Pekin High School - Pekinian Yearbook (Pekin, IL)

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Freshman class goes bananas with its The senior class gets rowdy as they sing ‘The Five Homecoming float Days of Homecoming as pari of their skit Holding a pow wow may have been good luck for the juniors, as they won the skits this year Waving to the crowd from their spirit car is sophomore Christy Aimone Shown riding the senior Raider Gator float are Dan Parish, Doug Wilkerson. Brian Swinford. and Steve Kluever King of the Jungle, made by the juniors, was the winning Homecoming float 20 Homecoming

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Palm trees, monkeys, and bananas9 PCHS found its Jungle Paradise Oct 9-13. 1979 Homecoming activities opened with the sophomores winning tug of war. and the seniors coming through mud-free to pull into second place A pile of juniors marked the site of the Body Relay contest as they battled the freshmen to conquer first place Seniors and sophomores were scattered over the field jumping over each other when the seniors leaped ahead to establish second place with the freshmen and sophomores in third and fourth place The females of PCHS showed their strength in a rough game of Powder Puff football Sophomores trampled the freshmen with the seniors dominating the field against the juniors 8 to 6 in the second game The final game brought the seniors and sophomores together to fight it out for first place Seniors seemed to have some moves the sophomores couldn't stop, allowing the seniors to take first place, while the sophomores settled for second place with the score 21 to 7 No. martians weren’t landing at PCHS It was just the starting of the frisbee contest Ten students represented each class to see who could throw the frisbee the farthest First place went to the juniors, second to the sophomores, third place to the seniors Freshmen finished fourth Women's lib strikes again in the Miss Muscle counterpart of Sexy Legs contest Pam Stroup was elected on East and Staci Prather on West for 1979 Students used their pennies to vote for the most muscular arm taken from the Pom-Pon squad PCHS 'ootbaii players enjoy the traditional riding of the tiretruck during the Homecoming parade Seniors defeated the Sophomores to reign as Homecoming Powder Puff champs Pekin marching band shows expertise in their maneuvers during Pekin's Homecoming game Homecoming 19

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Sexy legs were chosen out of the adorable legs of the football team but of course only one pair of legs on each campus would be acclaimed the Sexy Legs Andy Hannan of East and Gregg Blunier of West are walking Sexy Legs of 79. Spirit? Spirit? Who's got the spirit? This year's mysteriously hidden Spirit Footballs were uncovered by Barry Grimes of East and Jeff Schurman of West. Barry retrieved the Spirit Football in the counselors' offices while on West Jeff discovered the football behind a Student Council sign. Homecoming 79 was the year for firsts. Petitions were used to nominate candidates for the court, along with the new first hour voting procedure One of the most important firsts was the crowning of the Homecoming King and Queen Thursday night. This allowed them to reign over the game and dance. Dave Benassi and Sara Thomas were announced the new reigning royalty with their court including Keli Bouris, Cindy Grapperhaus, Lisa Hasler, Debbie Reynolds, Brad Barnard, Stan Hudson, Steve Sullivan, and Terry Watson Both the sophomore and senior skit followed the Tarzan and Jane theme The juniors' skit was a take-off of Fantasy Island. The freshmen weren't represented by a skit. The senior skit was well received by the A short gain was accomplished as Quarterback Cheney Hunt hands oft to Halfback Dave Riley Tackled by two Raiders. Halfback Earl Riley goes down Escaping a tackle is 5. Earl Riley Attempting a field goal is 32, Todd DeGroot Homecoming 21