Vestaburg High School - Wolverine Yearbook (Vestaburg, MI)

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Prom and Banquet by Paula Enterline Seniors presented with Paradise All day Friday, April 29, the gym was off limits to curious seniors and underclassmen. As the juniors created Mt. Olym- pus, This Side of Paradise . Murals, depicting characters and scenery from Greek myth- ology were hung on the walls, pillars, the fire of Hades and Mt. Olympus were put into place. Then came the huge job of hanging the crepe paper ceiling. No prom committee works without some headaches as the juniors soon found out. It seems they were some 200 rolls short on crepe paper! Frantic phone calls and high speed runs to Alma and Mt. Pleasant netted the class with more than enough and by mid- night, all was ready for the big day, Saturday. Lisa Peasley's face grew red as she and many other listeners were reminded of Lyle Little and the family photos. Many more humorous senior memories were brought back to life during Kelly Kane's and Wendy Walker's reading of the class history. Miss Brokop provided several minutes of listening pleasure, playing and singing Endless Love. She also announced the 1983 honor students. At 9:00 p.m. the gymnasium began filling with couples. I love to see all the guys looking their best and acting great at least one night out of the year, remarked Michele Johnson. With glamorous gowns many of these people made truly remarkable appearances. The Plaids II began the first prom for many but the last and most memorable prom for the graduating class of nineteen hundred eighty-three.

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Current Events by Dan Manley “Tylenol”, “Tootsie”, weather make‘83 unusual In the news this past year were several important events ranging from MX missiles to the end of a celebrated TV show. The trial of Robert Lee Hag- gart, who was charged with the slaying of seven members of the George Post family of Farwell, prompted some disc- ussion of capital punishment in Mr. Palmer's classes. In January, Governor Blan- chard announced that he was going to delay $500 million in state aid to Michigan schools. Several schools in our district came close to having some pay- less paydays. Chicago took its place in the spotlight when Tylenol cap- sules laced with cyanide cla- imed several victims. Other products then became targets of copy-cat crimes until drug packaging was changed to pro- hibit tampering. Chicago was also the scene of a very interesting mayoral race between Bernard Epton and Harold Washington. The mud slinging in that race went on until the voting was over and Washington became the city's first black mayor. As the college football sea- son came to a close, so did the life of coaching legend Bear Bryant. On foreign shores, President Leonid tsre- zhnev of the Soviet Union died and was replaced by Uri An- dropov . We were faced with a new concept in medicine when doc- tors at the University of Utah Medical Center implanted an artificial heart into Barney Clark. Clark lived 112 days. West Germans were up in arms over arms. They wanted the US to pull its Pershing II missiles out of their country. While this was taking place over seas, Reagan was fighting to put the MX missile in a dense pack form in the southwest US. Fighting continued in the Middle East with a lot of turmoil building up in Lebanon. The Israelies went into a refugee camp in Lebanon and massacred everyone inside. The weather was very differ- ent. We had spring in Decem- ber and winter in April. The temperature on Christmas Day was in the 50's and on April 1 we had a blizzard. In sports, the NFL players went on strike, leaving football fans everywhere high and dry. Finally the Superbowl took place and the Redskins beat the Dolphins. The Cardinals won the World Series and sixteenth ranked North Carolina upset the Phi Slamma Jamma's of Houston, 54-52, for the NCAA title. The nation had a high of 10% unemployment, while Michigan experienced a rate of 17.5%. Another incident, directly effecting Michigan residents was the Dioxin accident. This most deadly chemical caused the evacuation of several families in Grand Ledge Township's Berlin and Ferro dump site. HOUSTON'S Fraternity Phi Slommo Jammo and Akeem the dream became popular words in the world of college basketball. DUSTIN HOFFMAN made over as Dorothy Michaels for his movie Tootsie , was nomin- ated for best actor. M A S H 4077th left Monday night tele- vision to go home in style during March with a two-hour finale. ET became a familiar face and beloved hero of many movie-goers. RACISM was a topic in the Chicago mayoral race which pitted Democrat Harold Washing- ton against Republican Bernard Epton. Washington won ond became Chicago's first black mayor.

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— The prom and my speech went a lot better than I thought they would” Todd Hetherington. GINA THORNTON, Kelly Jenison, and Emma Shattuck enjoy the delights the Jr. and Sr. smorgasbord banquet provided. lower center ' 'w 01 -4S THE MUSIC mellowed these dancers slowed down and cooled off with a few slow- er steps, for left JUNIOR Cindy Smith helps decorate the gym walls with the flames of Hades. top right JUNIOR sponsor Beverly Stratton and hus- band Brian make their way through the serving line.bottom right BEING junior class vice-president has Amy Cates already nervous about the prom. What makes it worse is trying not to stick Ed Kindlle as she pins on his boutonniere, center