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

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In the studio ol WMEE one ot those two guys ' n the morning, Charlie Butcher, converses with Ira West ol Ira ' s Update about recent television hows. West was best known tor her analysis ot [he television show Dynasty, Photo: McBride T H E FUN .flND FORMAL B»L«A»OK T hE B»L U»E J»E«A«N»S M r. Food, song scrambling, river monster and eggs: bizarre stunts lure listeners The alarm clock read 6:15 — Click! The Maumee River Monster had just been spotted. It looks like it ' s really angry. It ' s coming closer . . . Shaking off a chill of terror, students realized that it wasn ' t a nightmare that they were awakening from, but it was the voices of those two guys in the morning. I would set my alarm clock for 6:00 and then just lay in bed and listen to the radio for 15 more minutes until I was ready to get up. Sometimes I wouldn ' t get out of bed because I was having so much fun listening to the bizarre things Charlie and Tony would do, junior Kristin Bierlem said. The radio stations and their person- alities were known to pull some off- the-wall stunts. It was really funny when Charlie and Tony ran for the mayor ' s office. If I were of age, I would have voted for them, junior Neil Hudson said. I thought it was hilarious when the personalities of WAJI balanced eggs during the equinox, junior Katie Vogel said. Students often enjoyed listening to and participating in the mini game shows in the mornings. It was fun listening to song scram- bling on WZRQ. I could always guess one of the songs, but the other one I usually didn ' t know. I laughed at the people that called in to guess the songs, but didn ' t know them and sounded really stupid, junior John Martin said. I called in twice to guess what Mr. Food was and won both times. The first time I won cheese doodles and then I won Rice-a-Roni. freshman Krista Knepper said. — Kim Klausmeier Mini-Nag

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Placing his Those Two Guys lor mayor sign in his locker, senior Ed DeWitt ad|usts the poster so it will tit- Charlie Butcher and Tony Richards campaigned tor the position and held a tomato throwing contest just for the tun ot it with some ol the candidates. Photo: Cook Choosing mayor and selling a team among Fort Wayne ' s politics The election of the mayor, confusion in the Sharon Lapp case, and other topics revolving around these issues caused the politics in Fort Wayne to involve many debates. I thought the Lapp case caused a lot of debates and was fuel for Helmke ' s fire. It gave Helmke some- thing to talk about and boosted his ego, sophomore Rob Westra said. First came the issue of the Sharon Lapp case. Evidence came to the sur- face that the procedures used In han- dling the case were unprofessional, and it was thought that the police involved had destroyed evidence to cover up acts performed previously by the police department. It was suspect- ed that Lapp had inside information on city officials, and members of the de- partment knew of her files. The circle of chaos caused by the Lapp case caused speculations about who was involved in the murder; this caused excitement and large debates In the city campaign for mayor. De- bates between the two candidates were held, and the Lapp issue was often brought up along with the fact that Mayor Moses ' younger brother was a suspect in a murder case. Campaigning was another major part of the mayoral elections. After being chosen as a late candidate, Paul Helmke started his visual campaigning by placing yard signs in properties. It had originally been stated that no visu- al campaigning could start until 60 days before official campaigning would begin. Declaring this unconstitutional, Helmke took it to court and won. Finally, in the November 3 elections Helmke defeated Moses by 7.7 percent of the votes. The final tally of the votes was Helmke with 26,194 and Moses with 24,179. On January 1, 1988, at noon, Helmke was sworn in. Shortly after entering his new position, Helmke ap- pointed Neil Moore as the new Police Chief. After the election, Helmke and Mo- ses continued to dispute, but this time it was on the issue of the city ' s fund- ing for certain city departments and organizations. In addition to the run with Fort Wayne politics, there was also the selling and buying of the Komet hockey team. Declaring bankrupt- cy, the team was either facing a new owner or no team at all. On August 1, 1987, David Welker bought the team for $300,000 from the previous owner, Bob Ritt. After the purchase, Welker decided to keep the present coach, Robbie Laird. Laird was named the Most Valuable Coach of all North American League coaches and coached the Komets to winning the International Championship. It ' s good that the team got a new owner because after the buy they recruited players and had a winning season, senior Craig Lm- nemeier said. — Allison Staak Long year of practice ends after players and teams clench post-season championships As sure as finding the Lakers and the Celtics in the NBA championship, sports fans across the nation could once again count on exciting culmina- tions of seasons from an array of sporting events. The New York Giants defeated the Denver Broncos 39-20 in Super Bowl XXI. I loved it when they won — it was great, junior Chris Hoeppner said. On New Years Day, the NCAA football championship title was claimed by Penn State when they de- feated Miami of Florida. At Wimbledon, Pat Cash overcame odds against him and beat the 1 seeded player, Ivan Lendl. After his victory he broke protocol and ran up through the stands to celebrate with his father. Martina Navratilova defeat- ed seventeen-year-old Steffi Graf, cap- turing the women ' s Wimbledon title. I.U. fans got a big treat when their team made it to the finals of the NCAA basketball championship. The winner was to be decided on March 30, when I.U. met their match, Syracuse. I.U. came up winners with a last second shot by junior guard Keith Smart, de- feating Syracuse 74-73. I only saw the last few seconds of the game. It was awesome — everyone around just started lumping and screaming, soph- omore Sarah Wade said. The Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics had it out for the NBA championship, with the Lakers defeat- ing the Celtics, the defending champi- ons. In a come-from-behind victory, the Minnesota Twins upset the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series four games to three. In boxing, thirty-one year old Sugar Ray Leonard came out of retirement to meet Marvelous Marvin Hagler in the only title he hadn ' t captured. Leonard was victorious and immediately re- turned to retirement. — Lori McMahan Alter capturing the only title he had never claimed. Sugar Ray Leonard celebrates with his tans and trainer. Leonard defeated Marvelous Marvin Hagler to win the last boxing match ol his career. Photo: Life Magazine A Mini-Nag

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Life in working lane becomes pleasant experience, not a E»A«D»A«C E !§ The bell rang at 3:15; it was time to go home, change into a tacky uniform and head to work. Traffic was dreadful and the time on the clock was tick- ing away. Tonight would be hectic, and the place would be packed with kids. Left behind was the trash for the workers to clean up. Such was the life of a working Cadet. Although students made money, working had its disad- vantages and uneasy moments. I was overworked and un- derpaid as a janitor, senior Steve East said. ' And it per- turbed me when trash was not thrown away. ' It really made me mad when people wouldn ' t be sat- isfied with their orders, soph- omore Monika Witmer said about her job at Jeff ' s Coney. The embarrassing part of working at Connie ' s Shoes was when it would take forever to find a shoe and then it would be the wrong color or style junior Kim Klausmeier said. Even though the disadvan- tages did add up, jobs were often fun and full of learning experiences. 1 felt so stupid in my uni- form; I had to wear a brown dress with a pink hat, sopho- more Jenny Bruckner said. Witmer said she learned new responsibilities while working. Working also en- abled her to meet and make new friends. Mot only were student jobs interesting, but teachers also found fun in what they did. The greatest part of my job was to watch a student say A- ha! I ' ve got it, ' Mr. Don Luepke said. — Tonja Zelt While working at Keltsch Pharmacy on Anthony, junior Wendy Qleave stamps the price tags onto the new candy bar, BarNone. Qleave usual- ly spent her evenings after cross country working there. In addition to weeknights, she also worked some weekends. Photo: Plassman Smiling as she fills a glass of pop, sophomore Monika Witmer concen- trates on doing a good job as her boss, A.B. Afarin. watches her. Photo: Plassman O) Jobs