Norfolk High School - Milestone Yearbook (Norfolk, NE)

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Lori Pelashmutt prepares to board the bus after school. The bus is not a common form of transportation, but it is needed for a handful of students who live out of town. 4 OPENING The parking lots at NHS are always packed with students' cars. Many times there is not enough room for everyone. On September 6. 1985 the Nebraska Seat Belt Law was put into effect. Loree Weyhrich fastens her seat belt in order to protect herself from the perils of the road and her pocketbook from the long arm of the law.

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We no longer spend Halloween night gathering goodies from neighbors! instead. we go to football games. The Panthers charge through the spirit line before the game against Grand Island in which we emerged as the victors. In the Powder Puff football game spon sored by DECA and held at Johnny Carson Field on November 3. the rivaling teams are the T. J. Swans and the T. K. Hitters. The Hitters, coached by Tim Tuttle and Jerry Kilcoin. overpowered the Swans, coached by Todd Oltmans and John Bridge. 13 - 12. Jeff Goger exhibits his skill on the parallel bars for the student body during a convocation. He is a member of the YMCA gymnastics team and an instructor there. OPfcNING 3

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Walking is the oldest form of transportation. Cindy Nathan uses her feet to carry her out the door and away from school. Hoofers almost extinct ehicular modes Thank the caveman who developed the wheel. Without it we all would have attended boarding school or had very sore feet. Consider what our school would have been like without the many forms of transportation used to and from school. Students. teachers, cooks, and custodians would have hoofed it both ways. School would have started later and ended earlier so Woodland Parkers and country folks could make it on time. NHS surely would have become a boarding school! Transportation differed for each student although most arrived in cars and filled the parking lots leaving no room for latecomers. Each car was unique, however, and reflected its owner's personality and taste. Whether it was a jacked up Nova with no muffler and furred interior or a sleek TransAm with customized plates, it served one purpose — to get the student where he or she wanted to go. Steve Schrader remarked, I need transportation. It gets me anywhere I want to go faster than walking. If I had to walk everywhere I wouldn’t go out as often.” Last year transportation was easier because I didn’t have open campus, but this year I’m always coming and going. I almost have to have my own car,” added Lori Danielson. Some students could have been categorized as either carpoolies”, freeloaders”, or hoofers . The carpoolies”' parents took turns driving a group to school each day. The freeloaders , however, mooched rides with friends who had cars instead of being seen with Mom or Dad or riding a 1978 Schwinn 5-speed. The hoofers” walked to school in all kinds of weather despite the distance. The school bus was available to those students who lived out of town and did not have cars or were too young to drive. Bicycles and motorcycles were common too while the weather permitted. Without transportation there would have been no students. Without students, NHS. as we knew it. would not have existed. All the things that made our school superior — academic excellence. organized sports, group participation — would not have been. Most important of all. 1986 would not have been the Year of the Panthers.” Kelly Kleinsasser enjoys riding his cycle to school while the weather permits. He finds that parking is not a problem. OPENING 5