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

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Joy and exuberance expressed as faculty members plunged into marriage, rejoiced with new arrivals brought by stork Wedding bells and baby cries were sounds heard in the ears of some of the teachers on the staff. On the four- teenth of June, Miss Lisa Schroer be- came Mrs. Lisa Wesley. New computer teacher, Mr. Dave Bahr, was married during the summer before the school year got started, and Mr. Tim LaCroix was also involved with wedding plans. He proposed to a woman he ' d dated for three years and gone to both high school and college with. We were good friends during that time, but nev- er dated until we were out of college, LaCroix said. Mark proposed to me on my twen- ty-sixth birthday, and at our wedding my father not only gave me away but also participated as the pastor. It took a while for students to get used to my name change, but then, I decided that if they wanted to call me Miss Schroer I ' d let it go, instead of correcting them every time they called me by the wrong name, Wesley said. Teachers brought their babies to school functions every now and then, so students and faculty could see them. Having Ryan added a lot of work and a lot more planning ahead. With having to get up and feed him through the night, I didn ' t get much sleep, Mrs. Judy Teague said. Having Kurt changed my life dras- tically. I had to plan everything around a baby, like making sure I had enough supplies everywhere we went. It wasn ' t as easy to just get up and go any- more, Mrs. Joan Grossman said. Mothers weren ' t the only people bragging about their children. Mr. Jeff Limmer, father-to-be, was busy not only spreading the news that he was going to be a daddy but preparing for all the fun times ahead. Teachers said changes were part of the fun in their lives. Seeing him change, and hearing him say his first words was really neat. He was always a good natured boy, Grossman said. It was nice to have someone to go home to and talk to about the ups and downs of the day, and know that they care and will always be there for me with my best interest at heart, Wes- ley said. — Tonja Zelt While relaxing from the Inn and games during! the faculty party at Mr. Fred Weiss ' home. Mrs! Joan Grossman spends time with her son Kurtl Grossman said that although changes did take place with having a new baby, the good times made it all worth it. Photo: Hebel Misfortune curses Democrats as Republicans continue to build platforms around beliefs Let the people decide, chanted the group of 300 supporters at the cam- paign party. Excitement rushed through the air. Some of the support- ers were still there, but not all of them. Many of Gary Hart ' s supporters were gone after he was accused of having an affair with Donna Rice. After dropping out because of the Donna Rice affair and then getting back in, I didn ' t think he had the wel- fare of the country in mind. It was his own welfare he was concerned about, senior Scott Reese said. It took some guts to get back in. He was really crazy to do it though. All it did was split the Democratic party up more so than it already had, Mrs. Diane Lewis said. Hart was not the only Democrat who got into trouble. Joe Biden dropped out of the race because his plagiarism was exposed. The remaining Democratic candi- dates were Jesse Jackson, Gary Hart, Paul Simon, Richard Gephardt, Bruce Babbit, and Al Gore. Republican candi- dates were Robert Dole, George Bush, Pat Robertson, Alexander Haig, Pete Dupont, and Jack Kemp. The Democrats needed a candidate that hadn ' t been in trouble. Hart could have had a chance but he messed up. Of the Republicans, Bush was the best, sophomore Rob Westra said. The best two candidates were George Bush and Robert Dole. They had been in the longest and had the most experience. They also weren ' t a part of the Democratic party, which would probably help because of all the trouble some of the Democrats were having, Lewis said. — Julie Chickedantz In order to gain support, Sen. Robert Dole meets with women at a nursing home for a Republican meeting. Photo: Newsweek Mini-Mag

