which was postponed due to bad weather and snow days and another dance was held in June. Student 112 Council President, Andy Atkinson stated, Dances gave students a chance to have fun without getting into trouble. The money made from all the activities that were sponsored by Student Council went towards various things. One such thing included was buying things for the Media Center. Every year Student Coucil purchases a load of new books for the following year. Money also went towards school functions such as disc jockeys at the dances and singing groups to per- form. The rest of the money made, especially from slave day, went to charities. Student Council worked hard this year to make it enjoyable for the whole student body and Andy Atkin- son did a very good job, commented Ms. Joyce Zielinski, student council advisor.

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Journalism Students Help Record Memories Cropping the last picture, recounting the captions and drawing the final layouts, journalism students rushed to meet their many deadlines. The Journalism classes consisted of 53 ninth grade students in two classes. Each student participated and worked their hardest to maintain the reputation of the award winning yearbook and newspaper. Editor-in-chief of the yearbook, Michelle Tucker commented, Everybody worked as one to make this year's yearbook better than ever and we now have a superior yearbook The Journalism classes kept very busy throughout the school year, taking and croplng pictures, developing fllm, writing copy and planning out the pages of the yearbook and newspaper. Once a month for the newspaper each student was assigned a selected story to write. Writing a story in- volved interviews, surveys, questionnaires and re- search. The different stories were features, news, sports and editorials. Stories were graded and the most im- portant and best written were chosen for the paper. The yearbook worked a little differently however. There were only 3 deadlines. It wasn't an individual assignment. Instead, groups of students were formed and worked together on lay-outs. Advisor, Lewis Horn commented, I feel the journal- lsm classes worked very well. All worked hard to meet deadlines and everyone put in a good effort. In the darkroom, Robin Berringer pours the solution in to make negatives as Stephanle Douglas checks over the finished product through the viewer. The next steps Is to make prints in the enlarger. 114 Helplng assistant editor, Laurel Moran on her newspaper adviser, Mr Lewis Horn gives some important tips. During nrst hour. Assistant editor of the newspaper, Shonne Fegan checks the negatives for an action plcture to enlighten her 2 page spread for the last yearbook deadllne.