Concordia Lutheran High School - Luminarian Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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Enforcing school rules, Mr. Breininger puts a sticker on a car that has parked in one of the forbidden teachers ' slots. Providing more than just an economical means of transportation, some students found biking to school advantageous in terms of health and parking space. Acting as an FTD Florist, Leesa Hilsmier goes out of her way to deliver a Valen- tine ' s Day Flowergram to a patient in the hospital. 20 parking

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Following the great blizzard of 1978, many vehicles became temporarily or permanently damaged. For the Fort Wayne resi- dents who survived the four-day massive snowfall, they had little time to rest before contending with a flood from the melted snow. Reviewing the 70 ' s: local CTjl he seventies were ten years of change for the JL, Fort Wayne area. The following headlines occurred in the last decade: . . . Democrat Ivan Lebamoff ousted longtime in- cumbent Republican mayor Harold S. Zeis. . . . first Coliseum drug busts started when police decided to crack down on rowdy fans. . . . high winds and tornadoes ripped through the city on May 10, 1973. . . . Presidents Nixon and Ford visited. . . . unknown Republican mayoral nominee Robert Armstrong defeated incumbent Democrat Ivan Le- bamoff by a narrow margin of 384 votes. . . . Harding, Northrop and Wayne High Schools were built to reduce the overpopulation at other schools. . . . arson fires destroyed two historic buildings, the Rosemarie hotel and the Bash Building, in two con- secutive nights on the landing. Shortly afterwards, the 14-story Sheraton Hotel was set ablaze. . . . the city celebrated the bicentennial with the opening of The Old Fort. . . . Matt Vogel returned to Fort Wayne a national swim hero having won two gold medals at the Sum- mer Olympics in 1976. . . . the year of the Blizzard was 1978. The storm piled up to 18 inches of wind-whipped snow that kept circulation to a minimum in Fort Wayne. . . . former city councilman Democrat Winfield Mo- ses unseated Republican incumbent Robert Arm- strong in the decade ' s third straight mayoral upset. During the Lebamoff administration, downtown redevelop- ment began; work continued throughout the Armstrong admin- istration. Meyers McCarthy ' s clothing store came in close proximity to the major construction sites.

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More than a place to brake r. ' t w ■ ' ■■ : In the Concordia parking lot after school, Jeff Harrington and Doug Hayes have a friendly discussion concerning the day ' s activities. %JL ' ' hcther arriving early at WW 7:00 a.m. or leaving at 10:00 p.m., all students and facul- ty approached and left the school through one access: the parking lot. Maintaining a certain exclusive- ness about the parking facility, Concordia sold special parking stickers to drivers during regis- tration. Frequently throughout the year, inspector Mr. Terry Breininger checked the stickers for their validity, so relatively few people bypassed the $1.00 fee required to join those with park- ing privileges. If found to be with- out an identification sticker, the inspector would slap on the car a hard-to-remove ticket which fined the owner $5.00. While for some, belonging to the parking club just meant an area to unload and load; to others, it signified a place to meet with friends to scheme, to gossip, to lis- ten to music, to party, or just to chew the fat before or after school. Often the club meta- morphosed into a stage where stu- dents either protrayed Mario An- dretti or publicized their new rods, girl or boyfriends, or loud stereo systems. However, at the start of the sec- ond semester, Vice-Principal of Student Services Terry Brein- inger cracked down on anyone loitering in the parking lot. Pro- claiming over the p.a. system that, the evidence of illegal ac- tivity has created a cause for the elimination of hanging around the parking lot for extended periods of time, Mr. Breininger spent several cold mornings outside in- vestigating incoming club mem- bers. While some students showed little reaction to the new restriction, others responded by relocating the meeting areas to off-school grounds. Junior Rick Dunton remarked, Before the crackdown, the lot was the best place at school to relax, especially since we didn ' t have the student lounge. During the winter the straight lines of cars became distorted as snow occasionally covered the marked parking spots. In these in- stances, morning late-comers had absolutely no change of obtaining a close piece tar; although a great taboo, students seemed to fill the teachers ' reserved spaces on a first-come, first-serve basis. Along with the twirping of the birds and the buds on the trees came a certain aliveness to the general spirit of the parking lot. More than once did student super- visor Mr. Breininger glue his eyes on the apparent rowdiness of the lot members, marked by occasion- al discarded containers and the overall noiseness. He said, I have to watch out for those who have an itching to disregard any of the rules. But like most students af- fected with senioritis in some way, athlete John Frankhouser confessed, When I get in the parking lot, I like to share my AC-DC tapes with everyone. Anyway, there ' s no rule against hearin ' a little music. parking 21