Ottawa Township High School - Senior Yearbook (Ottawa, IL)

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Celebrate Living Living. We could get really deep on you about living, and how you have to live life to the fullest or live each day like it were the first day of the rest of your life or even go for the gusto. But we chose to highlight liv- ing because in these buildings, with this particular group of people, this particular year, is where you do more living than any other single place. Did you realize that? Top. At the Frosh-Soph Mixer, sophomores Kim Vancil and Cathy Dillier play hostesses by serv- ing drinks at the concession stand. Above. According to Lynn Foster, school books can get extremely heavy by the end of the day. 4jlntroduction 1... V K, - E i li l fl: 3 V l f 33 2. '.5 ', . , , is :li'u'l ri -, ' Q, ' I 5: M QQ as H Think about it a minute. You get up, probably at home, get dressed, maybe eat breakfast . .. but then you're gone for the rest of the day. Many nights you clon't even make it home for supper. And even if you do, how many nights do you end up sitting at home doing homework or watching TV? We figure not very often. So your average at home time, not counting sleeping, is about 25 Amidst all the noise and excitement of the school building, David Thao finds the library to be a comfort- able, quiet place to study. ra

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Or when the headache you ac- quired during first hour is nothing but worse by third hour, and all you can think of is going home - and no one will let you. But there are good times and good feelings about belonging. What about the times you belonged to a winning team. Or what about the times you belonged to a losing team and you HAD to learn how to lose with pride. lt wasn't easy, but it sure would have been harder to do it alone and not as a part of a group. And what about the new people you met and the extra parties you got to go to by joining the speech team? And wasn't it a really a good feeling to walk onto the 200 floor and have one of your group yell, 1 Hello first thing in the morning? We celebrate belonging simply because - whether we liked it or not - we all belonged to some- thing. And we think, if you look at it real close, you'll be glad you be- longed to Ottawa High School, 1983-84. At the FroshfSoph Mixer Jamie Gerald, Cheri Travi, Jamie Raudonis, Kim Vancil, and Karen Bennett take a break before the next dance. ,,f.uw X Varsity tennis team members Teresa Polancic, Amy Poskin, Linda Crompton, Sherri Matthews, Maribeth Hill, and Julie Buehler declare that the Pirates are number one. The team is riding in the back of Coach Lyle Guenther's convertible during the Homecoming parade. Denise Hazard runs through the tunnel as junior varsil ty and varsity volleyball players support their fresh- men teammates. lntroductlonf3

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hours - at tops - during the five day week. But school? We figure you put in 37.5 hours tcounting sleeping timei each week. And that's if you aren't involved in an outside activity. Let's celebrate living because we're all here, at this particular time in history, living together. And that will never happen again. .43 X -44 Parade Marshalls Merle Burke and Stan White anx iously await the start of the Homecoming Parade Both men are former OHS social science teachers. ,, ,J ,F The crowd keeps growing as Pirate fans gather to support the football teams at the Homecoming bon- fire. lt's not exactly nourishing, but senior Karen Budias will buy anything if it will keep her going for the rest of the day. .JN .A-. X ,l ' lntroductionf 5