DeLand Weldon High School - Eagle Spotlight Yearbook (Weldon, IL)

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NANCY BAYLOR: Freshman class presi- dent; Homecoming attendant 1, Band 1, 2, 3, 4; S.V.C. HONOR BAND 1, 3; Music con- test 1, 2, 3, 4 Band president 4; Assistant Drum Major 4; Chorus 4; Musical 2, 4; Jr.- Sr. Play 3, 4; Volleyball, Statistician 2, 3, 4 AFS 1, 2, 3, 4 Treas. Foreign Language Club 1, 2, 3, 4; V. Pres. 3; Pres 4; Year- book 2, 3, 4 Editor Pom-Pon squad 1, 2, 3 treas, 4 cap Illinois girls’ state 3; typing award 3; Honor roll 1, 2; High honor roll 3, 4; Nat. HONOR society 4; Who’s who in America 4; Distinguished American high school students award 3, 4; United States achievement award 3 INTERESTS: playing the piano, listening to music, being with my friends, youth group, helping people solve their problems, and JOHN!!! AMBITIONS: I plan to go to Parkland and take some basic classes. Then I plan on transferring to ISU to major in special education. After college, I hope to find a nice paying job and later get married and have a family. ADVICE TO UNDERCLASSMEN: Make the most out of your high school years, they will be gone before you know it!!! CAMERON BASSETT: Track 1, 2, 3, 4 Basketball 3, 4; Man. 1, 2; Football man. 3, 4; Letterman’s 2, 3, 4 treas. 4; Student council 4; Class vice pres. 4; Nat. Honor Society 2, vice pres. 3, 4; honor roll 2, 3; Premier boys’ state 3; school play 2; chorus 1; Swing chpochoir 1, 2; KTC, Inc. youth program 1, 2; who’s who in America 3; Society of distinguished Americans high school students 3; Citizens advisory Swing choir 1, 2; KTC, Inc. youth program 1, 2; Who’s who in America 3; Society of Distinguished American High School Students 3 Citizens advisory council 4 — for recommendations of earned credits for graduation from D-W High School 4; INTERESTS: Running, eating, traveling, dungeons and dragons good times, games, fast cars, women, rock music, computers. AMBITIONS: I like to get a good paying job, Earn lot’s of money, marry, and live a suc- cessful life, (fat chance!!) ADVISE TO UNDERCLASSMEN: Find a pur- pose in life, be a bad example. JOE BLAZEK: Football 1, 2, 3, 4; D.A.V.C. 3,4 INTERESTS: Loud music, Big parties, cruis- ing, hunting, fishing, motorcycles. AMBITION: To get as far away from Weldon as possible, make lots of zeros behind my check, and to own a Harley Davidson. ADVICE TO UNDERCLASSMEN: Get out as soon as possible. BONNIE BRIGHTON: (Bon Bon) Band 1; Chorus 1, 2, 3, 4; Musical 1, 2, 3, 4; Na- tional Honor Society, 3, 4; Honor Roll 1, 2, 3, 4; Chorus Contest 1, 2, 3, 4; Band Con- test 1; A.F.S. 1, 2, 3, 4; Library Club 1, 2, 3, 4; F.H.A. 2,4. INTERESTS: Piano, swimming, playing ten- nis, jogging, and being with Jered. AMBITION: I plan to attend Miliken Universi- ty for four years and get my Bachelors degree in Elementary Education. Then get a job, get married, and have a family. ADVICE TO UNDERCLASSMEN: Just be yourself, and don’t let people push you around. MIKE BURTON: (Gator) Football 3, 4; Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4; Musical 1, 2, 3, 4; Library Club 2, 3, 4; A.F.S. 1, 2, 3, 4; Track 1; Newspaper 3; F.F.A. 1, 2; Let- termen’s Club 4. INTERESTS: Fast cars, fast women, horses, drawing, being with friends, fishing, hunting, camping, hiking, MONEY. AMBITION: TO own about 360 acres of land to use for a ranch, invest money in stock market and make millions, and live happily ever after. ADVICE TO UNDERCLASSMEN: Take D.A.V.C. so you don’t have to sit in this prison all day. JACK COOK (Jack Fried): Football 4; Baseball 3, 4. INTERESTS: I like hiking, traveling, and meeting new people. AMBITION: To become whatever I become. ADVICE TO UNDERCLASSMEN: To enjoy school while they can. ALAN COWLING: Football 4; Baseball 4; Play 