Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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SENIOR RENE FUR LIN jokes with junior Justin Gericke as he decides what he wants to order. Fur- lin worked at Wendy ' s 12-15 hours a week. After school George Douglas works a cash register at Sievers. Douglas usually worked four-hour shifts three or four days a week. VISIONS — ' 85 VHS grad Mike Moore and juniors Paul Gold and Mike Hartig (senior Rick Allen not pictured) — perform their re- make of Sam the Sham and the Pharoah ' s song Wooly Bully. The band played at an after-school sock hop at the American Le- gion. 18 After 2:30

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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

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Fun After School (1ST IMAGINE... Every high school student in America should read volume 20 of the World Book Encyclopedia. More specifically, they should read the article about recreation in the United States. It’s good for a laugh. According to the authors, John Edwin Coffman and Teresa A. Sulli- van, Most Americans have a great deal of leisure time ...” Hmmm. Maybe Americans in the upper age brackets have a lot of leisure time,” but here in the I8s-and-un- der, free time during the working week is scarce. It’s terrible. After I get out of school, go to work and do home- work, I’m left with no time,” said senior George Douglas. He’s not the only one. ”1 work three days a week, go to club meetings after school and do lots of homework. Once in a while — rarely — I get some sleep,” said senior Julie Bodensteiner. But wouldn’t it be nice if students did have a few spare minutes some- where between 2:30 p.m. and 7:40 a.m. the next day? At least we can dream . . . Wouldn’t it be nice if we could catch a 2:40 flight to California, spend a few hours soaking up the sun and fly back just in time for first hour the next day, complete with a fabulous tan? I’d like to hop on a supersonic jet and go to Australia, just as long as I’m home by I o’clock to get some sleep for school the next day,” said senior Brian Gill. Wouldn’t it be even nicer if we could drive into Chicago every night of the week to go to rock con- certs? I’d love to go to some good rock concerts, but I’d go off and on,” said sophomore Wendy Berner. ”1 don’t know if I could handle a con- cert every night of the week. I’d love to see Bruce Springsteen.” And wouldn’t it be great to come home from school and hear your parents say that it’d be just fine with them if you invited 50 or 60 people over for a party, as long as they’re all out by 6:30 a.m. the next day? If I had a party like that I’d go all out — tons of food, pizza at two in the morning,” said senior Michaelle Grabowski. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the whole school could take a Caribbean cruise after school, free of charge? Maybe the administration would have so much fun that they’d cancel school for the next day, and we’d make it a two-day affair. A cruise would definitely be a great idea. We’d go to the Mediter- ranean — Club Med type stuff. We could hit the Greek Islands. We could take a party to the Parthenon and knock down what’s left of it,” said sophomore Heather Fierst. In reality, a student’s social life after school is almost nonexistent. It’s no secret that after the after- school club meetings, athletic prac- tices and part-time jobs, students do roughly three things: eat, study and sleep. But we can dream. Wouldn’t it be nice? — Karen Mutka SOPHOMORES MEGHAN MARTIN and Kathy Sovich spend a couple hours after school making up a missed chemis- try lab. The girls were separating sand and salt in or- der to determine the weight of each. WHILE WAITING TO play in the next intra- mural basketball game, sophomore team- mates Jason Mack. Tony Letnich. Kevin Hughes, and Marc Leetz clown around. The foursome spent an hour and a half giving play-by-play reports of action during the first game. SCHOOLBOOKS CAN BE multi-purpose. Sen- ior Marybeth Reavis uses her homework as a step ladder to reach the top shelf of her locker. 19 After 2:30