Minnechaug Regional High School - Falcon Yearbook (Wilbraham, MA)

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Coach Art Tipaldi demands respect from frus- On stage John Howell threatens John Cham- trated soccer talent Steven Fiedler during a bers with respectability for a dramatic pose rough home game. during an in-house field trip. Senior Heather Greene gives her infamous look of defiance, which instills a form of re- spect. y 17 STUDENT LIFE

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RESPECT! T teacher looks around the room on the first day of -school. He sees many differ- ent faces. As he teaches, he hopes to gain the attention and respect which he deserves. A way in which stu- dents may demonstrate their respect is by giving the teacher 100% of their attention. Right away, the teacher is able to decide which stu- dents are willing to work by the amount of attention he receives. A certain willingness to complete homework and pass it in on time also demonstrates respect for the teach- er. When a student doesn ' t have re- spect for the teacher, he or she will not put an effort into the work. Jeff Zahr, a junior, says that he gained respect for his employers (he works at Dernavich ' s on Boston Road) when they began treating him as an adult. The people he works with are all older than he, but they share problems, jokes, and ideas with him just as they would with their friends. By doing so, they make him feel wanted and he looks for- ward to working with them. His em- ployers, in turn, respect him for his openness, intelligence, and sense of humor. They demonstrate their re- spect for him by giving him a raise and time off when he requests it. Dina Warner looks ashamed as Mr. Dan Hans- corn jokingly displays his opinion. Who couldn ' t respect that!? Ainsley McGill demonstrates her respect for authority as she receives instructions from the nurse during the annual Key Club Blood Drive. STUDENT LIFE

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Li SPARE TIME? Everyone looks forward to sen- ior year, and who could blame them? There ' s nothing like fi- nally becoming one of the supreme rulers of the school after three years of taking abuse as an underclassman. But, unfortunately, senior year can ' t be all fun and games. There ' s so much to do that it ' s hard to find time for the little pleasures, like sending some poor freshman down B-hall, left past the auditorium and out the back door to the football field when they were looking for the library. First of all, there are classes. You might wonder Kevin, what on earth possessed you to sign up for six hon- ors courses? I ' m not sure either. It probably has something to do with colleges. If you want to go to RPI or Carnegie Mellon, you need more than good grades. Everybody who applies to these places has good grades. You need good grades in the most challenging courses. And you have to go to a good college because college prepares you for the real world. I ' m not sure what the real world is for, but it better be really good because I ' m killing myself try- ing to get there. You need even more than the classes because a competitive col- lege is looking for well rounded stu- dents. In other words, you need to get involved in extra-curricular ac- tivities. So, I ' ll be doing activities all afternoon and homework all night. The only problem is, when will I work on long range assignments like writing papers and reading books? Ah, the weekends, you say. Well, you ' re wrong. Because I have one other little problem — a job. Why would I need a job? Because those good colleges are expensive. But if I just work one day a weekend that ' s about thirty dollars and after nine months that ' s $1,000 whole dollars. So how much does it cost to go to WPI, RPI, or Carnegie Mellon? What did you say? Sixty thousand dollars at least? Ok, so I ' ll work two days every weekend, and I ' ll only be short by $58,000. College really does prepare you for the real world. It teaches you what it means to be in debt. Actually, between the $50,000 my parents are giving me and scholar- ships and my job, I can pay for col- lege. But how do I have time for everything? The truth is I don ' t know. I just keep working at it and somehow everything works out — barely. For example, I get into messes like this: It ' s Sunday and I ' m working till 2:00 and I have a meeting at 6:30. I haven ' t started my paper yet. I ' ll get home around 2:30 and leave at 6:20, and that only leaves four hours. Not good. But if I hurry I can get home in fifteen minutes and I ' ll leave at 6:30 because nobody ever gets to those meetings on time anyway. That leaves 4 hours and fifteen minutes. I think I can handle that. There it is — 2:00! Now punch out, get in the car. You have fifteen minutes to get home. But officer, I swear I wasn ' t speed- ing. No, just kidding. I haven ' t been stopped for speeding — yet. In fact, I finished that paper at 6:28. I did it on the word processor so it went quick- ly and I finished printing the last page with 2 whole minutes to relax before my meeting. Now, it ' s a good thing I finished that paper when I did because when I got home late that night, there was no power in our house, which would have made it al- most impossible to use the comput- er. And that ' s basically what my whole year is going to be like. Kind of exciting, isn ' t it? Renee Dube is busy at the register and an- swering the phone at Huston ' s Shoes in the Eastfield Mall during back to school shopping. STUDENT LIFE