Carroll High School - Cavalier Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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Other rrendy lirrle irems appeared on rhe scene; painter hors and camoflage ourfirs were worn wirh flair and somerimes for a reason. I hove to wear my painter hat, confided Steve LaBundy, to cover up my hair when ! don ' t have time to wash it. My camoflage pants are easy to get on and off, confided Drew Anderson, and 1 like that. Kinky little pins were used to spruce-up an outfit and Beatle pins surfaced again. Besides what one was wearing, listening to or watcfiing, reading certain books was also in . Troy Bussen denied carrying computer graphics books to look chic, but the crowd knew better. On the other hand, books of the grosser nature were also popular. Even Mr. McKinney was seen reading Tofolly Gross Jokes. That isn ' t true, and anyway those jokes are really sick, denied Mr. M. Didn ' t read ' em ey? Some other trends were also on the move. Alcoholism was spreading as the National Council on Alcohol stated that 500,000 teens between the ages of 14 and 17 were alcoholics. Teenage suicide increased to 6,500 and anorexia nervosa claimed many more lives. Yet some more desireable changes became fashionable, like not smoking. Smoking, once one of the coolest things to do, was on a shift out. I ' m glad that smoking is getting to be anti-social now, because I can ' t stand all of those too cool dudes puffing in my face, replied one sophomore. With men trying to look like women, women trying to look like they just finished exercising, et al, no one can say that 1984 was not a trendy year. — Sylvia Gordon KEEPINGUP

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av=5rnet - eO Trends ore Undeniably Unpredicroble. This is a fact rhor even our grondporenrs would nor orgue. If anyone would have rold us rwo years ogo rhor we would be worshiping a 6 ' 2 singing rronsvesrire from England, we would hove whined, I am Sooo sure. If, when preppies were going strong, ir would hove been predicted rhor wearing rorn, grey swearshirrs wirh slopped-on lerrering would be rhe rage in ' 83, we would hove exdaimed, LIKE I JUST CANNOT BELIEVE IT. Trends are ever-changing and rhis year was nor ro be ourdone by rhe previous years. From Rubiks Cube ro per rocks, rrend wars ore olwoys being foughr. Opus is moving up quickly on Garfield, E.T. is fading, Izod is being splashed by rhe rrendier Oceon Pacific and Walkmans hove all bur ruined rhe jam box croze of yesrerday. Punk music rolled over and died. Few wepr rhor passing fad, and most rejoiced over rhe rebirth of blue gross pop music. Names like Duron Duron, The Romonrics and Culrure Club rook over. Michael Jackson caught his hair on fire and or rhe some rime ser our heorrs on fire wirh his chart-topper album Thriller . Music hisrory repeored itself: our music heroes began to wear moke-up again. At firsr I rhoughr it wos pretty sick, stated Holly Churchward, but ofter owhile I started to like it. Lisa Krick felt differently, I love Boy George ' s music, but I ' m not sold on his image. Jerry Word felt stronger, I think they oil look really fruity . . . bur I ' m NOT jealous. KEEPING UP

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The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat has to be the most renown saying in sports history, and to junior Mark Stout, this little saying tells it all. The sport he competes in is motocross. Motocross is a sport of man and machine against the rough terrain of a carefully designed race track. This sport isn ' t for everyone; it requires balance, extreme physical strength and flat out guts to hold the throttle wide open. Mark takes his rac- ing seriously. One look at his Huntertown driveway tells it all. His two Kawasaki KX 126 ' s sit neatly in a large enclosed trailer which is pulled by a luxury van. It relaxes me to know I ' ve got good equipment; that means all I have to do is ride well, explain- ed Mark. And ride well he does; moving from a minibike to a 125 A rider (semiprofessional bikes) all in three years is quite an accomplish- ment. It was great. Things just started to happen, after I finished 6th in the state 125 B Class in ' 83 and got to move up to Class A , I was pumped. All of this sounds like a sure journey to the top, but, like most success stories, there are set- backs — crucial ones. At one of the races ' last year, a first turn crash left him with torn knee ligiments, which required extensive surgery and staying away from racing for nine months. Mark had found out that with the thrill of victory there comes a lot of agony. Now that he is recover- ing, Mark is planning for his semi-professional debute. He is then hop- ing to drop the semi part of his title and achieve his life long dream of becoming a pro- fessional motocrosser. — Bryan Hoffman KEEPING UP A Popular misconcep- tions about breal danc- ing are that one must be a skilled dancer with built in rhythm and be from New York. However, Dexter Carter, CHS ' s premiere rap dancer learned how in only two days. My cousin and I were watching them do it on ' Entertainment Tonight ' and we just started fooling around with it, said Dexter. When I don ' t have anything to do around the house, I dance in my room . . . usually about thirty minutes a night, he continued. I dance to The Planet Rock (his favorite rock group), but now we ' ve got the ' Thriller Video ' and I ' m BREHKINC IT