Troy High School - Trojan Yearbook (Troy, KS)

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Summer a busy time for THS students Take a lot of sun, a thunderstorm once in a while, and a lot of pop-eyed grasshoppers, and what do you get? Summer! For a lot of people, summer was take me out to the ballgame. Students of Troy High School spent time at the ball park either being a specta- tor or participating. There were slow pitch, fast pitch, and K-ball games going on all summer. Some even drove to Kansas City to watch the Royals. Swimming was popular, too. Even though the summer of 1985 was cooler than summers before, people still got hot enough to take a cool dip in the pool or, if preferred, lie out and soak up some rays. And then there was weight training — days of pumping iron for the oncoming sport's year. It was a time for building up those biceps, firming the quadraceps, and then, for a while, aching after doing it. Summer was the season for vacationing with Above: Tim Hegarty works out on the squat lift during the off season. Right: J.G. Koehler shows determination as he strives for a 70-lb. lift. 8 • Student Life families, as many students did. Camps were a kind of vacation, even though maybe they weren't as enjoyable. Students attended camps, such as FFA, music, volleyball, cheerleading, Kayette, and journalism. These were camps to get new ideas for the coming year. Doing the fun stuff was easy but getting mon- ey was a different story. THS students looked for jobs and worked at places such as the store, the local cafe, on the farm, helping mom and dad at home, putting up hay, working for the city, or good old babysitting. Then summer came to an end and it was time to start looking for a career or time to hit the books and start school again. And here is how the school year went ... Work was also done during the summer. Money had to be earned so the new car and new clothes could be bought, or so one could take in a movie or concert.

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Left: The band performs We Got the Beat during the Queen of Courts pep rally. Bottom left: As assignment from her secret sister, Kelli Moore sings to Chris Bond during chorus. Other embar- rassing tasks that had to be done were Pam Guy singing You Are My Sun- shine to Mr. Hundley and Jennifer Scholz's singing, You Are So Beautiful to Me. 1 J he life of a high school student comes once in a lifetime, and it wasn't always full of easy enjoyment; if he wanted to get ahead, he had to work, and work hard. Students' lives weren't always conducted away from school, but much of their time was spent at school. If they were sports nuts, they had to practice. These practices began and ended when school did. Other practices that took place were for dra- ma and music. Practice makes perfect, and students found that to be true when they received a I rating at a music contest, or experienced the applause to a well- done play, not to mention the ecstatic feeling encountered after a perfect spike or a terrific touchdown. Work was just half of the students' lives. The other half was spent bumming around. Stu- dents dated, caught some movies, cruised Main Street or rode right on over to St. Joe. Time was also spent sitting in front of the tube, jamming to some music, shopping, tanning, maybe doing a little bowling, working at jobs, and doing many, many other things. The comet's orbit takes it from beyond Neptune to inside the orbit of Venus. As it reaches the sun, its nucleus vaporizes and forms a long tail.

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Below: By working for Kostman Construction this summer, Steve Smith was able to buy a new car. Left: Bryan Adkins demonstrates the military press, which was one of the many stations at weight lifting this summer. ■ 31 Above: Mr. Rick Gerner, new THS principal, orga- nized a community clean-up day to spruce up the appearance around the high school. Student Life • 9