Thornridge High School - Piper Yearbook (Dolton, IL)

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It's about time for 402 grads As The rain poured down ouTside on The evening of June ll, A02 seniors waiTed in The gym for Their chance To walk across The sTage and receive Their diplomas. l had To make a mad dash for The building so ThaT my cap and gown wouldn'T geT wa- Ter spoTs all over iT, said Ju- lie O'Neill, honor guide. The graduaTes were led in by The faculTy guides, Mr. George Silagyi and Mr. Charles Wiechern, who were chosen by The senior class officers. Anamarie Linde and Julie, The Top Two sfudenfs in The junior class followed, along wiTh The resT of The Top 20 in The class. The ceremony opened wiTh Only You Know The Answer, a speech given by Laura lVlagnaviTe, and Ryan Baker conTinued wiTh iT's NOT Over Now, IT's Only JusT Begun. Then CallisTa Tepie, foreign exchange sTudenT, concluded wiTh Our View of America. BeTTy ThreaTT, secreTary of NaTional Honor SocieTy and VlCA sTaTe Treasurer, denburg award given To The senior who was ouTsTanding in academics, school acTivi- Ties, and communiTy ser- vice. ln deparTure from The Tra- diTional ceremony, Dr. Sfeve Humphrey, assisTanT princi- pal, who was To graduaTe also afTer Ten years here and move on To The disfricf office as assisTanT superin- TendenT, gave The main speech. l was exTremely honored To address my speech To over 3000 peo- ple. As an adminisTraTor iT's probably one of The highesT honors To receive, he said. Seniors filed across The sTage as Their counselors called ouT Their names. The ceremony wenT by Too fasT. A loT of us goT Teary-eyed as we realized we mighT noT see each oTher again even Though we promised To, commenTed CaThy Cie- cierski, graduaTe. As The lasT graduaTe re- ceived her diploma, caps wenT flying and The seniors realized Their high school days were over. iT was Time YA io? of us -gas iieassy-eve-d as we seaiigiesi we Weigh? noir see each oTher again even Tiscgsssgh we promised To. -- ilzglsiisy iiliiefcgziesisisii received The Henry Van- To sTarT living Their fuTures. Congrafuloied by Mr. George Mc Nally and Mr. John Mooney, school board members, BeTTy Threaff re- ceives The Henry Vandenburg award for excellence. Trlcla Cluyion picks up her diploma in The cafeTeria from Mr. Ron Zei- lenga, counselor, afTer The cere- mony. Graduafion 21

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Ryan Baker recites his speech, lt's Not Over Now, lt's Only Just Be- gun, to the class of '87. Dr. Steve Humphrey gives the main speech at graduation before mov- ing on to assistant superintendent. Top-ranked Anamarle Linde leads in the top ten graduates including Kathryn Needles, Janet Harding, Sandra Fransen, Eileen Quirk, and Amy Merritt. The other five were Jo- die Shipplett, Keith Fiedler, Kathleen Stout, Laura lvldgnavite, and Re- becca Johnson. The junior guides included Julie O'NeilI, Tom Ballatore, Paula Bentley, Sandra Bollacker, Ju- lie Bytnar, Julie Carlson, Julie Cura- tolo, Tom Donofrio, Michelle Framp- ton, Pdula Franson, Dawn Fultz, Lisa Gargos, Andrea Gonczy, Eric Jab- lonskl, lvloureen Keane, Dawn Kini- shi, Kristine Lovell, Joe Mosele, ond Karen Schwartz. 20 Graduation is ,3 K Q x 'f gg, - Q Ne QM K -. f . . . :fe - L v, - it ss ,--Q! ,F Eli its J t f' its t ii.

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Siudents admlre the Homecoming decoration designed and drawn by Tim Duke, sophomore. Nancy Campanile reacts io an- other senior touchdown in The pow- derpuff football game. Seniors cheer as Stephanie Wash- ingfon, class presideni, leads The winning chain across The floor. 22 Homecoming Week -sn' Q I N To ,WWW nfl? N W, , , , M, , sy A, rr X . .., fi 'fm !!eY,, ff. 1 I L 49 HOWECONIHG Iqarfm , 'Tl-iUYS'L Bmw 2 csefn i if 'FRif'S?1i we mg -'IW 'ff ' V eflzflfgiik-I J r ' Vin 'mrg-inf MIA W' f':iJ ' ww I 'W are :if i .rj I I W.. 1