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

Page 13 text:

Paula Carat. Dion Brook . Moll) McNamara, and Ken Grawe pose for one of several publicity shots after being crowned Homecoming royalty. Clowns, the candy throwing jesters of the parade, take a minute for a balloon and a smile. Covered with a hag to hide his true personality. Scott Storey strips down to his speedo to win the Luscious Leg contest. With the Homecoming theme of Off Broadway”, the juniors designed the first place float- Maroon-trap. Since most of the cheerleaders are on the court. Chris Hillyer. Dave Whan. Gunnar Sjursen and Marc Herrera decide to fill out the ranks for the parade. Student Life 9

Page 12 text:

 Maroontrap, taken from the play Mousetrap, adorned the sides of the winning Junior float. Building a float, only part of the Homecoming festivities. Students also got a chance to dress backwards or mismatched, in shorts and shades, hats and headbands, and the highlight of the week-punk day. The week came to a close with red-gold day. The usual lunch period activities On Broadway Homecoming dazzles took place too. The hospital bed races, stuffing twenty six people into a car. and running three-legged races, brought screams of laughter. Then, came the big event: the assembly with the announcement of King and Queen with quarterback Dion Brooks and cheerleader Paula Caras stealing the honors. The assembly was livened up with a Mr. Legs contest. The game came that evening, and with it came a disappointing loss. The students, however, did not let the loss spoil their plans for the dance on the next evening. Homecoming week, in all its glory, carried spirit and fun into the halls of Rocky. The fun filled, laughter-packed Homecoming week was clearly on the right track. It was on it’s way to bringing the students together.

Page 14 text:

Lockers, Left 29-right 13-lefc 7-click-out popped Chris Atkins. Tom Selleck. the windsong man. and other Rocky heart-throbs. School lockers served not only as a storage place for books, it also became a showplacc for posters, photos, and paraphernalia on the latest hunks from Hollywood. Lockers were the ideal place to keep the make-up supply, a mirror, and of course, a comb. Home away from home a place for our stuff Often, students grew tired of their drab gray lockers; so they spruced them up with memo-boards, photographs. bulletin boards, and some even added colored baskets to make more room for books. A few creative souls found that scraps of wallpaper added a homic” touch. Although students had been prohibited from sharing lockers, the community locker still existed. The doubling up enabled students to decorate more elaborately because each person contributed her treasured pictures and other decorating necessities. The decorated locker took over the school, the drab gray locker no longer cut it. The styles looked different, yet, the idea remained the same: the locker brought a slight bit of personality out and a little humor into the school day. to Student Life