Jacksonville High School - Crimson J Yearbook (Jacksonville, IL)

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iO One of the biggest surprises about the 1985 Homecoming parade at Jacksonville High School is that it didn’t rain. After five years of downpours on parade day, the parade took place on one of the sunniest and prettiest days of the fall. The second biggest surprise, perhaps, was the Class of 1986 taking third place in the float competition, quite an improvement over the last three years when the class finished fourth. The weather and the senior surge in the float ranks were not the only differences in this year’s parade. The event was billed as the biggest and best parade yet in the school’s history, and it lived up to the advertising. The parade broke with tradition, lining up in the parking lot of the high school instead of Duncan Park. The route went up Church Street for the first time to the Plaza. Clockwise: Queen .Jill Wooldridge and King John Tomhave ride in the parade; Andy Ezard’s Illini express took part in the parade; junior girls wave to the crowd along the parade route; the sophomore float rises to second place in the competition. 2 Parade

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One of the main social improvements at Jacksonville High School this year was the addition of many more dances for the student body. Most of the dances were held in the school cafeteria after football or basketball games. The music was often provided by disc jockeys who brought their records and tapes and blasted out the music on their sound systems. Holding these dances not only gave the students something more to do on the weekend, but also the clubs and organizations which sponsored the dances quickly discovered that they were a great way to make a good profit for their budgets. Clockwise from the bottom: Crista Middendorf and Malt Doppelt sit out a dance: Bridget Bradley, Cynthia Burke, Caroline Bone, Kathryn Norris, Cara Schillinger, and Dawn Griffin form a chorus line; Troy Stefl, Kenny Dobson, Bruce Roegge, Paul Hadden, Jim Williams and John Tomhave sit on the sidelines; linking arms are friends Nathalie Bovat, John Dunham, Ellen Dailey, and Tom Evans. 4 Dance