Steamboat Springs High School - Galleon / Sailors Log Yearbook (Steamboat Springs, CO)

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 ■Lj A. Class sponsor. Mr. VanderCarr sils back and marvels at the job he has helped do. B. Helping raise the colored sheets to the ceiling. Robert Sourhall. Wina Arroyo and Wendy Hall show that I 10 sheets are quite heavy. C. Doing last minute jobs for the Prom are Wina Arroyo and Sandy Frost. D. Terri Patterson, despite her hay-fever, works among the flowers preparing floral arrangements for the Prom. Prom 23

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A One Night Stand When you go to a dance do you ever stop and think about all of the time that is put into getting things ready and in perfect shape for you? Do you ever think that all of this work is just for one night, or rather just for five hours at the most? Proms are the number one example of long hours and hard work for just a one night stand. This year’s prom was no exception. The junior class of 1982 planned on putting on one of the best Proms in the school's history for the entire student body. They ordered all of the decorations, raised money to pay for everything, and got all the little details ready for the big night way before anybody even knew about it. The top of the gondola building was chosen as the site for the Prom. Everything was starting to look up. Then disaster struck! The weather was not going to cooperate with the class' plans. Frantic people could be seen running up and down the halls trying to find an alternate spot. How about the gym? Are you kidding! Nobody would want to come and besides, how are you going to decorate the big ugly thing? Through the help of a lot of people, the class stopped their fighting and sat down to think out a new decorating plan for the big ugly thing. First on the agenda, was thinking of a way to hide the bleachers so it didn't look so big and to get rid of the gym look. The class thought of sheets. That's right sheets. I 10 sheets were dyed the colors of the rainbow and sewn together to hang from the ceiling to the floor and block off the bleachers. Putting together the floral arrangements and the hundred or so fern baskets was no easy chore. Neither was putting up the wall decorations and suspending the parachutes from the ceiling. Finally after twenty hours of hard work, the gym was ready and the band was set for the arrival of the guests at nine o’clock. It turned out to be one of the best Proms ever put on. but all that hard work is just a memory, because it was torn down and cleaned up the next day. 22 Prom

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Prom 1981 Stairway to Heaven It rained the entire week of Prom and the spirits of the student body were dampened. Arrangements to take the gon- dola up to the Thunderhead for the big dance had to be changed, due to the unpredictable weather, and the school gym was the only alternative. The quick thinking junior class improvized and created a truly elegant atmos- phere for the 1981 Prom. The class ordered a vast amount of pink and blue carnations, fern and gladiolas. and did the flower arrangements themselves to create a garden within the gym. Silver stars were hung and the entire gym was wrapped in a continous rainbow of colors. The magic was created and the night unfolded into an enchanted evening after all. As couples arrived that evening to dance to the sounds of Rewire, a local rock group, the weather even started to cooperate. The stars came out. and though it was windy and cold, anything was better than rain. Rusty Chandler and Kerry Aufderheide were crowned King and Queen at eleven o'clock and presided over the rest of the Prom that evening. Everyone applaud- ed as they danced in the spotlight and joined in to create a successful Prom for 1981. The rest of the Prom court included Kathy Ramunno and Robert Southall. Nancy Shelton and David Russell. Jill Wilkerson and Brion Cavanaugh. Kristen Smith and Ken Struble. and Terri Patterson and Darryl Moore. A. 1981 Prom attendants were: Terri Patterson. Jill Wilkerson. and Brion Cavan- augh. Darryl Moore was not present at the time. B. Last year's King and Queen. Tom Southall and Cathy McGill make ready to give up their crowns, by presenting them to the new King and Queen. 24 Prom r ♦ M