Homestead High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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Christmas brightens Homestead Spartan help the need Contemporary Christnw iss consist of clothes, cans and charity. But the most st-en was the crazy, cosmic, cataclysmic collection of clothes worn during the series of dress up days. Starting off the week was Winter Hat Day. The hall- ways were filled with hats of every kind as cowboy hats, baseball caps, and snow to- boggans frequented the heads of the Homestead stu- dents. Elves and dolls paid the school a visit on Tuesday as Character Day was the theme. Everyone came dressed as their favorite Christmas character. The greater majority of the dressed up students came as elves. If you happened to be walking down the halls on Wednesday you may have no- ticed people in their pajamas, bathrobes, and slippers. Was this a new dress code? A new trend? No, it was just another Student government worker sopho- more Michele Sorg helps sort candy canes. Senior lean Rudig delivers Christ- mas wrapping on pj day. 16 Christmas part of Christmas Week, as Wednesday was appropriate- ly designated PI. Day. On one hand guys seemed to favor plaid bathrobes, while on the other hand the girls chose to dress in their night clothes. Some wore the old Doctor Denton style with headbands and beads. Others felt that long robes and furry slippers were the right kind of attire for the daytime Slumber party . On Thursday, everyone wore their Sunday best for Dress Up Day This day by far was the most popular among the students. The week ended with par- tying during the fourth hour and a movie, Uptown Satur- day Night, during fifth and sixth hours. Friday was also Green and Red Day Rooms were dotted with red and green in every possible com- bination. The spirit of Homestead was a lot more than parties and contests and the series of dress up days. Students took time out of their daily sched- ules to help with can drive and adopt-a-family pro- grams. The Can Drive began on November 29 with juniors Amy Rudorf and Robbyn Kreig in charge. The purpose of the Can Drive was to help the less fortunate in our com- munity. This seemed espe- cially important this season due to the trouble of our economy The Can Drive was an all school event with most classes participating toward an unknown goal. However a personal goal was set to 4,000 by Mr. Meyer's class. At the end of the Drive, the cans were collected from each room and taken by Student Government to the Christ- mas Bureau where they were sorted out for the individual families. The total amount of cans this year was about 7,600. Another community event that Homestead staged was the Adopt-A-Family pro- gram. This program, lead by Senior jean Rudek, benefit- ted some of Fort Wayne's most unfortunate people. Small children, families, and re- tarded citizens were all in- cluded in the program. Each third period class was given the opportunity to adopt a family, many chose to adopt a single person as opposed to a family After each class chose their families, or person, they began to collect clothes, toys, games, food, and whatever was needed to help their fam- ilies. After gathering what they had collected, each class took their items to the gym where they were grouped to- gether with all other third period classes. These were packed up and distributed among the chosen families. The week ended with great anticipation toward the on coming holiday

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From Shakespeare to red sequins Variety howcases talent Variety tVaritel 11.3. A num- ber of different types of things, esp. ones in the same general category. On january 25 between 6:30 and 7:30 Jane Guiff runs up and down the fine Arts Hall in a red D dance suit. While Benji Sandler and Steve Belans stare at a mirror while putting on head bands. Michelle Harrison, Ian Ven- derly, and Tim Armstrong Senior jan Venderly really knows how to present a song. jane Culff helps Helene Hill with make up just before the curtain goes up on Variety 1983 version. 18 Variety practice their choreography in the hall. Members of a va- riety of bands drift through the hall in black attire cov- ered with bandanas. In the band room Trent Hackett, Matt Griffin and Kevin O'Grady practice their newly revised dance steps to the melody of familiar nursery rhymes. Back in the room choir Carl Smith and brother Kenny pick banjoes. In room 101 a group ot girls put on three times the normal make- up, while Senior Matt Wil- liams quickly transfers the script of the show from nor- mal size paper to 3x5 index cards. Why all the hurrying? Why the variety of activities? Why the I can't catch my breath feeling? The reason is their is only 45 minutes, no 25 minutes, until the first- ever Homestead Variety Show begins. At 7:30 we learn why four guys are wearing straw hats. They are Homesteades Barbershop Quartet. We understand that Benjie Sandler and Steve Be- lans are supposed to be come- dians. The best word to de- scribe the Variety Show is, Va- riety Twenty-two acts provide Cont. on page 21 4' le:-Siva 'ff ft fu are , l 'il I