West High School - Shaheen Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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K, A 7 V5 R QEJN- , ,. ANN BABCOCK '84, and Cindy Aguirre, '85, live if up af a TSC parfy. fpnofo by A. Hoyfj TAMl HOFFMAN, '84, smiles pleasantly while wailing on a cuslomer al ,I C Penney's. gpnoro by r. loss0 ff' Weekends 21

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Is iT all work? When iT came To week- ends, WesT High's sTudenT body really knew how To make The mosT of iT. Even Though many sTudenTs worked, They Took The Time To enjoy, also. The majoriTy of sTudenTs agreed upon Their favoriTe pasTimes: going ouT wiTh close friends, spending minimal Time aT home, and an overwhelm- ing response for 'lparTying. Many felT The reason They parTied was because They needed Time To sTep off The fasT Track of The school week. AngeleTTe BenneTT, '84, said iT besT: l'ParTies keep you from building up so much Tension. Unwinding leTs you enjoy Iife a loT more. Spending Time wiTh good friends was a good way To relax and laugh a liTTle. Indeci- sion played a parT in weekend planning, buT Friday morning usually seT Things in order. Gossip abouT porTies would buzz around campus as Chris Snyder, '84, sTill rubbing his eyes, would say, Oh no! Only eighT more hours To decide who l'm going ouT wiTh To- nighTl Popular siTes for porTies were peopIe's homes Qwifh or wiTh- ouT parenTsj and parks, such as Emeis. The besT Times for bumper parTies and oTher geT TogeThers were before, afTer, and usually during baskeTball games on Friday nighTs. Good music, dancing, cuddling, and someTimes alcohol were The ingredienfs of a True bash, Teenage drinking was a concern of porenTs and The media. The group Chemical People and exTensive arTicles in The Quad CiTy Times pub- Iicized This foceT of a high school sTudenT's life. Doug Tamcke, '84, voiced his opinions on porTies. There isn'T really all ThoT much pressure To drink. I Think iT's mosTly up To The individual. A few unidenTified juniors concluded ThaT They didn'T go To all ThaT many parTies, buT They feIT a liTTle biT of peer pressure because of The sen- iors. Andy, a junior, admiT- Ted, Even if The seniors were really giving me a hard Time, I wouldn'T drink if I didn'T wanT To. IT seemed as if The sTudenTs who worked The hordesT dur- ing The week were The ones who really Tried To enjoy every minuTe during The weekend. QwriTTen by T. Blinkj EVEN WHEN HOMES weren'T available, sfudenfs sfill managed fo Hnd a place To parfy. gpnmo by A. from THIS LOCKED DEMONSTRA TES The affifudes of many sfudenfs as Friday approached. fpnoro by c. Collhsj 20 Weekends

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Doing Time in deTenTion hall XX . . .And rneywe off! ir was a race To see who could receive The mosT deTenTions, and as The compeTiTion closed in, one WesT sTudenT pulled ahead wiTh 84 in The fall semesTer. Mr. James Foy, associaTe principal, recalled ThaT ThaT was The mosT he had seen issued aT WesT High during his firsT year as an adminisTraTor. He also confirmed ThaT ap- proximaTely 'I5 sTudenTs received Them daily, so iT is easy To see how some persons were able To gain up To 75. BuT he also firmly sTaTed, lf They QsTudenTsQ are on Time To class or even in class aT all, iT's hard To geT a deTenTion. STudenTs who received de- TenTions were able To selecT aT which Time They wished To serve Them. The golden op- AMY PERALES, '85, Hnds somefhing fo laugh of while she makes up some defenfions. gpnoro by c. coirnsp 22 DeTenTions porTuniTies arose aT The sTarT of a fresh, new morning and aT The finish of a fun-filled afTer- noon. Each siTTing lasTed for a duraTion of 25 minuTes, and aT A: '15 p.m. every afTernoon, The deTenTion hall finally closed shop. lf sTudenTs received over Ten deTenTions and had no desire To serve Them, They were puT in sTrucTured sTudy hall, which was a new procedure from previous years. As Mr. Foy puT iT, STrucTured sTudy hall acTs as an incenTive To hurry Them up and geT Them served. According To lvlrs. Jac- queline McDowell, supervisor, an average of 'TAO sTudenTs made up deTenTions in The lasT days of second semesTer, buT There were a couple of days wiTh 460 sTudenTs seaTed from The lobby To The cafeTeria. HIT goT so bad, she said, ThaT on The lasT day I didn'T even discuss The no Talking rule. Mrs. Vodell Smifh, aTTen- dance office secreTary, of- fered a biT of advice. DeTen- Tions earned should be made up wiThin Two weeks afTer They've been received, she suggesTed. lf a sTudenT didn'T make Them up, parenTs were called in for conferences and more deTenTions were given. Some seniors could even be refused a diploma. Serving deTenTions was a Time-consuming parT of some sTudenTs' lives, especially Towards The end of The semes- Ter. AlThough for deTenTion hall regulars, iT was simply a maTTer of business as usual. qwrirren by M. Mifchell and J. Kaasy