Corunna High School - Sphix Yearbook (Corunna, MI)

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All this history brings us to this school year. “Pieces of the Puzzle?” you may wonder. What is the puzzle and what are its pieces. An old saying goes, “Life is a jigsaw puzzle with most of its pieces missing.” The missing pieces represent our future achievements, while the existing pieces depict memories of the past. The events and happenings of the past year may be fresh in mind now, but in a few years perhaps this yearbook, filled with the memories of today, will piece the puzzle back together. With this thought, the editors and staff of the 1987-1988 Corunna High School Year- book present “Pieces of the Puzzle.” Table of Contents Academics: Fitting the Pieces. 10 Seniors: The Last Pieces of the Puzzle. 32 Juniors: Only a Few Pieces Left. 50 Sophomores: Sorting Through the Pieces. 60 Freshman: Getting Into the Puzzle. 70 Student Life: The Mazes of High School Life. 80 Sports: The Fit Pieces of the Puzzle. 90 Activities: Extra Pieces of the Puzzle. 114 Advertising: Making the Puzzle Possible. 136 s

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The school board promptly initiated the construc- tion of a new two-story brick building. This school was known as Corunna Union School. In the early years of the nineteenth century, Corunna Schools ranked among the best in the state. This was due to the diverse courses of study, the quality of facilities, and the dedication of the instructors. At that time, Corunna was one of the few schools in Michigan whose students were admitted to most of the state’s higher educational institutions without an entrance ex- amination. Around fifty percent of Corunna graduates entered college, and in 1904, this figure rose to seven- ty percent. In 1908, the Corunna Union School was destroyed by fire and was replaced by the Shiawassee Street School. The most dramatic growth of the Corunna School District occurred in the late 1950’s as a result of the annexation of twenty-three rural country school districts. After this, the school district covered a total of ninety square miles. Because of this growth, three elementary schools and a high school were built, And in 1976, our current high school was completed and opened to students.

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Social, Political and Economical Marine lieutenant colonel Oliver North made most of the headlines in 1987 with his role in the Iran-Contra affair. North was a key official in the plan to finance anti-government rebels in Nicaragua with money from arm sales to Iran. To some. North was a hero — to others. North was a villian. In an effort to keep the Persian Gulf open to navigation, the US. began in July to escort vessels to protect them from Iran. In Septem- ber the U.S. Navy blew up an Iranian ship that was caught laying mines in the Gulf. Several mines were confiscated. The Senate rejected President Reagan’s nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court by a 58-42 vote, which ended a long contentious debate over a judge alternately portrayed as a brilliant jurist and a dangerous extremist. The Dow Jones industrial stock average dropped 508 points, the largest in history, on Monday. October 19. 1987. Some called it a crash.” others called it Black Monday. Whatever it was. it stripped $500 billion from the market value of U.S. securities. Television evangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker said farewell to the Praise the Lord ministry in March. Jim Bakker resigned after confessing to a sexual encounter with a young woman. Tammy Bakker bowed out of the broadcasts to under go treatment for drug dependency.