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

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Below. Sweatshirts bearing the name or slogan of students favorite colleges were real popular. Senior Holly Fowler looks real comfortable and sporty in her sweatshirt and turtleneck. Below. The messy look was also popular in hair this year. For most girls, such as freshman Krysta Besse. this was a relief because they didn’t have to worry about getting up an hour early to fix their hair. Above. Although Gloria Vanderbilt. Sasson. and Calvin Klein used to dominate the fashion charts, this year the craze was Forcnza sweaters. Forenza jeans, and huge shirts. While discussing a homework assignment with her friend Joy Wallens. Barb Wagner proudly wears her Forenza sweater. Left. Compared to the complicated hair styles of yester years, the way that girls wear their hair has been drastically simplified. Freshman Jane Deck-reon sports one of the newer styles. Fashion 29

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Fashion — The Ultimate Concern What am I going to wear? — a common dilemma which faces many students each morning. There is however, a large variety of clothing styles from which to choose. Some students wore parachute pants, bright shirts, and spiked hair for the breakdancing effect or some wore sweaters which are as popular as ever. Oversized sweaters were a big hit to be worn with partially faded jeans which were slightly short in length. For a more comfy” look some of the student body choose to wear t-shirts, col- Right. Feathered hair, a turned up collar, and a firing ol pearls — a very fashionable look worn by lunior Brenda Kimberlmg. Above. Again this year, argyle sweaters were a real hit to be worn with wool pants and a peasant blouse. Debbie Klein smiles with satisfaction knowing that she is in style. lege sweatshirts, and sweats. Accessories, of course, added to every style, no matter what it was. Extra long earrings and brightly colored belts which were wrapped around the waist twice were among the most commonly worn. Pumps of various colors or Mr. Rogers tennis shoes finished off the outfit stylishly. As always, when styles of clothing change, so do styles of hair. This year, fairly short hair was more popular than longer hair. Most girls used bandanas and hair ribbons to tie their hair back to give them a very casual look. On the other hand, length was the word to describe men's styles. Although the hair in the front remained short, the hair in the back was allowed to grow longer. So no matter what OHS students wore, it was easy to see that much thought had gone into putting together just the right outfit. As the times change, so will the styles and someday our children will laugh at our spiked hair just as we laughed at our mother's beehive. 28 Fashion

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We’re Not Gonna Take It! Zachary, Zeller. Zimmer in the back row!” How many of you have heard this phrase? Probably not many, but if you have, it is high time to fight back. For as far back as we all can remember, students have been seated alphabetically in their classes, usually starting with the A's. By doing this, teachers hardly realize the poor W. Y. and Z's get stuck in the back. It doesn't matter if the seating chart starts from left to right, right to left, or front to back. It never fails. Those Z’s can always be seen stretching their necks out to see the board. Another symptom of Z syndrome is that when students tryout for an athletic group, the fall play, or the Pomerette squad, and the lists are posted, once again the Z child’s name is last. That can really make a guy feel pretty bad. To put a stop to this punishment.” perhaps teachers could rearrange the students in their class and for once put the girl in the back, whom you've only heard speak twice, in the front. These students didn’t choose their names, so no one should choose to discriminate against them. A word of advice — all you girls who have the last name starting with a Z. make sure when you get ready to get married, marry a man with the last name Aams. Above. A solemn look on Brian Wheeler’ lace prove that he ha accepted the (act that he will always be destined to the back row. Right. Senior Randy Billany i u ed to sitting in the front row in hi classes. aU of hi classes. Randy think that next year we shotid run an A syndrome story. 30 ”2 Syndrome