Vestaburg High School - Wolverine Yearbook (Vestaburg, MI)

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“Some of the clothes the Valley Girls wore have to go. I liked the way they talked, though. Their accent was neat. I’d be embarrassed by their hairdo’s if I had them” Paula Ford. KA TIE BRANTLEY, dressed in her Marilyn Monroe outfit, Lisa Peasley wearing her acetate, plastic and rayon jumpsuit, and Brad Olrich in his ivy league jacket, find pleasure sitting on the elementary jungle gym. lower left CRAIG CUMMINGS, Troy Morten sen and Joe Gostomski are the talk of the school every time they wear their khaki pants and their Top Siders . center POLKA dots and punk made their way into spring fashion as shown by freshmen Brenda Hodges and Lisa Fleming, left NANCY HETHERINGTON and Cheryl Free- man find a way to be comfortable as well as dressy in their float dresses, far left UNDER the old oak tree, we find Karla Neeper with her stylish green raincoat, and Heather (Valley girl) Elder in her pink mini-skirt, accompanied by preppie Fred Snyder.

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Fads and Fashions by Lorrie McClellan Like we get into fads, fer sure! Valley Girl talk hit hard at VHS. While language like totally awesome, fer sure, barf out, gag me with a spoon, to the max, and oh my god was used by the majority of the student body, a few loyal fans studied up on Valley Girls by listening to Moon Unit Zappa and her father Frank's rock song, uniquely called Valley Girl. They also studied a book call-- ed. The Totally Awesome Val Guide. This elite group added words to their vocabulary like, mondo, and mega, which mean extremely. Beastie, dudley, geek, and grisly, meaning a loser. Honker, and Melvin which are names for someone who's really weird, and Jel, meaning a Jell-O- Head. The in dress at Vestaburg consisted of pleated dress pants, sweaters, knickers, colored nylons, prairie tops, prairie skirts and leg warmers. A noticeable change occured in '83. In place of the faded jeans and sweat shirts, many students were dressed up. Prairie skirts and float dresses were often worn by the girls; while guys frequently wore dress pants and top-siders. Although long skirts and dresses were popular, de- signer jeans were on the top of every girl's list; regular and baggy. Among these were Chic, Lee, Levi's, Calvin Klein, Zena, Gloria Vander- built. Bon jour, Cheeno's, Dee Gee's, Hunt Club andJordache. Some daring students such as Heather Elder, Amy Gates, Tammy Carter and Alysia Gall- ihugh were found wearing duck boots. Duck boots are plastic and resemble galoshes except in color. Short hair also became fash- ionable. Penny Davidson was a good example of this; as was Connie Loomis who besides having short hair, had her hair frosted. Other girls who frosted their hair were Julie Hartman, Ginger Marshall and Paula Enterline. While video arcades were popular in '82, TV video games became quite common in '83; with games like Donkey Kong, Pittfall, Asteroids, Defender and Frogger. Another exten- sion for the TV was video disks.

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“The dances were alright. They wouldn’t have been so bad if there hadn't been some people there to spoil them . Ginger Marshall JR. AND SR. PROM goers find the music of the Plaids II to their liking. After a home football game, students go wild dancing to the music Cal willingly provides. 7th GRADERS Scott and Tom Throop boogie down at one of the several Jr. High dances.