Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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Now, our story is ready to begin. The inciting forces — those that spur charac- ters into action — range from hopeless crushes to term paper deadlines. As the plot thickens, we find our characters teetering on a ladder to the gym ceiling to erect a weather-balloon snowman. . . spreading hot wax on black and white’s — every day from 2:00 ’til 5:00. . .scouring the VHS library for an article about anesthesia for race horses. . .plunging for a last-minute touchdown against the Hobart Brickies. . .dancing on a snow- flecked parking lot. . .painting store windows with multi-colored praise about the “ Mighty , Mighty Fites . .working with mentally retarded children, teach- ingthem that “mother” — means mother. . . A million different plotlines. The VHS characters — in ACTION 10

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To do something, to act, to get involved in any story requires the courage to face all sorts of little impediments to progress. Complications make any goal more ch al- lenging — and any story more worth- while. Obstructions of all shapes and sizes confront the characters of our story. There are people: the student who flies newspaper airplanes in study hall. . .the teacher who decides to synchronize the date of his own six-weeks test with three other teachers’. . .the locker partner who appropriates everything from phys-ed leotards to lab manuals, and then throws her left-over sponge cake in the boot compartment. . .the basketball referee who helps the opposing team to a good fifty free-throws in the last ten minutes of the game. . .and the boyfriend who insists upon “taking his class ring back forever” — three days before the Prom. And things: the chemistry matching test, designed “scientifically” for the whole class to fail. . .the broken leg fust in time for football season. . .the 30-mile-an-hour wind blasting through tennis sectionals. . . the splintered old Valenian chairs that put instant runs in nylons. . .and the candy machine that eats nickles. . . Revealing: those day-to-day Valpo High COM PLICA TIONS 12