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

Page 19 text:

Times Journalism Class National Honor Society inductee Candlelight Ceremony — The students were accepted into the Society by a special candlelight ceremony on April 8.1981... CONT P 72 THE NEW COMMITTEE Mr. Branch has come up with a terrific idea for a new program! This program will help all of us ‘‘little people get our views across. This program is called Student Liasons Board. This board is made up of Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Branch, two teachers, two representatives from each class, the Student Council President, and the newspaper editor. One of the two representatives will be more into sports and the other is more into educa- tion. The reason for the board is so that our views can be heard. The board takes some of these views into consideration when making a decision. On April 6, 1981, a new Company. Weyerhaeuser, broke ground. This S60 million facility is scheduled to start production in 1982. It will produce an exterior grade sheathing panel to be used on roofs, sidewalls, and floors. When the plant is running at full capacity, it will employ 150 people and produce 215 million square feet of paneling per yeai WHEN THE WAR CAME HOME We stood in darkness, watching the silver coffins roll from the plane, counting to ourselves, holding our breaths. I saw in each shimmer the faces of boys who once picked things up and took them to school. I wan- ted to take their bones up into my hands, give them new flesh, once again hear their voices grow close and familiar. With my fingers I traced the line of my lips, felt my own face as though I had never known myself. When they finished, I watched my breath stream from my mouth, a white cloud rising in the cool, dark air. There, in the middle of the night, I listened, hoping for noises from the dead, the movement of a hand, the par- ting of lips, then wandered off, feeling the night pack in around me, chilled and bone-numb. © michael delp

Page 18 text:

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

Page 20 text:

Seniors.. .The Class with Class k J Gayle Prause Advisor 16 Seniors Lacey Stephan Advisor