Leo High School - Oracle Yearbook (Leo, IN)

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Trying to forget the weather and homework the seventh and eighth graders enjoy their pizza party. During the unofficial brown-bag-it day , Diane Newport and Denise Galduppo eat, talk, and study. Lisa McQueen and Andrea Stuckey intensely listen to the person on the other end of the phone as they receive some juicy news! -25- gossip lifestyles

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m Enjoying conversation before they enter the dance after ttie junior high pizza party, Tom Baker and Ann Reece stand at the entrance to the auditeria when the dance was held. A Bailoon-a-gram is a popular way to say happy birthday. Shelly Halt is clearly excited about her present. Hey, did you hear what I heard photos by Jim McKintey Contrary to popular belief, Mon- days were indeed good for sonne- thing other tfian oversleeping and making up excuses why your home- work wasn ' t done. Mondays pr o- vided a chance to hear it down the grapevine and dig up the dirt. What was an innocent date be- tween Jack and Jill on Friday night made the steamiest soap opera look like Walt Disney by noon on Friday. Through class notes passed during class or in the halls and whis- pered tidbits, the ordinary soon made the Watergate scandel look like a misdemeanor. Just exactly why did people gos- sip? Jealously, (How in the world did she get him!). Revenge, (Did you hear so-and-so got caught doing such-and-such? ). Human nature ( well, I heard . . . ). Mind you, gossip was not always harmless human nature. For in- stance, we sometimes got caught passing notes by the teacher. That was embarrassing. Also, we might have gotten someone with a bad temper and a penchant for ven- gence very angry with us. That was painful. Everyone from our ministers to our mothers warned us to avoid gossip. Your question is probably How? Well, we could become hermits or we could wear earplugs, but neither of those was very practi- cal. A zipper across the lips wouldn ' t work very well either. So what did work? The answer was not easily found. Maybe the most logical answer was to take it for what It was worth. — Beth Gottfried -24- gossip lifestyles

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World War III Eyes strained to see. Everyone grew tense as they watched. One moment everyone would be so quiet you could hear a pin drop and the next moment the tranquility would be broken with screams and shouts. Each class seemed bound together as a unit, pushing forward with the same purpose in mind. Then the in- tensity was broken by a shout of victory and a cry of defeat. The sen- iors had won the first major event, volleyball, but the other classes were more than willing to fight. Ev- eryone was ready for an exciting class tourney. Bright displays of each classe ' s spirit gave the gym ' s ordinary pur- ple an extra flair. Each person had worked hard and all wore their class colors proudly; purple for the sen- W iors, red for the juniors, light blue for the sophomores, and green for the freshmen. Major events such as volleyball and basketball were separated by smaller competitions. The egg toss, handwalking, obstacle couse, arm wrestling, and shuttle run were short lived but were enjoyed just as much as the larger events. The tug-of-war was the event In which classes could combine their spirit, weight, and teamwork to pull off a victory. Sophomores used this strategy to win. In the end the seniors came out on top with an overall score of one hundred and sixteen points, sopho- mores followed with one hundred points, juniors with twenty-six, and freshmen with twenty-five points. h photos by Jeff Handlm