West High School - Shaheen Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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m t To t - Tl G I I S e o Mike Forley, '88, proctices his looting techniques during closs. iphoto by K. Redekerb Loofing Loofing is o doily octivity most West High students porticipote in. One could coll it on extro-curriculor octivity, but like oll octivities, there is o wrong woy ond o right woy to do it. Knowing where to loof is very importont. A ploce where no one will get suspicious of one's inten- tions, such os o bedroom, both- room, or even o closet, hove proved to be ploces thot work out well. As o lost resort, o loofer might use the cor. The time is very importont, too. If the timing is off, it does not motter how good the ploce is thot hos been discovered, it just will not work . Timing tokes plonning ond coreful considerotion, especiolly if there is homework due the follow- ing doy or if the gorboge is beginning to tower over the six ond o holf foot fother of the household. In situotions like these, consider loofing corefully. West High students eot oll the time, thot is o known foct. So when loofing becomes o mojor port of everydoy octivities, knowing whot to eot is very importont. Soft foods thot do not moke ony noise ore perfect for loofing, Beginners should stort with with bononos ond sondwiches. Then os they become more experienced, they con move onto the foncy stuff, like pototo chips. Excuses ore on extreme necessi- ty. A loofer must hove on excuse for oll occosions. lf one gets cought loofing, who knows whot might hoppen? An excuse like, I wos teoching the bed how to moke itself, is o good one to tell someone ofter the deed is done. lf one is o beginning Ioofer, like o sophomore, then he should listen in the holls for tips on how to loof ond volue them greotly. Cwritten by A. Behningb Bothroom Tolk Did you see whot she wore to the donce? Whot do you think I would look like with o pink stripe going down the bock of my heod? Cough, cough! Mony phroses like these con be heord throughout the stolls of the West High School girls' restrooms, the gossip center of West High School. Bothroom tolk con ronge from topics such os shoeloces to the lotest homework ossignment to the potty on Fridoy night. Stepping into the bothroom is like wolking into o totolly different world, There is o dense otmo- sphere ond o sense of peoceful- ness until someone rounds the corner, then the noise volume is greotly increosed. The tolk in the girls' room is reolly nothing more thon o tension reliever, A girl needs this ploce where she con run o brush through her hoir, brush on o little blush so she looks olive, ond cotch up on one of the mony West High School soop opero romonces before she heods bock to closs. The tolk in the bothroom hos helped to poss mony tests, helped couples on the verge of breoking up, ond hos become on everydoy sociol ploce. The girls' room is o ploce where o girl con get owoy from it oll. Cwritten by A. Behningb Girls discuss the events of the doy. Cphoto by K. Redekerb Some toke the ort of loofing seriously, procticing every chonce they get. Cstoff photo? M Awe ' W s Mini Mog 29 I

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Life A if'-'3 5 1 anal! , , xv ,j . lj u -I., 'rar g. '- A J ,, v -.df , A., 8 rin., I .,-, , 1, in the Vortex High school life is often chootic. Homework, extro- curriculor octivities, friends, gomes, donces, home, fomi- ly, ond jobs ore oll blended together into o moss of confusion, frustrotion, ond jubilotion. Students ore truly on their own os they struggle through this VORTEX of octivi- ties ond emotions. Cwritten by B. Speer? How Sweet it Is Clubs ore notorious for fundrois- ers. We hove oll seen the Funky Winkerbeon' comic strip with its determined bond instructor, who sells everything from condy to pumpkins ond turkeys- on item for every seoson. The ogonies of being o solesper- son is known by mony students ot West. Condy bors ond other edibles seem to be the most populor fundroisers. They contoin on unknown omount of colories: yet someone in every closs bought one, if not two. Getting rid of the condy wos no problem, but others did exist: . . running out of chonge, keeping trock of oll the money, ond eoting them, were just some occording to Kris Farley, '87. Louro Tietjen, '87, odded, The box gets heovy ofter corrying it to every closs. Cwritten by B. Speer? E Sophomore , Mc, Sovy The key to life is the obility to odjust. One of the biggest tronsi- tions o student must moke is from junior high to high school- SOPHO- MORE YEAR. The word itself is o controdiction. lt's literol tronslotion meons wise fool. Though o sophomore moy stort out the yeor o fool, he ends it being quite wise to the woys of West through numerous ond often emborrossing experiences. The first obstocle for o sophomore is mostering his schedule, The computer monoged to ploce his locker for from his closses ond the closses for from eoch other, Next is lunch, To get through the line, eot, ond hove time to cotch up on oll the gossip is the ultimote ochievement. Homeword ho! is the coll of the exhousted sophomore. Weori- ly he trudges toword the finol rriol - the bus. Kicked out of seots by seniors ond wolked on by juniors, he sinks grotefully into the only empty seot. Bewore- the bus is something to be endured, with the noise of rodios, singing, ond screoming odded to the smell of week-old lunches, chewing toboc- co, ond musty cushions Csomething stroight from the Twilight Zone ?. Toke heort- everyone must en- dure sophomore yeor. lt's o chor- octer builderl Cwritten by B, Speer? 28 Mini Mogg Quogmire of Quirks CRACK! TAP! SNAP! A new breok- fost cereol? No, it is oll obout crozy quirks ond hong-ups. Sitting in closs with nothing to do, the pencil storts to top, knuckles stort to crock olong with ony other popoble port Cbocks, necks, wrists. . ,? Next the feet stort to jiggle, top, ond, bounce. Everyone does it to re- lieve tension, boredom, or even for omusement. Though mony people engoge in such octivities, the some thing done by onother is irritoting ond nerve wrocking. Sitting in study holl with some- one humming orsnopping his gum, it tokes greot control not to get up ond rip off his lips or vocol cords, then tie the gum in o bow oround it ond give it bock to the onnoy- once. After working lore, portying oll night ond now trying to get some sleep in closs, someone is incessontly clicking his pen. Sudden- ly in o moment of blind fury, the instigotor soils through on open window to the courtyord below, Hopefully such extreme meosures oren't needed, but next time - CLICK- think Cwritten by B. Speer? B-r-r-r ' I R-i-n-g. Hello? A threod of dreod crept olong the spine os the voice of the geek from sixth hour whined over the phone's receiver. The phone: o device of ro- monce, gossip, heortbreok, ond in some coses, terror. Whotever gossip couldn't be soid in o closs, the holls or lunch is discussed in detoil over the phone. Mojor plons ore mode for week- end portying. Gossip moy olso entoil the shoring of onswers for vorious closses, or to listen to o lost minute essoy for o frie. d's opinion. The device of terror comes when the wrong guy colled ot the wrong time. Guys feel the some when o girl relentlessly pursues them. At this time tell your fomily to onswer the phone ond tell them thot you hove tempororily moved to the frigid North Pole. lt olwoys rings ot the wrong time, too, either whenjust leoving, or ofter pulling the cor intolthe drivewoy. lt olwoys stops just when you reoch it. Cwritten by B. Speer? ' ,ar ,,,, . ,, Students leove to go home. Cphoto by M. Smothers?

