Silver Creek High School - Silver Leaves Yearbook (Sellersburg, IN)

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Changed their pumps to either half gallons or liters. Sr. Kim Murphy exclaimed, It's a bummer, man! I drive a Pinto, which is supposedly a gas saver, but I'm spending fifteen dollars a week on gas alone. Just about every student goes to the movies. Numerous students ventured to see. The Rocky Horror Picture Show , Hooper , and others, but it costs so much to get inside the door that it hardly seems worth the money. Soph. Myra Dilger commented, Going to the movies costs around $3.50 per person Mom g.g- ...-....A. q. u. .. - usp---uh-u.u-WMD depending on the theater and what time you go. If the cost goes up any more, instead of going to see a movie on Friday and Saturday nights, you'll probably have to stay home and watch television. And who wants to watch T.V. at home on the best two nights of the week!? So, what are S.C. students going to do about inflation? Actually, there's not much that can be done! Creekers simply have to just keep moving with the times. Left: Senior Frank Bauerla played with the group Nightwalker at the Freshman- Sophomore dance. Below left: Joe Cool talias Keith Boman, SophJ flashes his Pearly whites at the Frosh-Soph. dance. Below: Senior, Charlie Koehler displays his musical talents as well as his drums while performing with Nightwalker at the Frosh-Soph. dance.

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Dances ease the big hassle of selling tthings' 14 to raise money Raising money can he a pain in the neck. Desperation sets in, and selling things is one of the least inviting options. This year students discovered that sponsoring dances was a better alternative. The first was a summer jam with Riff Raff , and sponsored by the juniors. Although held in the cafeteria, the evening scored as a hit with 700 rock fans. On Friday, October 5th, the juniors sponsored a dame for freshmen and sophomores only. Nightwalker supplied the vibrations, and a dance contest was held with Scott Hendren and Pinky Fraley the winners. Disco remained popular with the Den-Phil Disco supplying lighting and music for a small dance. The semi-formal Christmas dance, on December 21st, was the last big bash of the first semester. Caribou provided the vibrations. Right: Brian l'hringer and Angela Rm'key swing to the heat of the musit at the linsh-Soph. tlam'e. Below: lammetl into the tiny taleteria was I'Riff Ralf and approximately 700 fans from all over Southern Indiana. This was THI Batk t0 StihOOl dame sponsored by the Junior Inflation puts the skids By Jeff Smith inflation directly hitting the student's spending habits. Students were also being affect- t ed outside of school. Jr. Laura Steele Money! Money! Money! Every- body wants it, but nobody has enough lexcluding the oil tsompan- ies, of coursel. Money, or a lack of it, was affecting Silver Creek students in every way possible during the 1979-80 school year. As we began another year at S.C.H.S., lights were turned off everywhere. Why? To save money!! Lunch tickets, which used to cost $2.50 only last year, were now costing the student $3.50. This is commented concerning the infla- tionary prices of clothing, The rising prices of clothes is outrageous, outlandish, and ridiculous! It seems that the paycheck is shrinking and the cost of clothes is expanding. What about gas prices? Can you remember back to 1974 when a gallon of petro cost 40c? Presently, S.C. students are paying more than a dollar for the liquid gold. Stations

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ll 1 lIQDll 16 BY: LEAH SELLS Finally, at long last, it arrived . . . 1980! OUR year. It marked the beginning of a decade and the end of our high school careers. As seniors, we were just beginning to realize the important role school played in our lives. It filled our days and more often than not, our nights. Many of us had gone through the entire 12 years together. From the Candy Land games, birthday parties, kissing tag, and first loves, right up to basketball games, keg parties, proms, and engagements. Certainly the majority of us spent those memorable last 4 years together! The class of 1980. We were definitely unique. We handled things with our special style, leaving our mark on Silver Creek. Hard as it is to believe, we were once known as those awful little creatures-greenies. Yes we were freshmen, but even burdened with that title, we came shining through the year with no permanent scars. Every cloud has a silver lining and so did we. We were the first group of Freshmen in a long while to be awarded the Best Decorated Float Award in the Booster Parade. With that first big year in high school came the worst Kentuckian winter in history. Our area temperature hit a record low of -130 and we missed 18 days of school in January alone! Foot Hill and St. Joe Hill became much frequented spots as the snow mounted and the temperatures dropped. The Varsity Basketball Team produced a real tear-jerker at the 1977 Madison Sectional. As freshmen, we were highly excited while we followed our team to our first sectional, only to be bitterly disappointed with a 2 point loss: S.C. 45, Southwestern 47. On the other hand, our boys on the Freshman A team came through the year undefeated. We showed superiority in women as Angie Carpenter set two new records, one in the long jump with a 16'7 leap and one in the 100 yard dash. Angie also earned the title of Most Valuable Player on the Girl's Track Team. Susan Grayson wasn't sitting around either. She broke the 220 yard dash record. Another freshman captured MVP also: Jon Hendren was a busy little linksman and he received the honor on the Golf Team. Not a bad year for a batch of wet-behind-the-ears greenies. Our sophomore year brought another first at S.C.: a theater club to produce all-school plays. This ap- peared to be a good idea and we gave our support as sophomores Missy Beyl, Carol Guernsey, Lana Sells, Leah Sells, 2 and Therese Warren performed in the premier play Hawkshaw the Deter- tive. Speaking of performing re- member Mr. Mosley's 1978 talent show? We showed off our stuff and let 1 the Creekers see how multi-faceted and talented the '80 people were. Therese Warren presented her - self-taught ability to play guitar, write 0 songs and music, and sing to everyone: Scott Crawford and Roger Killen were the instigators of the rock 'n roll; performance with Scott on the drums and Roger on electric guitar; Charliell Koehler really wowed the crowd with 1 his spectacular drum solo; and Jon'v Hendren displayed a fun-loving spirit, a little talent, and a lot of guts as he appeared with the punk rock group The Babies clad in, what else? 1 Diapers! He soon Changed to a warner costume though, as the temperature . dropped and once again we fell into; a record setting winter. This time the record was for snow, 50.3 inches of it; 1, to be exact. 21 days of school were! cancelled for the snow and a near crisislS , . . the Kentucky coal strike! With theljl snow came the favorite sledding sites and the mysterious snow shark. No one seemed to know exactly where he came froml or how he ended up in the courtyards of S.C., but he made his appearance time and again baffling us all. Warmer weather brought those unforgettable trips to Actor's Theatre with the even more notable dinners at Kingfish! Several additions to the S.C. roster were made in 1978: a Chess Club, a Girl's Softball Team, and a trip to Canada for the French Club. The French Club also introduced Silver Creek to a little romantic French culture with a French wedding com- plete with sophomore Lana Sells who doubled as director and Bridesmaid. The Spaniards weren't i connnued on p.33