North Montgomery High School - Charger Flashback Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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Tl Emma struggles to find her books while hanging on to her locker TC Attending her first Homecoming Emma wears a ki- mono and learns to dance American style C: Leorning the vocabulary of a dif- ferent language is difficult, but Emma doesn't let that stop her! BL Jun at his Eighteen year old Ema Ohga from Tokyo, Japan spent the school year of 1984-85 at North Montgomery. She stayed with the Morgan family. The main difference Ema saw in the American people and the Japanese people was that the Americans were more friendly. Her hobbies while in America were singing, playing piano, watching baseball games, visiting museums, and she was active in the Art Club. While in Japan she painted two oil paintings a month and was involved in the Japa- nese form of fencing. Kendo. The only food she felt she couldn't get in America was raw fish. She didn't miss it because of the variety of substitutes she had to choose from. When asked what she thought of people at school she said, I prefer the friendly way people are here. I think that's why I like it so much. Junlchlrow Ueno, 18, the for- eign exchange student from Fu- kuoka, Japan spent the year with Mr. and Mrs. William Morell. Jun noticed that Americans drive on the right side of the road instead of the left. He said that American basketball is better and they have no high school football in Fukuoka. The American food that Jun discovered he liked was biscuits and gravy. Although Jun really liked it at North Montgomery he missed his family and friends in Japan. favorite pastime — playing the sax. BC Jun waves at the crowd from his perch during the Homecoming parade before the gome FOREIGN EXCHANGE — 7

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NMHS FOREIGN EXCHANGE Marika Anderson, 17. was our visitor from Uppsala. Sweden. She stayed with Stout's. In Sweden students are re- quired to take English starting in the third grade. She thought that things at school in America were much more open. She had been used to being with the same stu- dents all day. They changed teachers and classes but the same students were always to- gether. When asked what she missed most about Sweden she said her family and friends. She enjoyed the junk food available to her in America, but she couldn't eat it all the time. Marika liked to draw, read and work with photography. She enjoyed visiting Turkey Run and the Shades State Park. She also went to Indianapolis during the Christmas season to see the lights and decorations. She said. I like America very much and plan on coming back again some day. West German foreign ex- change student, Diane Henseleit stayed with the Mathews family during the 1984-85 school year. When asked what she missed most about West Germany the seventeen year old replied. I guess it would be the North Sea near my home in Sylt. Diane was active in the Ger- man Club. She also enjoyed horseback riding, swimming and doing things with her friends. At home in Germany she played handball. Diane felt that the American students were much more ma- ture and the teachers were friendlier than those in Germany. She had not decided her future plans but said she would like to return to the U.S.A. someday. TC: Marika searches her locker for the right books. TR: Marika takes one last look at her notes before an English quiz. BC: Diane meditates over American gov- ernment. BL: Diane relaxes on the balance beam during P.E. FOREIGN EXCHANGE — 6

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CHARGERS A PIECE OF THE RAINBOW What has brought magic into ordinary lives? What has made dull days bright and cheerful? Color, of course. Why have peo- ple always looked forward to spring so much? It's because of the colors — in the sky, in the fields — through flowers and sun- sets and rainbows; that's what people have waited for. Think about how much value color has had in our lives. Blue and Orange signified Charger Pride, but blue with yellow repre- sented the enemy , as did red and gray. Colors took on special mean- ings through phrases in our lan- guages, for example: yellow sometimes stood for cowardice; being caught red-handed “meant doing something you shouldn't; and the recent “My dad has a yellow shirt and Tie me down and paint me purple expressed boredom and excite- ment respectively. Most of the time colors remind- ed us of good things like sunshine, funtimes. happiness, and our dreams. So like rainbows we spread out our colors to reach our pots of gold We did our best to make our dreams become realities. 71 Mr. Walker finds himself surrounded by Hawtian seniors Shannon Eden, Cheryl Personett, Sally Vollva, and Kotina Wil- bert directs the band before a football game CR Amy Coleman gets into the sectional spirit with a Bttte swing. BL Mar- gie Cohoe and Tammy Nichols dress ca- sual in the business-like atmosphere of Management class. BR Jeff Brown keeps busy by welding during sixth period. 8 — YOUR STYLE