Merrillville High School - Merrillvue Yearbook (Merrillville, IN)

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OUT OF THE The football game between the Pirates and the Bulldogs was filled with sounds of eraeking hones and grunts as bodies collided with one another for the hall. One type of game led to another. Ray Keilman. of the Varsity Football team, delivered his pre- victor) ' speech to the student body. Following the Homecoming victory, students mounted the player ' s back and showed their excitedness for this time of year. The construction of the float took time and de- termination. Brenda Storey and Mickey Korae deliberate what, if anything, to do next.

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CHATTER Skin News The most exciting fashion news of the year was skin. But the im- portant rule to follow when skin was worn was ' keep it covered up. ' This rule advocated some strong supporters who enforced the rule in school. In order for girls to stride the fashion route, they donned their platforms, thus elevating their skin from the sight of others. This decreased the number of people in the detention room who got in trouble wearing their skin. This sudden fashion break- through parallelled the burst of acne products on the market. Variety Of Friends The results, deter- mined unofficially, were taken from a personal survey. The conclusion was that MHS has to have the widest vari- ety of people to hang around with. A new person coming to school has a choice of the rahs. and super-straights, the freak, the red-neck, or whoever could be classified that lies some- where in-between, to hang around with. Some of these groups don ' t asso- ciate with each other, others carry a common bond. But w hatever the case, the choice is there. Coach Retires Three banquets were held for Coach Richard Demaree to commemorate his retirement. Coach Demaree was a football coach at Mer- rillville for 29 years. Annually the old sportsmen from Gary get together for an Old Timer’s Banquet. Last year the Old Timers celebrated the coach ' s re- tirement. Many of the old football players were sad to see the coach go; and many of the underclassmen foot- ball players were especially sad be- cause they woidd never have the op- portunity to play with the soft-spoken coach. Smokers: A tale of woe. Smiles: Robin Mitsos radiates smiles to her friends. Love Is Fair During the course of this school year, it has been reported to the various ' rumor-routers ' around school that different girls had been going out with steady boyfriends. Un- doubtedly, the biggest scandal oceured when the girlfriend found out about it. But as the controversy died down, a mumbled retort could sometimes be discerned from under the girl’s breath. It had something to do with ' all is fair in love and war. Smokers Given Sentence The MHS suspension list seemed to be growing for a while since the shutdown of the smoking area. Mrs. Spurr made her daily rounds to the bathrooms and gathered all of the smokers she could. For a while, anyone entering the bath- room had to sign in, to fight against abusive smokers. Suspensions were handed out, giving students anywhere from two days to five (depending on the student’s record). All In The Game During a Varsity Baseball game, Greg Rister and John ' Jonner’ Warded made a play between third base and home plate that will never make the record books, but will stay in the memory for a lifetime. The ball was hit and two players ran for the catch. Too engrossed in the re- trieving of the ball, they didn’t notice they were on a direct collision course, Greg racing with his arm outstretched, John watching the ball. What fol- lowed was winning the game and John going to the hospital. His eye looked nothing less than injured. But John didn’t think an elbow in the eye was serious enough to stay in the hospital. In order for the hospital attendants to keep him lying down, they had to hide his street clothes. 3

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Space Odyssey By Sandy Kormos Building a float is a time-consuming job. I asked a girl who had the float- building at her house this year if she would ever have it again. Following is a conversation we had after popping the question to her months after Homeeoining had taken place: Q. Would you ever have the float built at your house again? A. (After developing a wide grin on her face) No . . . but yes. It was a lot of fun but people would just come to talk. After all this talking, when the last day came along, everybody was complaining that we didn’t have the float done and that the float looked sick. It would have been more fun if we would have finished it first, and then joked around and met to goof around after. It was fun though. Outside of school, teachers and students ac- tively participate in many school functions. Mr. Woods and Rene Jenkins chat while working on the Senior float. The Homecoming queen candidates with their escorts are: Dave Watts and Lucy Ornelas. Deb Henriehs and Jerry Bardeson. Sue Nims and Dave Sullivan, and Kim Randhan and Cary Carrabine. To complete the evening, the candi- dates received roses as a Homecoming souvenir. Q. What was the hardest thing to do to build a float? A. The hardest thing was folding the napkins and then fitting them into the chicken wire. Well, probably the hardest part was getting everybody and telling them what job they had to do without them getting mad at me for getting on their case. After thinking about her answer for awhile she changed her mind. A. The hardest thing about building the float was finishing it and then hav- ing it burned down. As anyone could imagine, that would be the biggest letdown. But af- ter all this, she admitted that she would remember it the rest of her life . . . and would probably do it again (if no one else wanted to.) What I remember most about building the float was having to stand out in the cold and have drops of wa- ter drip on my head from a leaky gut- ter. The water must have left a deep impression on my brain. 5