Traverse City High School - Pines Yearbook (Traverse City, MI)

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We have been in the process of getting educated for the past 11, 12, or 13 years. From that first day our mothers walked us to the bus stop, we have been faced with new challenges, excitement, and changes. The memories we have acquired throughout these years will never leave our minds. High school is filled with endless diversities: classes, activities, and especially people. We have different backgrounds and futures, yet for three years our lives are intertwined. We share with and learn from each other. We form a tapestry of lifestyles. Each of us takes part in intellectual, spiritual, and social activities, some with friends and some individually. Everyone belongs, whether he finds it hard to remember or impossible to forget. Our peers and activities keep us motivated. The times are gone but the memories last a lifetime. We remember changing classes every hour, seeing friends, passing notes, rushing to lockers, and engaging in quick conversations before the bell rang. Most of us remember our first dance. We look back and realize how foolish it was thinking we would get lost in that huge junior high. Moving on, the cherished memories of little homework (a myth), being upperclassmen, parties every weekend, and Friday night dances fill our thoughts. As we progress to the senior high, the uncertainty is lost and it becomes reality. Within a few weeks, the s’mores learn to accept comments of intimidating upperclassmen, and each class takes an identity of its own. As time passes people mature, get promoted, and become the new leaders of the school. It is up to seniors to set the example. After three years it is all over. Graduation marks an ending, but it is also the beginning of the future.

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 4 1984-85 at Traverse City Senior High School. September comes around and school bells begin to ring. June's Junior High freshmen become sophomores and must accustom themselves to a new environment. Lost and confused faces prove their arrival. Past juniors become the leaders of the school. It is the beginning of the end for 750 of them. The new junior class fills the gap between sophomores and seniors. With the beginning of a new school year, students fill the summerbarren classrooms and prepare for another year of academic life. Halls are transformed into noisy pathways of students with schedules trying to find new classes and hidden rooms. The adjustment to summer's end is brief. The search for lost classrooms is quickly solved. After the passing of September and all it holds, the daily routine of classes, lunch at noon, and the car or bus ride home makes its way to weekend sporting events, dances, parties, and dates. After the falling of leaves and the first snowfall, students begin to think about the cold, blizzardy winter ahead and become impatient for the first snowday. The whisper of winter is usually heard in the great Traverse City pines.