4. INTERESTS: Quick motorcycles, and fast cars. AMBITION: To get a job when I get out of school, buy a car, then buy some land in Wisconsin and build a log-cabin house on it and build up some capital. Then I plan to retire all by the age of forty. ADVICE TO UNDERCLASSMEN: Stay out of trouble and keep being rowdy, otherwise it gets too boring, and the time goes by too slowly!!! BRIAN DANIELS: FFA 1, 2; D.A.V.C. 3, 4; Football 2. INTERESTS: Rock-and-Roll, women, and fast Gremlins!!! AMBITIONS: To get out of this prison and leave this state!! Also to go to Arizona and work, I also might join the Navy. ADVISE TO UNDERCLASSMEN: Stay cool and raise all the heck you can, because I don’t want to come back and do it for you. BONNIE DEANE GERSTUNG: (Bon-Bon) Musical 3, 4; Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Chorus 4; IM- EA District Band 4; High Honors 1, 2, 3, 4; Nat. Honor Soc. 3, 4; Class Treas. 1; Pres. 2; Vice Pres. 3. INTERESTS: Children, camp counseling, storytelling, drama, and piano. AMBITION: To care about people, to love children, and to be all that I can be!!! ADVICE TO UNDERCLASSMEN: Do your best at everything you do. CHRISTOPHER ALLEN HALL: Football 1, 3; Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4; Track 3, 4; Musical 3; Jr.-Sr. Play 3, 4; AFS 1, 2, 3, 4; Foreign Language Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Student Council 4; Letterman’s club 4; Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Americans abroad with AFS to Paraguay, South America. INTERESTS: Most sports, music (listening and playing); LMN 8. AMBITION: Attend Illinois WESLYAN, after high school, to study biology and Pre-med or physics and engineering. Obtain a Ph.D. and either become a college professor of physics and engineering, or an M.D. Some- day I hope to return to Paraguay. CHRISTINE KING: (Lucy!!) Pom-Pon 2, 3; Musical 1, 2; AFS 1, 2, 3, 4; Library club 1, 2; Chorus 1,2; D.A.V.C. 3, 4; FHA 1,2; INTERESTS: Guys, dancing, football, food, and most of all PARTYING!!! AMBITIONS: To leave Weldon as soon as possible. To become disgustingly rich and to live happily ever after!!! ADVICE TO UNDERCLASSMEN: Just be yourself and let the good times roll!!! ELIZABETH KINGSTON: (Leonard!) Volleyball 1, 2, 3, 4; Softball 2; Football stats 2, 3, 4; D.A.V.C.; Homecoming atten- dant 2; Homecoming Queen 4; Proba- tionary member to Nat. Honor Soc. 2, 3; Nat. Honor Soc. 3, 4; Class vice pres. 1, 2; class pres. 3, 4; AFS Host sister 2; AFS 1, 2; Pres. 3 Letterman’s 1, 2, 3, 4; sec. 3, vice pres. 4; Student council 1, 2, 4; FHA 1, 2, 3, 4; Pom-Pon 1 INTERESTS: Volleyball, people, and playing the piano. AMBITIONS: To become a nurse, to get married, and have two children. BONITA LANDSTROM: D.A.V.C. 3, 4; AFS 4 INTERESTS: Guys, spending time with friends, having fun, and partying!!! AMBITION: To get a good paying job after I get out of school, and out of this big town of Weldon!!! ADVICE TO UNDERCLASSMEN: Just be yourself, and try to make the best of this school. GARY LENZ: (FLASH!) Football 1, 2, 3, 4; Basketball 2, 3, 4; Baseball 1, 2, 3, 4; Volleyball scoreboard keeper 2, 3, 4; Girls basketball scoreboard keeper 2, 3, 4; Let- terman’s club 3, 4; Class student council rep. 1; Student council 1, 4; AFS 1, 2, 3, 4; Foreign la ng 2; Nat. Honor Soc. 3, 4; Honors reception 1, 2, 4; Newspaper staff 1; Yearbook staff 2, 3, 4; Yearbook treas. 4; Math team 1, 2; Quiz team 4; Boys’ state 3; Jr.-Sr. play 3, 4; Musical 1, 2, 3, 4; Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Drum major 4; Chorus 1, 2, 3, 4; Choir council 2, 3; Chorus Pres. 4; SVC Honor Chorus 2; IMEA Dis. Chorus 1, 2, 3, 4; IMEA all-state honors chorus 3, 4; INTERESTS: Golf, tennis, females, and other sports. Food (for pigging out!), being a spectator, hearing and telling good gossip, music of almost all kinds, and be- ing out with my friends. AMBITIONS: I hope to study speech com-

