Lake Central High School - Quiver Yearbook (St. John, IN)

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School was not exempt from Bears fever. Stacey Barry. Kelly O ' Keefe and Mark Harper wear Bears clothing and discuss plays. Bear mania stretches into regional school; Space shuttle collapse causes mourning e need a break! ' could be heard every where. No snow days; no l fog delays? not one good snowstorm and no familar words like blowing and drift¬ ing snow. The first semester became a memory and again students were faced with outside interferences to school. Bear-mania struck northern Indiana and Lake Central students were as excited as though it were the Indians preparing to play. Cari and Chris Sovich claimed some va¬ cation days to attend the Super Bowl when their father’s season ticket was drawn for attending. Only with a few jeal¬ ous regrets did their teachers sign the slip announcing their departure. Throughout the building classes collect¬ ed every possible Bears’ clipping and pasted them every where. Lockers, walls, windows—every space was an eventual advertisement for the backing of the Bears. And the mania continued after the Bears brought home the sought-after vic¬ tory. As one nearby restaurant adver¬ tised: New England Clam Chowder, $46.10, a super bowl! While people were still riding high and gloating over the Bears’ victory, the twen¬ ty-fifth launching of a space shuttle pre¬ pared to ascend Jan. 28. So accustomed were we to the space shuttle launchings, that many major television networks failed to provide on-the-spot coverage. It was with shock and disbelief that the few radios within the school began saying that the shuttle had exploded. All seven aboard were presumed dead. Gradually the com¬ ments came: The teacher was aboard this one, right? and Mrs. Dixie White- house told students tearfully, I feel like I did when I learned President Kennedy had been killed. The nation watched dazedly than as America buried its heroes and tried to get back to matters at hand. What could you say? S. Hewlett

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bed early, and setting the alarm cl the unreasonable hour of 6 a.m. S dents found it difficult to arrive and were greeted with swat . If students weren ' t awake by lu new sign in the cafeteria openc - ' Ah Id and new fac IHsl on that first greeted by a new pri mores, and greet the t year. S said sen like fres them fri lanicki were bombarded with net longer allowed to wear sh length, shoulders had to the guys were no longer fishnet shirts.

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The flag flies at half staff in memory of the seven astronauts who died aboard the space shuttle Chal¬ lenger. $. Hewlett Cari and Chris Sovich. along with their father, neigh¬ bor. and friend, prepare to attend the Super Bowl in New Orleans.