Houghton Lake High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Houghton Lake, MI)

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’THE HILL,’ a one and a half mile trail through the woods and swamps, challenged football players at Camp Living Waters. Each morning at 7:15 the players got up. did calisthenics, took on the hill and then went off to the playing field for drills. Photo by Ken Warner. BALL STATE'S SUMMER journalism camp can wear anyone out. but senior Jane Kronner carried the extra burden of a cast. Jane and fellow senior Jodi Miller, plus juniors Karen Cronin and Kristin Dery, attended the week- long camp at Muncie, Indiana in July. Homework often required the girls to stay up past the 1:00 A.M. curfew working in the closet to escape detection by counselors. Photo by Karen Cronin. You try weird food, meet new people and the drinking age is only 16 Camps and Workshops 11

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ARE. Vt Jax iNc; ruN YET; P From the first day in September, students look forward to one thing: the last day. Ah, summer! No homework, no schedule, no tests. But for a number of students, 180 days of learning isn’t enough. These students use summer months to travel to such places as Central Michigan for cheerleading camp, Michigan State for basketball camp or Michigan Tech for a summer youth seminar. Some even go to extremes for additional knowledge. Last summer sophomore Cindy Pacini and junior David Deamud both traveled to Europe for four weeks. They attended the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Bavaria, a camp set up for choir and band students. “You try weird food, meet new people and the drinking age is only 16,” sophomore Cindy Pacini recalled. Back in the states, many students attended sports-oriented camps. The junior varsity and varsity football teams attended Camp Living Waters for four days in August. Besides sports camps, students chose to attend camps specializing in academic areas. Ball State Journalism Camp offered four students the chance to work with top rated yearbook instructors and take classes to improve their publications. I went because it was my first year of photography and I didn’t know a lot about it. It not only helped me, but it saved Carrie a lot of time OUR JAZZ BAND played everywhere from street corners to concert halls and we even played at Tivoli Gardens in Denmark, ' junior David Deamud said of his month-long concert tour of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark with the Blue Lakes International Concert Band. David, along with fellow band member Amy Jo Deckinga, performed a concert a day, on the average, leaving free time to visit Scandinavian museums, castles, and even sunken Viking ships. Photo by Glen Tuomaala. WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING? HOW ABOUT CAMPING? Of the 250 students who re sponded, 107 attended some kind of summer camp. Thirty seven percent attended sports oriented camps. The other 63 percent attended everything from music to computer to church camps. Less than ten percent of those who attended admitted to homesickness. Those who got homesick combatted it by phoning home, keeping busy and counting down days. in explaining yearbook photography to me,” commented junior Karen Cronin. Camps ranged in -price from $115 to $300. This price went up when the cost of food, transportation and spending money was added on. Because of the rising cost of camps, and the obligation of summer jobs, 57 percent of the student body did not have the chance to go to a summer camp. Of the 43 percent who did attend, over a third went to sports related camps. Those who did attend showed their dedication to their area of study. I can’t believe I actually suffered through the hot summer with a cast on my leg just so I could go to Ball State. I could have had my cast off one month earlier but the doctor ordered the cast to stay on while I went to camp just so I wouldn’t damage my foot any more. The camp was terrific except for the fact that my room in the dorm was on the eighth floor and the elevator only went up to the sixth !” senior Janey Kronner said Now that’s devotion. Kristin Dery STUDENT LIFE

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It gets in the way of doing things with my friends, but I’m the one who has more money YOU DON’T HAVE TO LEAVE school to go shopping. Senior Kelin Muma fits some Houghton Lake apparel from the Bobcat Den on classmate Tina Bailey. Run by Mrs. Thompson's retailing class, the den sold school- oriented sportswear along with candy, chips and school supplies. Photo by Carrie Mieske. STUDENTS PAID A LOT to McDonald’s for fast food, since it was the only fast food restaurant within 25 miles. But McDonald’s also employed 19 students, including junior Margaret Frappier who practices running the drive-thru with junior Randi Chidester. Photo by Karen Cronin. PUMPING GAS into his ’72 Chevelle, junior Brent Barkway hurries to get to work on time after school. Brent has worked at the Limberlost as a cook since August. Making $3.50 an hour helped him pay off the loan on his car and buy gas to run it which cost $1.12 a gallon. Photo by Karen Cronin. 12 STUDENT LIFE