Brookfield Central High School - Legend Yearbook (Brookfield, WI)

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,AENQQK in Rouhne School, as we know it, with its tests, books, and rigidly controlled schedules, does not extend into the summer months. Students begin to anticipate their freedom a few months after school begins in the fall. Summer is a time of independence, when each individual must decide upon his or her own course of action. Whether students plan to work, travel, or merely sleep, vacation is looked forward to as a relief from schooI's arduous routine. There are a whole lot of things I do during the summer, but I couldn't possibly name them all. I like to use summer to its full capacity and yet be lazy at the same time, doing what I can and as much as I can day to day, says Junior Dave Griffin. Relaxation is the primary motive for most students during the summer months. The sleepless nights of the school year are replaced by near hibernation during the first weeks of vacation. During the summer, I like the luxury of sleeping late and then going out to drive at night, perhaps stopping for something to eat, explains Senior Lisa Marks. Summer is a time for friends. Hanging out at a favorite spot with comrades is the most familiar type of socializing. For the younger teenager, who is parentally transported, fast food restaurants provide an excellent meeting place. The older, driving students patronize such places as The Ground Round, where they can be assured good, live entertainment. Highway 100 sees many students driving between the multitude of hangouts that flourish along it. The lakefront is also a popular place for repose, with students huddling before fires in a vain attempt to avoid the chilling lake breezes, or craning their necks to get a good view of the yearly Fourth of July fireworks show. . Time, to try new things or participate in old favorites, remains the most singular and important aspect of summer vacation. Pioneering students learn to enjoy activities that they were previously not introduced to. In one afternoon on a secluded lake, a student first experiences the joy of sailing. Enterprising students plan and complete a weekend bike trip for the first time. Every student gains something from the independence and freedom of these months. Imagination is the only limit to what one can accomplish during the summer. Desires are fulfilled and fantasies are realized until the school year once again looms near and the freedom of summer becomes tedious, almost a routine of its own, and students find relief in a more structured life and a chance to meet their friends at school once again. 11, Summer's favorite and most famous holiday, the fourth of July, culminates with dazzling displays of fireworks ln all cities across the nation. This stupendous burst of colors occured at the Summerfest fireworks, where many thousands of Milwaukee area residents go for the evening festivities. 121 Beautiful sunsets over rolling fields are an lnseperable pert ofthe summer scenery, adding to the splendor of this season. 131 What would summer be without cool, refreshing lakes and sailing on these lakes? Many Centralltes enioy the water and beaches of lakes during their vacations. Q41 As the sun goes down the water becomes placid, and lakes become mostly deserted. 10 f Summer ' 3111- .F Il' 1 e.srmff ggM r .Q . . , I ug. , ,wiir . I A ' g,,f.Qg- L 'fiHr1'f ' ' , ' ' . . ' ff I ' A W -i,?'Af-1.1-:-if-, - . ' 4 R i -- - . 3 i:i'fs1f1f:55if,Wi-'f.i'1l'fl '- 1. ' ' if ' 1 'few-af-f2fl :W-7-will its I f . . :f 3 ' . 1 ' 1 .gi ' .- . . me :5g3E:,5,QL I V , ' .. ' ' 1 ... .1 - , 1 ' .1 ' lf ' ,,,... l1il , ,,wt,,, ,digg 4 - ' ' , - l f ' fewer ' .alL1Fz2l2 I1l ' , . ,. ,Q : V F- ,v rjyafiff . ,5r2gEtg., ',12i,'. B .5:iJlg2 ' ti E ' . I ffllilih, assert 1 - iii i - .-.5 Stl, , f I af- fl I

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At school, I don't fit into any one particular group. I tend to do things with a wide variety of people and many varied groups. Because gf this I get to know more people, and also more different kinds of eop e. I spend my time doing so many different activities that I never get F chance to become great at any single one of them, but I gain some- hing out of every one. There are some people who are just interested n one particular thing, like maybe basketball or something like that, End their life becomes that one thing. I would rather spread myself ut more and have a more general knowledge about many things. I guess that I just feel that it is better to know alittle bit about a lot, nstead of a lot about a little. The important thing is to be yourself, and not to follow a group's standards, but to follow your own. - Kevin Kellems People in school sometimes only seem to be interested in what ey're going to wear tomorrow, who made cheerleading, or who's oing out with whom. And I can't help but think: how boring! Can't ey think of anything outside of Brookfield? To me, Brookfield is not a real world. It is a ghetto in the original ense of the word, a limited community, because it is filled with rich hite people who all think the same way. I would rather get out and ee other parts of the world, meeting new and different people. I don't ant to spend the rest of my life here. And so after I graduate, I'II probably find myself traveling around a t. I don't like to settle down, so I may never even stick with one areer. I just like to try new things. - Kelly Scanlon lndividuaIism is a fatal poison. But individuality is the salt of common life. You may have to live in a crowd, but you do not have to live like it, nor subsist on its food. You may have your own orchard. You may drink at a hidden spring. Be yourself if you would serve others. - Henry Van Dyke Begging to Differ f 9

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