Galesburg Augusta High School - Rambler Yearbook (Galesburg, MI)

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FALL BANOUETS G—a Basketball placed 4th in the KVA with a record of 9 wins and 8 losses. Vickie Born, Karen Hermanns, and Dana Moses were captains. Vickie Born was chosen All-KVA for three years, Honorable Mention were Paula Allen, Karen Hermanns, and Kim Kolodizieizych. Vickie was Most Valuable Player and Leslie Howard was cho¬ sen Most Improved Player. This was also Vickie’s 4th year on varsity. The assistant coach was John Kolodizieiz¬ ych. ‘Tve really enjoyed working with them, l’ll be looking forward to next year.” Coach Vernon W. Cramer The football banquet was the culmination of a fantastic football season. The RAMS finished the regular sea- son with 9 and 0 win lost record, and qualified for the State play-offs. In the play-offs G-A lost to State finalist White Pigeon, 20-0. Special awards were received by: Tom Dopp and Steve Kasson for Most Valuable Player; Rich Liingston, Offensive Award; Ken Moreland, Defensive Award; Don Doorlag, Lineman Award; Denny Schug and Mark Scott both received the Coaches Aw ard; Frank Baker and Scott Wiley received the Most Improved Award. Coach Alex Forrester

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KVAEXCHANGE Front Row: Jill Tysen. Kalamazoo Christian; Karen Amundson. St. Phillip; Russell Cohen, Springfield; Tad Freed, Delton; Linda Obregon, Parchment; Sharon P.. Mattawan. Back Row: Robbin Hotchkiss. Julie Balmer, Wally Avis, Tim Roe, Cara Wood, Wendy Miller. Other stu- dents from G—A went to each school. Kammy Schultz went to Mattawan; Judy Schultz, Springfield: Karen Leng, St. Phil; Angie Drobney, Delton; Jody Morgan. Kalamazoo Christian; and Dan Wakefield, Parchment. Jaako Kauppila, our foreign exchange student, is from Tornio, Finland. He is living with the Van Linder family in Galesburg. Jaakko ' s favorite sport is soccer which he plays here pnd in Finland, he also plays Bandy which is like football on ice in Finland. He speaks 3 languages, which include German, Swedish and English. Jaakko said that teenagers in America are more active than in Finland and T.V., is really bad here. Jaakko said “the major differ- ence between the United States and Finland is that Americans eat more junk food.”

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I’m cold, l ' m wet, l’m HUNGRYH THE 1980-81 MARCHING BAND AND JAZZBAND This year the 1980-81 Band directors position was taken over by Donna Salada. Donna graduated from Galesburg-Augusta High School in 1974 and pur- sued her music career at Florida State. She then came back to Michigan to be director of her old alma mater. The Band is supported by the Band Boosters. They raise money by sponsoring bingo every Satur- day night and the proceeds are used for supplies and the directors salary. This group made it possible to continue music in the school. In Marching Festival this fail our Band is proud to have earned a “1” rating in competition. The G—A schools have a tradition and a reputation of excel- lence. Now come on, it wasn ' t THAT bad! Band Director Mrs. Salada 20