East High School - Quill Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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Senior Sue Treanor answers the phone at Mercy Hospital Admittance, where she worked part- time Junior Vicky Pike works on the switchboard for Answer Iowa, where she was employed. Vicky answered the phone for doctors and lawyers and then paged them. She worked an average of 25 hours per week. STUDENT JOBS 19

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Full-time students work part-time With the increasing cost of entertainment, food, and gasoline, many students had tried or were trying to get part-time jobs after school and on weekends. Finding a good job was not easy and a lot of people couldn ' t get jobs at all. There were many reasons that it was great to have a job. Jobs made people more independent from their parents. Students didn ' t have to bug their moms and dads for money to go out or to put gas in the car. Also, it didn ' t take as long to accumulate the funds to buy different things students wanted. On the other hand, jobs interfered with things students like to do. For instance, having a job was not a good idea during sports seasons because athletes couldn ' t always get time off for practi- ces and games. Often, students had to quit that particular sport. Also, with a job, students didn ' t always have Friday and Saturday nights off. When their friends were out having a good time, there were those students with jobs working until two in the morning. But over all, most people still liked their jobs becasue when they did get to go out, they had plenty of money and had a great time. Junior Jenny Whipple, who worked at Answer Iowa, liked her job because it gave her a lot of extra spending money. Jenny Said, Having a job gives teenagers good training and experience for future jobs. Prices of various things continued to rise, and as the year wore on, more and more students were trying to find part-time employment. It also became more important for students to be able to manage money wisely without wasting much, as dollars became more tough to come by. Senior Laurie Green works hard pricing items at the Hubbell Richman Gordman store. 18 STUDENT JOBS

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Play and Madrigal = success! Comedy has been around since the first plays were written in Ancient Greece, and they might be called Comedy Classics. The Drama Department presented a show entitled just that, Comedy Classics, in the fall. The department ' s comedy skits were not as old as ancient Greece, but nevertheless, they were by all means classics . There were such classics as Carol Burnett ' s Eunice skit and the fam- ous Flight 13 to Nowhere. The rest of the show included such skits as Wall Flowers, Tom Snyder Part I and II, Rent a Car and Twilight Zone. The idea came to Ms. Ruth Gaines, head of the Drama Department, from something similar to what the Drama Department did six years ago. She said that people were very responsive 1 ft to the skits and she decided to try them again. As before, they were a hit. Everyone loved the production and some said Comedy Classics was o ne of the best shows the Drama Department has done in a long time. The department made $189, which was used on the spring play, Curtain Going Up. The Chamber Singers started the 1982-3 school year off with a journey into the past. They went back 700 years to a time when kings and queens ruled over great empires and had great castles with knights in shin- ing armor, damsels in distress, and lowly servant girls who would bow to every whim of the royalty. This was the setting of the Chamber Singers ' second annual Madrigal Dinner. This year ' s Madrigal Dinner was a great success! The singers brought a piece of Merrie Ole Eng- land to over 320 people. TOP LEFT: The Hunchback Fool, senior Kendall Quinn, has just tasted Mr. John Phil- lips ' food to make sure it is suitable for his taste buds. 4 ABOVE: Senior Tom Mentzer plays Mickey in the Eunice skit from the fall play, Comedy Classics. The Eunice skit was written by jun- ior Joe Leonardi. 20 FALL PLAY