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

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LOCAL HEROES Dan West and Lisa PKskey fill out forms so Scott Clouse fives the fift of Nfe to the Bloodmobile organizer Mr Alber goes ■gaga'’ that they can give blood together. American Red Cross Bloodmobile. over giving blood 126 Results 118 In On December 13, 1985, the Rogers's student body gave a gift to the community. They gave 118 pints of blood to the American Red Cross Bloodmobile. The blood drive was headed up by Assistant Principal Gene Alber, who has given many gallons of blood himself. One- hundred and forty-seven people signed up to give blood, and 126 people actually gave from Rogers. In order to donate blood you had to be at least 17 years old. Mr. Alber was very pleased with the outcome of the drive. The community also had a good response, and Rogers was given much coverage by the local news media. There was an article in the South Bend Tribune and a letter commending Rogers students and faculty appeared in The News Dispatch along with a news article covering the drive. Alber was so pleased with the outcome of the blood drive, he plans to have another drive around Christmas of 1986. -Scott Boland. Off The Record 23

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NATIONAL NEWS Shuttle Tragedy Touches Hearts What these seven people did was leave us an example, not just ... of how to die, but of how to live: that we ought to be reaching out to the stars, and looking ahead .... They have shown us that nothing should make us hesitate. We ought to seek knowledge, we ought to understand science, and we ought to have courage to live accordingly. Christa thought it was a great honor, but she never forgot who she was. She was a teacher. Rev. Chestee R. Mrowka St. Peter's Catholic Church Concord, New Hampshire On January 28, 1986, a disaster took place that touched us all. It was supposed to be an ordinary shuttle liftoff, but it wasn’t. Just one and a half minutes after the liftoff, the shuttle burst into flames. It was the first inflight tragedy in NASA’s history. There were seven astronauts aboard the shuttle; shuttle commander Francis Scobee, pilot Michael Smith, Judith Resmk, Ronald McNair. Ellison Onizuka, and Gregory Jarvis. But what made this flight special was that it carried the first civilian astronaut, a teacher, Christa McAullife. She greeted this opportunity with open arms. Christa knew there were risks involved, but that did not stop her. Her colleagues say that if she were given another chance, she would go up even after the tragedy. Christa represented the best of her profession. We should not forget this tragedy, but learn from it and move ahead. -Scott Boland hands almost a flop Attack On April 14, 1986, President Reagan ordered an air assault on several Lybian terrorist centers. Reagan ordered the air strike with the help of Great Britain. The U.S. launched their attack from military bases in the United Kingdom. The main reason for the assault was that the president cited “irrefutable’’ evidence that Libya was to blame for terrorist attacks against Americans. The Pentagon’s super- secret National Security Agency Results supplied the information. According to a poll by Time Magazine, 71 percent of the U.S. citizens approved of the U.S. Military action against Libya, and 56 percent of the people thought the attack would help stop terrorist attacks on Americans. This attack has proven to terrorist organizations that the U.S. isn't going to sit around and watch its citizens being abused by terrorists. -Scott Boland It’s going to be a flop! That is what most people said about Hands Across America. But it wasn't. It was a success! On May 25, 1986, a chain of an estimated six million people joined hand-in-hand at 2 p.m. central time from Los Angeles to New York, stretching 4,152 miles. The line was to raise funds for fighting homelessness and hunger in the U.S. Although most people thought you had to pay to join the line, that was not the case. But most did pay and received certain items for their contributions such as pins, posters, t-shirts, etc. Hands Across America was the project of Ken Kragen with the help of Pete Rose, Bill Cosby, Lili Tomlin, Kenny Rogers, and other celebrities. But, it was not only the celebrities who put it together, it was many people who were important to the project as well. Michigan City was lucky enough to have the line run through it. The chain went down Highway 20 where many many residents joined in. It was a day Michigan City and America will probably never forget. There were gaps in certain parts of the country, but, according to Time Magazine, New York had people lined up nine people deep. Hand Across America was important. It showed we could do something about the poor in our nation. Time Magazine quoted organizer Ken Kragen as saying, I don’t want to look back in five years and say, ‘Gee, remember when we stood in line?’ I want to look back and say that was when everybody got together and decided once and for all to do something about hunger and homelessness. Hands Across America took only thirteen minutes, but hopefully the results were worth it. -Amy Russell The tragic Shuttle explosion is shown in a picture taken from a television screen. Michigan City residents join hands in a fight against hunger and homelessness along U.S. 20. 22 Off The Record

