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

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rf it IH I The above photograph is from the 1959 SHIELD under the headline: May 29, 19593 What kind of a day was it? A day like any other day except , . . we were there and finished the annual. We regret there is no caption so that we could reprint the names . , , The picture below was taken on May 27, 1983. lt was the last day of the school year and we were there, but the annual was far from finished. We still had summer sports, graduation and the index to finish. But we had fun recreating the feeling of twentyffive years in the same room, and the same desks? That is history. 4 M . i ft.. ' 775' 1 M Nylgpui- Nap l,,, .if .i Alf lfllfl M'tUlDlD From the beginning North Scott has seen the need to record in pictures and words the people and happenings of its years. That is why a yearbook is so important. No one ever throws a yearbook awayg it holds the time and effort invested for a year of a lifetime. The Silver Shield started with the idea of commemorating the first twenty-five years of our school. The advisors and staff never dreamt that it would grow to the size and scope that it has. We wanted to show what we have become because of what we have been, not in a history book, but a book of pride in what we have today. The response from our alumni and present students is one indication of why we are what we are today. Through extraordinary efforts of some ex- traordinary students the yearbooks of North Scott have been important steps to what you see today. The early budgets of 552,000.00 never indi- cated the nearly 530,000.00 it took to pro- duce the book you are reading. The figures indicate much more than inflationg they re- flect growth and progress. Our 1978 yearbook, The Shield Seed Co. Annual, was a representation of what all of our books have shown. Yearbooks re- flect schools. There are no two years exactly alike, and no two of our yearbooks are exact- ly alike, but they show a giant picture of what a school is. ln 1970 our steps annual signaled more than landing on the moon. Our addition of 1971 and our construction book of 1979 showed what we were doingg Tn 1980 we 'lballoonedw up into the eighties. All of our books have had a lot to say to our community,Some reflect attitude: the direc- tions of 1981 and the games of 1982. This book says we've become It took us twenty-five years to get where we are today. lt is something to celebrate? lt does not matter if this is your first or twenty-fifth year at North Scott. You are what you are because of where you have been and what you did there. We hope you can see that today. FINISHED 277