Riverhead High School - Blue Peconic Yearbook (Riverhead, NY)

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The Weather Gets Warmer The Days Get Longer, And You Know It's Time for Flip Flops »n ice are a summer delicacy enjoyed by few. SUMMER VACATION Every year it's the same. About mid- March you're sure you will never make it through the year. Somehow, though, June always rolls around and you find yourself free for two months. Free! No worries, no responsibility, no homework. Well, no homework Who is that under that yellow visor? Mr. DeGrasse of course, enjoying his vacation to the utmost. anyway. Summer is the perfect time for some hands-on training. Many students keep busy, earn money, and learn a great deal through summer jobs. Whether it's pumping gas, flipping hamburgers, or picking strawberries, summer jobs are quite an experience. No matter how hard you work, though, you can always find the time to play just as hard. Eastern Long Island comes alive dur- nig the summer, and we're in the best place to take advantage of it all. Whether you go to the ocean and party in the Hamptons or take to the North shore, there's something for everyone. Even staying in Riverhead can prove to be just as much fun. The annual Polish Fair comes around in August. This year was the first time RHS offered Driver's Education in the summer. Don't blink though, or you might miss summer vacation! Browsing through the 83 yearbook Nancy Dreebin waits out the last few tedious days of June at RHS 9

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Watching a sunset is one of the most beautiful possibilities fora summer night. Sherry Knoedler walks happily through the displays of the Polish Town Fair, knowing she still has a couple of weeks before she again hits the books. Dana Columbus and Lisa Biliski enjoy the fine celebration Riverhead stages each year: The Polish What a nice picture, but what can one say about a Town Fair. green tomato?! 8

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Students again step on RHS soil. For some it is new experience, for others an old habit. It's Hard to Believe, But Summer Is Over and It's Time to Hit the Books After September 7th, the summer and all its advantages remain a memory for another, sometimes, final, one hundred and eighty days. If one were fortunate enough to be the first student through the front doors of our high school, he would have been faced with a custo- dian's dream — unscuffed floors, gleaming glass doors, and not another student in sight. Sooner than you can say, I want to go back to bed, the halls are filled with students and facul- ty alike. Empty lockers are filled with new books, bag lunches, and sweaters to break the chill. The hallway of R.H.S. serves as more than just a safe passage to class. On the first day back, the hallway becomes a meeting place for the rekindling rela- tionships between students and teachers and students that were somehow lost, but never forgotten, over the summer. After the initial shock of seeing old faces it's back to the books. The first day seems to contain the eight longest classes of the year. Out of the blue, things that one thinks he has forgotten, like the formula for calories or the Pythagorean theorum, come back and he gets caught up in the mainstream of learning. All at once, when the 2:25 bell rings, 9th period hysteria hits. People make their way to their buses or to the various extra-curricular activities of- fered at R.H.S. — so ending the first day back to Riverhead High School. Many students are baffled by the cards they are required to fill out Mrs. Reese, however, lends a har to set one new student straight. 10