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

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f 4 Not just another night To high schoolers, dances added a bit of zest to an otherwise bleak weekend. They were social gatherings where we forgot about parents, jobs, and the pressures of school (even though most dances were held there). Dances were important, and we put a lot of preparation into them. First off, a big problem was finding a date. Many a night was spent pouring through last year ' s yearbook for an appealing face. And even then, who was to say your choice would want you ? If you found a date you could rest easy for the big night , provided you hoarded all your money until then. One could never guess if your date would suddenly crave a lobster tail or not. So comes the big day. If you were on a committee you got the gym decorated. Then you spent the rest of the day with your friends, and without meaning to, wasted so much time you had to rush to get ready. Or maybe you forgot to pick up flowers and the florist was closed. Nonetheless; your date picked you up, or you picked up your date, parents took pictures by the fireplace, beemed brightly, and loudly repeated the time of curfew three times. The whole ordeal was over in a couple of hours. And then the entire process started over. A new music video oriented dance posed a problem tor Jeremy Foy. Tracy Stombaugh wanted to go. but not with him. Nothing like a little “bubbly” gum before a dance! Christy Anderson, Tonya Chapman, Kelly Fairman. Missy Esparza, and Jenny Taylor arranged center- pieces for the Homecoming dance. i ft O

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The two worst words , Coming in before school to take a test is a good way to catch up for Danny Shallman. Ted Rossow tries to get some extra sleep before attendance in earlybird gym. Of all the two word expressions in use today, one stands apart from the others as the most painful a person can hear. Think of every, two word combination you can. The demanding ones, the obscene ones, the sad ones. You could spend your whole life putting two single words together and never find an expression that ' s more upsetting than; Wake up! When asked what is their least favorite thing to do, most teenagers will place waking up before 10:30 a m. on a weedend in between being burned at the stake and being eaten alive by sharks. Once that first big move has been made to get in an upright position you feel you way to the bathroom. If rooms make up the personality of a house the bathroom must definately be honesty. Honesty of course is the arch enemy of a trait called ego. For the ongoing battle between the two your bathroom has armed itself with two weapons, both fatal to the ego. The mirror, which got Snow White into so much trouble, and her brother the scale. Like a magnet the mirror draws your now half open eyes to her. In a split second it destroys the work your ego spent hours building during the night. You realize that the mirror isn’t lying, that you were tricked by ego ' s brother, Dreams. As a reflex action you jump in the shower and try to scrub away all your imperfections. Usually the shower is good to you and the mirror isn ' t as threatening when you get out again. Now that you no longer can tolerate the mirro and probably realize that this is not time to confront the scale you move to you closet where you make the biggest decision of the day, what your going to wear. Automatically you reach for that expensive outfit that took you two months to convice mother to allow you to buy. Then you realize you’ve worn it twice in the last three days so you soon retreat to the old jeans and a sweatshirt. As the aroma of burnt toast reaches your nose it is a quick dash down the stairs to gulp a three minute breakfast. The most important part of the morning routine is yet to come. Make up. Guys usually use this time to finish the homework that they told their parents they had finished at six last night. It is quite a different story for the female sex however. A normally Plain Jane can turn herself into Hollywood Jane in a mere twenty minutes. She mixs, blends and creates a potion that, when applied to her face will make her inner beauty come out and dazzle all who look upon her. Because the rooster has become obsolete the most popular method of awakening in the morning is the two word phrase, wake up, screamed by one of your parents and usually accompanied by the throwing of blunt objects and the use of moisemakers. With all of the censorship committes running around now condeming the use of this word and that you wonder when they are going to get to the two most upsetting owrds in use today. Why are they overlooking them? Why haven ' t they banned WAKE-UP! It takes three alarm clocks to wake Kurt Samuelson. Opening 17

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Psst Wanna date? The suave and debonair Eric Schwartly and Eric Sarno use the “ultra-cool meth - Fun doesn’t end at the dance. Tim Black and Kurt od to pick up chicks” for special occasions. Samuelson laugh it up at a post dance gathering. Better safe than sorry. Troy Ellis and his date duck under cover to hide from any stray drizzle. Debbie Posateri adds a few finishing touches before her date arrives. Opening 19