Westfield High School - Weather Vane Yearbook (Westfield, NJ)

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The End of an Era 1'l'm trying io STLiiZ2Y,i'sThinks an exasperated ,Nick DiPierro ond wishes-ThaT Ed Brolin would gei awey from him. Y senior ChfiSTTf'i6 Pereira, unaware Thai people i 'look for This face, Sure Bill Garbarini staffs ooi are waichihg, prcsciices her hula-hoop skiils ai WHS Today, buf Tomorrow. who knows for compeiliion. Maybe The Garden someday. ee ,,,,, , , s eiewismvrf v 'fYegii3,,iT's cz small bump, buijrinaybe if I go like This, ieofnjcover iiflgrli for The iesi of The ldoygfl'-,lsays an embarrassed Karen l-3rc:hdT. ' T his is indeed a very special year aT our high school, for iT marks The end of a TradiTion, The end of an era and, in shori, The end of a Three year high school. Though The seniors will noT exper- ience The unavoidable changes Thai will Take place, juniors and sophomores will have To live wiih major alTeraTions in class size and curriculum. For example, in prep- araiion for The four year high school, a ubuddy sysTem will be iniroduced To make an easier Transiiion for incoming freshmen. ln hisiory, a new course will be in- Troduced, Global Perspeciives. A musical wriiing course has also been iniegraied inTo nexi year's curriculum. ln order To gei fuiure iournallsis siaried early, a journal- ism course for freshmen has been esiabllshed also. Furihermore, new choirs will be added To The music curriculum. All in all, many changes will oc- cur: however, in order To acco- modaTe new siudenis, new courses, and new Teachers basi- cally, a new seiiing musi be es- Tablished. Mosi high schools offer A-year programs. Therefore, our high school is only doing whai oih- er high schools have already done. since-aff Life 17

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C 3 'hw- wr' Jen and Doodies ask John if iT's True ThaT he'll be in The Navy nexT year when This place is crawiing wiTh freshmen. Wearing Tuxedos The band goes a DTT Too far To welcome nexT year's freshmen. 'Lv' .JXLW WAY W A! 46 Sfudem' Life W, X3 ,f f' .aiO ' Theregoes Daday's Volvo! ,sush- As seniorihs shikes, Arvrhany Buoscio andiihris Stappas sleep The day away at WHS -- C3ourTyard Beach Klaus DolTing's face shows The anTicTpaTion of being able To harass boTh mares and freshmen wifh The reorganizahon coming in The Fall. QQ 'vi'

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T fTer school many people aTTended pracTlce ora ciub meeTing buT many headed Toward pariwiime jobs. The primdry moTivaTion? . . . Money of course, l-low- ever, anoiher benefiT as junior Dave Tayior poinied ouT, was having someThing To do cifTer school insiead of waTch- ing Television. iT mighT have seemed sTrange aT firsi To see one of your friends or classmaTes behind a regisier ringing up your purchases, buT This was easy To geT used To considering so many WHS sTudenTs worked downTown. Some popuidr places of employmenT were The Leader Siore, Roherf Treai, Barrons, Brook Sealfons, and The Music Sfdff. Senior Jen Moser had an unusal and inTeresTing job. She choreo- graphed all The dances in The EJHS musical. She crecried The dance sieps and Then TaughT Them To The siudenis in The play. 61' STOVG, One could find senior lVlaTT Zimmerman woiTing To T T Take your Ticker QT The Rialia TheaTre. T I 0 r,,,r T The average amouni of Time speni working was abouT 'TA To T5 hours a week. Working This much affecied some sTu- denT's schoolwork and was ofTen a reason for resigning. One junior commenied, l'm Too Tired To do homework when T geT home. However mosT sTudenTs found a way To balance school responsibiliiies and Their jobs. Senior Craig Russell as- serTed, li has noT adversely affecied my schoolwork be- cause l break up my Time well. l Took The job wiTh The under- sianding ThaT if my grades dropped, The job wenT. A common complainT abouT having o job was The number of hours spenT working on weekends insiead of relaxing or spending Time wiTh friends. BuT when The pay checks were cdshed, and experience in The work world gained, many sTuden'rs realized ThaT TT was worrh iT. T Senior Amy Jacobsen prices cioihes aT The Lead- Senior Virginie Raguenaud carefully wraps a pre- senT aT Brook Sealfons, . Junior .len STone's employer gives her a paT on The back for her good work aT The Music Sfcrff. T8 Siudeni Life