Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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Senior Rich Eagen and his date junior Jean- ette Olszewski enjoy a quiet moment at the V-Teens annual King of Hearts Dance. While the date for Homecoming voting draws near, Kim Micchichi, Katie Robinson, and Lisa Smith discuss their candidate for queen. During EEC’s annual May weekend, German exchange student Andrea Held has the op- portunity to visit with a Swedish student. 28 — Clubs Division

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When a senior stops to think that by the time he graduates from high school he will have spent 2160 days in school, labored over 2000 hours of homework, and bought and con- sumed $1620 worth of school lunches, it comes to no surprise that he is counting the days until he final- ly breaks loose from high school. After sitting though two days of exams in the stifling atmosphere of Lecture A, and another week killing time by basking in the sun and sleeping late, the days finally rolled around to May 30, when 456 seniors lined up along the south end of the tennis courts to begin their final march to the.football field. When “Pomp and Circumstance” was over, Bekki Evans and Mary Greenawald gave the valedictory and salutatory addresses. After the invocation, Mr. Don Dick, director of Guidance, Prin- cipal Garth Johnson, and Senior Class President Pat Tudor stepped to the podium and dispensed the long sought after diplomas to each senior. The senior party at the V.U. Union was the final stopping place after commencement and also the last time the class of ' 79 had a chance to be together as one unit. Amid the music provided by the Alfred Packer Band, seniors reminisced and laughed over the fun aspects of high school, such as Sophomore Kill Day and Senior Skip Day, and worried over the next year to come — whether they would be able to sur- vive the rigors of college or be able to get a job in the nation’s times of inflation and high unemployment. Delivering her veledictory address with a hu- morous tone, Bekki Evans emancipates the Senior Class from the ‘’bondage” of high school. Although commencement is supposed to be a solemn occasion, Caroline Bihiman happily shows off her long awaited diploma, as Julie Bickel smiles with approval. Graduation — 27

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When man first appeared on earth, he was a solitary figure who ventured out only to find food and to settle territorial squabbles. Then he realized the principle of collec- tive security and formed tribes that made life a little easier. It took a long time, but gradually, students who wanted something done or just wanted to do some- thing, banded together and formed clubs. These clubs met after school and discussed ways of helping the administration solve problems, such as the Student Faculty Senate, places to go to sample foreign cul- ture, as in Foreign Exchange, and ways to boost spirit, in the form of Pep Club. Troubles sprung up between the clubs, however, and changes began to take place. Foreign Language Club, which was similar to Foreign Exchange suffered from a bad case of club overlapping and student apathy. Despite a last ditch attempt to save itself by writing a formal constitution, it finally disbanded after three years of prolonged death throes. Pep Club, long considered the in- vincible organization in the club family, also suffered from a lack of adrenalin in the bloodstreams of its members and the student body. At Flower Day is not only the National Honor Society’s major fund-raiser, it also breaks up the monotony in Michelle Hazlett’s Spanish class. During the Pep Club’s annual Hall Decorat- ing Contest, sophomores, juniors, and sen- iors vie for the prize of best spirit design. times, as few as six people showed up at meetings, and this handful of people took on the gargantuan task of organizing the Homecoming Dance, the club’s major fund raiser. It would be an overstatement to say that clubs are on the way out. The problem is that many of them have the same purpose and ideals, consequently, students join one of the similar clubs and the others suffer. Some sponsors have sug- gested that the overlapped clubs consolidate and combine their membership. Others have just said that the first club organized should remain and the others dissolve. Clubs Division — 29