Blackford High School - Reflections Yearbook (Hartford City, IN)

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Queen Mandy and escort Scott Kimmel pose with her court. The court is Lori Cain, with Mike Chaney. Joni Langdon with Mike Brown, Lisa Stanley with Chris Eppard. and Cheryl Suht with Joe Schmidt. Brett Townsend was another big winner prom night. He is shown here walking off with the wicker chair he won. Mandy and Scott cross the bridge to the dance floor to lead the prom court in the traditional queen ' s dance. 50 Prom

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d980 d985 What becomes of the class of 1980? Psychiatrists, religous figures, and most everyone who has studied the way people feel about their lives, generally agree that it is important for people to take stock of their lives periodically. They feel thataperson is usually happier when he occasionally stops for an overview of his life and decides what is really important to him. This series of questions was designed to help the class of 1980 (and anyone else) evaluate their futures. We encourage you to take out a piece of paper, answer for yourself these questions about your life, tuck it a way, and then sometime in the future (like 1985) get the paper out, read it, and answer the questions again. It couldn ' t hurt and it might help. What got you out of bed? What are you trying to accomplish? It ' s totally up to you. Your goal may be to free the world from cancer, make a million dollars, raise a happy family, or live to see another Friday night. You may have a variety of goals, any goal is good if it is important to you. Write down your goal or goals. If you can ' t find any . . . think . . . think hard! Just keepin-on for keepin-on ' s sake is not enough for a lifetime. Who matters to you? Name five people who matter to you. Any five. After you write down the names, make a note to somehow tell each and every one of them before 24 hours has passed. Tomorrow could be too late. Believe that, and today will seem precious. It should. What do you work for? Now wait a second. That question is not easy. Sure you work for money. Slavery went out sometime be- fore you entered high school But what do you want out of your job? How much money, at how great a cost? We are not saying you should chase the dollar less. Only you could say that. We are asking you to consider at what cost you earn your money. Write down what you get from your job. Money? Pride? Satisfaction? Broth- erhood? Those are all important. Now balance them against what you give-up. Energy? Time? Patience? etc. If you know what you want from work, you ' ll get it. What worries you? List an even dozen things that worry you. Stop when you get to 12. That will be plenty. Now, just to make that list a little more managable, cross off all those things that don ' t really make that big a difference in the long run. Things like . . . will that ridiculous year- book get out on time? Things like . . . getting a new car. (Do it but don ' t worry about it.) Then cross off any- thing that worry won ' t help. Grandma may not get well and some fool may drop the bomb, but worry just won ' t help in either situation. Your list should be get- ting pretty small, but don ' t think we are saying that worry accomplishes nothing. It will wear you out fas- ter than work, and it will send you to an early grave if you let it. The things on your list that made it through the grinder here deserve your concentration. Ignore the rest. Applause Applause!! What have you done in the last year or so that you are proud of? What are you going to do in the year to come? Write em down, then lead yourself in a round of applause. We ' re clapping along even though you may not hear us. Need a good time? List three little things you enjoy that you haven ' t done lately. A bag of your favorite cookies, a fire out- doors, or a card game maybe. List things that are easy to do and cheap. Then make some quick plans to go do one of those things. Who do you owe? One of the grandparent ' s generation ' s biggest han- gups was feeling that they should go through life with- out ever really owing a whole lot to anyone. They wanted to pay their way. You can ' t completely. No man stands alone. But . . . But our generation threatens to go to the other extreme. We have a tendancy to take and take and never pay back. Who helped you out when the going was extra tough? With money? With emotional support? Time? Caring? What about your folks? Your community? Your schools? Your country? Is it time you payed some depts? Write down two or three things that you could do, to pay back a little bit. Where ' d you go wrong? What was the biggest failure in your life? Something that should have gone right but didn ' t. Forget the guilt, but put down, as best you can, why it happened. One of life ' s perpetual silver linings is the chance to learn from our mistakes. Have strings become ropes? We all start-out wanting our lives to be simpler than many we see around us. We start wanting time for ourselves but we lose that time because we start more things than we stop. Think about it! For every three things we finish or quit, we start four. List two or three commitments that to you are no longer worth the time and effort they take. Gently, but firmly, quit one of them. Now don ' t feel guilty. An over committed per- son does nothing well and gets no personal satisfaction. Seniors 49

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Sophomore servers Jack Norton and Beth Ramey fulfill their duties at the 1980 Prom. Servers were invited to the after prom party. Jo Kriescher. Robbie Lightle, Paul Lykens, and Pam Hosier observe the festivities from the special balcony overlook in the upper gym. Mandy Rea is W queen The Long and Winding Road was selected as the theme for the 1980 Junior-Senior Prom. The chmax of the evening was the suspenseful moment when Mandy Rea was crowned queen of the prom. The prom court consisted of five girls. Lisa Stanley, Joni Lang- don, Cheryl Sulit, Mandy Rea, and Lori Cain. Junior, Brett Townsend was the winner of a raffle for the wicker fan chair which served as the queen ' s throne. The crystal ball, which hung from center of the ceiling added a spec- Mandy and Scott lead the queen ' s dance to the prom theme song The Long and Wind- ing Road, by the Beetles. The court joined the dance. tacular touch to the prom as it threw shimmering reflections upon the blue foil draping from the ceiling. By 11:30, decorations were sag- ging and the gym was beginning to empty. But that time, the magic of the evening was just beginning. Prom night ended at about 6:00 the following morning. Although the prom was from 9-00-12:00, the after-prom went on til wee hours in the morning. The after-prom was sponsored by the Kiwanis Club. Entertaining at the after-prom was the band, McA- lister from Indianapolis. 51 Prom