Sparta High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Sparta, IL)

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 Sportivities. A new word invades the vocabulary of Sparta High Students. Many sports and activities are interdependent. Homecoming, the social highlight of the football season, features a court of beauties and football play- ers, a parade down Broadway, floats, and two dances, one semi- formal at which a queen is crowned and the other a record party at which The Teacher of the Year Award is presented. Sports, mainly football and basketball, provide for the junior class an opportunity to make money through concessions. With these funds they finance the Junior-Senior Prom, the only for- mal occasion of the school year. However the success of some activ- ities, such as the annual school musical, is not dependent sports. The cast, though, is nearly always filled with its share of ath- letes as well as promising actors and talented musicians. VARSITY FOOTBALL COACH Bruce Aror antici team suffered its second defeat of the season against pated victory as he psyched up his Bulldogs But his the Pinckneyville Panthers Sportivities

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12 Top Left: COMPLACENT NOW BUT not f Jong, the crowd saw Sparta Jose 14-13 at the fir home game Right: DARRELL BULUNER LE the 440 relay team to the state track meet Middle: WITH PAPIER MACHE. Sara Colbert and Ellen Numberger reconstructed the Hollywood Hills on Sportivittes the junior float Bottom Left: VERONICA RUS- SEL AND the sophomores built the best Homecom ing float.

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UGOTAWANNA Do It As he drops his goggles and rams his foot onto the pedal, Mike Heaton experi- ences the thrill of individual moto-cross competition. Not all students at SHS par- ticipate in school athletics, but most do have their own personalized activity. Scott Welch enjoys biking on Saturdays to Cape Girardeau, Mo. Rich Reid has mastered diving from the three meter springboard, and at the age of twelve won every meet he entered, including the Kaskaskia Swim League Conference meet. Success and expertise is knowing you got to want to. • Left: DEFEATED ONLY BY AAU competitor Mike Etherton. Tom Sutterer demonstrates the skill of practice Right: FROM A DISTANCE it sounds like a nest of bees, but the noise is the motorcycle of skillful driver Mike Heaton disco When disco fever hits, Saturday night comes alive. Students enjoy dancing as much as they do horseback riding, swim- ming, or moto-cross. Even though dancing is not classified as a sport, it is a lifetime activity. Disco dancing, however, is not all glamor and lights. There is much physical exertion involved. The length of a disco song sometimes has made this craze an endurance test. Since some songs are fif- teen to twenty minutes long, the dancers find their pastime an enjoyable form of exercise. Doing the Manhattan Hustle or the Spank does not just happen. There is much to leam because there is as much variation in style as there are dancers on the floor. SHARP LOOKING THREADS match the class of the new disco craze and the dancing skills of Lisa Walker and Kenny Monroe 14 Personalized Spons