Pinellas Park High School - Occurrences Yearbook (Largo, FL)

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A SQUARE MEAL wos offered in the cofeterio. Hundreds of students took od- VODTOQG of the four lunch lines offering two menus doily, Todd Hillier moves through one line in the modern cofeterio. CHOCOLATE AND BUTTER PECAN were only two of the fovorites ot Main Street Ice Creom Porlor. A good ploce to go ofter o hot September doy, Joe Conti, Jill Berrisford, Bobby Feldt, ond Jono Stinson ote their ice creom quickly before it turned to milk. A THIRST QUENCHER wos o frozen oronge juice, which cost odditionol money. Suson Honcock finished her lunch ond consumed one of the citrus popsicles while studying for her next closs. EATING I 17

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16 I EATING LISTENING TO THE JUKEBOX, John Jer- nigan, Missy Taylor, Joe Funkhouser, Jana Fentress, Chris Strathman, and Todd Brown await their thick and gooey pizza without a second thought of the caloric intake. WQIUJRGES 86 SCAC V I I like mine with lettuce and tomato, Heinz 57, and french fried potatoes . . Jimmy Buffet sang it meladical- ly in Cheeseburger in Paradise. Students cauldn't get to the fast-food drive-in fast enough to order. While others, counting calories, ate yogurt, with 135 calories, like it was go- ing out of style. The junk-food junkie gorged himself on cheeseburgers, not giving a se- cond thought ta the 1800 calories he was consuming. Everyone dieted, teachers, students, and parents. lt wasn't easy. Students cutting down an what they ate were often tan- talized by friends and family to increase their calorie intake, teasing them with milk shakes, pies, and creamy mashed potatoes. Several students agreed with Mary Pagac who said, Half the time friends and family encouraged me to eat, but the other half helped me with my diet. For those students who had no use for a diet and did not care for an overabundance of junkfood there were always school lunches, which gave students the basic nutrients of vegetables, breads, meats, and fruits. The non-dieting student could VANILLA YOGURT dripping with on- ly 135 calories a half cup was a cafeteria lunch filler for Cathy Schick. 2 S Z Ficas often be found at the concession stand eithe before or after school. The concession stand offerec chewy candy, Cakes, one crunchy, crisp chips, Evil crav ings, alias temptations broke down the walls c willpower and made students run down througl the crowded corridors to the jammed concession area Digging for nickels, dime: and quarters to purchase thi creamy candy bars ani bubbly Cakes, the studer' 'body' lost the war again: calories.

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t y e there or be square, ordered Fonzie on the T.V. series Hoppy Doysf' Even though Fonzie's there re- ferred to ci gong rumble, his messqge wos o lot like school boord members' ottendonce rule, lt wos HOW students got to ond from compus thot mode 'getting there' os interesting ond fun os cz Hoppy Doys episode. Bus riders hod the most rigorous tronsportotion schedule. Yowning students wolked to bus stops regordless of dripping roin, chilling winds, or blistering heot. No, they didn't corry moil like postmen. lnsteod, students houled text- books, folders, ond, on speciol occosions, posters, brownies, ond gym clothes. Mony could hove put U-Houl Vons to use. After orriving ot the bus stops, students prepored for the woit. Piles of books trons- formed into choirs, gym clothes into pillows, poster boords into umbrellos, ond brownies into breokfosts Cwho cored obout the culturol experience? D When buses finolly orrived, students climbed the three owkword steps, drogging 18 I TRANSPORTATION THE ARRIVAL OF THE MASSES occi every morning ot opproximotely when the mojority of the studen rived vio school buses. Students wc from the bus circle into the school. I 1 Getting There books, brownie crumbs, posters, ond P.E. clothes behind them. After filing into seots, students gossiped, studied, ond slept. The ride never seemed to lost long enough - before students knew it, they were descending those three owkword steps ond hiking from the bus circle into the school. Bus riders envied cor drivers. Cor drivers seemed to go through less hossle 'getting there,' but still hod their shore of tronsportotion troubles. There wos no woy to describe the crunching sound in on eorly morning fender bender, the frustrotion of hitting every red light, the despoir of running out of gos on both street, ond the onger of finding thot someone took your fovorite porking ploce. Students who didn't ride buses or drive cors hod their own unique woys of 'getting there.' A few students wolked to school, rode bikes, drove motorcycles ond mopeds, or rode with porents. At 2:00 'getting there' meont getting home or getting to work. Six hours loter, the ot- mosphere wos completely dif- ferent. Yowning morothons subsided. After seculsion in on olmost windowless building, students squinted os their eyes odjusted to the sunlight. Bus riders unoble to bum o ride home wondered through the moze of buses which were togged with confusing route ond bus numbers. After finding buses, students struggled to find seots ond then tolked with friends or worked on homework during the ride home, Some cor drivers tossed books into bock seots ond heoded for home. But most cor drivers were unoble to throw onything into bock seotsg cors were usuolly filled with students. lt wos common to see the reor bumpers of cors close to the povement. Regordless of the possenger number, students beeped ond woved to friends ond hod Chinese firedrills ot intersections. The rumble of students getting to ond from school mode Fonzie's gong rumbles look tome. His commond Be there or be squore lived on! News if ! 'm 'Mmii5'- 'q ii ' sas,.:.ss-:s-- .- gf , . .. .... . . g .,. .