Logan High School - Aerial Yearbook (Logan, OH)

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Everyone always looks forward to Friday Not because It is the last school day of the week, but because it is pizza day. 9do). Munch Mania Lunch here at L.H.S. has changed a lot over the years. During the past few years a salad bar, an ice cream machine and a larger selection of food has been added to our cafeteria. Of course not everyone particularly enjoys the cafeteria food, but a ma jority of the students agree that it has improved. Of ail the student body, the seniors enjoy lunch the most. This may be because they enjoy eating in the senior lounge and having other privileges such as “Senior Steak Day.” Other special days in the cafeteria such as baked potato day, hoagy by the inch day and 50's day were enjoyed by all. Other new ideas were the game card lunch, ice cream sundaes, and the all you can eat spaghetti and pasta bar. Lunch in the cafeteria isn't all that bad, but many students feel that we should have more time and a little more space. Just walk in the cafeteria during any lunch period, and you will find students talking, walking around, standing in lines, or just sitting at a table. Lunch can be a lot of confusion and chaos, but it's a good time to talk to friends and take the break from classes, which everyone needs sometimes. “Going Steady’’ Senior, Gretchen Levandofsky. takes time out from her scooter crunch to chuckle with friends. Lunch isn't just for eating it is also a time for talking to friends, (do) “Going steady is a phrase that many teenagers use to describe their relationship with someone of the op- posite sex. Yet its true definition is hard to explain since it is one of those topics not frequently talked about in public. To most people it means to be seriously dating so- meone,” while others believe it means to be in love. But... what is love? Do teenagers in high school really understand the meaning of “love? Some seem to think they do. Various reactions were expressed when a group of high school students were asked to write about going steady. Most agreed that the experience definitely had its pro and cons. Then, of course, there were those who held strong opinions ... either favoring it or being totally against it. One advantage of going steady is the fact that one will always have somebody to rely on. It's wonderful to be able to share special moments with somebody special. Nights are never lonely because one can telephone his steady and talk for hours on end, and on weekends one will always have a date. However, this should never be the reason to go steady with someone. Teenagers often find themselves get- ting involved with someone for all the wrong reasons. For instance, their attraction to each other may just be physical, resulting in a lot of problems in the future. A relation- ship should start out as friends and gradually build up. At our age it should be a growing experience in which we learn values and set morals. Although there are many advan- tages to going steady, there are just as many disadvantages. As one girl put it ... “you sort of close yourself off from others to get to know this one special person better. One becomes so attached to the other, thus, he loses friends and becomes an outcast. Also, even though one will always have a date for the weekend, some find it a disadvantage to have the same date all the time. In many cases, one will tend to become over possesive, limiting the other from flirting or even looking at someone else. This often leads to a break-up il jealousy is the major problem. 20 Magazine Debbie O'Donnell

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Alarm! Upon awakening on the Sunday morning of October 23 many Americans were shocked to hear that their country was engaged in war. Fortunately it was not a war, but a rumor. Nevertheless a tragedy involving many (J.S. marines in Lebanon had begun. 207 marines and navymen had been killed and many others wounded in an enemy suicide run which took place at 6:20 a.m. that morning. For many marines, the previous night could possibly have been special or nothing out of the or dinary. Could there have been a farewell party going on? Or maybe a night of peace and quiet which these marines were definitely striving for? But these postulates remained ir- revelant for the facts remained; several humans had lost their lives due to the actions of an enemy of peace. The morning slowly awakened and the Beirut airport started to stir from sleep. Why would a red pick up seem unusual on the grounds? Breaking the barricades at the entrance enabl- ed the driver to steer two tons of TNT explosives into the four-story command center which caved in im- mediately after the explosion went off. Hundreds of our marines were buried alive under the concrete and debris only to be found days or weeks later, dead. For the messengers, telling the families of these marines about the deaths was the hardest thing to do. The country mourned with the families. But for Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Ogle, of Logan, the message was a happy one: the fami- ly received a phone call on October 28, five days after the explosion, from their son, Dick, a graduate of Logan High. He had lived through the terror. The 207 other marines who fought to keep peace in Lebanon, will not be forgotten. It will be written in the history of the (J.S. about how these courageous men died for their coun- try. Therefore what hope is left in our world for peace, we must use. For we must believe in our nation and ourselves as these young men once believed. Panic! A Soviet jet fighter shot down a South Korean jumbo jet carrying 269 people, after tracking it for more than two hours when it strayed over the Soviet Island of Sakhalin. Japanese radar indicated the Korean Airlines jumbo jet was pur- sued and shot down by three MIG- 23's and plummeted into the sea. The Soviet Union blamed the United States for what they called unpreciated accident. The USSR claimed that the pilots mistook the Boeing 747 for a US spy plane as it flew through Soviet airspace. The communist country offered no apology. Secretary of State George Schultz told a Washington news conference I the unarmed civilian was downed with a missle and there was no ex- cuse whatsoever for this appalling act, and that the US government reacted with revulsion. Throughout the nation, thousands of protestors condemned the attack at rallies. Although students at -----Logan did not hold protests or demonstrations, much discussing of this topic occurred as opinions and concerns were expressed. Some of the students felt the situation could have been handled more diplomatically by the USSR; one stu- dent suggested that the plane should have been ordered down and Soviet officials allowed to search it. Another student felt the Soviets were trying to prove their power in shooting the jet down. However, the most eminent fear of the students was a clash of the op- posing countries in a war. A student asked of a teacher what had been a main concern throughout the strug- gle of searching by the US and USSR for survivors, Is this the first strike of World War III? With the long term effects this could cause between the two powerful countries the only answer that was given was simply a defeated shrug of the head. Magazine Laura Mack 19

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Sweet Sixteen and Driving One of the most exciting things to happen to many 16-year-old students was getting a driver's license. As soon as a student turned 16. he was able to obtain his permit kit from the American Automobile Associa- tion. After the student had his permit package, he could take his permit test. A written test, containing traffic laws ans signs, had to be passed to be valid. Once the student had his permit, he could drive with a licens- ed driver in the front seat beside him. Next, the student driver was re- quired by the state of Ohio to have 36 hours of classwork and 6 hours of driving time. However, the student had the option of taking driver's education through school or through AAA. At school, the driver's ed fee was only $25, while through AAA, it cost the student about $120. Although the school fee was much lower, many students preferred the AAA course. The main reason for this was that school driver's ed lasted one semester, but AAA took only a matter of weeks. At the end of the training period the student took his driving test. The test consisted of two major parts: driving in the city along a designated route and maneuvering through a series of cones, both- forward and reverse. Points were taken off, depending on how large a mistake the driver made. They had to have a 75 or above to pass. After obtaining their licenses, dif- ferent students had different opinions about them. Some felt a sense of responsibility, and they felt that adults finally took them serious- ly. Others didn't like to be burdened with all the costs of driving, the ac- cidents that almost always seem to come with a license, and all the er- rands their parents asked them to do. A few students felt that owning a license was no big deal. The majority of students, nevertheless, enjoyed driving and believed a license to be a real asset, a convenience, and a great thing to own. As junior Teresa Wat- son put it, A driver's license is the next best thing to a Christmas present! Cathy Campbell studies hard on the traffic signs and laws which she will be tested on in driver's education, (do) Paul Fought gets behind the wheel as he begins his journey toward receiving hit driver's license, (do) Debbie O'Donnell Magazine 21