Jackson High School - Reflector Yearbook (Jackson, MI)

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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

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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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Revising the rules was a tough task Total revision of the present constitution was the main goal of second semester president Gary Jones and vice- president Doug Littlefield. Gary and Doug, along with Lori Drain, Ross Dever- eaux, Joan Ruge, and Ken Friend worked approximately 50 hours on the revision, trying to complete it before the year was over. But soon after work got underway, they discovered that it wasn't as easy a task as they had anticipated, and ended up the year with just a few articles left to be finished. I think the new constitution is a lot better, Doug said. It mainly involves-30 students, gets better student involvement, and it's not a popularity contest. Other projects of the second semester included the magazine sales campaign, challenge of the classes, and a student exchange with other schools in the league. A profit for the school of 33,262 was made in the magazine sales campaign. In which the Senior class re- ceived S300 from the 10 percent pledge sheet. Purchased for the school from the money were: two children mani- quins, 3200, speakers for the cafeteria, S503 U.N. flags for graduation, S3005 timing clock for speech classes and forensics, S505 and S100 for the library. For the first time, pupils from J HS participated in the student exchange in which Gary and Doug visited Kala- mazoo Central, Lumen Christi, and Ann Arbor Pioneer. Also visiting the schools were: Todd Henderson, '80, and Cara Surbrook, '81, to Kalamazoo Central, seniors Lori Drain and Dan Hinkle, junior Raymond Valdez, and sophomore Steve Rockwell to Christi, with Craig Brit- ton, '79, and Ross Devereaux, '80, going to Pioneer. While visiting the other schools, students learned how other student governments were run, and about different constitution ideas. Muscular Dystrophy was the recipient of S150 which was raised by the second dance. 1 Proceeds from the second annual challenge of the classes, sponsored by Student Government, went to the Jackson Lions Club. I enjoyed the semester a lot. I got to know many of the underclassmenf' said Doug. Gary and I didn't do as much as we thought we could. We did a lot of little things, but no real big things. by Sharon Ramey 1 - I-Iomeroom representative Dave Reynolds, '79, writes coming school events on the chalk board for Homeroom 318. 2 - Student body presidents Ruth DeOrio, first semester, and Gary Jones, second semester, seem to have different opinions on ideas sug- gested at an assembly. Student Government