Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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REPRESENTING A $1.6 MILLION investment. 40 busses are used to transport Valparaiso students to and from school every day.

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DURING SPIRIT WEEK, students dressed in styles ranging from green and white to Hawai- ian. To show his Homecoming spirit, Glenn Hodshire wears a black suit and carries a vio- lin case on Gangster Day. MEMBERS OF THE GODSPELL” cast, Jennie Carmichael, Kent Grelling, and Patty Furman clown around before the opening night per- formance. The musical was performed in the summer when students were under less pres- sure and had more time to rehearse. Cutting corners helps stretch $ As the economic situation changed, the lives of the students changed as well. Although they weren’t drastic or earth shattering, the changes exemplified how every- one in the country was cutting corners or doing without to adapt to the economic slump. For students, most of the budget cuts were in the area of entertainment. Instead of going to the movies on Fri- day night and paying $3.50, they discovered that they could see the same movie on Tuesday for a dollar. Rather than eating out at a restaurant before a dance, many chose to cook a special dinner at home. Also, eating a medium pizza at Shakey’s with friends could be just as much fun as eating a large one. In order to earn spending money, some entered the job market. Many were successful, only to find that Mom and Dad had the mistaken impression that the money should be spent on clothes and gas, or saved for college. With a few minor changes the students managed to adjust their lifestyles to the changing times. — Kathryn A. Vocke 6 Student Life Division

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Valparaiso: A community with something for everyone Valparaiso: an ideal place to grow up. A quaint “lit- tle” growing town with a top-rated educational system, beautifully kept parks, and people from every part of the nation. In the beginning, it belonged to the Potawatomi Indi- ans, until 1832 when the United States government purchased the land, and the first settler, a French Canadian named Joseph Bailley moved in. Early settlers dubbed the new found territory “Por- tersville” and it was officially named as the county seat of Porter County. In 1837, the name was changed to Valparaiso, liter- ally meaning “vale of paradise”. The Indiana General A UNIQUE TRAIT of Valparaiso, according to Mayor Elden Kuehl. is a downtown preserved in an up-to-date fashion Nonetheless, parking spaces were all too few and far between for shoppers and business- men on busy afternoons. 8 Valparaiso