Leipsic High School - Le Hi Yearbook (Leipsic, OH)

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Presenting The LHS Class Of ’87

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Remembering The 1986-87 Year With the start of our senior year, our friends became a bigger necessity than ever before. We began telling fellow classmates our dreams, life ambitions, and our hopes and wishes for the future. It appeared that we shared everything with each other from classes, study halls, and lunch to secrets, hangouts, and much more. Our class officers for the year were Lori Walls, president; Rick Valdez, vice-president; Elaine Krein-brink, secretary; and Eric Steingass, treasurer. The class was well represented in the Student Council with Sam Walther, Jodi Myers, Ann Logan, Leann Christman, Donna Schroeder, Shyra Inbody, and Michelle Schroeder. August 26 began our long-awaited senior year and our final days at LHS were now upon us. As we entered the doors on that first day, a new administration was there ready to greet us. In September Lori Walls was chosen to reign as our 1986 Homecoming Oueen. Ann Logan was selected as our senior attendant and the ten senior football players were to be the escorts. With October came the selection by the class of the Halloween Court. Elaine Kreinbrink and Mike Fenbert were chosen to be Gueen and King. Jill Kuhlman, Eric Steingass, Lorissa Meyer, and Shane Ellerbrock completed the court. In sports, Eric Steingass and the girls cross-country team, led by senior Angie Rayle, advanced to Regional competition. October was also a month of tragedy as a terrible accident claimed the lives of two of our classmates, a friend from Ottawa, and seriously injured another. It was perhaps at this time and the trying moments that followed, that we truly appreciated the friendships and the closeness we experienced as the “Class of ’87.” November brought an end to the football, volleyball, and cross-country season and the start of the basketball season. The seniors sold cheese and sausages as their sales project and those seniors going on the class trip had to make their first deposit in November. Soon December came with preparations for the class trip, Christmas vacation, and a preoccupation of passing assorted articles from one classmate’s yard to another. January marked the halfway point in our final year at LHS. It seemed hard to believe that it was time to study for and take semester exams all ready as well as work on term papers. Greg Niese and Denise Weis took the senior math test at the Maumee Valley Math Test in mid-January. February was soon here and nine senior IOE girls represented their group at regional competition. Elaine Kreinbrink was chosen as the county DAR Good Citizen. March proved to be a very busy month. Seniors Sam Walther, Tim Meyer, Greg Niese, and Mike Fenbert represented the Industrial Arts class at competition in Dayton. The Leipsic group came home with first place in the state. Janine Sands, Maxine Schroeder, and Lori Walls participated in the state IOE Contest held in Columbus and seniors Shane Ellerbrock and Mike Feldman, along with junior Chad Rigel, placed second in district competition in a small engine contest. Doug Hiegel and Mike Fenbert were selected as new inductees of the National Honor Society. They joined the ten previously selected seniors. The American Legion Post in Leipsic announced Ann Logan, Elaine Kreinbrink, Greg Niese, and Matt Hiegel as being the high scorers in the class on the annual Legion test. The seniors going on the class trip sold assorted Easter items in March to help them earn spending money. April brought the production of our all-school play, “They Run In Our Family,” in which sixteen seniors participated either on stage or behind the scenes. The LHS Ouiz team consisting of seniors Greg Niese, Curt Farthing, Denise Weis, Tim Meyer, and sophomore Rolando Valdez, brought home a second place in the BVC tournament. Mid-April brought the annual senior class trip to Florida. Thirty-seven seniors and their four chaperones enjoyed seven days and seven nights in the balmy Sunshine State. Upon their return home, senior band members Maxine Schroeder, Janie Lammers, Kathy Keeran, Jodi Myers, Troy Gillespie, and Darrell Walther accompanied the band on their trip to Washington D.C. May was quickly upon us and it seemed as if our senior year was here and gone in a flash. The juniors sponsored the Junior-Senior Prom on May 2. Terry Altman and Leann Christman were elected Prom King and Oueen 1987. May 2 was also the day that seniors Greg Niese, Darrell Walther, Mark Russell, Elaine Kreinbrink, Lorissa Meyer, Ann Logan, and Maxine Schroeder participated in the Scholastic tests held in Ottawa. May 15 was the presentation of the Senior Awards and May 22 marked our final day at Leipsic High School. On May 31, we walked up and received our diplomas. This was to be our last official function as the Class of 1987. Elaine Kreinbrink and Lori Walls were the class speakers. Our class colors were burgundy and pink, with the pink rose as our class flower. Our motto was, “We cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shore,” and a portion of the senior class sang the class song Friends” during the commencement exercises. Overall the 1986-87 school year was full of ups and downs. The senior class experienced many good times and sad times together. The year brought about new friendships and strengthened others. It taught us a lot from certain subject matters, to life in general, and it even matured many of us. We shall never forget our last very special year together. — Denise Weis Class Motto — “We Cannot Discover New Oceans Unless We Have The Courage To Lose Sight Of The Shore.’’ 16 Senior Copy

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Shane Ellerbrock Patty Escobedo Tracy Fackler Curtis Farthing Mike Feldman Mike Fenbert Sam Walther. Leann Christman, Michelle Schroeder, Donna Schroeder. Ann Logan. Shyra Rob Franks Inbody, and Jodi Myers represented the class of '87 on the LHS Student Council.