John Marshall High School - Vanguard Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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The 1980-81 volleyball team successfully survived the season and advanced to the sectionals. Representatives from the team are. (left to right) Alleatha Bell. Lisa Fields. Sharon Parks, and Susie Halloran Cheerleaders stand up to all types of adverse weather conditions, and still manage to rouse the spirit of the fans. Julie Holcker and Tracy Meng successfully survived the cold during the JFK game. Jeff Kalista. Marla Robinson, and Kathy Joiluck survived the experience of being known as Yearbookies.'' 11

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Faces of the survivors We came to this school as sophomores, ready to enter a new world of friends and learning experiences Instead, we were greeted by utter chaos, confusion and closed doors m a year when the Cleveland Teachers Union decided to strike. . Being dazed and confused over the situation, we had to go along with the strike, and therefore lost a whole month and a half of school. School finally opened and went on as it normally had in the past, until we were informed of an extened school year, with a loss of holiday vacations. In our junior year, although we lost the bulk of our class to the Class of '80 in the form of early graduates, we continued to struggle and survive as a unified body: through the dawn of the busing era and the dusk of an eleven week school strike. Despite the setbacks v e continued to fight back . . . eager to learn and eager to succeed. Busing continued, and it accounted for the fact that the start of our senior year was delayed for three weeks. But we remained as one. with a great feeling of unity within us. We were destined to make the Class of '81 the best John Marshall had ever seen. We may not have been the biggest senior class this school has ever had. but in some cases quality certainly is better than quantity. One would have to say we were probably the strongest class ever to graduate from Marshall. We survived all the slings and arrows the people could throw at us; including the initial phase of busing and the longest strikes in school history. We. as a unified team, will be better equipped to endure the tensions and hardships after high school. We are saying goodbye to John Marshall in this year of 1981. but we are leaving this great school a little stronger and a little wiser knowing that ... WE SURVIVED! • I’m no longer a Fighting Eagle, but I'm now proud to say I'm a lawyer? Arthur Card knows what it means to work hard play hard, and survive. The Lawyers finished the season with a 2-6-2 mark. 10

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Topsy- AJni High School Years Our High School years have been reminiscent of a ride on the Gemini at Cedar Point. The topsy-turvy time spent at JMH will always have a place in our hearts. Among the oddities that we have gone through . . . having, after three years an almost normal school year ... the wearing of our clothes-tearing I.D.’s ... the first-year tradition of having a basketball homecoming . . . our color coded lunch tags which were needed to eat our artificially colored food ... our version of the Gestapo masquerading as security guards and teachers ... our beloved math teacher trying to convince us of the importance of taking calculus when we are going to be ditch diggers . . . living through the longest teachers' strike in history ... but better still, living through 11 weeks of soap operas . . . having the unique distinction of being counted as either black or other.. . sweating through summer classes and watching as the temperature rose, the clothes disappear . . . but most of all living through smelling the many and varied experiments which the Chemistry I class failed with. But through all the topsy-turvy events that have happened during our high school years, we have all shared in a little bit of humor which has made our stay here most enjoyable. Posiflwelu 11 MO Admittance without a Le al Pass. 12