Capac High School - Capacian Yearbook (Capac, MI)

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Capac So, this book of 160 p your lives because thi childhoocj and adulthoo • r T , sport ha CO is Just a step. But a big step i the middle ground 1 Wayne This is iust a step. A step in the lives of some 500 students who shared a common experience: high school Jife. It would be impossible to cover everything that was inu x rtaatl0 each student in 1982 - 83, but hopefully this yearbook will jog your memory. 1982 - 83 was a school year filled with events both here aftoabroad: new wave rock, overpass parties, leg warmers, the Tylenol scare, E.T., record unemployment, Donkey Kong, a winning football team, the Falklands crisis, and ' Pearl ' s lunches. Strolling the hallways of ’Capac High, typical garb in- cluded any thing from sock-ties and leg warmers, to Jor- daches, docksiders, and polo shirts, as opposed to faded bell bottoms, flannel shirts ' and high top canvas Converse. CHS students rocked to tunes.of the group from Down Under , Men at Work, the 50 ' s sounds of the Stray Cats, and hot rocker Billy Squier. We were gagged with a spoon by Moon Unit Zappa ' s single, Valley Girl, and turned on to funk music, thanks to ' The Electrifying Mojo. v- . : ' Tat the energizer! or Jump: were some commonplace statemenfs as the nationwide video game boom gave students a hobby or ju%t an escape from the rigors of school work. Space games Stargate and Defender, Ms. Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, and Centipede were among -the favorites. - has that outstanding reputation and the Chief? dianT downgrade baseball team finished fifth in the state for the second con- secutive year. For the tirst time in eight years, lh team had a winning season. The golf and cross country squads qualified lot state competition, and the basketball team was ranked ninth in the state by the Detroit Free Press fun and games, however, to fall steadily, jobs President Reagan was faced with vene in the ” M J It was not a state of the econom virtually non-existen icision on whet ion between G people were killed b Chicago. The school budget. This meant t could not be improved! Athletes the C.A.P.A.C. group, and for the second year had to pay to plays ■

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— Stepping Into . . . News of ' 82 - ' 83 J Dec. 3 - Barney Clark rests after doctors implant an artificial heart. ( WE WANT J 0 13 S | » COAL - IIMW AUTO - ' ■’Elil-tS 1 Ml a ’ v Oct. 20 - Fans protest NFL Players ' strike, which which cancelled almost 100 games. Oct. 19 - Two of the nation ' s 12 million Americans unemployed, picketing in D.C.