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ifi t From the weekly series to the silver screen, ac- tors made their way up the ladder ot success. STARS ABANDON SHOWS By lamie Diehm A wave of panic swept through the air as fingers paged through the T.V. Guide and the favorite show could not be found anywhere. Eyes rapidly scanned the pages in hopes of finding it. The agony of defeat was overwhelm- ing; the program had been cancelled. The fall television season brought with it new as well as old shows. Returning shows appeared with new characters. With Shelley Long gone from Cheers and Bruce Willis divid- ing his time between Moonlighting and movie making, some students felt as if there was something missing from the shows. ' Cheers ' seemed different after Shelley Long left the show. Since she ' d always been on, it was weird not seeing her. The new lady (that took her place) was too mean, but was a bet- ter actress, sopho- more Jason Stuart said. I really liked Shelley on ' Cheers. ' Even though a lot of people didn ' t. I still thought she was I, freshman Jenny Diemer said. Moonlighting, previously a popu- lar show, seemed to have lost its touch this season by showing mostly reruns. I was upset when I realized the shows played would be reruns because I was tired of the old ones and wanted to see something new, junior Mandy Burkholder said. Senior Amy Krocker was also upset because she wanted to see David and Maddie together more since they final- ly got together before the reruns were shown. After shows such as Hill Street Blues and Scarecrow and Mrs. King were cancelled, new series took their place. My Two Dads, Thirty- Something, and Married with Chil- dren were just a tew. Although some of these got good reviews, students had mixed feeling about them. The new shows were really enter- taining. They kept me interested be- cause they were so good, Diemer said. Most of the new shows dealt with families. They should ' ve done some- thing different such as made shows that dealt with high school, Stuart said. The lack of creativity could have kept some students from watching the new programs. ' Slap Maxwell ' was so stupid! They tried to make it funny by copying off of all the other comedy shows, but it really didn ' t work, senior Laura Zelt said. It was obvious that a few of the shows that were on this season didn ' t have much creativity behind them. It seemed that not much time was spent on creating the episodes because some comedy situations appeared in more than one show, Krocker said. FREQUENT FLOPS Although 1987 pro- duced a box office record of over $4 bil- lion, it also came up with its share of flops. by Susan Slalder Imagine sitting in a movie theater, feet stuck to the ground because of spilled pop. dozing off and being startled, only to wake up to tomato stains on the screen because of the movie being so bad. The worst movie of the year had to have been ' Ishtar. ' I ' m really sur- prised it even made enough money to advertise, movie critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert said. The movie industry depended on the viewers opinions, and so they could only put out the best movies, but some bad ones also slipped through. There were more bad movies in the beginning of the year, but that ' s how it always was, Mr. Dave Kusch said. The industry always started out slow, and then produced better movies. There were many different opinions among students at Concordia as to the worst movie of the year. I thought Three Amigos ' was one of the worst movies. It was so stupid that half of the jokes weren ' t even worth the laughs they got. senior Chad Van- natta said. Another movie thought to be a flop from 1987 was Robocop. sopho- more Kan Forsberg said. It was just so unrealistic and hard to believe — plus, there wasn ' t enough action to hold my attention . It seemed others in the theater lost attention too. The writers intended it to be a comedy, but the jokes just flew by. I thought that Superman IV ' was the worst. It |ust wasn ' t as good as the other three, and it was really stupid. sophomore Michelle Poole said. Mini-Nag Trends

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D A T E : B»(M JANUARY term. — Anglican envoy Terry Waite vanishes in Beirut. JULY — Snow White turns 50. FEBRUARY — Fred Astaire dies at age 88. — Beulah Mae Donald success- fully sues the Ku Klux Klan for $7 AUGUST million. — Four-year-old Cecilia Chichan is the sole survivor of Northwest APRIL Airlines crash that killed 158 pas- — U2 ' s The Joshua Tree is re- sengers in Detroit. leased. SEPTEMBER MAY — Players in the National Foot- —Tom Cruise and Mimi Rogers ball League strike. marry. — Pope John Paul II visits the — 37 American soldiers killed in U.S. the Iraqi missle attack on the USS Stark. OCTOBER — Stock market drops record JUNE 500 points. — Margaret Thatcher wins third E arth quakes as Fort Wayne shakes, baffles students Mice scampered about in hidden cor- ners, trucks rumbled down the high- way, |ets roared overhead, large hospi- tal carts rolled down the hallway, and tornadoes approached ... or did they 7 At 6:49 p.m. on June 10, 1987, students used these and other more typical occurrences to explain what was going on during a rather unique one. I was sitting in my living room watching television when I felt my chair shake, junior Diana Sheets said. I thought someone was just kicking it. All of the commotion they felt and heard was not actually due to any of these sources, but to an earthquake. Centered in Lawrenceville, Illinois, the earthquake was felt across sixteen states, from Missouri to South Caroli- na, and parts of Canada. This was the largest one that had occurred in this area in nearly twenty years, measuring 5.0 on the Richter Scale. Because of the earthquake was such an out-of-theordinary event, many people remembered exactly where they were and what they were doing when it hit. I was in a bus in Chi-Chi ' s parking lot, sophomore Heather Jones said. When I felt the bus moving, I thought it was just someone outside shaking the bus until I realized that there was no one there. I was in my basement sitting on a couch, freshman Vivian Nitecki said. I was praying at the time, and when the earthquake hit I was so paranoid. I had no idea what it was and I didn ' t want to know. Although the earthquake was eerie for some, many also enjoyed the uniqueness of it. I thought the earth- quake w as cool, senior Chad Van- natta said. It was interesting because nothing like that usually happens in Fort Wayne. — Sara Hebel Ramps, elevator rise to accessibility When the new Concordia building was first constructed in 1963, some things were left out; and, as a result, the building was inaccessible to students in wheelchairs. Mr. James Sherbondy, In a demonstration of being handicapped. |umor Rob Lewis gets stuck at the stairs. Over the summer, an elevator will be added to alleviate this problem. Photo: McBnde the school ' s original architect, has been in the process of redesigning parts of the school in order to meet the need. Parts of all of the entrance steps will be converted into ramps, and an elevator will be put up in order to make all three floors accessible. Sherbondy said. Upon its completion before the 1988 school year. Concordia will be the only parochial high school that is accessible, and will join Wayne and Northrop in accessibility. Accessibility is an excellent idea. The elevator will be able to benefit other students as well, like those on crutches, or with other temporary dis- abilities. senior Darcy Robinson said. Although much of the school will need alterations, parts are already ac- cessible. According to Sherbondy. the auditorium, which is equipped with ramps both on the inside and on the outside, is one of those areas. — Michelle Dorothy Mini-Mag