Weldon E Howitt High School - Hi Life Yearbook (Farmingdale, NY)

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Although the teach- er’s cafeteria looks more high-class than the student’s, the food Mr. Weber pays for Is probably no better. Theme Opening In auto shop, John Radforela and Bruce Staebler watch with Interest as Cliff Wag- ner demonstrates the use of a jack.

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It wasn’t easy, but there were many bright spots. A little thing like the weather, which stayed warm and sunny through Christmas, al- lowed everyone more time to enjoy the out- doors on free periods and after school. Ana when it finally did snow in February, the drafts caused by the “Blizzard of ’83 melted In re- cord time. New York weather was always a little unpredictable, but this year from the visu- ally snowless winter to the rainiest spring on record it was never easy to tell what would I come next. The Commons was transformed into a green paradise, the afternoon before ffteHomecom- ing Dance. The Senior Talent Show was moved to March, to highlight it by its separation from the June graduation festivities. For the past two years the Dalers had defeat- ed every team they faced, except for Massa pequa. The 1982 season also found us an un? beatable team, as we went up against the Chiefs for a tNtrd time. Not only did the Dalers destroy Massgpequa, but we won the Home- coming gamto, against Syosset, and went unde- feated, all the way to the County Champion- ship game. 1 - Knowing that no matter what happened, we would work to mdke Farmingdale spirit strong, we were sure we trould weather any storm. And in a year of controversy and change, we not only made it through, we made it. After the apple-dunk- ing contest at the Pep Rally, Cathy Studdert vents her frustration at not coming In first. As the slightly de- mented superhero, Caption Kaos, Frank DIMaulo makes the Impossible task of auto-liftlng seem easy.

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 tudent Life • Student ‘Life - Student ‘Life • Student ‘Life • Student ‘Life • Student ‘Life • Student ‘Life The years spent as a high school student are probably the most unlike any other time in our lives. Being a teenager, part adult, still part child, isn’t easy. Big decisions that will aftect our whole lives were made this year as well as those Insignificant decisions that don’t always seem so, like “what to do on Saturday night?” Rollerskating at U.S.A., a movie at Sunrise Mall or just hanging out at a triend’s house were just some of the alterna- tives. There were the usual teenage agonies. Changes upset the daily routine or expec- tations for the future. A major change that will aftect the life of every student came when we learned that New York State considered us to be too inex-