Muncie Central High School - Magician Yearbook (Muncie, IN)

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If you were one of us who was handed ten dollars at the first of the week, and wondered how long it would last, here are some points to help figure it out. A typical student paid almost five bucks a week just to eat lunch. If we planned on taking in the game and or dance on Friday, the price was about two dollars for each. Pizza or a hamburger afterwards ran up to about two or three dollars, too. (These figures could double if a guy took a date!) Gas, if lucky enough to have a car, took another big chunk out of the old billfold. On the weekend, we would make the mistake of going shopping and seeing that sweater that we ‘needed’ to have or the new album by our favorite group. This could cost another ten or twenty dollars in itself. If we wanted these little extras bad enough, though, we broke down and got a job (ugh!). So, how long did ten dollars last? Well, if you got it on Monday, you could usually expect to be broke by Wednesday at the latest. When out of funds, a true Bearcat would find something inexpensive to do-but how fun was staying home? DANCE Featuring NEW PHASE W 1 TO • Amusement Arcades were a way to spend some of our time, and money, in order to entertain ourselves. Rushing through the daily business of working is sophomore Mike Henry. Mike worked in an ice-cream shop last year. Handing it over is John Mosier. paying junior Jill Adams for a ticket to a cheerleader-sponsored dance Student Life 19

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Income falls short of expenses Albums, albums, albums. You just couldn’t get enough of them. Usually, though, you couldn’t get enough money to pay for them. Picking the one that will give her the most for her money is freshman Margie Beebe as she chooses from some blouses at a shop in the Mall Pointing out some changes n the way that school fees were figured is school secretary Mrs. DeBord. Trying to understand all of the dollar signs flying by is junior Mike Blackwell. 18 Student Life

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Interests occupy students’ time Taking a count of the cars going through the intersection of Columbus and Walnut are seniors Carol Frischkorn. Jenny Crim and junior Mark Hoops. This was a student council project. The only way to pick up guys. Junior Diana Cartright tests her muscles by picking up Ty McDaniel, senior. Senior Jeff Wickersham looks amusingly at the action”. The clique clicks. Sophomores Kellie Clark, Joann Hendrix, Kim Gishler, Lynn Ault, and Shellie Hatfield try to imitate the New Wave punk rockers at Young Life. 20 Student Life