Whitefish Bay High School - Tower Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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This is your life. Life — not simply mere existence, but one's monner of existence. The activities of o given time or in o given setting, and the people who fake port in them. Life is on individual's animate existence — your animate ex- istence. The successes and fail- ures, the expectations and dis- appointments. The joy of satis- faction and the emptiness of confusion. All that you see, hear, and feel. Ranging from making it to the semi-finals of the WIAA Girls State Basketball Tournament, to creating a pro- ject in AP art, to digging your way out of the winter's big- gest snowstorm, to spending another 51 minutes in the class- room exploring and discover- ing. THIS IS YOUR LIFE 4 tnrroduano

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. . . WBAY is now on the air . . . . Celebrating the hostages' happy homecom- ing, reliving in slow motion, over and over, the shocking assassination attempt on the President, rejoicing in the spectacular flight of the space shuttle, and supporting the Ducks with live cover- age of their play-off action at home, television continues to provide the next best thing (and a few advantages) of being there. It is only proper then that we have chosen television to present our coverage of the year in the 1981 TOWER. Combining the print and pho- tography media of the yearbook with the medi- um of television, we have created the WDAY television network. From our cover representing the six sections of the book, to our division pages citing specific influences of TV in the school and community, to our use of more than 60 past and present TV shows, we have developed our TV theme while attempting to provide accurate coverage in an enjoyable presentation. ‘We are looking good', ‘we re proud', and ’we're still the one' to bring you ’uncut, uninter- rupted' coverage of Whitefish Day High School. -EDITORS' NOTES- We would like to soy something about our Innovations and some of the book 's special characteristics, and we would also like to express our feelings about this year's work. The most important new element in this year's TOWER Is the Idea of the photo essay, a collection of pictures, usually from many different aspects of school life, that says something creatively in pictures rather than In words. The photo essay idea is used in the introduction and conclusion pages. os well os in many of the sections of the book. We began coverage with the Academics section, featuring use of the photo essay, because we realize academics to be the most Important part of school. Another new idea Is the distribution of faculty mugs throughout this section. The Sports section added complete season records for each sport, and also grouped many of Its team pictures together to odd more space for candids. In the some way. many of the Performing Arts and Activities group pictures were placed together on special pages. This allowed for the sections to create general photo essays dealing with different aspects of the sections, rather than looking at each activity separately. Dy placing the Students section near the end of the book, conveniently close to the Index, we eliminated the problem of beginning with student mug pictures, an Important consideration for a photography- based book such os this. Some common student concerns in the past hove been the possible use of color in the TOWER and the possibility of having the book come out In June instead of August. We want to soy that we explored these options, but found that the cost of color would decrease the size of the book considerably, and that June books must be completed In early April, thus giving no spring representation. The progression of this year's work was. as always, a long and de- manding process, but we feel strongly about this staff's accomplishments. With on especially large and competent staff, we began slowly, having to orientate many seniors os well as the underclassmen. Out os each section started planning, new ideas were collected and solid foundations were established, providing us with a basic picture on which to plan a framework and theme. We ore very pleased that the backbone of the staff remained faithful throughout the year. hrroducnon 3

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