Vestaburg High School - Wolverine Yearbook (Vestaburg, MI)

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The body talks. No, car expert Eric Holmes isn't plac- ing a curse on third hour art students Dan Ryckman and Mark Anna. Eric is explaining how the pinstripes are going to be arranged on his car. 4 Jammin' down ... Tracey Kunkel gets a rare chance to play guitar in school as he helps Mr. Hodges demon- strate the properties of sound waves to his physics class. The little drummer girl. The last football game against Dans- ville inspired senior band member and majorette Nora Funsch to hit the drum a litte harder in order to make the seniors'solo performance the best.

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another bright sunny day in Silo City USA. We're gonna rock. We're never gonna stop. Come on all you snooze pushers, it's not a dieam, it's the real thing. School's just minutes away. It was time to put summer on hold, hang up your bathing suits and hit the books. At 6:30 a.m. August 27, many students rolled over to push the snooze button for the fifth time and abruptly realized it was the first day of another school year — one hundred-eighty days of the same old routine — sleeping through classes, living for the weekend, and cramming for tests. Or was it? After all this was 1985-86, a fresh start that gave us a chance to do it all again, but better. It was the same old first day, but with new people, hairdos, outfits, and attitudes. The addition of Miss Joanne Rhode and Mrs. Carol Stahl also brought us new teachers. Right from the start it had a flair of its own. George Showers was back again, but this time as the superinten- dent. Showers was often seen eating with the kids, visit- ing classes, and stopping to talk in the halls. continued on page 5 Just a little more. Wes Laurencelle and Tim Beach make sure to take no more than 1 100th of an inch off the vice while using the lathe in machine shop at shared time. Opening 3

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Give that man a hand! During the guys' basket- ball game at Lakeview, Paula Ford recruits Rikki Steele to help cheer for David Scott who just made a basket. fact that it was librarian Emma Hug- gins' last year also made 1986 stand out. After working at Vestaburg for nearly a quarter of a century Mrs. Huggins announced her retire- ment. Homecoming came again but with several firsts: Mark Anna was crowned the first ever homecoming king, the parade was rained out, and the seventh grade won the pep jug. Snow days returned, but with new meaning. Every time school was cancelled, students moaned, knowing June got a little longer because of the new state law forcing all schools to make up snowdays. The space shuttle disaster in January, followed by the automobile accident that claimed the lives of three girls from Beal City, and the suicide of a boy from Alma, gave new meaning to the word LIFE, as students took a long look at what they had and tried to make the best of it. Nineteen eighty-six appeared to be like every other year, but underneath it had an essence of its own. Each passing day had its good moments and triumphs as well as its tragedies and defeats. It was definitely a new beginning, a chance for all of us to ... DO IT AGAIN Opening 5