Joliet West High School - Alpha Omega Yearbook (Joliet, IL)

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4 vp W 51 if ' v M1 W W For some two hundred and fifty students at VVest, a ride home on one of conditions do not deter the lnises from their daily trips to l,cland Hills. the school buses ends can-li school clay. Even the niost severe wezitlier Shorewood, Brookforest, liohin Hill. Twin Oaks, and Tiiiiberliiie. I-'rc-shinen experience new frustrations exery clay, Elaine Brown realizes she will have to'hurry to he on tinie for class. 'M bmi, fi,,MN ww Gene Zeman fulfills his responsibility by emptying his tray into the garbage. with reasonable cooperation, the cafeteria remained neat. wm: s-,..,.

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Students at Wlest were involved in inuny extrucurriculziu' activities. They realized tlie importance of tlicir own contrilnution to tlie sclloolls personality. Ilelping prepare 21 float, it prom, or an operettu did not carry any I'6XYLll'LlS otlier tlum tlie feeling of satisfaction of ti job well done. Tliese students did liclp give tlie scliool personality, but tliey also lmuilt tlieir own personalities. Activities seemed to luck tlie cliarni tor the stu- dents if tliey did not have tile memories of tlie preparation. Sometimes tlie work ldeliind the scenes was just as enjoyable as tlie actual event. lntrovluctiou

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Student life pulsates Within typical school day at West wi Mo School davs at VVest have been described in many ways bv many students, but never have they been described as normal. VVhile most activities varied with each in- dividual student, all experienced the same steady routine of classes, lunch lines, and study halls. From the time that a student enters XYest as a baffled freshman until the day he graduates as a , sophisticated senior. his life will have con- ' sisted of frustration and folly, tranquility and tenscness. v Actual time spent in school was shortened by the early dismissal at 3:00 pm which re- sulted in a cut back in study halls. - F t i Although the school day was shortened, senior Paul Logan When you get to be a senior, vou'll stand a little taller. Kevin Colbert, a sen- still found it to be too long. ior, gives his advice to George Vidalakis, a sophomore. Lunch provides Carla Scheffel, Doug Smith, Kim Koeplce, and Audrey Pol! twenty-two minutes for lunch, students find time to forget their worries lack opportunity for relaxing, conversing, and studying. In the given otmflrningclasses, filltheirempty stomachs, and prepareforthe afternoon. Student Life yg i