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

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Up and away. Do you see Heather McMillan in the balloon as she flew over Rocky taking pic¬ tures of her sch(K)l? Three Rocky students, Debbie Martin, Brian Hayes and Kim Patterson were among many who enjoyed an evening at the Milan Summer Fest this year. 4 Student Life

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Table Of Contents Student Life 4 Organizations 25 Sports 67 Academics 97 People 113 Index 181 Closing 190 The magestic entrance to Rock Island High School. Rocky has a large professional auditorium where the students perform plays and musical presenta¬ tions.

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The Varieties Of Summer Eyes pop open, Gasp! Bolt upright. 7:45 a.m.?.Overslept again? Wait a minute ... It’s summer! Back to sleep until around noon. Ah summer, no more crowded hall¬ ways, dull classes or homework. Just you and the glorious sun. It was up to you to decide how to spend the entire day. A popular summer pastime was sleeping through breakfast and maybe even lunch. Most people however got out of bed in time to hit the lawn chairs during the peak tanning hours. Rocky students found a number of different ways to spend their summer days. Go¬ ing to the lake, shopping at the mall, taking part in sports and working topped the lists. Shana Rice spent her summer conditioning for the basketball season to come, Sharon Lange spent 50 hours a week baby sitting and Sean Chance found himself in Washington’s Olympic mountains rebuilding trails and climbing mountains. Summer nights usually found Rocky students piling into cars to terrorize the Quad Cities with all kinds of teenage antics. Drive in movies, crusing 23 ave¬ nue and parties occupied a great deal of the evening hours. The more romantic- ly inclined found summer nights the perfect time to get together with that someone special to gaze at the stars or just take a stroll in the warm air. No matter how you spent your days or nights you were sure to have a great time, after all it was summer. Of course along with all of summer’s advantages there were disadvantages. Chris Early found, “The only thing wrong with summer was it wasn’t long enough.” Other people had quite a list of complaints against this sunny season also. Some students found coming back to school and getting into the swing of things a major trama after three months of lazing around. Kerry Scud- der didn’t like summer when there was nothing to do but fight with her older brother. Julie VanDePutte hated the unbearable heat that seems to be a sum¬ mer trademark, but she went on to say, “Even though I do have dislikes I still feel summer is the greatest.” With the end of August came anxious anticipation for the first day of school. As much as we looked forward to school being out for the summer we got more excited about it starting in the fall. Me¬ lissa Ledford summed it up best when she said, “When summer comes all I think about is if my next school year will be better than the one before it.” Some Rocky students like Gina Boyd not only worked all summer but had to be at Rocky as well. She was the switchboard operator in the main office. A summer festival on the mall supplied the per¬ fect chance for Mr. Payton to sell barbecued ribs while Gordon Staley raised money for the foot¬ ball team by selling jerseys. These students decided to use their summer to ment with Mr. Strupp. get a jump on needed credits by taking govern- Student Life