Mater Dei High School - Hi Lights Yearbook (Evansville, IN)

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ONE IN EVERY CROWD: Journalism Adviser Mrs. Leslie Stratman. along with newspaper students, sophomore Kim Preske, and juniors Jeanne Rivard. Stacey Stevenson, Tanya Crothers, and Greta Emmert, watch senior Kevin Dick pop out of Brooke Heathcotte ' s birthday cake. (Photo by Alan Bur- dette) GALLOPING GOURMET: The morning of May Day found senior Cris Fulkerson busy in the kitchen. The Journalism Department held the breakfast in an effort to make money. (Photo by Greg Bourdeau) LED THE ED : Assistant Editor Bethe Ledbetter trys to find the right picture just hours before the year- book deadline. (Photo by Alan Burdette) FRIEND IN CHIEF: Senior Editor-in-Chief Mary Ellert assists Lisa Scheller with the prom pages. (Photo by Alan Burdette) Taking it to the li In the candlelit dining room of Adviser Leslie Stratman, the five member edito- rial staff stood silently around the table as newspaper Editor-in-Chief Kevin Dick made the toast. To The Rainbow Connection, and the glasses clinked in agreement. This meeting was to kick off a year of hard work, devotion, and creativity for the newspaper and yearbook staffs. It was also a year of obstacles, such as limited working space, personal con- flicts and the biggest of all, money. Con- stantly scrambling for funds, the Journal- ism staffs held two Western Dances, sponsored a May Day breakfast, sold patron ads, yearbooks, doughnuts, cookies, pictures, and even balloons. People get tired of you bugging them for money all the time, said Staffer Mary Scnenk. tfs depressing because I ended up buying everything myself. Fundraisers were the part that most saw, but few outsiders got a glimpse of what went on during deadline situa- tions. Anyone who dared to venture into the J-room during a crucial deadline took his life in his own hands. Besides having to wade through mounds of paper, it was easy to get run over by a staff member looking for a lost story, or a lost cropper, or a lost photo, or a lost pica stick, etc., etc.. Underneath the mounds of paper, however, was a dedicated staff. Okay staff, gonna have a good book, gonna have a good book, yeah! Lots of people came and stayed af- ter for deadlines. They worked hard, said newspaper Staffer Mike Locklar. Our goal was to do as good a book as last year and have fun at the same time. I think we succeeded at both, commented yearbook Editor Mary Ellert. Accomplishing this goal, howev- er, took a great deal of time after school. On one occasion several staffers spent the entire night on a deadline until school began the next day. It ' s crazy, added Mary. One minute we ' re all on each other ' s nerves and the next we ' re slap-happy and having a good time. After it ' s all over with, though, everybody just feels drained. It ' s easy to get burned out on it. You want to do too much in such a short time. By the time a deadline was over, eyes were bloodshot and nerves were fraz- zled. And if that wasn ' t bad enough, they had to come up from the depths and face the real world — life outside the J-room doors. They mixed the tears, the laughter, the insanity, the long hours of hard work and added their own special touch of color, pushing their creativity to the limit until finally — We did it! — The Rainbow Connection. — Alan Burdette

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WARMING UP THE CROWD: Senior Scott Altman. also the Editorial Editor, took on another job at the Journalism Banquet. Scott was chairperson and is pictured here welcoming the crowd. (Photo by Geoff Coates) INCOGNITO: Seniors Lori Whelan and Angie Groucho Hertel read the comic section with sophomore Rob Zigenfus on the bus to the Journal- ism workshop at Indiana University. (Photo by Alan Burdette) OSMOSIS: Something can be said for the process of diffusion, but someone should tell junior Mary Schenk that it doesn ' t work with yearbook stories. (Photo by Alan Burdette) KEEPING HIS COOL: Larry Schapker, the only senior member of the photography staff, shows his winning smile at the Journalism Banquet, while Mrs. Stratman pokes some harmless fun at him. (Photo by Greg Bourdeau) SURPRISEI Senior Kevin Dick gives junior Brooke Heathcotte a live surprise birthday cake on her birthday. Both departments of journalism took time out to celbrate staff birthdays. (Photo by Alan Bur- dette)

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POSED TO PERFECTION: Lisa Dezember poses for the judge during her beam routine at the Harrison meet. This was Dezember ' s first year competing at the varsity level. (Photo by Alan Burdette) 100 TOTAL COMMITMENT: Julie Gries concen- trates on her beam routine during the gym- nastics assembly in March. Gries ' hard work earned her the Kiwanis award. (Photo by Alan Burdette) GYMNASTICS STATS-N- FACTS INTER OPTION INTER OPTION Mater Dei 23.65 51.50 North 56.2018 80 Bosse 64.40 20.20 Mater Dei 11 50 52.85 Harrison 91.80 88.80 Bosse 82.90 37.75 Mater Dei 28.75 59.56 Bosse 42.90 33.90 Harrison 89.90 87.85 Mater Dei 23.65 48.35 Reitz 91.55 78.85 Harrison 93.10 93.25 Mater Dei 29.85 69.90 Central 84.25 63.05 Reitz 90.55 92.90 Meet scores not available: Jan. 27 March 1 Team Placings City — 4th place S.I.A.C. — 4 th place Sectionals - - 4tn place