Wayne Valley High School - Embers Yearbook (Wayne, NJ)

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ALL DAY. ALL NIGHT. IN STEREO MTV logos now grace everything from buttons and bookcovers to sweatshirts and satin jackets MUSIC TELEVISION They Don't Listen to Stereo Anymore, They Watch the Music Rock It is not surprising that a school-wide poll conducted last September revealed that 23% of Wayne Valley students watch at least an hour of MTV a day. What is surprising is that one student out of three responded that he seldom or never watches it. Junior Barrie Goldman explained. I find MTV entertaining but 1 don't watch much TV at all. I put on MTV about 10 minutes a day. Of course, some kids are hooked on MTV. Seventeen Freshmen and 18 Juniors said they watched it more than three hours every day. From lop lo bottom Journey, Asia. Men at Work. Billy Joel. Loverboy. Music Television began broadcasting August. 1981 and has since become a nationwide fad. It is responsible for making superstars out of previously unknown groups like Stray Cats and Duran Duran. According to People magazine, the average video costs about $100,000 to produce but that's a bargain because a single video can generate millions of dollars in record sales. Whatever the cost, the outcome is permanent Music Television has established itself as an integral part of the rock scene X Theme 7

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TAKE A DEEP BREATH Freshman Darlene Kudla practices sousaphone with the marching band on the field behind Anthony Wayne during a Saturday morning rehearsal in early October. TRUMPET TUNES: The band reads musk: as they play at last years commencement From front to back: Warren Firschein. Matt Mellon, Hal Tara. Sean Looney. Jim Liggett, Mark Taylor. Joe Esser. Glen Castellano, and Tim Daum Guitar, Piano or Whatever Eighteen Percent of us Spend Time Making Music One of every six students in our school admits to playing a musical instrument. This means that five out of six are musically dormant. According to a yearbook poll taken last September. 74 students play piano. 66 can handle a guitar, and 16 claim to play drums. Getting started on an instrument early pays dividends later in high school. Freshman trumpet player Andy Shih says. “I guess in 4th grade I decided the band would be a fun thing to toy. Besides. I like music. Drummer Linda Scott began her involvement in music in an unusual way: I used to bang around the house with combs. My father said I could take drum lessons, so I did. Surprisingly, almost one half of the students that play an instrument are self-taught, according to our poll. Keybordist Joe Latour stopped taking lessons at age 10. and since then he has been teaching himself. Of course not all the 235 students who said Yes. I take music lessons aspire to turn pro. Says saxophone player Randi Weinstein. Now it’s a hobby, but I might want to make a profession out of it I’m not sure. Whether students’ musical involvement is serious, a hobby, or a potential career, they all strive for a common goal: being the best at what they do. Th«me 9