Tantasqua Regional High School - Tantasquan Yearbook (Sturbridge, MA)

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At 7,000 feet, gracefully fringed palms decorate the Venezuelan jungle. t’s a jungle out there. It’s a jungle out there, guys, and we’re preparing for it by coping with our own little jungle — Tantasqua. We slog through homework and scale high academic cliffs. Eight times a day, we push our way through the underbrush of the narrow junior hallway. Our Tantasquan years are outfitting us, with vocational training or college preparation, for the long safari into life we'll take after graduation. We learn diplomacy and competition, and we make lasting friendships. We should value our time here as a unique warmup for the rest of our lives. We all know that, deep down inside where we won’t admit it, all the work is toward one goal — to emerge from the jungle and have some fun! Some of us find release in oil painting, others of us in restoring cars. We hang out in droves at Friendly’s, and we drive, in formal dress, to the prom each spring. High school is often more fun than we realize when we remember that cliche about “The best years of our lives.” “It’s a Jungle Out There” is a phrase that can embody all the day to day hassles we face at THS, but we have expressed it with a cartoonish tone to create a yearbook that reflects our sense of fun and our uniqueness as well as re- cording the people and events of the year.

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DEDICATION ince the theme of this yearbook is “It’s A Jungle Out There”, we thought it appropriate to dedicate the book to those people working to save what remains of the world’s shrinking rainforests. In the Amazon jungle and elsewhere, 260 acres are cleared everyday to extend cattle grazing land (it takes 55 square feet of land to make one hamburger patty). This destruction is mainly commissioned by American hambur- ger chains. For information on how to help save this disappearing resource, write to: Rainforest Action Net- work, 13 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA Dye (B 5 ah The cotton-top tamarin, called pinche in Colombia, is the symbol for the Fundacion Natura. Endemic to northwestern Colombia, the cotton-top is imperiled by habitat destruction within its small range. Juicy Jungle’s gonna disappear You’ve got an ax to grind Don’t grind it here Cause juicy jungles getting smaller Year after year Juicy jungle’s gonna disappear Leave it alone Keep it wild — “Juicy Jungle” the B-52’s co. 1986 Boo-fant Tunes Inc.

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Above left: Students take a break at our campus’s watering hole. Left: “John, you just don’t listen to Mark — do you?”