North Scott High School - Silver Shield Yearbook (Eldridge, IA)

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xpectations always run high on the first day of school. The staff and the students hope that this will be a year that will be excit- ing, harmonious, and one that will work because everyone wants it to work. Students look forward to a year that will bring them friendships, victories, and memoriesg teachers want classes that demonstrate concern, creativity, and comprehension. Students rate their years, trying to pick their best. Seniors want this last year to be it, freshmen want their first year to be it, and everyone else wants the year to be the one that will equal the years their brothers and sisters talk about. Some- how, though, things just didn't work out that way this year. The pressures, problems, and poli- tics of the year combined to make it a year not of balloons or buildings for most of us, but a year that frustrated, disillusioned, and confused us. We fought for sports victories, but wins were rare. School clubs wanted in- creased involvement, but apathy was rampant. Teachers wanted ideal schedules, but found afternoon classes near-empty. To be honest, it was not the kind of year that everyone wants but it was the kind of year that was, and that made the year memorable all by itself. For the student, the problems of this year seemed endless, beginning with the first day. Seniors whose lockers had been removed to make way for a new hall, students with classes in D- hall that they couldn't find, and upper- classmen who had to re-learn the bell schedule all thought sarcastically that this was a great way to start the year . Confusing announcements, rules students didn't understand, non- existent FREACH days, and second se- mester self-scheduling helped carry that feeling on during the year. Unity would have been a nice goal, and was for some school leaders, be- cause we seemed to be moving in such completely different directions tA re- vealing example comes from the prob- lems faced by one of the freshmen football teams one night this year. While heading to Geneseo to play a game, they drove past the Geneseo team, who was on its way to play the game at NS. Both teams eventually met here, and some coaches helped referee the gamei. During one of our pep auds ton December 5, 1980i Mr. Randy Denner chided the student body for not doing our best and, rather than change, we kept doing it. We were, some might say, more worried about ourselves than what was going on around us. That is not to say that nothing good happened this year, but just that the problems and dis-unity we felt over- shadowed them. The school kept growing, but had we grown faster than we could handle? The workers were building a new auditorium right outside our classrooms, but we could only wonder why we hadn't gotten one sooner. We opened one of the state's finest special education wings, but we asked each other why the whole school couldn't be like that. Jazz band won several honors and was congratu- lated at their own aud, but why didn't we get an aud, too? Auds were held to increase our spirit, but didn't we feel less united after one of them? There was some undescribable thing in the air that was bothering us. To capture that mood, the 1981 Shield has been designed around a logo that represents that feeling. From our many differences, we come to our one school, to become one group. This year, though, we didn't quite get ever- ything together. lt seemed we were go- ing around in circles while we were here, but the fact was that we were moving and even making progress. We didn't always realize that while we were here, but that's the way it seems, look- ing back on it. Proceed, then, through the two hun- dred-plus arrows that may equal the number of directions that we travleled inflitemember not only Homecoming and Prom, but also the mood, atti- tudes, and confusion that made this year memorable. UT NEVER QEUJUTE CQ Somedays any class is confusing, Mistakes waste time for Bob Noel. especially tor Carperntry. H-'X V -AE DEVELOPMENT .. g:r'i:i1ii'1:tili1 gg, ...... ,Hg f- l' . - .... W .... ,. -- . V., I -i.i.. . I MN,WW,.M . rwwwwkf ' ,, I yr lilil 52 . if f f gf 'W . . K Dave McMurrin has the dubious honor of becoming a pilgrim for Thanksgiving BUG. .nn Work in the A-hall rooms this summer meant moving furniture into the hall.

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Brenda Albertson Lori Tuftee ponders lunch. John Hart knows the answer? lost in class. DQ Weave Vlzliuzf 3 2 5 and Jim Griebel NORTHSCOTT QUARTERLY SCHEDULES FALL QUARTER SCHEDULE October 6, 1980 thru December 19, 19 6 -Mon -Tues -Thurs Oct. Oct Nov. . 7 27 13 15 20 Dec, Dec. Dec. -Sat. - -Mon - -Sat. - -Orientation -Classes begin -Thanksgiving Ref No classes Graduation Final exams beqi Christmas Recess WINTER QUARTER SCHEDULE 0 January 5, 1981 thru March 27,1981 Jan.5 -Mon. - Jan. 6 -Tues Mar. 12,13-Thurs., - Fri Mar. 16 -Mon ' July 11 -Sat Orientation Classes begin 12th Quarter Final Exams Final exams begi -Summer Recess V SUMMER QUARTER SCHEDULE ' July 13, 1981 thru October 2, 1981 I I 1'x ll rw' o Q' ' W iiu .f nn .. nan o inn ' 6th thru 11th i quarter students Mar, 21 -Sat -Graduation Mar. 23 -Mon -Final exams begi 1st thru 5th quar ' Mar, 27, -Fri, Sat-National 28, 29 81 Sun Board Exams SPRING QUARTER SCHEDULE W 1 March 30, 1981 thru June 12, 1981 1 Mar. 30 -Mon -Orientation ' Mar. 31 -Tues -Classes begin 3 Apr. 17 -Fri -Easter Recess Apr, 20 -Mon -Easter Recess Apr, 25 -Sat -Career Day ' June 9 -Tues -Final exams beg June 13 -Sat -Graduation SUMMER RECESS 7 June 15,1981 thnx July 11, 1981 June 15 -Mon -Summer Recess 5 Moeller, Owens and Wasson get a Dating Game , aud? lt was a very confusing year. THEME DEVELOPMENT