Lone Tree Community School - Elm Yearbook (Lone Tree, IA)

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At the beginning, the wonder of it all was overpowering. Or perhaps the wonder is all in the anticipation, the waiting, the hoping, coupled with fear of the unknown. At times the yearning seems almost unbearable. As is of- ten the case, reality is antidimatic. A child leaves his home on a sultry, August morning. freshly scrubbed, blunt-ended pencils grasped in one hurtles itself through space in a regular 75 to 76 year cy- hand. He leaves the safety of his home and ventures out de. As it moves through the void of space, the knowl- into a new world of experiences. What fate awaits the edge of its forthcoming is known by those who have child? Will he sparkle and shine? Will he soar to great never seen it before. Will it live up to their expectations? FROM LEFT: Dennis Womer reacts as his picture is taken for the gradua- tion slide show. Stacy Swartzendruber and other Marching Lions prac- tice on a Friday evening just before a football game. Mr. Stole plays disc jockey at the back to school dance held after the soap games. The football team scrimmages on a Saturday morning in September. heights of glory? Or, will he ignite slowly, flashing only once or twice, and then fizzle out, quickly forgotten? A dirty snowball of frozen gases In 1973, a group of children began the first round of 13 cycles through the Lone Tree Community School system. That same year Comet Kohoutek made its presence known to - Earthlings. Thirteen years later, that same group of Will it bring joy, happiness, doom, destruction? Will it bring joy, happiness, doom, destruction? Will the flash and fire excite and enthrall or will a less than spectacular showing relegate it to just another space-age phenomenon?