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SURVIVAL A Survival Guide Amy Russell is having high-intensity stress day. Every teacher at Rogers High School has given her homework. Amy is delmately stressing out. Stress CTDCCC AND MORE STRESS You oversleep. Maybe you’ll just stay home today. Forget it! You can't. You have a chemistry test and the make up test is always harder than the original. Well, you miss the bus and have to walk five miles in sub-zero weather, of course, to school. When you arrive, you realize the geometry proofs you slaved over the night before are at home, and what’s worse, your best friend is mad at you because you forgot them, and now she can’t copy. You think the day can’t get any worse; but it does! And it’s not even Monday. You get to chemistry and find the test is cancelled. After school there are team cuts. Guess who’s cut? You are, of course! When you get home, Mom informs you that Saturday night is Aunt Edith's family dinner and if you don’t go, you may never get to see the phone, T.V., or stereo for the rest of your life. Feeling down, you call your best friend to make amends, and also to find out if “you know who” likes you. She informs you in a polite way, “You know who” thinks you're dirt. You decide the best thing to do is remove yourself from society. It seems like most of the time this is a typical day for us. This is better known as stress, but being able to cope with stress may help you to manage your problems. Take these helpful hints from other classmates on how to deal with stress. Kevin Beckner- Go to sleep, or jog, or do some physical activity.” Sheila Rowland- “I take it out on anybody and everybody, and I sleep all the time. I'm totally bummed out.” Byron Hurt- “I fight. Kris Wienke and Kathy Richter- “We both agree that getting away to sit down and think will help.” Dave Dabagia- “Take Excedrm. Erica Brooks- “I don’t think about it. I just do what has to be done.” Todd Jones- “I use humor or bang my head into a plaster wall. -Amy Russell A loud, piercing “weeeeee echoes throughout the room and he is awakened from a deep sleep. He struggles to open his heavy eyelids. He squints at the clock; it is 6:00 a.m. Suddenly, he realizes that today is one of the 52 days of the year he dreads most. Today is Monday. He searches for the one thing in the world that will get him through this long, dreaded day; his How to Manage Mondays: A Survival Guide . This guide is a lifesaver for anyone who hates Mondays. STEP 1. Stay at home and be a vegetable. Mondays are dreary, blah days when anything that could possibly go wrong, does. The solution to this is to stay home and be devoid of all human function. Do a mindless task like watch TV, sit there in a zombie-like state, and hope nobody takes you for dead. This should get you through Monday quite painlessly. STEP 2. Change the Mondays on your calendar. Grab the nearest calendar and take each Monday and give it a new name. Any name will do, just as long as it does not sound like Monday. There is only one downfall to this step; no one will ever know what you're talking about. Don’t worry though, because you’ll know, and that’s all that counts. STEP 3. Plaster a smile on your face. It doesn’t take much to do this. It takes a minimum of strength and only a few facial muscles. Once you do work up the corners of your mouth, you should notice that everything seems brighter and cheerier. But then, come on, this is Monday! STEP 4. Give it up. Mondays will never change. They will be here forever, 52 times a year, century after century, millennium after millennium, so, why fight it? The best thing to do is forget that it’s Monday, and it won’t feel like it. As for our guy in the beginning of the story, he chose STEP 1. He's going to be a vegetable today. He’s going to stay under those warm, toasty covers and sleep a blissful sleep. That’s where we all should be — snoozing away in dreamland, without a care in the world. It's Monday. I hate Mondays. -Kathy Mickus 24 Off The Record