Port Huron High School - Student Yearbook (Port Huron, MI)

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“Count on Victory,” the theme of the sophomore float, featured a six foot vampire. The Count ' s Sesame Street friends, the bats, flew behind him. The float took fourth place in the competition. Boating along the parade route, Grover sped to second place. The junior theme was “Sink the Tars. and the red, white and blue color scheme comple- mented the Blue Water Area. PRESCR.PT10N DRUGS Floating To Adding extra personality, Kermit hops a ride on the senior float. [ He rested on the famous Sesame Street Stoop for the whole Home- t coming parade. Victory Early last spring, the student council debated on the home- coming theme for the following year. After long discussion, it was decided that the floats would be composed of sesame street characters. During the class mark assembly in late May, ' the seniors chose Oscar the Grouch; the juniors, Grover; the sophomores, The Count, and in the fall, the freshmen selected Big Bird. After the hours of hard work that it took to complete each , float, the floats themselves were paraded through town. At this j time, the floats were judged and were given a rating. The sen- | ior’s float, Oscar the Grouch, earned its way to first place and 1 won the hearts of the students at Port Huron High. Oscar’s 1 singing debut included “I love Trash” and the theme from Ses- ame Street. “Oscar has never looked as nice!” stated Mrs. Whitaker, the co-sponsor of the senior class. “It definitely was j a winning float.” The juniors’ Grover, captured second place, and the fresh- I , man float, Big Bird and the sophomore’s float, The Count took j third and fourth places respectively. Homecoming Floats 17

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Working long hours and staying up late paid off for the class of ’86. “Trash the Tars” took first place in the parade on September 27, 1985. Beginning their Big Red experience, freshmen took third place in the float judging. They had the most students participate in the building of the | float this year.

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Games, Gags, Good Times New to the Homecoming Games Competition was the Macho Man contest. To take first place, the winning team had to dig a hole and plant a tree. The saplings were left to grow in the schoolyard. The traditional events drew crowds of intent spectators anxious to urge their classmates on to victo- ry. The most traditional game of the Homecoming com- petition was the Tug-of-War. The preliminary games pitted the Juniors against Seniors and Freshmen against Sophomores. The final Tug-off was between the Class of ’86 and the Class of ’88, with the Seniors pulling off first place. An old favorite during Homecoming was the Ham- burger-Eating Contest, which started with forty hamburgers to be consumed. The competition began with courageous volunteers willing to gorge themselves for the benefit of their class. One of the burger-eaters, senior Chris Collins commented, “It made me gag, and I couldn’t breathe. It was tough without water.” Another annual event was the precarious Egg Toss. Four students from each class participated. This contest needed no judge to determine the outcome; the egg did the deciding. The final event in the competition was the Water Balloon Toss with two pupils per grade level engaged in the activity. A cool shower went to the losers of this event. The overall standings were Seniors, Juniors, Fresh- men, and finally, the Sophomores. Digging in with all twenty toes, sophomores Tom Frye and Pen- ny Roskey unsuccessfully tug against the seniors. The class of 88 placed fourth in the events.