Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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Joining In the festivities during the Portage football gonne ore Mots Agholme, Corollne Hefner. Lourle Lambert, Julie Neeley, and KojI Shimokawa. Sophomores Laurie Drady and Deth Lynch take a break from their duties or the bookstore to finish some work for their classes. 4 — Opening

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Although the north hollwoy Is used this yeot by many students such os Chris Prohlow, os o regulor route to class. It was unoccupied for a year due to the fire In ’77. Along with the other chonges at the high school, this year ' s football team was the first winning one since 1976. Here. Quorterbock Daryl Keller tokes the center from Don Walker In Merrillville gome.

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A touch of class hos been add«d to the students ' ensemble of blue Jeans and a sweatshirt by the switch from Levis to designer Jeons such as Gloria Vanderbilts and Calvin Kleins. Although the lunch lines, which seem to get longer each year, don ' t bother people who arrive early In the cafeteria, latecomers are often caught toward the back of the pock. After the M.C. Rogers footboll gome, Valpo fons show their appreciation for the VIkes ' 28-20 victory. D ue ro man ' s ombirion ro ger ahead, progress, either for berrer or for worse, rokes place. Over periods of rime occomplishmenrs such os rhe telephone and television hove influenced ond chonged rhe lives of many. Just os mon has odvonced from rhe discovery of rhe wheel ro rhe 747, VHS students shed rheir Levis for Colvin Kleins, ond hove updored rheir goals ond values occording ro rheir needs. Follow-up studies done by rhe VHS Guidonce Deportment indicored rhor students were more concerned obout furthering rheir educorion ond ore more seleaive in rheir college choices. According ro rhe counselors ' studies, 55-60 percent of rhe students rodoy seek other meons of educorion ofrer high school, os opposed ro rhe 52 percent of students in 1972. Students hove also shown diversity in rheir chosen colleges, ond hove interest in private ond our-of-srore schools. Besides rhe emphosis on selection of universities and colleges, rhe sociol highlights hove ployed on imporronr role in rhe lives of mony students. As o result of Michigon ' s legal drinking oge turning from 18 ro 21 lost foil, rhe two most populor ploces of rhe early 70 ' s, Scotfy ' s ond The Poison Apple ' ' went unheord of. Insreod, I.U., Boll Store, or Purdue were rhe most popular get owoy” ploces for VHS students. And for those who couldn ' t moke it our of town on weekends becouse of work, o locol fraternity porry or V.U. would hove ro suffice. As o relief ro mony counselors and parents, VHS students were genuinely concerned with preparing themselves for rhe consequences ofrer groduorion. Students were much more serious obout rheir future ond already hold jobs perroining ro rheir field of interest, mony of which were secured through vorious school progroms such os rhe IDismburive Educorion Progrom ond rhe Job Plocemenr Office. Taking on more responsibility oil of rhe rime, rodoy ' s students hove broken rhe model of rhe overoge, proaosrinoring student. For rhe first rime in rhe history of VHS rhe students, through rhe Student Faculty Serrate, rook rhe iniriorive ro rake charge of the pop mochine, ond bosed rhe iniriorive on rhe foa rhor it is for rhe students, thus, it should be monoged by rhe students. Although rhe hassles of jobs sometimes coused friction between friends on weekends, students olwoys monoged ro find rhe rime for fun. With one ' s student I.D. hondy, football ond boskerboll gomes ond post-gome sockhops were ovoiloble olmosr every Frfdoy night. Due ro rhe opening of rh® new gym building or Benjamin Fronklin High in Jonuory, roller-skoring wos provided for VHS students and rhe entire community. Locol parties, movies, ond resrouronrs olso provided woys ro poss rhe rime before Monday morning. Opening