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

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News Continued for the publications, they are self-supporting. Therefore the school should not have full jurisdiction in what does and does not get printed. The adviser who is hired by the school administration could also be considered to be a partial publisher, according to publications adviser Mark Kornmann. One explosion the newspapers wrote about happened on Monday October 19, 1987, as the stock market fell a record 508 points, according to the Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel. With this being the worst stock market crash lin terms of total points lostl in history, it was dubbed Black Monday. Although the crash was a more drastic drop in terms of numbers, it still didn't have the impact on America and the world as the 1929 stock market crash did. While many people were worried about the stockmarket crash, Robert Bork, Douglas Ginsburg, and Anthony Kennedy were also worried, but for a different reason. They were Supreme Court Justice hopefuls. Bork, the first nominee, was rejected due to his conservative beliefs, and Ginsburg was smoked out as he admitted to once smoking marguana. The third nominee was Kennedy, who was approved by Congress and was elected to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States. As the fire started to smolder the year 1987 could be looked upon as a hot time with the potential to flame-up, followed bya chilling period. V By Dave Moms -.. -Lb Q. ....,-, '-L - -anq,,,,s-H N.-I ' ?N-an-.s-5. --....,-.-I 3. 4 O Fgkffmg Wmev to talk with the Retrospect's co-managing editors- juniors David Moore and Tracy Kuhn, Mayor Paul Helmke discusses issues such as the new drunk driving law, the ruling on the Hazelwood case, and the growth of the community. lphoto by: B Schoppmanl 4' ' CGWDLZDCZYEQITDUIFDQ for President, Vice President George Bush speaks with the press outside the Executive Office Building in Washington. Political analysts said Bush's wimp factor was helped after his argument with CBS anchorman Dan Rather on live TV. lphoto courtesy of Associated Pressl Chilling News O 11 .14

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Some things just seemed to go up in smoke as two Supreme Court Justices didn't have what it took, and the stock market fell a record 508 points. Other people were red hot like Paul Helmke, who took over the mayoral position, Dr. David Hales who was selected Superintendent of Southwest Allen County Schools, and Anthony Kennedy, the new appointee to the Supreme Court. The new flame thrower of Southwest Allen County Schools was Dr. David Hales, who filled the position previously held by Dr. David Spittal, now a vice-president at Marion College. Hales was fomerly the superintendent of Mt. Pleasant Schools in Yorktown, IN. Another administrative change in Ft. Wayne was a new red hot mayor in '88, Helmke defeated the former Mayor, Winfield Moses. It was one of the closest elections in years. Helmke A Year of Change that caused cz defeated Moses by only a little over 1,000 votes. Helmke said that he would like to see more things in Ft. Wayne for the community. Going down to Lawton Park for Sunday Night Jams in the summer is a popular event for many people, but Hehnke was also thinking about making the thumb, la part of land by the riverl into an area called Headwaters Park where bands could be set-up. It could be used for the center of the Three Rivers Festival, the German Fest. and unlike the Sunday Night Jams, it could be a permanent festival area. said Helmke. With the growth of the Southwest community, Helmke said, l would like to annex as much adjacent urban area as we can, although he said that the northeast corner does have priority over southwest. Helmke was impressed with the growth of the southwest area as he said, When I was in high school, Devil's Hollow was where we went to 'park.' Two new laws went into effect last year, hoping to prevent further flare-ups. One oi the new laws said that if a teenager is in a car with alcohol or with someone who has been drinking, even if helshe hadn't been drinking, their license could be revoked. Helmke disagreed with the law, saying, It concems me that we have a law that discourages people getting someone home that is drunk. The other new law was the censorship ruling against high schools, stating that the principal of the high school is able to censor anything that goes against the goals of the school. Responding to this, Helmke explained that the school is the publisher of the newspaper and yearbook and 'The publisher is the one who is financially and legally responsible for everything that appears in the publishers paper, and he, lthe publisher,J should be able to control the people that work for the paper in such a way to do that, stated Helmke. At Homestead there is a little different product keeping their fire going. The school doesn't pay 0 Wifheilzfewing himself from his Supreme Court nomination, Douglas Ginsburg reads a statement on November 7, 1987. I-le withdrew after it was discovered he had smoked marijuana while in college. lphoto courtesy of Associated Pressl 000000000 0 efezfe Defeeff, Judge Robert Bork is sworn in before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Bork's conservative views caused controversy and his rejection in Congress. lphoto courtesy of Associated Pressl chilling News 010

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C US ' M The two Lzvorite, all-consuming 0 Homestead students As seniors Thom Payne, Jeff Melton, and Dave Wendell arrived at Karma Records on North Anthony at 9:00 p.m. they were prepared to wait in line for a long time. They were even prepared to camp out the entire night. Knowing that their 12 hour wait would be rewarding in the end, they finally received their tickets for the Indianapolis U2 concert at approximately 9:00 a.m. the next morning. Payne said that camping out for 12 hours was well worth it. It was fun knowing we would be getting our tickets eventually, and also being able to be with friends. Not only did students make the eifort to travel out of town to see their favorite groups, others found they didn't have to travel at all to enjoy their favorite musicians. Ft. Wayne was visited by popular artists such as John Cougar Mellancamp, KISS, and INXS. Many students enjoyed the music of groups of years past. like Pink Floyd. Senior Russ Hem'y was lucky in the fact that he didn't have to wait in line for his ticket, but he did have to pay 15 extra dollars for it. It was well-worth it. I've been a fan of them for a long time and when they broke up in 1980, I didn't think they would get back together, but they did and I had to see them. Others enjoyed music of groups just beginning to enjoy success such as INXS. Junior Leslie Shimkus said that she liked INXS since they first came out. 'They really put on a great show. It was better at the Embassy than at the Coliseum because the crowd was a lot smaller. They were really in touch with the audience because of the smaller atmosphere and the true fans. Waiting in line for twelve hours, and paying A 15 extra dollars was the price many had to pay to see groups such as U2, Pink Floyd, and INXS, but the price to them was worth it. 'By 'Dacy Knlin . NFCQYSWUQFD SWQQQWTDQWV it's not, said sophomore Dave Callaghan about wearing concert t-shirts. Like other students, Callaghan wore concert t-shirts to show his like of a certain group. tphoto by: M. Condronl ' KECQKHWQ freshman Jason Fick wears a t-shirt displaying INXS who came to the Embassy on October 21, 1987. 'I'-shirts were one of the more popular items purchased at concerts. tphoto by: D. Callaghanl Concerts O12