Dieruff High School - Ledannus Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

Page 8 text:

Years Of An Extra Year At Dieruff High Is An Extra Year Of Memories Four years ago the Allentown School Board decided to renovate the education system. They changed all the Junior High Schools into Middle Schools, and added ninth grade to the high schools. This last decision, to put freshmen at Dieruff, affected us first. The Senior Class of 1986 was the first class of freshman at Dieruff, and the first class to graduate with four years of high school. The transition wasn't easy. We lost a year in junior high, the year we would have been seniors there. Then we came to Dieruff and got lost in the hallways, amid upperclass- men cursing the dumb freshmen. We certainly felt unwanted those first few weeks at a new high school. However, soon after that, as we became involved at Dieruff, we real- ized we were a lot luckier than we LOOKING FOR A FUTURE APARTMENT? Lovebirds Eric Johnson and Linda Terplan, adorned with each other's class ring hanging from their necks, share a quiet moment to- gether and read the newspaper. thought. We had a head start, an ex- tra year to get involved in all the activities Dieruff had to offer to us. An extra year to get to know all the teachers, an extra year of electives to choose from, an extra year to spend, united as a class. We had the opportunity to create another whole year full of high school memories for ourselves. We got another year of the privileges and responsibilities that go hand in hand with being near-adults, almost ready for the world. And maybe, just maybe, that extra year at Dieruff of homework, teachers, lockers, and studying, made our Senior year, the prom, graduation exercises, and all that goes with it, that much more special and important. We finally made it! WHAT ARE THE ANSWERS? George Ellon and Diane Thomas secretly meet at their li- brary rendevous to either discuss what ques- tions might appear on an upcoming test or to exchange the day's latest gossip. w DAYDREAMING. Senior Kevin Kiefer sits quietly in the cafeteria and possibly daydreams about life after graduation while Senior Joe Miller keeps going strong by hitting the books.

Page 7 text:

Table Of Contents Friends 16 Fun 110 Hard Work 142 Achievement 168 Being A Husky 186

Page 9 text:

HIGH THIS ISN'T THE WAV MOM SHOWED ME! Senior Mike Tocci looks fight at home a he craftfully demonstrates his carpentry skills by building some sort of wooden contraption in shop class. TAKE A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE Sophomore Bobbi-Jo Mosser, who races out of the doors when the 3 o'clock bell rings, anxiously makes her way home with an armful of books as friends fol- low closely behind.