Merrillville High School - Merrillvue Yearbook (Merrillville, IN)

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Lasting impressions A Senior Now that I’ve graduated, I can look back on all of my school years and ob- jectively decide where I made mis- takes and where I did the right thing. I made a lot of mistakes but I learned some things I would never have learned if I hadn’t made the mistakes myself. People have played a great in- fluence on my life. I like people and I ' m glad that I met some . . . I’m sorry for others. I think this is under- standable since it is impossible, and I personally believe a waste of time, to get along with everyone. I found myself going through stages concerning popularity, grades, cliques, and boyfriends. Things that were so important two years ago have no meaning today. I couldn’t date until I was 16 years old. I was younger than most of my friends so when they went out on a date and I wasn ' t even al- lowed to double-date, I felt like my mother was the least understanding, most unsympathetic person alive. Vilien I graduated 1 was 17 years old. Most of my friends were 18. Sixteen years old seems to be much an unim- portant age when I now look forward to being 18 and able to vote, but more importantly, to claim my legal independence. I m kind of scared to be a high school graduate. My freshman, soph- omore, and junior years were spent anticipating my senior year. I studied an got good grades, some of which weren ' t earned. I fervently planned on going to college . . . immediately. I thought that a person who graduated from high school and didn’t immedi- ately go to college would never get there. It is too easy to be possessed with money and fulltime jobs that you don t really like but keep working at because of the pay. I’ve heard of some parents actually crying when they came to the realiza- tion that their children were growing up and would have to face that cruel world outside. I’ve also heard of kids crying when they were no longer con- sidered kids anymore and they had gotten the first of many bitter tastes of what waits outside. I envision life from now on as radiating from a cen- tral nucleus. The nucleus represents life from the time you’re born until the time you graduate. I really shouldn’t say graduate because some people never grow up and never be- come what we sometimes flippantly describe as independent. But from the time you graduate, and even when you go to college, you no longer can de- pend on mother’s kind words and fa- ther ' s encouragement. The paths that radiate from the nucleus are varied. Some lead up, some down, some are rough, some are full of pitfalls, but none are completely smooth. That is where my life really begins and it scares me. In tin Iasi weeks of school. Karen Adams, as many other students, caught tin sun ' s ravs long before summer came along. Astutely watching tin- varying crowds around school. Bob Guska doesn’t seem to he aware that his picture i.w being taken (or he would not he biting his nails). See what you guys get for taking my picture?” Mark Coleman, who portrayed the position of editor on the Newspaper staff, had something going with the photographers on Yearbook. A mild look of astonishment marks John Shield ' s face as he is caught making his way through the cafeteria during Activity Period, the busiest time of the school da .

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Tin turnout for Senior Breakfast was good. Sally Springman ami V iolet Jakovijivieh grab for tin best pic k of the donuts and milk. Accepting the award for tin Most Outstanding Senior boy was John Stanton. Lugging the waist-high trophy to his seat in the auditorium. John received a loud ovation and envious glances from classmates. 27

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An ardent smile is caught by the camera s lens as Bill Maresko mounts his jeep to go home. Transportation varied from hikes to trucks to and from school. Tom Nowesnick raises the sign of approval as Mark Coleman stands behind giving Tom the look of a devil. There was never a dull mo- ment” in many of the classes this year. The benches that line the cafeteria during Ac- tivity Period and lunch hours provide ample space for the idle chit-chat that is heard circulating. The psychology (as seen in the background) that Bill Hebert uses on his girlfriend Joyce Izinsky. is hold hands first . . . 29