Morton High School - Top Hat Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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lenata Plahtaric, Gail Hatfield. Pom-Port — Front Row: Tammy Banks, Traci Brandenburgs Do¬ reen Reyes, Donna Harakal, Tina Poe, Lisa Contreras, Shelly Pul- kowski, Leslie Soto, Second Row: falski, Pam Wojcik, Angie Vasic, Michelle Taylor, Donna Tutush, ■Monica Stage arid Kareh Steven- •son. | Gina Bachmeier, Vikki Shanahan. Mary BethTCarinon, Kim Haley! Elvira Guerrero, Pam Peardon. Back Row: Linda Brown, Joni Ra- Cheerleading Camp — Front Row: Kathy Csicsko, Bridget Vela, Ann Melton, Kathy Verme- jan. Back Row: Cindy Batliner, Ann Thomas, Angie Keutzer and Cathy Williams.

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STUDENTS ATTEND CAMP Several Morton students attended different camps and institutes last summer. Senior Ami Sherer and Sue Gonzales and juniors Joy Vandiver, Doreen Bed- nar, Nancy Minch, Kelly Stevens, Kris Maloney at¬ tended a volleyball camp in Kalmazoo, Michigan. Senior Mike West attend¬ ed the University of Michi¬ gan and junior John Hess went to Purdue Calumet ' s sports camp for football. Junior Vlado Petkovich and sophomore Billy Edinger attended All-Star Camp in Renseller, Indiana, for basketball. The Pom-Pon squad also attended camp last summer. Half the squad went to Indi¬ ana University and the oth¬ er half went to Ball State University. The Varsity Cheerleaders attended Concordia College in Michigan. Senior Renae Szymaszek and sophomore Tracy Fos- naugh attended Smith W al- bridge Drum Major Camp. Senior Jamie Jamie, Szy¬ maszek, and Fosnaugh at¬ tended Smith Walbridge Band Camp. Juniors Carol Gaddis, Michele Mikicich and Fosnaugh all attended band camp at Purdue Uni¬ versity in Lafayette. Sports Camp — Front Row: Sue Gon- Nancy Minch, Kelly Stevens. Back zales, Jcy Vandiver, Doreen Bednar, Row: John Hess, Mike West, Vlado Petkovich, Bill Edinger, Kris Ma¬ loney, and Ami Sherer. 24 Institutes

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TOP 10 IN REGION NEWS The following article ap¬ peared in The Times on Janu¬ ary 1, 1984. Top Hat would like to thank The Times Staff for their permission to reprint this article. The ailing steel industry was the Calumet Region ' s top story in 1983. Soaring health care costs and utility rate hike battles also lead the list of the Re¬ gion ' s top 10 stories for 1983, as chosen by The Times’ edi¬ tors. The year also saw political history in the making with the election of a Republican may¬ or in Hammond and the first black mayor in Chicago. And the long, hot summer of 1983 won’t soon be forgotten by Indiana and Illinois farm¬ ers, some of whom lost up to half of their crops because of the drought. The top ten stories for 1983 are: STEEL When the 1983 industry losses are tallied, they are ex¬ pected to reach the $2 billion mark — an improvement over last year’s $3.6 billion in¬ dustrywide loss. The United Steelworkers union lost, too, when it signed a historic concessions agree¬ ment on March 1, giving back $1.25 an hour and a portion of the benefit package. The biggest story was at U.S. Steel’s South Works, where the battle for a rail mill and the fear of a shutdown plaughed workers all year. Last week, U.S. Steel said it will not build the rail mill, but it will not shut down the two operating departments there either. The company offered no committments as to how long the mill will continue op¬ erating. On a more positive note, Jones Laughlin Steel Corp. unveiled a continuous caster at its Indiana Harbor Works, while Inalnd Steel Co. and U.S. Steel Corp. announced plans to build similar facilities at their plants in East Chicago and Gary, respectively. Inland and Bethlehem Steel Corp. began operating their new heat-treating lines, which will help them meet their new higher quality stan¬ dards of the auto industry. The industry has operated at about 55 percent this year, up from 48.4 percent last year. HEALTH COST An exhaustive, six-month study by Times Staff Writers Lori Olszewski and Timothy Bannon revealed that most of the Calumet Region’s not-for- profit hospitals make a profit above the national average for hospitals. St. Anthony’s Medi¬ cal Center in Crown Point was the most expensive place to stay among 14 Regional hospi¬ tals in Indiana and Illinois studies by The Times from 1978 to 1981. Following the series which was published in March, St. Anthony began lowering its rates. Lawrence T. Filosa was removed as the hospital’s ad¬ ministrator on May 31, and the 16-member board of directors was dissolved. The Times re¬ ported in August that Filosa headed a network of not-for- profit corporations associated with the hospital which paid him $344,193 from July 1,1981 and June 30, 1982, including $180,000 a year as president and chief operating officer at St. Anthony’s hospital. UTILITY COST Indiana ’s Public Service Commission granted North¬ ern Indiana Public Service Co. a 20 percent, $161.6-million rate increase in August. On December 21, however, the PSC began reconsidering if NIPSCO’s construction costs for the $543-million Schahfer Unit 17 power plant are rea¬ sonable. PSC members said if the rates aren’t reasonable, re¬ funds will be ordered. Commonwealth Edison filed a request with the Illinois Commerce Commission to in¬ crease revenues by $462.2 mil¬ lion annually starting April 1984. ELECTION For the first time in 32 years, a Republican was elect¬ ed mayor of Hammond. Thom¬ as McDermott defeated Ed¬ ward Raskosky — the incum¬ bent two-term Democrat — with 61 percent of the vote on Nov. 8. Raskosky’s campaign manager. Brad Bodney, said he was aware three weeks be¬ fore the election that Ras¬ kosky wouldn’t win. Thomas McDermott was elected in Nov. 1983 as the first Republican mayor of Hammond in 32 years. 26 Local