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Christopher Hall Pamela Jennings Christine King Elizabeth Kingston Bonita Landstrom

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munications at EIU, SPECIFICALLY radio and T.V. broadcasting. Then I want to pay all of my bills, settle down, and be the next Dan Roan of channel 3!! ADVICE TO UNDERCLASSMEN: When those about you act like real jerks, sometimes you have to try to forget them, and say “Oh what the heck”! SCOTT MASSEY: (Chronic) Football 1, 2; AFS 1,2, 3; FFA 1,2,3; INTERESTS: Parties, sex, drugs, and rock- n-roll, motorcycles, and automechanics. AMBITIONS: To own a small liquor store in Weldon, and to become rich enough to buy my own brewery; hopefully Anheiser- Busch, St. Louis, Mo. Also, to open my own shop for autos and build a street rod. ADVICE TO UNDERCLASSMEN: Party! YUHANI MA’TTO’: Yearbook 4; AFS 4 ACTIVITIES: Chess, fishing, horseback riding, listening to music, and tennis. AMBITION: After my Senior year, I’m going back to Finland to school. I have two years left before going to my University, after those two years, I have to join the Army (8-11 mo.). Then, back to the University. ADVICE TO UNDERCLASSMEN: I don’t know because I have never been an underclassmen!! NICOLE MULVANEY: (Nici) Pom-Pon 1, 2, 3, 4; Capt. 3; Musical 1, 2, 3; Basketball 1; AFS 1, 2, 3, 4; Foreign Language 1, 2; Class sec. 1, 2, 3, 4; FHA 1, 2, 3, 4; Newspaper 1; Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Chorus 1, 2, 3; Who’s who among Am. High School Students 3 INTERESTS: Reading, dancing, good music, and good times with friends. AMBITIONS: To finish my Senior year at D- W High, then go to Illinois State Univ. and receive a degree in psychology, teach for a few years, then get married and have two children. ADVICE TO UNDERCLASSMEN: When you finally reach your Senior year, be proud you have made it that far, and be sure to make that last year the most memorable of all. GOOD LUCK!! PAMELA JENNINGS: (KONG) Volleyball 1, 2, 3, 4; Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4; Softball 3, 4; Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Musical 1, 2, 3; Jr.-Sr. Play 3, 4; Nat. Honor Soc. 3, 4; Girls’ state track 1, 3; AFS 1, 2, 3, 4; Spanish club 1, 2, 3, 4; Lettermans club 2, 3, 4; Student council 4 INTERESTS: Eating, sports, cruising Clinton square, getting rowdy, meeting tall guys, stacking and taping lockers shut, and clowning around. AMBITIONS: To go to E.I.U. and play volleyball. Become a C.P.A. and get a part- ner of Wingstrom, Jennings, Swartz, Carr, Inc. After getting a good start on my career, I want to marry a tall, good looking man, and live in a moderately humongous city! ADVICE TO UNDERCLASSMEN: Make high school fun! Stay rowdy, and don’t underestimate the power of Mr. Bowen! TINA JONES: AFS 2, 3, 4; Library club 2, 3, 4; D.A.V.C. 4; Musical 2 INTERESTS: Expensive cars, good looking men, Garfield, and money. AMBITIONS: To get a job after getting out of the big town of DeLand. Get married and have two kids. ADVICE TO UNDERCLASSMEN: Try to stay out of trouble!! STACEY RIDDLE: (Toots!) Volleyball 1, 2, 3, 4; Basketball 3, 4; Band 1, 2; Chorus 1, 4; Vice pres. 4; FHA 1, 2, 3, sec. 4; Musical 1, 4; Jr.