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

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Friends don’t always go to the same school. Becki Neff and Debbie Posateri enjoy the company of Erin Purcell, home from college. Some people had more unusual friends than others. This stuffed deer introduces us to his pal Tom Gibbons. Everyone has a friend. Who but a Friend would lend you his last dime? Phil Siegert begs from Shannon Keatley and Sonja Motz. Some people had cars, some people had pets, many people had jobs, but everyone had friends. They made your best times, they made your worst times, they helped you out and they got you grounded. A true friend was a most valuable asset. No one else could give you that useful constructive criticsm, and only a true friend would know enough to lie when you needed to hear something good about yourself. Your friends gave you the encouragement to ask out that new girl in Algebra, and your friends sat next to you while you waited for that cute guy to call. And when you came home with a D in Physics, who made you laugh about what happened when they failed ? Friends made us feel wanted, they were a safe spot in our insecure lives. They overlooked our faults because they had ones similar, they were the only people who would truly accept us, no matter what. But while they accepted us, we also had to accept them. When they called us at three a.m. crying, we had to listen. When they got accepted to that great college and we didn ' t, we had to be happy for them. When they got all the dates and all the lucky breaks, we had to forgive them. And when they drug us out until the wee hours, confident that their parents were asleep and didn ' t suspect we ' d snuck out, and their mother called ours and we get grounded for the entire summer while they got off scot free, we still had to be their friend. They were burdenous, true, but then, so were we. But thinking back to these four, short years, would you change a thing ? Because of our own special friends at Rocky, we have a lifetime of memories. 22 Opening

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Mr Herrera uses his free period to grade assign¬ ments. Laura Hudson needs a rest before she can continue her research paper. Vicki Thomas. Bonita Boyd, and Nawasa Combs know that coming in after class is a good way to catch up on work. Building muscles by exercising is similar to gain¬ ing knowledge by studying. Opening 21

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The sweethart she is. Laura Hudson decorates a friend’s room, for free! But friendship only goes so far; decides Fred Oelschlaeger when Andy Campbell asks for his last bite of ice cream sandwich. Dan McMillin smiles in disbelief. Opening 23