South Vermillion High School - Old Gold and Black Yearbook (Clinton, IN)

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Jill Vitalie, Becky Sims, and Kelli Gilman model the Prep” look with izods, argyles, and duck shoes. Pierced ears have been in style for quite some time, but double, and even triple piercing have made a big splash this year. Mention a decade and certain images of fads and fashions are sure to come to mind. It’s not as easy, however, to distinguish some of our own fads and styles. When our kids participate in Homecoming Week in the year 2005, what will they wear for 1980's Day? No doubt they’ll dig through our boxes of old clothes and drag out our button downs, velcrove tennis shoes, and camoflage army pants. The basic school outfit in 1984 was a pair of jeans and some tennis shoes. The socks were optional and occassionally the tennis shoes were replaced by top siders or penny loafers. Our jeans ranged from basic Levis, to baggies or pin-stripes. But what we wore from the waist up expressed our mood of prep (a button down, polo, or izod sweater), jock (a long sleeved T-shirt with writing on the sleeves), or miscellaneous. Hopefully after three required years of English we know what miscellaneous means. For a short time, some students cut up their sweatshirts so they could wear them in layers for the Flashdance look. And how many of us cut our hair over our ears and tried to make it stand straight up on the top? After conquering the video games and the Rubik’s Cube, we turned our attentions to ghetto blasters and cruisin’ the ‘Bash every weekend. We all wanted to own Mustangs, and many of us joined the new Cheer Block and rode the fan busses with Big Al. Years from now we may look back and laugh at the way we looked and acted. But right now we're too busy trying to be an individual and being “with it” at the same time, to care. 5

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Stacked among homework and pop cans, these ghetto blasters silently await the next jam session. Senior Gretchen Bradley is caught wearing her Add-a- Bead necklaces. They are made by adding various sizes of beads to small chains. Many guys can be found wearing their jeans tucked into leather high-tops with the laces undone. 4

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Each year the void left by the graduating class is filled with Freshmen who are ready to make their mark on South Vermillion. It's traditional for the upperclassmen to look down on the greenies” and to make their lives miserable, but after the first week they are accepted as “real people” and left alone. The best way to feel at home in a new school is to get involved in its activities. This was obviously taken to heart, because the class of 87 turned out in large numbers to compete in sport events, clubs, and spirit competitions. In between practices and meetings, the Freshmen found time to study so they could start their high school career on the right foot. We hope their class spirit won’t dwindle, but will keep on growing for the next few years until they are Seniors ready to leave the halls of SVHS. The new faces seen around the school didn’t just belong to students. There was a large number of teachers who were experiencing their first year at South Vermillion, too. They also became involved in everything our school had to offer. Several freshmen surround Becky Woodard as she leans forward to listen to the latest gossip. Randy Smith quickly exchanges his books so he won’t be late to his next class. Becky Sims and Kiley Helt leave the auditorium after a convocation. 6