-Sr. play 4; Yearbook staff 4; Cheerleader 1, 2; INTERESTS: Playing volleyball or basket- ball, waterskiing, singing pretty songs, cats (especially my cat, Sammy), Being with good friends and having a good old time, and spending time with DEANO!!! AMBITIONS: I plan on going to college at WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY and major in social welfare. I plan on having a good and successful career, and enjoy what I do for a living (I don’t want to be saying “We treat you right” all my life!!). I also plan on making big sums of money! I would also like to get married some day and have a couple of kids too. I figure that by the time I am 30 years old, I will be living in style and have all of life’s little pleasures. If so, I will hold the 1984 class reunion in my $2000.00 per week penthouse, and all my fellow seniors (rich or poor) will be more than welcome to attend!! Thank you. ADVICE TO UNDERCLASSMEN: The best advice of all... ACT LIKE UNDERCLASSMEN!!! Just keep in mind, “your time will come”! And yet, if it doesn’t. . .it wasn’t meant to be anyway!! HA, HA, HA! TRACY RIDDLE: (Crash) FHA 1, 2, 3, vice pres. 4; yearbook 2, 3, 4; AFS 1, 2, 3; Cheerleader 1, 2, 3; Jr.-Sr. play 3, 4; volleyball 1, 2, 3, 4; Band 1, 2; D.A.V.C. 4; Honor roll 2, 3, 4; Honors reception 2; Let- terman’s club 3, 4; INTERESTS: Water skiing, being with my friends, music, Journey and Styx!! and having good times with me and my Bianco!! AMBITIONS: I would like to go on to col- lege, and major in something that is right for me. What that something is, I’m unsure as of right now. Eventually, I want to settle down, get married, raise a family, and be very rich! (oh, the pleasures of life!!) ADVICE TO UNDERCLASSMEN: Always remember that your time will come. Until then, respect those who have already been there! Also, make the most of your high school years, because they are gone before you know it. ROBB LAWRENCE WALTERS: (Stubby) Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4; Track 1, 2, 3, 4; Baseball 2, 3, 4; Musical 2, 3; Disciplinary advisory council 3; Jr.-Sr. play 4; Letter- man’s club 2, 3, 4; Newspaper 1, 2, 3, 4; Student council 4; INTERESTS: Women!!! Good food, candlelight and soft music, and I like all sports, interesting books, old war movies, partying, and last but not least going to Ur- bana, picking up Blanchard, and cruising campus scoping out the chics!! AMBITION: I would like to go on to college. I’m not sure where just yet. Eventually I’d like to complete my education and become a marketing agent for a large cor- poration. But. . .I’ll probably be a farmer! Ha Ha!! ADVICE TO UNDERCLASSMEN: Don’t follow the crowd! Be yourself! Develop your own personal characteristics and leadership qualities. Above all, relax and enjoy the few years ahead of you here at D- W. . .because they are truly the best years of your life!! TODD WINGSTROM: (Winger) Baseball 1, 2, 3, 4; Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4; Football 1, 2, 3, 4; Track 3, 4; FFA 1; Letterman’s club 2, 3, 4; Pres. 4; Student council 3, pres. 4; Class treas. 2; Homecoming court 1, 3; Homecoming king 4 INTERESTS: Women, all sports, gambling, and taking Cardinal fans money! AMBITIONS: To go to college, get a job. get as rich as I can, and spend it all except $100,000. Then get married and have some little winger’s and spoil them until they’re 18. Also to become the replace- ment of Jimmy the Greek on NFL Today. ADVICE TO UNDERCLASSMEN: To be good little kids and never ever get into trouble. Be sure you always play in the streets, and in big tall trees. Also don’t forget to grow up and become terrorists, otay, 0-0-0tay!!! STEPHANIE WORKMAN: Volleyball 1, 2, 3, 4; Cheerleading 1, 2, 3; Class Treasurer 3, 4; Homecoming Attendant 3, 4; Student Council 3; FHA 1, 2, 3, 4 Pres.; AFS 1, 2, 3; Letterman’s 3, 4 INTERESTS: Bryan, playing volleyball, horses, and having fun on weekends!!! AMBITION: Go to college for a degree in computer programming and business management, get a job and work my way up the ladder. After my career has got a good start, I plan on getting married and later on starting a family. ADVISE TO UNDERCLASSMEN: Your high school years go by fast so have all the fun you can!!!