Watseka High School - Watchekee Yearbook (Watseka, IL)

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Remember when some sen- ior guys went: to Devils Head Lodge in,Wisconsin for their Senior Skip Day? Remember having to memo- rize the first 18 lines of the Prologue to Chauceafs Can- terhury Tales? And looking at the test on Chaucer and thinking, Oh my gosh I will never get through this!'? ? Steve Ball broke his ankle in a foot- ball game against I-lex-scher. 5:52 136 Seniors Remembrances Of Unfortunately for many girls, such as Tracey Sandness pictured above , there was no Bowling team this year. College night is a big help to many s juniors and seniors deciding what to do after high school. Here Bill Weger Remember when the whole town got upset about our Prom theme so we had to change it? Tom Purgett and the rest of the Golf team made use of the Shewami Golf Course for both practices and regular games.

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-XA gl all A, Mgt! 1 The last four years at WCHS will always be memorable ones for the seniors of 1978. They will always remember the teachers, classes, bor- ing study halls, and the Fri- day night road parties . Dur- ing the past four years the seniors have gone through a lot together. They can re- member as freshmen, how scared they were finally be- ing in high school and real- izing at the end of the year that the upperclassmen real- ly weren't that bad. They can recall as sophomores , dissecting frogs in Biology and finally getting their driver's license. The high- lights for the junior year were getting their class rings and slaying away all 4'-i , ..i'.t.f .- 1 5 3.51 'X Q . L. . i:r.N' A - E... -s 4 xe . slix. ' - xt .luv I . J ' 'J F' . I 4 1 L I year, so they could say their prom was the best. The last year of high school the sen- iors had the best times. They can remember waiting until the last week to write their research papers for English and telling the freshmen they were going to get it at initiation. They will always remember skip days and when senioritis finally hit. Looking back over the past four years the seniors can really say that they had a great time. Now, as they prepare for college and going out on their own, they will always have many fond memories of their high school days to cheer them up if they ever feel down. .V TN' is -. i A ,tI. Super Great 1978 For Homecoming our Senior year several of us went to a considerable amount of trouble to get this ' 'build- ing to the front lawn of the school. Larry Rose found his Physics test to be a challenge as so many of us did. 6 U.-A YN,As 1'1- -A 'T- 135 Seniors

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N Times Gone By Remember when the Home- coming slogans written on the sidewalk in shoepolish were supposed to come off in the first rain? Remember having to wait till our senior year in Band to finally beat I-Ierscher? Remember when Debbie jackson and her friend Kim checked into the Carousel Inn on their way home from Danville? A lot of times we just goofed off like Don Longfellow and Mike Kam- perschroer are doing here . byj . play - offs 7 Physics class wasn't always hard work' fespecially if a photographer happened to go Remember when we made it all the way to the Assembly Hall in the state basketball Remember when Ryan Terry awarded Mr. Wilcoxen the Golden Chalk Award? Remember when Monicals was our favorite hang-out? -1 in ' , ,'?- ' fe- f an eras- 'h 2' . ,. . . ., . .. . ,t 1' X .ra 'r ,,-- r '.'I 'll'Y:l ' ffhe 'NZ If - A f '-'5 .. ' ' 5 av' an Q vi' ' 4 -v k-4' p lm T . I :Z -dia-AN' X 10-R' F! ff L-,naw Sr. Class Off . - L to R - Bill Dirks, Sec.g Bob Gagnon, Pres.g Ryan Ter- ry, Treas.g Randy Hamilton, VP. .f ff' J' Seniors 137