Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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THE ENTIRE CAST turns out to welcome their new band instruments while the orchestra plays Wells Fargo Wagon.” EULALIE MACECKNIE SHINN. Amy McCasland. the mayor ' s wife, leads the Fourth of July festivities. Olin Britt joins in the singing. THREE MEMBERS OF the school board barbershop quartet, Oliver Hix. Olin Britt and Ewart Dunlop, (Tim Wright. Brian Gill, Andrew Rob- erts.) start one of their numbers. WINTHROP PAROO, KARL BERNER, Thomas Jefferson Elementary School fo urth grader, thrills his mother. Mrs. Paroo, Michelle Crown- over, and Marcellus Washburn. Jeff Carmichael, by overcoming his lisp to sing Wells Fargo Wagon.” 16 Fall Musical

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Good Idea I have a picture pinned to my wall — an image of you and of me and we’re laughing.” Music lovers will recog- nize these words as the opening line of the Thomp- son Twins’ hit song, Hold Me Now.” In the tune, lead singer Tom Bailey ad- dresses a girlfriend about problems the two are en- countering in their faltering romance. In the same song, Bailey also says to her You know that there’s no where that I’d rather be than with you here today.” While students may en- joy the company of a boy- friend or girlfriend, even the closest couple can get bored in the same old Fri- day night routine. On a date you can go to County Seat, Wright’s Barnyard or Southlake mall. That’s about itl” said one senior. Others are more imagi- native about places to take a date. ”1 think the perfect date would be to go on a hide-a- way weekend on a desert- ed island and then parade around Paris,” said junior Vicki Chester. While this may be a little unrealistic, as well as incredibly expen- sive for the average Ameri- can teenager, it does sound like a good time. For students with Ifess spending money, there are other options. I think the perfect date would be to go to Chicago and spend the day down- town, and then go to the beach in the evening and watch the sun set,” said ju- nior Dan Newlin. In the same city, but with a different idea, sophomore Jeni Bonjean said, I ' d like to spend the evening walk- ing along Lakeshore Drive.” Expressing the most radically different idea of all, junior Burt Largura said, I’d take her (a girlfriend) dove or deer hunting.” Other favorite dates, a little closer to home, includ- ed picnicing in a park, watching the stars, spend- ing the evening at the beach and dancing to a good album. While Tom Bailey and the Thomson Twins may only mourn the sorrows of a love life that is tattered and torn,” VHS students are constantly searching for ways to break the mono- tony of Friday night rou- tines. — Karen Mutka JUNIORS TRISH SMITH and Todd Hancock enjoy a moment together at a Friday night sock hop. Foreign Exchange Club sponsored the dance. STUDENTS GATHER IN the halls to talk before their next class. Con- versations had to be brief since the passing periods only lasted five minutes. TOP 10 IN ROCK ’N’ ROLL 1. Led Zepplin 2. Bruce Springsteen and U2 3. Van Halen 4. Phil Collins 5. Tears for Fears 6. Huey Lewis and the News and Bryan Adams 7. The Cure and Prince 8. David Bowie and Chicago 9. Dire Straits 10. Howard Jones, Talking Heads and Eagles VHS Takes Five Almost every driver has been caught in a traffic jam at one time or another. Anyone can spot an exper- ienced driver in the midst of confusion by the way he reacts to given situations. In much the same way, students can be classified as upper or lower classmen during the first week of school by simple observa- tion on the part of an inno- cent bystander. However, in some ways even sopho- mores and seniors are uni- versal in behavior. The big five” (not to be confused with the high five) is a term referring to the five-minute passing pe- riod between each class. There is something special about these five minutes — this is when you find the few similarities among VHS students. It’s a free-for-all. Total chaos,” said junior Melissa Hutton. However chaotic it may be, there are six things you can always be sure of seeing. During the five min- ute rush, students: Borrow books, papers, pens, pencils, combs, make-up, clothes Imitate, teachers, parents. friends, enemies, animals Gossip about anything and everything Irritate teachers, custo- dians, any author- ity Vanish into lockers, hall- ways, bathrooms, classrooms Eat candy cookies, crack- ers, Twinkies, gum. Tootsie Rolls — Karen Mutka 15 Mini-mag

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All In A Play’s Work HOWTIME It was P.T. Barnum who first said, There’s a sucker born every min- ute,” but Professor Harold Hill would undoubtably agree with him. While Barnum proceeded to make his fortune in the circus business. Hill was in the band business and probably would have ended up as rich as Barnum if he hadn’t brought his ideas for a boy’s band to River City, Iowa (As the song goes, We got trouble, right here in River City”) where he met his nemesis, the snooty town librarian, Marion Paroo ( He left River City the li- brary building, but he left all the books to her”). For anyone not fam iliar with that scenerio, that set the stage for the 1985 fall musical, Meredith Wilson’s The Music Man,” which tells the story of Professor Hill’s ill-fated vis- it to River City and his blossoming courtship of Marion. It seems that while Hill claims to be a graduate of the Gary Conservatory (Class of ’05), he cannot read a single note of music and instead relies on his re- voluntionary think system” to con- vince River City’s ' citizens of his le- gitimacy. Presented November 15, 16, 17 to an approximate total of 1800 people, the play involved 18 major charac- ters and 38 voices for the musical numbers. Auditions were held in mid-September for elementary, ju- nior high and high school students. Two months of after-school re- hearsals followed for the ones who were chosen. According to cast member Pete Yelkovac, Having the younger cast members added a whole new di- mension to the play. They were en- thusiastic and willing to bend.” Professor Hill, however, refused to give up his scam even when his friend Marcellus warned him of the odds. It took the love of a librarian to convince him to stay put in River City. — Gina Fattore CHARLIE COWELL. Pete Yelkovac, anvil salesman, warns Riv- er City ' s citizens about the scoundrel Harold Hill. AT THE MADISON Library. Professor Hill and four River City kids. Joe Martz, Eric Evans Mindy Heinhold and Amy Tanner, follow the ad- vice of Marion, the librarian, and catch up on their reading. PROFESSOR HILL, Jim Dalfonso, manages to lure Marion. Lisa Bucher, to the footbridge where they sing Till There Was You.” SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER Jacey Squires, Jon Young, leads River City townspeople in Iowa Stubborn . JIM DALFONSO and MICHELLE Crownover read lines in rehearsal while Karl Berner enjoys an interesting vantage point. 17 Fall Musical