Rock Island High School - Watchtower Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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Students Achieve Scholastic Honors As seniors, students face ques¬ tions about their futures. College applications, monetary award ap¬ plications, and scholarship appli¬ cations are part of every college bound senior’s year. The founda¬ tions for this hectic year is set dur¬ ing a student’s junior year by par¬ ticipation in the National Merit Scholarship Program. Seniors who scored exceptionally high on tests given their junior year received let¬ ters of Commendation. Those who attained a specified high minimal became National Merit Semi-Fi¬ nalists. This year, Rocky had three such scholars: Dave Hughes, Jon Jones, and Eric Carlson. 1. The National Merit Semi-Finalists alias the Three Musketeers: David Hughes, Jon Jones, and Eric Carlson. 2. Scoring exceptionally high on the PSAT test were the Letter of Com¬ mendation winners. SITTING: Earl McGinnis, Craig Demry, Dan Ingold, Colleen Bums, Joan Sulser. STAND¬ ING: Jan Beinke, Nancy Reinhart, Dennis Thompson, Darry Kannen- burg, and Jeff Dennis. Honors 19

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Top Ten Reach Scholastic Brilliance Involvement with studies and extra curricular activities is enough to bog down some stu¬ dents. This year, however, ten students combines studies and activities and still kept up their grades. These students, led by valedictorian Craig Cox and co- salutatorians MariAnn Graham and Jon Jones, followed difficult schedules during their school years, some with as many as three x weighted classes. Mac¬ beth, Moby Dick and The Stranger posed literary chal¬ lenges, while theorems, prob¬ lems and Mr. Ryner posed mathematical ones. Chemistry and Physics focused on the sci¬ entific viewpoint; conjugated verbs and translations on the lingual outlook. Far from being bookworms and grinds, these students were involved in many other activi¬ ties as well. Band, concerts, plays and music played a part in the lives of some. Others were busy with clubs and their yearly activities. It was participation in these activities and also in class that made the lives of Rocky’s top ten students very full and busy. [ k 1. Valedictorian Craig Cox strikes a joyful pose. 2. Co-salu- tatorians MariAnn Graham and Jon Jones enjoy the spring wind. 3. A brainy bunch — the top ten. FRONT ROW, Craig Cox, vale¬ dictorian, MariAnn Graham, co-salutatorian, Jon Jones, co- salutatorian, Janna Beinke, fifth. BACK ROW. Marc John¬ son, sixth, Eric Carlson, seventh, Mary Osborn, eighth, Tina Sne- deker, ninth, and Linda Barkau, tenth. Harold Manary, fourth, is missing from the picture.

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73 Seniors Inducted Into National Honor Society Earning good grades takes work, maintaining them takes more. The students inducted into the National Honor Society are those who man¬ age to keep their grades high during their years at high school. Seventy three students this year had culminated a grade point average of 3.5 or higher, and were inducted into the ranks of the National Honor Society. These students were honored at an inductions ceremony in May, where they received a pin to signify their achievements. Later on in the month, they held a picnic, ending their senior year with a note of self congratulations for their preceding years of study. 1. National Honor Society officers are just hangin’ around. They are: RichBrems. Marc Johnson. Vicki Ackerson. and Dave Andrews. 2. Seniors who achieved a 3.50 grade point average were inducted into the National Honor Society. Members are FRONT ROW, J. Wallace, S. Hanna, J Weigand, A. Bertelsen, J. Beinke, S. Skov, D Williams, S. Drake. J. Kennedy, M. Huffman, M Osborn, L Barkau, S. Mirr, T. Strauss, E. Carlson. SECOND ROW. P Petersen, D. Weise, S. Rench, T Edwards, K Brick, S. Clark. S. Briggs, V. Ackerson, D. Andrews, J Detwiler, T. Myers, P. Roth, M. John¬ son, J. Kent, T. Shaffnit. THIRD ROW: A. Tipple, D. Anderson, B. Ellis, L. Ericson, D. Hughes, C. Bums, T. Watkins, J. Locke, B. Sapp, G Lanier L Lee - C Cox - M Graham (hidden), J. Jones. FOURTH ROW, B. Gulley. E McGinnis, J. Ruud. D. Ingold, L. Ferm (hidden). P. Hong. C Demry, T. Snedeker. BACK ROW, M Andrews, G. Epperly, K Karzin, R. Brems, J. Dennis, R. Todd, J. Sulser, R. Jinks, S. Mason. C. Shoup, B Reiff B Pense, S. Taylor, T. Roller. 20 National Honor Society