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

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Registration 15 Miss Stoit helps Cathy Bentley check to see if she has all the right classes. Self-scheduling for 1974-1975 gave Rocky students the new experience of choosing their own schedules. Informa¬ tion for the new school year began arriv¬ ing in early August telling of the assigned registration days. Termed as a ‘‘suc¬ cessful” operation, the alphabetical pro¬ cess resulted in few “loaded” courses and few serious schedule changes. Dif¬ ferent from first semester registration, second semester scheduling was com¬ pleted in the field house instead of the cafeteria during regular class hours with students substituting for the actual course teacher. This process was de¬ signed to place the load of responsibility of class decisions on the students. Buzzy Eagle and Linda Donlm work as fast as they can getting their classmates their IBM Cards.

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Brian Sharp looks over Joel Press ' shoulder to make sure that Joel gives him the right registration card. Rcqulot Registration be comes Student 3elf-C chedultn9 Bernadine Johnson asks Mrs. Peterson about a conflict she hadn ' t expected. Susie Johnston waits for the final check-out and a pass back to class.

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The exuberant cheerleaders, (junior and senior males) c heered the senior girls, coached by Jim Johnstone, on to victory. During the evening the crowd watched as the cheerleaders destroyed an effigy of the Galesburg Silver Streaks in the tradi¬ tional pre-game bonfire. Thursday was the culmination of the many contests. Senate’s banana-eating contest took place during lunch ending in a tie be¬ tween Marsten Bradley and Dave Brass- sner. The voting for the WATCHTOWER- SENATE sponsored “Super-Grin contest was done during class periods, leaving the winner unknown to all until the Homecoming assembly. The Homecoming court and football squad was presented at the Friday as¬ sembly . Sophomores took pride in their third place float. Duck ‘Em”, that featured Donald Duck Dunking a Silver Streak. Leading the 1974 Homecoming parade was the RIHS Band and Flag Corps. 1 1 Seniors Deb Jepsen, Linda Bishop, Linda Rossati, and Julie Heriford take advantage of their last homecoming by hitching a ride on Chery Kay’s decorated Volkswagen. 16 Homecoming