Munster High School - Paragon Yearbook (Munster, IN)

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SHOPPING WITH A member of the opposite sex may not always be fun, because people ' s interests vary. Finding extra time on a weekend night for shop- ping, freshman Missy Lawson hunts for her favorite store. NIGHTS OUT WITH the guys can be filled with fun such as a challenging ping pong game. Senior Roger Teller sharpens his aim as he hits the ball to his oppo- nent. — Dateless 19 — of So Bad Out with the gang provides alternative to dating Friday night, 5:30 p.m. . . . The tele- phone rang. The girl’s spirits rose a bit. She didn’t want to get her hopes up too high, but maybe, just maybe it was that special some- one. She picked up the phone, but to her disappointment, a girl’s voice sounded on the other end of the line. A night out with the girls began once again. Many students found themselves without a date on the weekend; however, instead of sitting around and moping, they took the initiative and found something of interest to do. “If I don’t ask a girl out, I usually go to a movie or find something to do with the guys. CATCHING A BITE to eat at McDonalds becomes c common event after almost any activity. Sophomores Sherra Stewart, Lisa Trilli and Tricia Roman place their orders for a quick night-time snack. It doesn’t bother me to be dateless,” said junior Pat Sannito. However, some students didn’t always take the initiative and preferred to stay home. “I never had many dates so I stayed home and caught up on my homework,” added senior Caroline Paulson. But, when left alone, students invariably found different sources of entertainment. School sponsored events such as basketball or football games provided for an evening of excitement, especially if the game was good. “After I’m done cheering at a game, I would meet my friends and we’d go some- where like Aurelio’s and chow down on piz- za,” said Junior Varsity Cheerleader, Deb- bie O’Donnell, sophomore. Outside-of-school sponsored activities, a friend’s house provided an evening of play- ing pool, watching TV or playing video games. “I enjoy just sitting around at a friend’s house doing nothing sometimes. Dating often brings on pressure, and some- times it’s nice not having any pressure,” said freshman Jim Fitt. It is also common for girls and guys to go out platonically. “A bunch of girls and guys end up getting together on the weekends at a party or something. Usually no one is dat- ing and it does not bother anyone,” ex- plained senior Margaret Behrens. The girl hung up the phone. Now that she’d thought about it, maybe being date- less wasn’t so bad after all . . .

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' m Me? Sticky situations catch students off guard It always happens unexpectedly. Your normal coloring suddenly becomes beet red, starting slowly at your neck and climb- ing visibly higher. Your confidence crum- bles like a stale cookie as you shrink away from the laughing crowd. It doesn’t matter what you’ve done, or where it happened. You are embarassed. Everyone has been in an uncompromis- ing situation at least once in his or her life- time. Perhaps you can relate to one or more of these situations, for don’t you feel embar- rassed when . . . • You’re not paying attention in class and the teacher chooses you to answer a ques- tion about that day’s lecture. • You walk up to someone in the hall usually from behind, thinking it’s an old friend. You start talking to this person and when he turns around, you find yourself staring at an unfamiliar face. • You’re in the middle of a conversation with a casual acquaintance and you realize that you’ve forgotten his name .... now you’re stuck trying to fake it. •You strut confidently out in your new de- signer jeans and fashionable top only to dis- cover that you’ve forgotten to zip the zipper up. •You saunter into the North Building with an armload of books mindless to the early February thaw in the hallway. Suddenly you slip, books flying everywhere, ending on your gluteus maximus. •You coast into your first hour class a few seconds after the tardy bell. However, once you wake up and become fully aware, it is too late. You look around and finally realize that this was first hour of your last semester. • You stand in front of your locker for five minutes trying with no avail to open the tricky contraption only to find that you were trying to open a locker three spaces down from your own. • You accidently drop your lunch tray, full or empty, on the cafeteria floor during a calmer moment in “A” lunch. An instant later, the whole lunchroom is on its feet laughing and clapping. • After arriving in the locker room at an away game, you look around at your team- mates dressed in their red uniforms. Open- ing up your Converse bag, you find a white uniform staring up at you. • Trying to impress everyone in the Driver- Ed car, you sit confidently behind the wheel. Before you know what’s happened, you have been distracted by something else on the road, and the car displaying STU- DENT DRIVER has made it way from the street onto the sidewalk. • Bending over to retrieve a book, a ball, or a pen, you straighten up to the disconcert- ing sound of your pants splitting down the back seam. • It’s prom night. As you answer the door, you notice that your date has decided to wear purple tennis shoes with his tuxedo. — Embarassing Moments 21 —