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Moking o List, Checking it Twice... A couple wolks hond-in-hond ond hove eyes only for eoch other, until the blonde from his fourth hour wolks by, ond gorgeous Greg smiles ot her. True love runs rom- pont in the high school holls, running its course onywhere from o doy to o week or o month. High school romonce is on experiment conducted in the bonds of infotuotion. Whot con be done to ovoid frequent heort- breok-- every dote con't be expec- ted to provide o resume complete with oll post encounters in love Moke o list of the prospective flome's quolities. Be o bit wory ond suspect infotuotion IF: C15 The moin ottroction is his cor, her money or vice verso. CDrop the relotion- ship ond get o job.5 C25 Your common interest is Tiptoe Post Sneoking in post curfew is something mony students con relote to. Quietly they opprooch the locked door ond superstitiously remove the keys from o pocket or purse, corefully not to let them jingle ond owoke sleeping porents. The door clicks open coutiously, followed by o o low growl ond o curse from the student upon mon's . AL - wotching Sesome Street or Mr. Rogers. CGive it time, you both need time to moture.5 C35 The relotionship storts out with neither remembering how, or when, or whot hoppened--CFOPCGET lTl5 C45 lt is on on-ogoin off- ogoin relotionship. CYou ore better off without it.5 C55 You forsee the end of the relotionship with o smoking gun. CEnd it now.5 C65 Your obsence mokes his I her heort fonder-- fonder of your friends. CPut in your two weeks now.5 C75 He X she hos o short fuse ond is olwoys reody to the Sentry best friend - but no friend to o teenoger sneoking in post curfew. Slipping quietly post the grinning dog, the teen hostily goes to his room, ovoiding looking ot the clock to volidote the excuse I don't know whot time it wos when I got inl . A sigh of relief escopes his lips os he goes to bed relieved. Then he notices the note on his pillow - 1 l i J i l so Mini Meg blow-up. CDo not light o motch.5 C85 lt is olwoys toke: your money, time, etc., ond no give. CGive 'em the boot.5 C95 His X her reputotion thot preceeded wos quite shody. CSoy no thonks, l've seen the previews.5 C105 He I she hos o big ego, or in other words, is o legend in their own mind. CGive him f her o piece of yours.5 C115 You never see him I her in ony public ploce unless it is dork. CSee the light ond drop the bozo, preferobly with o good right hook.5 You ore grounded! . Defeoted, he folls miserobly osleep. The cor keys ore token owoy ond the phone unplugged, then boredom sets in. The doys of freedom ore tempororily Chopeful- ly5 gone. The good thing to come from being grounded is odditionol time Just Enough to Gloncing weorily ot the clock, on eyeboll trembles os if threotening to pop out. Your hond shokes os it guides the coffee cup to your lips. Hunched weorily over o book, your heod begins to nod, eyes to roll ond then they close, with your nose pressed firmly into the book. A nightmore enters your colm sleep. Froctions, numbers, words, ond equotions chose you into o lorge opened textbook. Your eyes snop open ogoin os you begin to Hopefully these pointers ore of some volue. A lost word of o d - vice for oll would-be lovebirds : stort o trend-- be infotuoted insteod ond remember oll is foir in love ond wor. Cwritten by B. Speer5 clwigw.. f TSMG wfr' 9. 7 I-W 7 3 for homework ond to study. Plus o reol excuse to turn down Prince Chorming . Lostly, it gives o teen- oger time to get to know those who sit ot the dinner toble ond cloim relotion.Cwritten by A. Beh- ning ond B. Speer5 Cure lnsomnio study. Homework is not on illusion, it is o living nightmore. Students hove the ideo thot teochers work togeth- er plonning tests ond long ossign- ments, while teochers think thot students orgonize homework strikes, ofter o mojority of the closses go by with o minority of the students hoving finished their ho- mework. The oggrovotions of be- ing o student ore proportionol to thot of being o teocher. Cwritten by B. Speer5