Neenah High School - Rocket Yearbook (Neenah, WI)

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WE 'VE GOT WHEELS Each morning of the school year, students with- out driving privileges rush to their bus stops, manuever their bicycles out through cluttered garages, wait for a ride from a friend, older sib- ling, or parent, or simply walk to school. Although their minds may be cluttered with thoughts of the coming school day, there are few who do not envision, at least briefly, the time when they will no longer be utterly de- pendent either upon others for transportation or upon the weather for conditions suitable for biking or walking to school. This contemplation of the momentous day when one is the driver, instead of the rid- er, gives the student a pleas-, ant, hopeful feeling, which helps him or her tolerate having to be outside on dark, freezing, Wisconsin winter mornings. When the much looked forward to day finally arrives, students are at first over- whelmed at being able to ad- just their car or truck 's radio, temperature, and speed. They thrill to the thought of being able to pick their times of arrival and departure and fit them to their own prefer- ences. They have the free- dom of their own wheels - at last! It is not long, however, be- fore the new driver will ex- perience a journey into the darker side of transporta- tion. It might even be during the first outing that the stu- Top center: lt's got 2.9 written all over it. Top right: Where are the roller skates, Ryan? Bottom left: Hey, babe, do you want a ride? Left center: Chrysler's new hood ornament? Ri ht center: Where's the steering wheel? 8 Bottom right: No place like home. Filmstrip: Cheer up, Tammy, you own it. Nice car. Too bad I don't have keys. Hood decorations. 24 STUDENT LIFE dent is locked outside of his or her roadster lremember that day, lenny?i during the worst thunderstorm of the season. Or, perhaps there will be an encounter with the law, lost car keys, a dead battery, or an empty gas tank. In addition the student will suffer from perpetually empty pockets resulting from the strain of vehicle maintainence costs upon the teenage budget. Amid this sea of new wor- ries and responsibilities, the young driver may even long for the time when someone else provided the transpor- tation. Then even the old yellow bus won't look so bad.