South Side High School - Totem Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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Although he is cheap, Matt Elliott proves chivalry is not dead by opening the door for his date Vicki LaRue to a matinee movie. photo by New- ton After school football games at the Jewish tem- ple could get rougher than expected as Bill McCann is about to find out from Jim Catlin, Ed Kump. and Justin Lebamoff. photo by Newton Discussing the problems that can occur during the day. Nancy McDaniel chats with Amy Level at their lunch table photo by Hollingsworth 14 — Our Places, Our Friends, Our Fun

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Underclassmen Jennie Culp, Jenny Hammond, and Pam Evans take a break from the Homecoming groove to say hi . photo by Watters

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Joined at the hips. Erik Buchenberger and Erin Kohne peer back to the camera, photo by Newton Mary Porter, Mary Felger. and Christa Rockey find out how close of friends they are while crammed in the back seat of a car. photo by Newton Our Places, Our Friends, Our Fun No one ever said being a teenager was going to be easy. From day to day we are constantly in a tug-of-war of what our teachers and parents want us to do versus what we want to do. Is there ever a school night when we lie down to go to bed and not worry about the homework that we didn't finish? Or how many times have we sacraficed our weekend plans to eat those dreaded family meals with Uncle Billy Bob and Aunt Elle May from the hills of Kentucky JUST to please our par- ents? Shouldn't it be our turn to win this game? Teenagers need their hangouts, their best buddies, and the kind of fun that only teenagers can have. What else are memories made of? Who wants to spend all their time at home with their parents breathing down their necks? Just getting out of the house is good enough whether it's going to a friend's home, attending a movie, or cruising the streets, McDon- ald's, or the shopping mall. Countless hours can be spent walking from store to store at the mall creating a wish list that is larger than Imelda Marcos' shoe closet. Who else helps us through those trying teen years but our buddies? We walk with them through the halls, write notes to them in class, talk with them on the telephone, sit with them at lunch, go out with them on the weekends, and share our entire life's stories over a Pizza Hut pan pizza on a boring Saturday night; that is what a friend is. A boyfriend girlfriend is all that plus with the added spark in every ro- mance. And who says with every teenage relationship is only puppy love? Remember Romeo and Juliet? Having fun doesn't need any expla- nation. Teenagers certainly know how to laugh, be silly, or wild any time or any where the need arises. As a mat- ter of fact, the need quite frequently arises. And a lot of the time teachers are well aware of this fact. Sometimes though they don't look at it as a fact but as a nuisance. And no one ever said being a teenager was going to be easy. No one was right when no one said it wasn't going to be easy, but with our special places, our special friends, and our special kind of fun, being a teen- ager is all the better. — Buffy Newton Our Places, Our Friends, Our Fun — 15