Niles Township High School West - Spectrum Yearbook (Skokie, IL)

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Brad Carstens Ray Castro John Catuira uT Kyung Chang Doreen Chen Eric Chern Amy Chertow Julie Cho Junho Cho It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No. it’s senior Kim Boulware swinging into action as she tests the newly constructed obstacle course equip¬ ment. James Choi Kang Choi Linda Choi Seniors 15

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0 Jinjer Brody Alison Brooks Angie Brown Mary Brown Brian Buehling Amy Burnham Bill Burns John Callas Stephanie Callas Joe Camilli Kim Cancelleri Tony Carollo College Pressures Push Seniors O.k., we’re seniors! We’ve struggled through the difficult years of high school. The so called “blow-off year” has finally arrived, right? Wrong! Plenty of hard work was still ahead for students in their senior year. College preparations made up the bulk of this hard work. Many students failed to realize the importance of meeting application dead¬ lines. “Colleges filled up so quickly, this year more than any. If you missed a deadline, they wouldn’t even give you the benefit of the doubt,” comment¬ ed college counselor Frank Mustari. Besides application deadlines, colleges pres¬ sured seniors to keep grades up and to choose challenging senior year courses. Colleges com¬ monly refused to admit students who met class rank and test score re¬ quirements, but took “push-over classes” and let their grades drop dur¬ ing senior year. Students who had been accepted to a college couldn’t afford to let their grades drop either. Even after admission, the col¬ leges kept a close watch¬ ful eye on the students’ performance in the class¬ room until graduation. College deadlines and requirements definitely put a strain on seniors. To cope with these pres¬ sures, seniors had to con¬ tinue working as hard as in their previous high school years. 14 Seniors

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Seong Choi Julie Christensen Sue Chung Susan Chung Preston Clark Darryl Colen Jacqueline Congine Dora Connell Mike Cooper Kelly Cordes Colleen Covington Sean Cresham Homecoming activities bring about much competition and enthusiasm among the dif¬ ferent grade levels. Seniors Gabi Tomacic and Anna Lee wait anxiously in line for their turn in the relay race. 16 Seniors