Highland High School - Iris Yearbook (Highland, IL)

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SIOGANMANiA in 84 Slogans play a large part in the life of a student, and a few seem to be the more popular. What's in a slogan? Is someone trying to say something important or is it just a gimmick enticing students to buy buttons, bumper stickers or a any other items that bear a few words of wisdom, or not so wise as the case may be. Commercials play a large part in slogans. Trying to sell an item with a slogan is the advertisers’ intent. The largest and most popular saying in 1984 became “Where’s the beef?” a slogan that the fast-food restaurant Wendy’s possessed in an attempt to sell their burgers. This saying soon appeared on buttons and shirts. Competing in the battle for fast- food business were slogans like Burger King’s ‘‘Broiling beats frying,”’ or McDonald’s ‘Good Morning. McDonalds and you.” In the contrasting spotlight are the diet soda slogans that think light is best. “Diet Pepsi, just one small calorie” became the hit slo- gan for Diet Pepsi with competi- tion coming from Diet 7-Up’s “No caffeine. Never had it, Never will.” Bumper stickers, a form of traveling billboard, gave individ- uals a personal form of advertis- ing as well as expressing their true feelings. “Leave it to -Bea- ver,” “Il love New York,” and “I love Michael Jackson,” were just a few sayings that garnished cars Seanad 7 creep . 2 : aM 2 gi ire toe Sd , Braver. Garnishing the car, this “Leave it to Beaver” bumper sticker found its place on Robbie McCord’s window. in the student parking lot. Also assisting in self-expression were buttons that decorated the shirts of many students. “I'm the one your mother warned you about,” “No Problem,” and “I love my Saint Bernard,” were just a few of the many sayings that traveled through the halls of school. Another popular item of expressing oneself was T-shirts. Wearing a shirt bearing a person's favorite college, a concert from the night before or a nickname became a very popular item among the students. Mini Mag |!

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Juniors Angie Lutostanski, Patti Young and Kyle Schumacher, along with freshman Annie Lutostanski help unload boxes filled with fruit that the band sold to raise money. HHS Lacks Money It was the °83-’84 school year that felt the first effects of the referendum which failed in ‘83. Yet, after many talks of cuts, just how much actually did suffer from the budget? “Most of the changes weren't apparent to the students,” stated Principal Fred Singleton. The most obvious were cuts concerning classes. Several classes offered one or two years are no longer being offered. Singleton commented that there had been a 5% reduction of classes alone in social studies in three years. Along the lines of the academic cuts were the cuts in staff members. Singleton also felt low teacher salaries revealed the low budget that the school faced. Sin- gleton stated, “We have a good, quality staff, and we're very lucky to have them. But we're having trouble competing with industry and we could lose teachers due to the salary.” ment was raise he themselves. The football team selling Pizza Hut coupons, the co- op students selling Dankin animals or the band selling fruit or coupon books showed the necessity for groups to raise money on their own. Yet, most groups wouldn’t be anywhere without the generosity of others. Sports were heavily supported by the Booster Club, while donations from people such as Mr. Louis Lutostanski, Mr. Sherrill Hampton, Mr. Carl Basler or Mr. Ralph Korte helped provide a better education for those in the industrial art department. A strong supporter of the school is the whole community itself. Purchasing the items that stu- dents sell, as well as paying taxes, the community enables the educa- tional process and activities to continue. Senior Ray Foster noticed the cuts in one of his business classes. “When your up in the business machines and you want to run copies of anything, they want you to use the old paper from Scott Air Force Base instead of the new paper in the nice packages.” The cuts will continue until a solution is found. But until then students will continue to be forced to fund their activities. 4 Band director John Heath, up to his neck in fruit, looks on as sophomore Stephanie Hosto adds one more box of fruit to the enormous stack. The school has been forced to buy only the necessary items. Clubs and sports found the only way to get supplies and equip- Mini Mag 10

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Mini Mag |2 When the first their annual trips THOSE H A traditional event for most students happens every year just before school begins in August. In the fall of g3, it was No different. day of school rolled around many students made to the stores $0 ten recognized as the one tape- Senior Tony folder could last 4 that they could purchase the nec- essary school supplies for the upcoming notebooks. Besides the year—espec! “Highland High School” folders given away during registration, carrying students were folders that suited their found personal tastes. From the plain, single colored, 36¢ notebook to the “Peanuts OF “Garfield” he notebook having students were se, from the wide selection, their eyes the most. e that caught Throughout the school days ahead the notebook became 4 lar tos, Not only panies prosper carrier of homework, dit- messages and doodles. did the notebook com in the school year, but also the suppliers of tape. Stu dents who were either money crunch oF challenge of making last throughout the Getting evolved year were hit by the who sought the a notebook of- BP igen Farmers of America is a a th to help the student — agriculture and live- ae year's club did a number ts e things that set it apart ir Been clubs. They served a at the anaes taal ae heey Demonstration. They put up the Chri mesa ei in the caer amt ; . petting zoo was held in the — of the year for the fotos ents to get one on at carried a notebook covered by ™ A Getting 4 workout, the notebooks of senior ANDY FO s who You see, | had this roll of tape in y locker . - Johnson said, “| wanted to see how long 4 folder could last. | wanted to see if the whole year. Tony Johnson's end the year held ether by layers of tape yrs with farm animals rans of the members entered a ts and judgings. The ered the FFA Land led e prerne FFA tractor driving na Livestock and dairy “0 8 FFA horse judging. For grain farmer there was grain and poultry show. a: FFA also held its annual awards banquet and Parent-Member banquet where par ents know one another. got to