Litchfield High School - Yearbook (Litchfield, CT)

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Of course, high school offered personal challenges which we had to face by ourselves. Papers for English classes, strange computations from the Cinfinitej realm of mathematics and, most feared of all, history term papers managed to find us no matter where we hid. To take our minds away from these matters, there were other diversions like: chemistry experiments, accounting sets, shorthand tests, and in our spare time, College Boards. Yet, once our suffer- ing was over, it was nice to discover that we had, in fact, learned something! Unless we recall our class activities together, we will not fully remember ourselves as we were. Many of our ventures centered on raising money for the yearbook, but more impor- tantly, GRADUATION. There was one event when money-raising wasn't the goal. Instead, in our freshmen year, our objective was to terrorize Riverside Amusement Park. Unfortunately, the Riverside personnel found out that we were coming and closed down the giant roller- coaster before we got there. However, we did test the durability of their other rides for they tested usb and cleaned out the taco and hamburger stands. Bake sales, having become obsolete, we switched to the new-old standby of grinder sales. This provided a good opportunity to illustrate the mental agility of our class. At one such sale, we used felt-tipped pens to write the name of the grinder's victim on slips of paper. These, we placed between the plastic wrap and the grinder roll . . . So what if the ink blurred and ran and we couldn't read the names, at least we didnlt make the same mistake twice! Other Class of 1979 money-raising escapades included organizing a Coffee House , injur- ing the egos of the other classes by winning the prize for selling the most tickets to Sports Breakfasts, sponsoring the Paul Winter Consort, selling donuts, and arranging a tag sale. One annual event was looked forward to by the whole school - our St. Patrick's Day Smorgas- bord. We are proud to report that we had the fewest cases of food poisoning of any other class before us. Lastly, we cannot forget fbut maybe we shouldj our Junior Class Talent show. Thanks to a few dedicated classmates and teachers, we managed to pull it off. Actually, it didnlt turn out so badly but it certainly was A Close Encounter of the Weird Kind ! At least two people who were with us our senior year will never be the same, poor kids. We hope that the world will treat our AFSers, Sylvie and James, kindly after what they have been through. We wish them the best of luck and hope that they are able to recover their accents . Did you ever stop to think how this yearbook is a physical representation of the end of one stage in our lives and the beginning of another? What we did in high school affects our lives in whatever we do. It is hard to leave for good after being in the habit of coming for so many years. Some of us have been with the same group of classmates since we started school, and some of us joined the class along the way. We were fortunate in the friends we had among underclassmen and overclassmen Cstudents who graduated before usb and among our teach- ers. This, too, makes it difficult to leave. This yearbook can only lightly touch upon all of the experiences that we had together and with our classmates who moved away. While reminiscing, we ought to remember the bad times and learn from them but also recall the good times and laugh. . . THANK YOUAND GOODBYE. 'TTT fa' T5 55 -M ,f ' fzxx iw K C w fg 533' Q53-if f CTT DB- T3 2455?

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