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

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Left Displaying rhe latest summer style. Lewis Loatman refuses ra acknowledge rhe earliest signs of autumn, despite rhe fact that rhe first doys of school have already begun. Below Choppy waves and coaler temperatures do nor stop Frank Zambriski from having a great time or rhe beach. Bottom Some members of rhe yearbook staff sacrificed port of their summer vocation to spend o week in New York. Bill Hipp. Heather Shene. and Heather Rollo went to Columbia University to study rhe orr of yeorbooking and become masters of their croft. Summer 13

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WAVES HEAD FOR THE BEACH It happens ro us all-one day you woke up ond SURPRISE! Summer's here! Time ro pur owoy oil your spring clorhes. rhe ones you've been gerring rired of onywoy. ond rime ro buy o new wardrobe Nexr. hir rhe beoch. sook up some roys. ond rhen . . . Bur woir! Ir moy be worm, bur ir's nor officioly sum- mer yer. You've gor rwo more weeks of school, rhen Three days of finals ro ger Through before you're free, ond Those con be rhe rwo longesr weeks of your life Evenruolly Though, rhe rime posses, ond school s our. Then rhe fun reolly begins! Everybody's firsr impulse is ro RELAX ro roke ir easy ond recuperare from rhe ordeol of rhe pasr ren monrhs. Living on rhe Eosr End of Long Island pro- vides o greor number of woys ro hove fun: swim- ming. booring, ond enjoying rhe sun ore jusr some of These woys. Then comes rhe second impulse: Ger o job! You need money ro enjoy yourself Gas costs money; food ond drink cost money, movies cost money- you nome ir—ir costs money This, plus rhe focr rhor many porenrs wonr rheir children ro do somerhing useful wirh rheir summer, usually meons rhor o lor of Riverheod srudenrs wind up working during rhe sum- mer And There ore plenry of opporruniries form- work. lifeguording or o beoch or pool, ond your local fosr-food esroblishmenr ore jusr o few examples. Even wirh o job, rhere's plenry of rime ro enjoy yourself Bur rhe summer seems ro slip owoy so fosr- soon rhe Fourrh of July ond all irs fesriviries ore norhing bur o pleosonr memory, ond Augusr is jusr oround rhe corner Try os you mighr. you con'r Turn rhe calendar bock, ond rhe dog-doys of Augusr hove passed you by. Suddenly ir's Labor Doy. ond you realize rhor in o few more doys. summer will end, ond rhen ir's bock ro rhe some old rourine Of course, ir's nor oil rhor bod-you ger ro see friends you hoven'r seen oil summer. Bur rhere's olwoys one rhoughr flooring oround in rhe bock of your head- only one hundred ond eighry doys unril. SUMMER! Above Wendy Johnson relaxes on rhe beoch wirh her good friend Mory Sropinski This summer, srudenrs found many woys ro enjoy rhe hot weorher. Right One of the many beautiful sunsets of rhe summer of 65 os seen in South Jomesporr. 12 Summer

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MAKING THE DIFFERENCE 14 Sports Proctice If by chonce you went to rhe bock porking lor oround 8 o.m. three weeks before school srorted. you may hove been surprised ro see rhe lor filled with cars. No. school didn’t srorr eorly this yeor. ond you didn’t sleep through August. School begon for most on September 4. but for those involved In foot- boll. cross-country, field hockey, ond soccer, school srorted much eorlier These dedicored athletes hod ro attend summer practice while rhe rest of us enjoyed our summer vocations Some of these sports held summer proctice because they hod to uphold their reputations. The football ond field hockey reams hod great seasons lost yeor which they were expected to repeat. One of the hardest things ro do in o sport is repeot o greor season because old players leove. ond new players Right Success is only o stone's throw owoy for senior Ricky Anderson Ricky was seen practic- ing with rhe Varsity Football team over rhe summer break. Above: Drilling was on important port of summer practice for rhe Field Hockey ream The pioyers showed their dedication by sweating it out in rhe summer hear must be rought rhe fundemenrols of the sport The competition olwoys likes to beat rhe former cham- pions; therefore, ony little extra prepororion helps o great deal The problem with summer proctice is rhe heor During rhe middle of August, rhe temperature often reoched rhe high eighties by 8 o.m. ond sometimes rhe mercury reoched the nineties by rhor time. If you con imogine running around in this type of heor for two or three hours, you'll hove o new appreciation for these people So. let's heor it for those devoted athletes who woke up eorly in the morning to work out for three hours in rhe grueling heot. It's this kind of dedication that mokes RHS one of rhe best schools on Long Island.