West Leyden High School - Shield Yearbook (Northlake, IL)

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With the holiday spirit on her face, Pom Pon girl Carol Mudaro performs on stage during the annual Christmas assembly. Bringing presents to the teachers was just part of the fun. Contests of spirit and vitality bring to life the Senior class during an exciting and enthusiastic assembly. The Spirit Stick was later given to the Seniors for their cheers. With smiles streaming across their faces, Annette Cannata gives the Spirit Stick to Debra Lemons, President of the Sophomore class after the Sophomores out cheered everyone. Arms positioned in the mighty L , the cheerleaders, Annette Cannata, Sheryl Dulceak, Karen Walsh, and Deana Cavinder, demonstrate to the student body the spirit in West Leyden. 17

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Ready, Aim, Fire, are the thoughts in Kelly Fritz ' s mind as she blasts Mr. Schmidt in the face with a whipped cream pie. Kelly struggles to get away as Schmidt tries to get even. Keeping the assemblies alive and moving with such hits as Rocky and Get it on , Mr. Joe Idaszak and the band perform to the hundreds of students in the fieldhouse. Looking to see what the Winter sports teams will look like are some of the Jr. Varisty Cheerleaders, Sheila Kramber, Anna Dizonno, Deana Cavender. 16 Assemblies Will you please rise for the National Anthem? The crowd stood, the band played and the assembly began. Assemblies; a break from the normal routine. Though each assembly began the same, each one held something new and different. Opening our school year, the Fall Sports Assembly introduced the student body to available sports and activities. With surprising enthusiasm, the Freshmen put up a hard fight, but the seniors shouted their way to the top to capture the spirit stick. Homecoming, a tradition that has been carried down since the school began, has become the most popular assembly. Moments to Remember echoed throughout the fieldhouse as Coach Ventrelli introduced Mum Arbor, the court and finally. Queen Louise Sharpy. The fall season came quickly to a close and the Winter Sports Assembly ushered in the new sports season. Pitting the Freshmen and Sophomores against the Juniors. and Seniors, the pie throwing contest got underway, with Coachs Paul Schmidt and Bill Babington the prime targets for the whipped cream pies. Our Christmas Assembly brought a unique change of pace in the assembly schedule. The holiday spirit was prevalent in numbers done by Orche- sis, Choir and Pom Pons, as everyone awaited the annual visit from Santa Claus, who brought many surprises for the faculty and holiday wishes for the student body. Despite the snowy days of 79 ' , Mr. John Goddard made his annual visit to share his adventures down the Congo River in Africa. Planning, variety and spirit are vital parts in making assemblies a unique tradition at West Leyden.

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Fads and fashions Curls are back, is the magic phrase blurbed into the minds of millions through television and radio; and that truly seems to be the case as one walks through the halls and sees dozens of styles of the latest rage, permanents. Male or female, simple or complicated, many students have taken to the idea of easy-care perms, which come in a variety of styles from full afros to simple permanent waves. Straight-leg, cigarette style jeans and skirts worn with anklets seem to have jumped off the giant silver screen due to the monstrous popularity of the movie. Crease. Add plenty of satin, a multitude of gold chains, disco purses, and towering spiked heels, and you have a new look all its own. As the disco look found itself carried off the dance floor and into the corridors, more and more guys found themselves out of jeans and dressed to kill. For some though, the old stand-by, the T-shirt, was the only thing that would help get them through the year, regardless of the latest fashion trends. Whatever your style, the winning combina- tion of confidence and looking good produced a special style that could not have been copied from another era, but that announced a definite style that could only be called its own. Not to be left out, the sixties played an important role in today ' s music selection, when it brought us the Beatles. Although not in the original form, the Beatles have returned in the Broadway production of Beatlemania and in the movie of Sgt. Pepper ' s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the latter of which starred such famous musicians as Peter Frampton, the Bee Gees, and Aerosmith. Nevertheless, only today could the Rolling Stones host Saturday Night Live, while their latest album. Some Cirls, surpasses the platinum mark; could John Belushi trigger instant laughter with the now famous phrases food fight and toga party from the movie Animal House and could Steve Martin be a wild and crazy kind of guy who does numbers like Happy Feet and King Tut, while the rest of the nation hustles to the beat of Boogie Oogie Oogie. No matter what your taste, you can be guaranteed of a style all your own. Not one, not two, but three earrings are hanging on the ear of a West Leyden student. Having more than one earring is what many of the girls are doing to look more attractive. Having initials imprinted on the outside of their glass lenses, West Leyden student Tammy Muraqski displays one of the fads and fashions of the year 1978. 18