Classical High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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LEFT: Mike Smart and Jeff Toomey are caught larly when someone's parents clowning around at the Big E. ABOVE: Mary Owens unwisely left town for the studies Springfield’s Fourth of July fireworks. weekend. Or else the crazed ; ; masses of school chums would congregate in the most bizarre places in order to so- cialize: movie house parking lots, thick woods, or deserted cemeteries. Birthday parties also occu- pied much time, whether they ‘were traditional sweet-sixteen bashes or casual cake-and-ice cream orgies. And who could forget those graduation par- ties, the nights of wild aban- don and joyous celebration over the fact that high school was finished. Many Central students at- tended city celebrations com- memorating Springfield’s 350th birthday in 1986, or the Fourth of July festivities that lit up the sky in an impressive display of fireworks. And final- ly, the Big E drew thousands of people to its midways after dark where friends met to test their skills on the games, to experience the amusing rides, or just to stroll around in an attempt to catch someone’s eye. After all, who wants to spend a night out alone? Megan McDonald and Marisa Vumbaca PAR ARCA TRAE ie Tg copaatee ai Rana CRNA RTM SNe tageeane' . hee Jes Aine ARERR ee AIEEE oy TOP RIGHT: Andy Crespo celebrates his 17th birth- day with a homemade cake. RIGHT: Bryan Cal- deron prepares to win a prize at the Big E. NEAR RIGHT: Donna-Michelle White and Amy Shea happily enter a cellar Party. NIGHTLIFE 11

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ABOVE: Marsha Stack and Maria Falvo relax in the Zone art room. RIGHT: The Zone often has free-for-all art exhibits. CENTER: Studio New York displays an appropriate skyline. TOP: James Conz and Mike Sawyer ex- plore a forest scene at the Zone. ABOVE: Bill Waters imitates “The Hustler.” 10 NIGHTLIFE Welcome to the Wonderful World of Nightlife! You know exactly what that is, don’t you? That is the exquisite pe- riod of time between dusk and dawn when parents, school, and other life-threatening pressures fade away into dark- ness and beautiful, vivid im- ages bask in neon light. In other words, you get to go out. But now that you're free, where do you go? Well, the way most industrious stu- dents look at it, there are three intelligent choices as to how to be entertained for an evening. For instance, the Zone Art Center on Dwight Street in downtown Springfield offered its audience the chance to take in live local bands, pro- gressive art exhibits, and lots of atmosphere each time it opened its doors. The new- wave and punk-influenced music that the club usually. featured attracted basically a group of people open to expe- riencing new aspects of culture. Of course clubs were not the only scenes developing during the hours around mid- night. There was almost al- ways a Party going on, particu- LEFT: Megan McDonald and Bill Goldschmidt en- joy the live music that the Zone frequently pre- sents. ABOVE: Julie Mas- trianni and Jim Robinson have their cake and eat it too!

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Right: Bill Waters and Joe Holt in concert on their ‘86 world tour. Below: A mere frac- tion of today’s (and yesterday’s) music. KS! STNG | . i 7 ‘ re tne F . SS ie a MODERN ART Where would the people of this country be without their daily dose of culture? The radio, the component stereo, and MTV have be- come indispensible institu- tions. A day without music is about as much fun as a day of camping naked in the Antarctic. Whether your tastes include Pop, Bop, New Wave, Classical, Punk, Funk, Junk, Rhythm and Blues, Folk, Heavy Metal, Jazz, Hardcore, Country, Chamber music, Bayou blues, Elevator muzak or just good old Rock-n-Roll, your local record shop can most likely accommodate you. On the other hand, over the past few years, MTV has finally begun to show some dignity and some class. Their 1986 MTV video awards show was far more respectable and interesting than that of the previous year. Because of MTV the question has be- come “Have you seen that 12 LEISURE video?’’, not “Did you hear that song?” We would be negligent in our journalistic duties if we were to omit a favorite American past-time: the movies. Over the summer, the theatre was home to such blockbusters as “‘Top Gun”, the romantic trials of a top fighter pilot; ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’’, one man’s struggle to take it easy; ‘Aliens’’, a battle for- survival against brood of vi- cious monsters; “The Fly’’, the gruesome tale of a man gentically fused with a com- mon housefly; and several other motion pictures which horrified, amused, and amazed the American movie-going public. Glenn Cratty Above: Even though each trip to the movies represents a small fortune, they are still a very important part of the entertainment scene.