Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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CHICAGO Wi'tmf It’s far from being a big city by anyone's standards, and yet with a population of 22.000. Val-paraiso does not qualify exactly as a Mayberry or a Booneyville. USA either. Its location alone is e-nough to save it from that rather demeaning label, because if you can't think of any better way to tell someone about where you live, you can always impressively state. It’s near Chicago.” That sounds nice and helps to dispel any question of your living in Valparaiso. Chile instead of Valparaiso, Indiana. Once you've straightened out that rather common misunderstanding, you can proceed to instruct your listeners in the proper technique of pronouncing your city's name, which is val pe ra zo and not val pe rl so. Finding two people who agree on any one description of Valparaiso is like finding peanut butter being served at a luncheon of the Young Republicans. To some residents, Valparaiso is — quite bluntly stated — the pits. To other more sentimental Valpo-ites. it is quaint. and to still others who come from or work in the Chicago area, the city is little more than a quiet place to prop up their feet after a day in the Region. About the only point on which everyone in Valparaiso can agree is that the city is growing — by leaps and bounds it seems at times. City officials have projected a doubling in size of Valparaiso by 1990 and are taking steps to ease the growing pains expected to accompany this expansion Fast food addicts have noted with emptying pockets and bloating stomachs the recent commercia B developments in the north Calumet area It was estimated that approximately a dozen new eat-ertes offering everything from tacos and hamburgers to charcoal broiled steaks would be S opening in Valparaiso in 1977 — most of which will locate along North Calumet. Other less caloric ventures planned include a shopping center, new industries, and banks

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Though citizens can proudly boast about the city's growth, one still cannot argue the fact that a drive through the heart of downtown Valparaiso would take a law-abiding driver approxi-mately four minutes and thirty seven seconds — even less if the lights were with him. That doesn't sound like much and is even less to the teenager trying to answer the timeless question. What do you want to do? The school does its best to solve this problem (see pages 8-31), but inevitably young Val-po-ites find themselves facing the prospect of a Friday or Saturday night without a home game and a sockhop to fall back on as a source of inexpensive weekend entertainment. At times like this, a slight panic grips the VHS student body, a panic which by Friday has mushroomed into a full-fledged case of mass hysteria. Shouts of What are you going to do this weekend? and Par ty? Party! Who’s having a party? fill the halls as 2:27 marks the official beginning of the weekend. Creativity is often the key to filling time on weekends, and VHS students rise to this challenge in a variety of ways. The more industrious students solve the problem by getting jobs that pay enough A to compensate for the loss of free time. More prosperous students find that going west on 1-94 ge-nerally perks up a dull weekend, and the more daring have discovered that going east on 1-94 to Michigan can be an equally exciting way to pass the time. For those students who prefer to stay closer to home but dislike spending Friday Nights with Mom and Dad. there is great deal to be said for the Valparaiso area for weekend re-creation Movies — in Valparaiso and Michigan City — are high on the list of Old Reliable f A Things To Do And if all else fails, there's still one activity that teenagers never f seem to tire of doing: eating Burger places, pizza places, grit places, rah f f places and the ever-popular Perkins, open all night with lots of room, lots of food f f and coffee guaranteed to cure boredom, blues, and even Saturday morning hangovers. f f OOKS CO ACN IE 'FELDVAXH STER MCA S'