Rogers High School - RYB Yearbook (Michigan City, IN)

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In 1984, surprising inventions HIT THE MARKET Remember when the coca-cola company finally decided to produce diet coke? Or when you could run out and buy a twenty piece size of Chicken McNuggets at McDonaIdis? That, along with the discovery of NeutraSweet, the non-cancer-causing sweetner, Changed people's eating habits drastically. Many things aside from food helped Change the life of the Rogers teen in 1984. Inventions such as the new tiny sized Walkman enabled students to jam at pep sessions unnoticed and ignore others on their busses. The Sony Watchman did much the same thing, only visually. At home, the students also took advantage of other modern inventions. Many Rogers students programmed their home computers to help them with their homework. In their spare time, however, the kids played Dragon's Lair, an animated video game, took pictures with their disc cameras, and talked on their cordless phones. They could even change the color of their eyes with new colored contact lenses. Though these inventions were just dreams before 1984, students wondered how they ever lived without them. Q Chris-T phone homo. -Jennifer Franklin Even Coke decided to lose weight. Proving that even pre-schoolers can make a living in . . advertising, MTV displays its logo. Being very happy that Zippers donit come in velcro, a R ,t d t . . . r . . ogers S U ent refastens hls VEIUO shoes Listening to the Watergate tapes, Jodi Pelis pretends she IS Richard Nixon. 20 Student Life

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In the office .11 Rod Odkx vamhililation Ct-nlvi, Mary Bivtlvrsliull Answers questions for d tallerl Reaching for the top GiGi Samalio gets on With lu-r work at St. Anthony's Hospital, life lines Visiting with a resident at Red Oaks, Sheila Young spends her lrev lime rlisi ussing tho Iotal news. Volunteers offer Free Servuce Rogers students obtained a variety of part-time jobs. Unlike previous years, when the only jobs they could expect to get were at fast food restaurants, 1984 saw teenagers expanding their horizons of job possibilities. Although most students found employment in fast food restaurants, some mopped floors in hospitals, aided nurses in nursing homes and were receptionists, typists and custodians in community businesses. The adults saw responsible and hard working young men and women in Michigan City. The feelings shared by these individuals is best summed up by senior Dan Sells, I like my job at St. Anthony's Hospital because I like helping people and it will help me with my career as a radiologist. -Ania Kedzierski

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The nine piece and twenty piece Chicken swap grease as the six piece looks on. Mt'Nuggets Making even Nel Carter look small, a Rogers student displays his Sony Watchman. mat mman life lines Lori Scott's big sister, Jeanette, reads about Big Brother. Big Brother watching IN 1984 Nineteen eighty four brought about many changes in lifestyles but it was the proposed changes for the school system that caught the Rogers students' attention. The D.P.l., or Department of Public Instruction of Indiana suggested the following changes. They proposed requiring four years of English and three years of a foreign language. Their program also included two years of math, two years of science, and computer literacy. They wanted to add five minutes to each class and two weeks to the school year. But the changes affected more than the curriculum. They decided to ban pep sessions and assemblies. They wanted to keep seniors in school all day. They wanted to keep everyone in class as much as possible by banning student government and decorating halls for spirit week as reasons to leave class. There was an adverse reaction to this, students petitioned and lobbied against the proposals, saying that they didn't need big brother to watch them. -Jeanette Scott