Grayling High School - Viking Saga Yearbook (Grayling, MI)

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John Krajenka went to the Phillipines. He stayed Jane Stamm and Terri Fijolek had newspaper in Manila, with his family sponsor. He attended columns in the Avalanche. Jane's was on school there during his Junior year. It was a much various happenings within Grayling High different society than ours, but he had fun and wan- School. Terri s was concerning the activities of ts to go back and live there. ,he band Both columns w®re very good and the girls deserve recognition for doing them. Chris Wright is a junior who has been tieing flies since he was 9 years old. Chris also enjoys fly fishing, although he likes fly tieing better. Each evening after school, Chris ties flies for about 2 hours and during the sum- mer, for 4-5 hours a day. This is his summer job. The flies he ties are sold to commercial and retail stores. Freshman, Chris Breitfeld is a trainer for the Seeing Eye Dogs, for the blind. The dogs are sponsored by the Lions Club and Chris trains them as a member of the 4-4 Club. He begins the basic year of training for the dogs as puppies. The dogs are thoroughbred Laboradors or Retrievers, requiring much training in the commands in housebreaking, obeying, and stopping at corners. Chris will continue training leader dogs for some time. Senior graduate Gussy Konopnicki left in January 1981 for a year in Queensland, Australia. She is attending high school in Queensland under the Student Exchange Program. Her first letters indicate that the year will be everything she anticipated, tough academically, but rewarding as she experiences another people and their culture. 13

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Real Vikes Paula Oosch and Sue Oiedrich went to Washington, D.C. on March 22-29. They saw Capital Hill, observed how Congress operated, talked to Senators and then formed a model Congress, where they made their own laws and participated as in Congress. It was more in- teresting than learning from the book. They both enjoyed themselves and want to go back. CONT. P. 14 Tim Taylor, since age five, has been collecting steam engines. With the help of his father, Howard Taylor, Tim has rebuilt many late model engines. After they have been rebuilt, Tim has used them for farm work around his home. Brett Stockton, winter and summer athlete, is a professional canoe and cross country ski racer. He has placed in many large state and national races. This year, in the International Canoe Race in New York, Brett and his Uncle Butch Stockton, finished fourth, and second in sprint. He will race another international canoe race in Minnesota and Quebec in 1981. After graduation, Brett plans on going to college and continuing racing. 12

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The Grayling High A Publication of the Students of Miss Brown’s Published First Semester ALRIGHT!!!!!!!! ....was the shout heard all about Grayling, Tuesday, December 2, when the students of the Crawford AuSable Schools experienced their first snow day of the year. It was a feeling of relief as most of the stu- dents feared coming back for a full week of school sin- ce Thanksgiving vacation. However, it was found that some students were bummed because they had their whole wardrobe planned for the week and this just messed everything up. Later that same day, at approx- imately 8:30 p.m., WQON of Grayling announced that there, once again, would be no school the next day because roads still were not clear. By the way, you two girls from California, I’ll bet you never had any Sun” days. BEAR MUSEUM LEAVES Back in 1947 a man named Fred Bear who loved the North Country, started an industry that gave Grayling the distinction of being the Archery Capitol of the World. But that distinction ended when the industrial complex of Bear Archery moved to Gainesville, Florida in 1978. Due to the economics of the tax structure in Michigan they moved. But they left behind the Fred Bear Museum, the new Museum will be located on an adjacent site to the new Bear Archery in Florida. The new museum site will consist of a theatre, pro-shop and also a large reception center. It will employ from 20 to 30 people, and the tourist attraction will double after the museum is started in Florida. G.H.S. TIMES STAFF Tony Aguillon Patty Hanover Gina Bidwell Joelyn LaChappelle Paula Clark Pattie Lange Cheryl Campeau Shelly McKinney DebCybart Arlene Monks Chip Durga Jim Schrader Becky Eberts Jane Stamm ToddGolnick Chelle Warnars Bill Goss ‘Editor Jane Stamm, Editor Selected Articles and Items of Interest Jerry’s Junction Destroyed By Fire Early Wednesday, December 3 at 1:27 A.M. a passing motorist reported smoke coming out of Jerry’s Junc- tion. Within minutes the entire building was engulfed by smoke and flames. Firefighters from three town- ships came to help with the blaze. The first to arrive was the Roscommon Township fire department. They were followed soon after by Denton and Lake Town- ships fire departments. Roscommon fire fighters alone dumped 445,000 gallons of water on the fire. After fighting the blaze all night, they failed to save anything. The only thing left standing was the concrete walls. Everything else was destroyed. The fire is still being investigated. ‘‘The cause of the fire,” states Sgt. Robert Bennett of Gaylord, remains unknown.” EDITOR’S NOTE Newspaper Production was, basically, an experi- mental class. There has never been a class like it of- fered before at GHS. A few years ago, a high school paper was produced, but not in the same way the Gray- ling High Times was produced this past semester. For the first few weeks, we learned some basic techniques needed to produce a newspaper, studied terms related to journalism, began learning about columns, lay-out, and balance, and went into some depth with adverti- sing. We were all excited about our first paper, but it was a bigger task than we had expected. I think the newspaper was a good thing, for various reasons. It gave all the students at GHS a better under- standing of both local and national news, it gave the staff members a chance to actually play professional roles as journalists, and it provided a base for next year's newspaper. There is alot of individual responsibility and each student must carry his sture of work load to make the paper a good one, and also to be fair to his classmates. One or two or three people should not have to hold the paper together week after week. Although we did have some discouraging and disappointing moments, I think we all learned alot about responsibility, pro- fessionalism, and that more time and work goes into the production of a newspaper than one thinks. Jane Stamm (editor) 14 School Life