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

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STUDENT LIFE NDT LONG ENDUG Throughout the year, students awaited activities that broke up the usual school-day routine and helped make school bearable. The fun times were welcomed and they usually were Not Long Enough. S'E'ents came in on Sunday of Homecoming Week to make hallway decorations. The sophomores won the class competition, raising school spirit and asking, How Much Longer? until the game against Bellmont, which the Spartans lost, 28-23. During Christmas Week students donated gifts to the Adopt- a-family program to help support needy families in the area. While they wrapped the presents, students wondered, How Much Longer? until vacation would PLAYING DWEEB for a day, junior Mike Musgrave grins with delight as junior Debbie Minniear looks on iPhoto by: D.DouglasJ SELLING SPIRIT BUTTONS , . scniors Tim Frey and Betsy Ncufer talk to senior Christy Nunn . iPhoto by: L.SkillicomJ IE Student Life Divider 'sEaTt. The plays, The Night Thoreau Spent in ll and Oliver, as well as Variety '87 allowed students to display their talents on stage. Waiting behind the curtain, they asked, How Much Longer? until their cue. Activities made students' lives different from the everyday routine. They anticipated and enjoyed events. So when students asked, How Much Longer? the fun times would last, the answer was always Not Long Enough.

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u QUWEHKW ll H Fe-1llPlay steps to the 55' E51 giuiii ofa dfffarenf U' a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a dyferent drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. -Henry Thoreau Non-conformity- not changing one's ideals to those of society. This was the main theme of the fall play, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, which starred junior Matt Butzow as non-conformist Henry Thoreau. The play focused on the night Thoreau was put in jail for not paying his taxes and showed Thoreau's philosophies through flashbacks of his life. It showed how he reacted to authority, as in the school board's negative attitude toward his non-conformist teaching methods, and his reaction to human situations, such as the death of his brother, John Qjunior Mike Musgravej. It was a difficult play to do, said senior Rosalyn Cooperman, who played Thoreau's mother. DEEP IN conversation, junior Matt Butzow, as Henry David Thoreau, and Ed Smid, who played Edward Emerson, discuss 'Huckleberryingh CPhoto by: B. Schoppmanj 'You a'ia'n't just go in to watch a play, you Sophomore Carrie S hindeldecker S Fall Play Director Ed Koczergo said that he thought the play was a challenge, but he enjoyed doing it. I don't like doing simple little comedies, he said. Koczergo also stated he thought the cast worked well together. They were wonderful. Probably the best group of people, as far as working together, we've had. Butzow said that one advantage about the play being more difficult than plays usually done by high schools was that he got to know Thoreau well because he was working so hard with the character. You know him inside and out. You are your character. You think like your character, you act like your character, said Butzow. Overall, the play's theme of non-conformity came through to the audience, and the play got what Koczergo called very positive response. Tracy Jensen- Managing Editor 41.f ' -wr 309 X