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

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Something Unusual Gifts for friends or just knick-knacks around the house, Andrea Arnett goes through one of the many processes of making ceramic objects. Look out!!! Chef Jim Steffen is armed and dangerous with a wok, butcher knife and a head of lettuce. Name any song from the 50 ' s and 60 ' s and Steve Weiner has it in his huge old record collection. No cats or dogs for AN Miner, her monkey, Melanie, was her unusual choice for a pet. 18

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Showing the usual lack of inspiration on a Monday morning, this class takes the cake for the most sleepers in one classroom. A startling contrast Monday morning. Each and every week the alarm sounded approximately three hours earlier than your body expected. As soon as your mind cleared, it was flooded with thoughts of parties past, sickness present, and tests in the up and coming future. Yes, everyone would have to agree that Mondays are excruciating. Just think; if Wednesdays came before Tuesdays then students everywhere would dread Wednesday morning. A day by any other name would be as dreaded. At Rocky, these days were so unbearable every forth one we were let out of school early to recuperate. Somehow we trudged on through these days to find ourselves head first in a work filled week. Performing our day to day duties we marched onward toward our weekly goal... FRIDAY! The one day you could stand the alarm clock. Hopefully, the day went by quickly but usually 2:30 lasted for eternity. Friday was the day you would finalize your weekend plans--you could also arrange a last minute date. The administration occassionally joined the festivities and scheduled assemblies and pep rallies. Undoubtedly, Fridays were the most anticipated days of the school week. The 3:00 bell signified the end of tests, soybean burgers and conjugated verbs for two whole days. As we know though, all good things must come to an end which was our realization at the end of eve ry glorious weekend which resulted in another dreaded Monday! The ever looming Monday morning gives some of these students a second look at whether they want to enter the school or not Used to a different time zone, foreign exchange student. Leonardo Campos, wants to stay warm and snug in bed with teddy while the rest of us attend classes.

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Uniquely individual Hundreds of faces and figures blurred by us each day at school unno¬ ticed. Even people we had gone to grade school with had us fooled. Little did we know beneath all those outer layers of personality were hundreds of unusually individual people. People with hobbies and talents we had no idea they pos¬ sessed. Music and theater are the arts most often recognized, but the arts consist of innumerable categories such as speaking or cooking, ceramics or me¬ chanics-all praisable. Unfamiliar to the applause of an audience, handfuls of Rl students had mastered many diverse abilities such as these and aimed to make them into a career. In the year 2000, tanning beds might be as common in the home as the microwave (a relevent comparison), but in 1989 it was still a bit unusual. Maybe even more unusual than a regular Barnum and Bailey trampoline implanted into a back¬ yard deck. In any case, both could be found in the homes of Rocky students. Sometimes the most unusal things about people were simply those little quirks or things they collected. Whatever it may have been each of us had something that made us different from the rest-something unusual. What a way for Paul and Greg Hansen to make fools of themselves and have fun doing it on their own trampoline in their backyard. Whenever there are a lack of laughs. Erin Greathouse keeps her friends rolling by doing her imitation of a Weeble . Why wait for summer when Tiffany Styre can go into her basement and get a piece of the sun from her own tanning booth.