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

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life lines Wondering if they can make it over the bridge, Terry Brown and Mike Wondering if his feet are nailed to the floor, Trat y Vinson tautiously proceed. Shaw shows David While it's safe to dame. Pretending to be in love, Cheryl Collins usually informs Steve Brown that his mood is down. The Politics of Dancing The prom is the climax of the school year's social season. Students start the ritual by creating the 1'date line. This advanced, technologically sound system of communication shows clearly the effect of the computer on today's children. This system enables the student iwith the help of a few friendsT to find out what another student, of the opposite gender, has planned for prom. For example, girl A asks her best friend girl B, who is friends with girl C, what girl C's brother's best friend's cousin is doing for the prom. The reply is sent back through the date line in the same manner. After the prom, all the students gather to giggle for hours over the distortions in the messages. Sophomore prom workers are Explaining the fine points of prom enchanted as Sercla Swanson and James etiquette, Jennifer Audette quietly chats Stockard case on down the road. With Kim Vornard,

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Wondering where Uwe is, Sandri Dekker casually enjoys some punch as she shares the joke with Jeff Mara. Threatening to do his John Travolta impression, Marvin Wiederhold teases Jeannie Withrow. The Politics of Prom After the April showers and the consequential boom in gardens, and while most young menls thoughts are turning to love, the high school student's mind is turning to prom. The most important job of the male is to rent a tux. The female's is to take a few days off from school to shop for her dress and accessories for the prom. It is a good idea to go out of town for the dress as this minimizes chances of showing up at prom wearing the same dress as another girl. The distance also helps to get another day off from school for the fitting. Once all these preparations are completed, the ritualistic flowers must be bought. The boy must have a sister or his mother buy the flowers for the girl. The girl's bouquet can be either hand held lshe can leave it on a table and lose itl or it can have an elastic wrist which will snap, and then she will lose it. Either way, she should lose her flowers. The flower exchange is performed in the girl's home before the couple leave. She will have a boutonniere for him, which should match her flowers and her dress. Her mother will have to pin it on for her. The dinner is usually uneventful except for a few spills. The flowers, his lap, and her sleeves are all good targets for spills. The restaurant will be packed with other couples headed for the prom. They can all talk to each other and create havoc in the restaurant. When the couple finally arrive at their destination, they will enter cautiously, sign in, and sit down at a table way in the back. They may talk to the other couples. The girl should comment on the other girls' dresses-especially the one that is the same as hers. The brave couple polishes off the evening by driving home as the girl falls asleep. The tux is returned, the damages paid for, but the girl keeps her dress sealed in a plastic cleaner's bag in her closet to remind her of the ordeal. The veterans of the prom will always be able to reflect upon this enlightening, enriching evening as one of the most embarrassing moments of their lives. It is one of those wonderfully painful rites of passage that was conceived in order to forge onto high school students the emotional scars that make people so interesting later on in life. -Jeanette Scott 24 Student Life

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Clenching his fist, Clifton Stephney threatens the audience. To avoid a swarm of bees, Anton Barron contorls his body. Bits-n-Pieces Performers Broke Up The Audience Radio Crew fired up the audience with their back breaking moves and the whole because new talent came to the spotlight at group helped Clifton Stephney by snapping Bits-n-Pieces was the best show ever, every year. The show was fresh each year along while he sang his version of Always and Forever by Heat Wave. One of the most talented performers was composeM singer Shea Roper. She sang and played the piano to one of her original songs. every performance. Always up to date, Bits- n-Pieces reflected the latest interests of the student body. Many solo and duet sing- ers accompanied by the piano performed but there were also other acts. Break dancers, dancing girls, a rock band and a saxophone . ' ' player also participated. Ania Kedzierskl 26 Student Life