Jackson High School - Reflector Yearbook (Jackson, MI)

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Is it all worth it? I frequently asked myself this ques- ion during my junior year. Every event of the year eemed tied to this question. After a summer of lazing around, starting again in the all was hard. Homework, tests, yearbook deadlines, foot- uall. Why? Athletics was the inspiration for this question for nany of us. A week of football camp ended the pleasures ff the summer, and left me wondering if all the aches, nains, and bruises were worth it. Each day at camp would start with being roused out of red at 6 in the morning, after which we would run a mile ind a half on the cold, damp field. After this we would practice for the morning in the growing heat, followed by vind sprints. Thirty of them. Forty yards. All-out, all at ull speed. Nothing was hated more than those sprints. kfternoon practice, when the heat really built up, was fven worse. During the little free time we had at camp, everyone vould walk around the dorm in a daze, trying to recover 'rom the previous practice and dreading the upcoming iractice. Ten minutes before each practice everyone vould limp, one at a time, into the equipment room vhere the gauze and bandaids were kept. The chances of inding an unblistered foot in the whole dorm were slim .o none. We experimented with tape and gauze bandages, .rying to find a way to relieve the pain of the blood-red :urns on our foreheads caused by the brand-new hel- nets. Added to this was immense pressure, and the real- l - Filling out the ACT application is a long and tedious task, as senior Ed Bonney finds. Z - Junior Brian Shaughnessy is treated by Dr. Harold Niekamp and nanager Mike Haire as Brian's father looks on after Brian's injury in ,he Lumen Christi game. l- The toll taken by running Cross Country shows on the face of senior Ed Conrad during a meet. 4 - Rookie cheerleader Pam Hayworth watches a J.V. football game as rain pours down. 3 - Suzy Scott, .IHS senior, struggles under pressure to meet her dead- line for the Yearbook. . 3- Kent Hubbard, freshman, Kirk Hubbard. sophomore, and freshman Lisa Dreyer donate their time at a dance. ization that there was no way out except to last through the week. For others the reasons for participating in sports were different: Jeff Lent, '79, said he played hockey Because it's just fun to go out and play. Besides, he added, we got to party after the games. Diver Erin Mazur, also a junior, was on the girls' swim team because swimming and div- ing are more individual sports. I competed alone against others in my own event, she said, and I can have the satisfaction of knowing I won even if the team lost. I asked myself many times whether or not the classes I took were really worth it. Trig demanded much, the homework being very important because if it wasn't done, the only place to fall was behind. This problem with the homework seemed to happen all too often. Much sweat was spent concerning U.S. History, which had the most, hardest, and longest tests I've ever taken. Every night before one of these tests was spent going over enough notes to fill a book, time which would have been more happily spent at a basketball game or out getting a pizza. Every teacher of my classes before histo- ry saw before them not the book of their subject, but the history notes of frantic students trying to remember some fact at the last minute. Is it all worth it? Any person asking this question can really answer it only for himself. But for me it was. It was worth every effort. by Jeff Taylor .x ,x. , . in i 1253 -4 L :BQ r 1' -e eff?-'ff' I---ft Q 'K . ' 1 V . 'X .1 ' 'V f L, I.-1 . st, .r1.,'l-N' i wif, ,sl WWI' Qu Is it all worth it?

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fag 5 . .,... . 93 . wg. miji' --4unnn1y-- Y f gg..-s. 1 - Ruth DeOrio, president first semesterg Gary Jones, president second semesterg Bill Hobart, vice-president first semesterg Doug Littlefield, vice-president second semester. 2 - Some homeroom presidents listen attentively, while others take notes of coming events during a meeting. Student Government Ax yr ., . - ,.. K Qs I , X Students made very successf First semester was full of things to do. It was rar student council did not have an event planned for a Fri night, or sometimes a Saturday, depending on the sp schedule. We had dances after every home football home weekend basketball game. We hired buses to all away games. The bands for the dances were picked from some of top bands in Michigan. The attendance was so good tha some dances we had more people than we could comf ably fit into the social room. Homecoming was organized by the council, during summer, so everything was under control during that b week. Activities were back to normal that next week. I vidual classes did an outstanding job decorating the h Events Night ran smoothly without any injuries. All money collected from Events Night and the Homecom Dance went to the United Way. Students generously gave canned goods and other nu perishable food to the Salvation Army for distribution d ing the Thanksgiving season. For the first time the student bodies of Jackson High Parkside got together for a combined dance. It was a se formal Christmas dance held in the ballroom of the Sh ton Inn. Tickets were sold in advance. First semester was made-a success, not because of r many activities, but because of the many students vt attended them. by Ruth DeO