Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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The Heat Is On REfiKING OCIT At 130 pm on Friday, March 21, 1986, every VFIS student and teach- er breathed a tremendous sigh of relief. Then they sprinted out the school doors, exhausted, saying, It’s about time.” Some took the school bus home. Many hopped a plane to Florida. A few scattered off to miscella- neous places like Louisville, Ken- tucky) San Francisco, California and St. Croix in the Virgin Islands. And so began Spring Break, 10 days of uninterrupted spare time.” For VFIS’s working class kid, the week of spring break meant 4 0 hours of burger-flipping, box-lug- ging, and bag-stuffing. I worked at Fayva forever,” said junior Jennifer Wojcik. For the spring sport athlete, it was an endless string of pre-season practices. Monday I had track practice. Tuesday I had track. I had track everyday — sometimes twice a day,” sighed junior Bob Morrison. And for everyone else, it was a week for just bumming around, whether the bumming was done in Valparaiso, Florida or Valparaiso, Indiana. I had fun,” said senior Manmeet Patheja. 1 bummed around town a lot. I did things with people I don’t usually have time to do stuff with.” Spring break meant different things to different people. Howev- er, sunshine seemed to play an im- portant part in the success of ev- eryone’s vacation. I spent my time in the sun. I was always outdoors,” said junior Tonia McLinn. On Saturday, March 29, the weather forecast for Tampa, Flor- ida, was: Partly cloudy. Rain, High 77, Low 55. On the same day in Val- paraiso, Indiana, the forecast read: Like summer. High 80. Low 55. And in New Orleans, it was just H-O-T. I went to New Orleans to the French Quarter and Bourbon Street,” said sophomore Bob Shi- lander. All week it was 85-90 blue skies, no clouds, no rain.” It was the same story in Florida. I went to Key West,” said junior Kevin Maxey. During the day we went to the beach and soaked up the sun. In the evenings we went to the pier for the nightly sundown festivals. There were acrobats, jug- glers, mimes, and every kind of street performer you could think of.” Key West wasn’t the only excit- ing city on the map. Valpo is nice, but Fort Lauder- dale has two things Valpo doesn’t. One is different people,” said junior Josh Wolfe, The other is rowdy parties. If their parties were mea- sured on the Richter scale, we would’ve sunk the state of Califor- nia.” In addition to good weather, peo- ple were also a key ingredient in fun vacations. The hardest thing about vaca- tion is leaving,” said junior Maureen Petro. Everyone is really friendly. You get so close to people. It’s hard knowing you’ll never see them again.” Senior Jeff Williamson agreed that the people made it more fun.” 1 went to Daytona Beach. It was incredible,” said Williamson. There was so much to do — so many people.” While the majority of the popula- tion at VHS stayed in the Western Hemisphere for vacation, a few did manage to break out to the eastern world. I went on a 10-day tour of Ger- many, Austria, and Switzerland w ith 50 other high school students,” said senior Amy Parry. We were like one big family. There were so many hilarious things that happened. It would take forever to tell them all.” It was great,” agreed senior Bri- an Black. We toured four castles, crossed the Rhine, and went to sev- eral German cafes. I’m definitely going back sometime.” The only complaint students voiced about spring break was that it passed too quickly. At 7:35 am on Tuesday, April I, students and teachers sighed just as they did on March 21, when vacation began. But this time the sigh was for different reasons — early mornings, late nights and another nine weeks ot school. The funny thing is that they all came back on April Fool’s Day. — Karen Mutka VHS STUDENTS TAKE a break from shopping in Munich to eat at a local restaurant. Although they were far from home, they still managed to find something American — Pepsi. JUNIORS TRISH SMITH and Alane Abbott admire a Porsche displayed at Marienplatz, a pe- destrian shopping mall in Munich. SENIOR JIM JOHN- STON smiles as he leaves school to be- gin spring break. Johnston hitched a ride home with sen- ior Harry Keaton. 23 Spring Break

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AS THE DAY draws to a close, seniors Elise Daxe. Sam Harper. Traci Kry- sinski and Joe Kova- lick watch from the pier as acrobats per- form in a sunset fes- tival. The foursome traveled to Key West for spring break in a renovated school bus driven by Daxe’s uncle. SENIORS SA M HARP- ER and Joe Kovalick discuss last minute plans before they go snorkeling. The two were looking for alli- gators in Key Largo. Florida. WHILE VISITING FRIENDS in Califor- nia. senior Angie Shook spent a day in Anaheim at Disney- land.

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