Tuscola High School - Tuscolian Yearbook (Tuscola, IL)

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A Year in the Life at TCHS is made up of 175 legal school days, seven periods a day, 8:20 a.m. to 3:20 p.m., Monday through Friday, August 26, 1987 till June 3, 1988. But time is relative, and so, without anyone to fill the time, the school year would be quite empty. (In fact, the school would be quite empty also.) Therefore, a Year in the Life at TCHS is also made up of Faculty Members, Underclassmen, Seniors, Athletes, Activity Participants, and Club Members. It is these people that make TCHS an enjoyable place to spend so much of one's time. (Or at least as enjoyable as a school can be.) These are the people who give us our dances, our assemblies, our concerts, our productions, our sports teams. But these people give us much more. They give us confidence and experience and spirit; they give us an education, and they give us friends. A Year in the Life at TCHS goes fast ... too fast. It should be taken day by day, one day at a time, for the entire year. But even then, it goes by too fast . . . much too fast. And what we, as living, breathing, human beings can not do, has been done by putting ink to paper, words to pictures, and ideas where there was only void. Before you lies a copy of the 1988 TUSCOLIAN, the instrument by which time has been stopped for the enjoyment of its participants. You now have the vehicle through which you can go back and reminisce. You hold the power to remember, to relive the good and the bad, the joy and the sorrow, the exhilaration and the pain — to relive the experiences of A Year in the Life. 3

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A Day in the Life of a Faculty Member often goes unappreciated. We as students are good at complaining, but we have a long way to go in terms of showing gratitide. If it were not for our teachers, where would we be? (Yes, that is a compliment!) Teaching is no easy job. How would you like to spend your first few waking hours with a bunch of grumpy teenagers? (O-kay, we do, but then again, we are teenagers.) Attempting to teach a group of hungry 4th hour students is no easy task either. But wait, 7th hour is where the real entertainment begins. Getting a class full of unruly students in anticipation of the 3:20 bell to learn is a significant accomplishment. It takes every bit of know-how that our teachers have in order to keep students interested, awake, and out of trouble. Attempting to teach someone who has no desire to learn takes a great deal of determination, patience, and self-control. Frustration sets in easily, and yet our Faculty manages to prevent it from showing. Keeping their cool is what it's all about. Of course, maintaining a good sense of humor never hurt anyone. In fact, it is what gets them through the day. Laughter relieves the tension of an otherwise stressful situation. Cracking a joke tends to break the monotony of the constant book learning. We gain much more from our teachers than a simple knowledge of reading, writing, and arithmetic. We learn how to interact with authority, how to become disciplined, and how to make a friend. We students owe a lot to our Faculty. Again, if it were not for our teachers, where would we be? (And yes, that is still a compliment!) 5