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

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Would ou believe 30 hours? arathon generates heat Winter can be trying espe- cially if you live in Fort Wayne. The cold that hits in january and February is the kind that chills you right down to your sox. When it is minus twenty outside and a wind chill factor of minus seventy has a strangle hold on Southwest Allen county life seems boring. But one of the things that causes the most depression is the fact that our big Christ- mas vacation is over and we have a solid three months of school in front of us. Oh, there is one day off for semes- ter break and maybe a few days for blizzards, but there is no real break till April. That is when we can most appreciate the Made to Order aspect of Homestead. It is amazing how a night off at a basketball game or a gymnas- tic meet can relax us and let us better face the next day And this year there were other things to break the rou- tine. The moving around of classrooms as the building renovation took place kept just a bit of something new in the air. Moving all of the books and materials out of your class room one week and working in a new room for a few weeks and then moving back to a room that had been totally redone was a nice change. Plus the regular events like the Variety Show and basket- ball sectionals set a nice change of pace. And add to that the excite- ment of a few new things. One of the most interesting in the long stretch was the Dance Marathon sponsored by the Athletic Booster. The Dance Marathon was sponsored to help the athletic fund of both Homestead and Woodside and saw several couples obtain sponsors who agreed to pay so much money per hour danced. Then the couples proceeded to dance for thirty hours with only a ten minute break each hour. It was wearing on the dozen or so couples who mara- thoned, but was a really in- teresting event for the rest who just stopped in to watch. It was quite a success and the money raised helped boost the sports program and the variety helped boost the doldrum spirits. Dance Marathon couples got more and more sleepy as the long 30 hours went on. KVKX 24 Ian!Feb Activities 1 l il ll I l 4 i I 4 4 4 I 4 4 l i l 1 l l 1 i 1 I 1 l 4 i l 4 1 i l i

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State title gives free da Kids strike at pep session One of the things that cre- ates the second semester dol- drums is the long break in the school routine. This year, the girls' Gym- nastics team did their best to both break the doldrum and to give the Spartans the break they felt they needed. With the success of the team, it was easy to take a night off and go see a meet. And with the success of the team, we had a number of A AQ lill Beauchamp, and Coaches Jeni Hirshy and Christie Ehermen wait for the news of the final score in the state in eel Will Thatcher and Scott johnson help to move Mrs. Parsons room during the building renovation program. 26 lan .N Feb Activities pep sessions to cheer on the girls and applaud them for their numerous victories and championships. And, when they won the state title, a promised free day was the reward for the faith- rul high school. Some gloom came when the weather was so bad that the free day was extended to all most every high school in northeast In- diana. But not to be trifled with, Q L 'Ni the students went to school the day after the snowed out free day and rushed to a first period pep session for the state champs. But after the pep session was when things got interesting. After the planned pro- gram, Principal Iim Manak asked the student body to go back to class and no one moved. The students stayed in their stands and the Gym- nastics team stayed in their X seats. Only the staff went out of the gym. And even before too long, some of the teachers returned to support the de- mand for a day off. Before ten minutes passed, Mr. Manak came back to the microphone and announced that a decision had been made to dismiss school for the day The Great Gymnas- tics Strike of 1983 had been successful. l1fl--- ,AQ ' ' i.:, '54, :Q - 0 ' if' I l l