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

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South Side, isn't that that inner city school that has more drug busts and dropouts than any other school in the universe? Isn't it true that everyone carries a knife and its really dangerous to walk down the hall alone? Nobody has real friends, self sur- vival is the name of the game. Oh, and I've heard about its ac- ademic program, not to men- tion its teams, what a joke . . . Love is in the air as Juniors Dawn McGuire and Chris Barker take a break from the Morp festivi- ties photo by Waiters Are we not the winning team? question Sen- iors Justin Lebamoff and Matt Elliott at the Totem game photo by Waiters 2 — Opening

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TOTEM 1987-1988 Volume 66 South Side High School 3601 South Calhoun Street Fort Wayne, Indiana 46807 County Publk Library ft Wayne, Indiana

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• • • If They Only Knew ! As Archers we are all too often sub- jected to the wholly false belief that South Side students are a bunch of un- caring, unspirited people simply strug- gling to survive. Judgements are made by people who have never ex- perienced the Archer way of life. South Side is not a warring ground, as many people think, but rather it is the common ground between many groups of friends. What South Side's thirteen hundred students lack in numbers, they more than make up for in the diversity of people who walk the Archer halls. Here all social classes, religions and races come together as Archers. We go to games, we go to parties, we learn, and we love — together. We unite to prove to our opponants that the Archers got the power to fight hard against closed minds. This year our teams became a little more powerful, and the Archer fans took a little more pride in sporting the South Side green and white. Spirit and pride became the domi- nant themes both on the field and at school. Classrooms were often packed to capacity during club meetings, and to look at the South Side crowd during a game was to see nothing but a sea of green. There were overwhelming numbers of Archers involved in the many organizations making up the South Side family. South Side is indeed the home of a large Archer family. Like any family, we have problems, but we also work to- gether to solve them. We, as a whole, the faculty and the students, have worked hard to make South livable, a place to work, as well as to have fun, a place where difficulties happen, and a place where the solutions are found, despite what the predetermined be- liefs may be — if they only knew. — Andrea Muirragui Creating a stir at one of the many South Side dances, Juniors Valerie Williams and Latascia Brown show us how it's done photo by Walters Opening — 3