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

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What would Mr. Brown think if he caught Steve Tanner displaying his artistic skills on the black¬ board. No maid in the house? Betsy Kennel does the dirty work. Do you think her friends know? They’re Doing What? As the end of the school year finally rolls around, the Watchtower staff finds they have managed to accumulate a rather large pile of unused pictures. When that small pile of pictures grew into a massive mountain, we felt it nec¬ essary to find someplace to use a few of these less-than-presentable photos. After sorting through the chaos, the staff was genuinely shocked. A few of the scenes that passed through our cameras were not fit for a lay-out in Playboy so needless to say they were not acceptable for the Rock Island High School Watchtower. These pictures had people captured in rather risque poses including girls shaving their legs, people stepping out of the shower and students performing many other personal unmentionables. There were incriminating shots of stu¬ dents doing things they wouldn’t tell anyone about so, of course, pictures in the yearbook were out of the question. When we studied many of these pic¬ tures we decided the staff could prob¬ ably make a fortune in a blackmailing ring. We also cannot forget our lightning fast photographers and the pictures they took. Such embarrassing shots as students slipping on ice, tumbling down stairs or dropping plates of food, pro¬ vided moments of hysterical laughter for the staff members. In recognition of those we caught do¬ ing whatever and for being such good sports we dedicate this page to some of the more tasteful photos for your enjoy¬ ment. We are not really sure who we caught doing what but when you are crawling out a window onto the roof it doesn’t hnik gi)od. 24 Look W’ho We Caught

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26 Deadlines And Pressures Students in the journalism depart¬ ment soon found out what deadlines and pressure was all about. The aspir¬ ing journalist in Mrs. Wahe’s classes published both the school newspaper, The Crimson Crier and yearbook, the Watchtower. Some of the students began work on the publications during the summer of ’85. Michelle Keller and Stacy Wahe attended a one week workshop for year¬ book at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, in July. Six additional staff mem¬ bers spent three days at Rockford Col¬ lege at a workshop sponsored by our representative from Jostens Publishing. Shortly after school began ten more new journalists attended a workshop at Augustana College. After this, new staff members had the basics of yearbooking and were ready to put the 1986 edition together. A contest in the spring brought the winning cover design in from Matt Denten. Paula Coleman sent in the theme for the book which was “Solid As A Rock”. Both students received free yearbooks for their efforts. The Crimson Crier got started with an entirely new inexperienced staff with the exception of the co-edi¬ tors, Michelle Keller and Heather McMillan. The two jounralism classes worked together to bring about the monthly news magazine. A new Macintosh computer was pur¬ chased by the journalism department and helped a great deal with both pub¬ lications. A number of students began to learn how computers can add to and enhance the journalism production. Credit for the 1985-86 Crimson Cri¬ er and Watchtower goes to the stu¬ dents pictured on these four pages. Many long, and sometimes frustrating hours, have gone into these publica¬ tions for the enjoyment of the students of Rock Island High School. Susie Snyder and Charlie Wallace spent many outs. They will be co-editors of the Watchtower long hours ' learning the ropes” this year and for 1986-87. then producing a lot of yearb M)k copy and lay- Watchtower