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

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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

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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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TWINS Rogers Does A Double Double Take As you scope the halls searching for your friends, you run across Judy. No, maybe it’s Joanne. You begin to wonder, “Should I say, ‘Hi, Judy!' and embarrass myself if I'm wrong, or just walk up to her like I know who she is?” As Judy approaches you, and sees the unassured look on your face, she says to herself, “Oh God, I hope he doesn’t ask me who I am, or yell 'Hey twin’ or ‘Hey Red’!” These things sometimes happen when you come across twins like Judy and Joanne Holland. From their point of view, there are advantages and disadvantages to being a twin. Some advantages are getting a lot of attention and getting compared to one another in their appearance. Some disadvantages are when people are always getting them mixed up, and when one guy likes Joanne and he also likes Judy and vice-versa. Joanne and Judy have some unique qualities like sensing each other’s pain. One incident was when Joanne went to the each and Judy stayed home to lie in the sun. Suddenly, Judy burst into tears, not knowing why. Later, she found out that Joanne had almost been in a car accident. Another unique experience they had was when they played each other in eighth grade by going to one another’s class and fooling the teachers. They are also mirror twins. For example. Joanne is right-handed and Judy is left-handed. However, they share things like clothes, make-up. shoes and sometimes even guys they’ve dated. Another set of twins is Dana and Dusty Barton. Dana thinks there are some advantages to being a twin, like doing favors for one another. Dana has a few classes with Dusty, so she can help him with his homework. Dusty says, “It’s easier to talk to Dana because she’s the same age.'' Dana and Dusty get along most of the time, but they don’t feel special. They treat their other brothers and sisters the same as they treat each other. Dana added. “I don’t feel that special because we don’t look alike.” Twins Bill and Paul Hartill seem to get really irritated when people always ask, “Which one are you? Bill says, People don’t know who you are. Sometimes they come up to me and talk to me like I'm Paul and I don’t even know them. When Bill and Paul were in junior high, the principal made a mistake by calling Bill to the office instead of Paul. Of course, Bill did not know what was going on when the principal asked him to put his hands on the desk for a sample of a swat from his wooden board. “But there are advantages. says Paul, “You can bail each other out or put the blame on the other. Bill seems to think it's fun to play jokes; like the time he tried to fool Mrs. Callaway by going to Paul's French class. Bill and Paul get along most of the time, but Bill says he has more disagreements with Paul than with his other brothers. He feels like he's in competition with Paul-one is always trying to be better than the other. Although Bill and Paul do look alike, and people do get them mixed up, there is one way to tell them apart-look at their eyes. -Lori Grams Some ol facers' twms we Joanne and Jody Hdtend. Patina Nnhots. Stere and Scott Mat ke Dana and ftisty Baiter Janet Nnhcts. and M and Paut Haiti Joanne and Judy Holland demonstrate their mirror image likeness. One is left handed and one is right Yeah. We're bad! Another set of identical twins are Bill and Paul Hartill J Off The Record 25