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

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We love it...We hate it... We loved school and we hated it at the same time. All the exhausting require¬ ments of the school system were bal¬ anced out by the recuperative extra-cur¬ ricular activities. No matter how we tried to make our lives carefree, though, there were always some things we couldn ' t live with or without. The ever beloved PE period was a state regulation multitudes of students at¬ tempted to escape. Nevertheless, unless you were in a sport, every student who wanted to graduate had to tolerate four years of this malodorous period. Rising at unruly hours of the morning to take a four hour exam was never a popular diversion for Rocky students, but the ACT had to be taken by most, if not all, college bound students. Likewise, every 16 year old craved a driver’s license, but the agony of the test and the hideous If anyone wants to know what a high school student looks like when forced to arise at 5:00 am just take a quick glimpse at their drivers license. Stefan Wahe isn ' t too happy to let anyone have a peek at his. result of a picture made us marvel if it was all worth it. There were other experiences we knew were worth the trouble, but just the same we hated going through with them. First dates were a prime example. Intense anxiety upsetting our stomachs and hope¬ less lust clouding our brains, we would not soon forget the blundering yet emphatic happenings of the night. After four years of high school we soon understood that it was inevitable to avoid it. We couldn’t have everything our hearts desired without a little sacrifice. For every best friend there were a dozen fights, for every poli ceman that helped us out there were two pulling us over, for every pleasure in life there was always something we could definately live with¬ out. After the smoke has cleared from another fight, Lesley Chelar, Shanon Maddox and Lori Frederick see they really can ' t live without eachothers ' friendship. Scared as these girls are of getting in that deep water, they will get the guts to do so in order to pass that required for graduation swim test. 20

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Jenny Gannon and Tammy Gotthardt: Most likely to be reincarnated as Tom and Jerry. Jeremy Foy: Most likely to be vice-president of a mammoth toy company. Most likely A big topic in high school is often, Who is most likely to succeed? Do we even know what we want to succeed in? Success means so many different things to so many different people that it is hard to come up with a really great answer at this point in time. We went far and wide and even covered all four years of high school with many Rocky students to find a good an¬ swer. Perhaps a few of our fellow class- to be silly mates will make it to the big world of success like former astronauts, lawyers, actors and musicians from RIHS. But after a glance at what the illustrious groups among us are doing, the way they are dressing and the statements they are making it is difficult to predict what Rocky grads will most likely be or do in the future. Whatever it might be how¬ ever, it is sure to be exciting and most interesting! Susan Meers: Most likely to revive the Mr. Ed series on television. 22