Richmond Heights High School - Yearbook (Richmond Heights, OH)

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Switch for the day. Spirit week saw the strange transvestite day take place at Richmond Hts. The boys had a rough time adjusting since wearing a dress is quite a step up from wearing jeans, al- though senior Mike MacLellan, front row far right, forgot what day it was and dressed in usual fashion. New fashions. The senior class sponsored a ' toga party, and had a contest for the best toga, which was won by Jim Richards, standing in the i middle. It was a fun experience for first time | toga partiers, but these three made the party ' even more bizzare with their outfits. ' academic alternatives Either Have Fun While Learning or be Bored Either a decision is made to get an education or time is wasted. Basically that is why we arc attending Richmond Hts. Many students here like the small school atmosphere at Richmond Hts. It is a school where one can see his friends at the end of each class, unlike schools where you arc lucky to sec a friend may- be once or twice a day. Liking a school is definitely a part of getting an education. When one is content with where he is, it is easier to concentrate on the important things. Three students, namely Elizabeth Heeter, Jill Minick, and Michele Zaller competed against three other schools and won soundly on Academic Challenge. For such a small school, these students showed the strong academic background of Richmond Hts. Sophomore Dave Hogget stated, After my first year at Richmond Hts. High School, I knew al- most every teacher, which made things very relaxed when I came back and knew the teachers that taught my classes this year. Revolving around the academic life in- volves dances, parties, and anything else that is fun and helps to blow off steam. A toga party was held early in the year and many people who went wanted to have one again. Spirit week saw a very successful trans- vestite day take place at R.H. with every other student walking around in drag. As the year came to a close the craziness continued and it may have been a long year, but it was definitely worth the wait. — B.R. Modern interior decoration. The girls ' bathroom Mr. Gearhart, Dr. Hyde. No, it ' s just a bit of got an early Halloween touch by some girls in a dry ice in this mad scientist ' s tea. The dry ice, festive mood. The only problem was trying to get which was used for a physics project, is put toi through one of the doors without ruining the decora- good use by chemistry and physics teacher, Mr. tions. Fred Gearhart. 48 Here

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Many different views are presented in the Larger classes J RICHMOND SAMPLER Valentine ' s Day Gift c fs ■f Josie Bellia makes Valentines Day cookies as Sophomore Nancy Smolkin watches. Nancy is the new kid on the block. Teachers placed orders with Josie for the Valentines Day cookies. She baked them to the teachers ' satisfaction. Whatever the buyers wanted was written on the cookies by Josie Bellia. It was fun baking the cookies, said Josie. Josie baked the cookies during her home economics period. Josie decorated the cookies with white icing and red trim. She wrote either notes or names on the cookies. Josie hopes her cookies were a hit. Label Her Thirfty Why would Vita Gregorc spend extra time saving la- bels for a doll? To Vita this was not extra time wasted. Vita saved labels from various types of canned goods. After saving the la- bels which she needed, she mailed them to the company. Vita saved the la- bels as a class participation project. The entire General Busi- ness class did this project so they could be the lucky winner of a doll similar to Vita ' s. This is not the only class room project in this class. They also save labels and coupons for other items and food. Saving these stickers sure was fun, concluded Vita. CREATIVE PROJECTS Large Classes 47

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The relaxed itmosphere makes it easier to learn j RICHMOND SAAAPLER Wood Working Doing what he docs best is Senior Mike Maclellan. Mike takes a seventh period advanced wood class, taught by Mr. Mcrvar. The odd thing about this class is he ' s the only student. I couldn ' t fit in a regular class, so Mr. Mervar allowed me to work in while he teaches the Mid- dle school, states Maclellan. Among many projects, one particular one was made for a teacher, Mr. Klctecka. Mr. Kletecka gave the space he had to work with. Mike made the planes and con- structed a custom made shoe cabinet. Mike plans on persuing his interests and majoring in Industrial technology next year at Kent State. On Top Of It All B? Can you make a top that can spin six minutes and sev- enteen seconds? Jim Pawlowski did. The project was to make a spinning top out of a home made product. The object was to sec whose could spin the longest. Some of the tops were made of plastic tops and a golf tea, lots of pan lids and records. Jim ' s was made of a pan lid turned over. He took out the handle and put in a screw and a nut. He received twenty-five extra credit points for making the longest spin- ning top in the senior class. CREATIVE PROJECTS Here 49