Lew Wallace High School - Quill and Blade Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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MOST VALUABLE STAFFER (86-7) Lydia Hodges, junior, poses for a fashion page can¬ did Hodges forfe is in advertising. out materials. SENIOR SHELUNDA HERRON ( 86-7) works on freshman mugs. JUNIOR SHALONDA WILLIAMS ( ' 87-8) indexes captions. SENIOR GLAFIRA LAURANT ( 87-8) tries out a Warren PERFECT MAKES FOR BETTER yearbook copy so Seretha Williams, junior, corrects her mis¬ takes.

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Yearbook last hurrah unplugs 20 -QUILL BLADE two years. No book would be produced for the classes of 1988 or 1989. The ensuing fall term would ay it was the straw that broke the ca- mel ' s back. Say the heat had reached the melt down point. Call it what you might — to those closest to the nagging sore, the LW year¬ book was on its last leg and had had it, pure and simple. The dogs of doom had caught wind of the final bloodlet¬ ting and were hot for the kill. To outsiders, the yearbook ' s plagu¬ ing problems were sloughed off as just another late book. But to those in the know, the death of the journalism program had become a waiting game and simply a matter of time. Despite the sometimes inge¬ nious bandaids and heroic efforts of many of the staffers, in the end nothing made much difference. Bluntly put, there were too many holes in the dike to plug and no one had really cared enough or done enough — neither the high- COLD AND Station doesn ' t spoil the staffers. A DAY OFF from school makes for a gang of QB clowns at a Josten ' s Workshop in Harvey, IL. er-ups nor those below. This was to be the last year¬ book published at LW for the next A JOURNALISM I STAFFERS C88-89) Reeshemah Harbin, Racquel Wil¬ son, and Waconda Mitchell, juniors, leave on assignment. find the remains of a badly deteri¬ orated journalism program stuffed into the box of a single hour. Meaningful journalism reform would again be stalled and diverted. Quill Blade would be¬ come a Chapter 13 statistic. This yearbook advisor would be about ready to toss in the towel. Yet, sometimes some things couldn ' t be destroyed, despite the spoilers. Energy, resiliency, talent, and idealism could not be institutionally wasted and would come to grow again. In the next saga two years later, the story ' s sequel would deal with the onslaught of North Central and the coming of Princi¬ pal Elton Mathews. □ commentary by jass.

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I AV.V.JJ AN OUTSPOKEN, GLORIA COTTON, government teochef. takes to the pocftunn itke a duck takes to watetv.V.Vt ' .V»V.V.V. »V« !vX Presidential Scholar shares her diary Hodges learns about D.C. xpenses to Washing¬ ton, D.C. had been pre-paid by the school. I was as one of the chosen ones that had been selected for a program entitled Presidential Classroom, by my counselor William Meyer Traveling by plane to D.C. was fun. My companion was Ro¬ chelle Brown, a senior at West Side. From a total of 430 upper grade students participating from throughout the U.S.A. we were the only two from Gary. On our first day out, we could not help but want to take in the famous sights, like the White House tour and Capitol Hill. Then there were the Supreme Court Building, the Washington Monu¬ ment, Arlington, Georgetown, and the Smithsonian. Back on The Hill, influential people strolled in and out of our daily seminars - like U.S. Attorney Robert Merkle, Journalist Susan King, and His Excellency Moha¬ mad Kamal, the Jordanian am¬ bassador. These high raking persons spoke to us about arms control. disarmament, and defense strat¬ egies. In our Crossfire Meetings, we asked questions like how far should our government go in ne¬ gotiating for the release of Amer¬ ican hostages? And should abor¬ tion remain legalized? At the end of ever busy days and nights, I received a diploma, a pendant, and a group picture. That week in D.C. will always stay in my memory. □ written by Lydia Hodges