Whitehall High School - Whitehall Yearbook (Whitehall, PA)

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“1 can't do a thing with my hair and I have to go out tonight! This new hairstylist had better do a nice job!” whines a first-time customer. “Well, the hairstylists are pleasant and attentive, and the price is certainly right, but that is not everything. “Wow! Is that Mel What a beautiful job! My hair looks like a million dollars and the haircut was not even expensive! I’ll have to remember Jordan Beauty Salon for haircuts and styling. This will knock out that cute beagle next door. Should 1 wear my emerald or ruby collar tonight ...” JORDAN HAIRSTYLISTS 723 Jordan Parkway Whitehall by Barb Robertson Memories of high school are recollected by some Whitehall graduates through rose colored glasses while others see it accurately mirrored and still others perfer to shatter the past into a thousand sharp and painful reflections. Experiences from academic suicide to intellectual resurrection occur annually, but certain events this year seem to glimmer more brightly among the rubble of reminiscences. To capture the radiance of Whitehall's insight, humor, disappointments and accomplishments which are the rough gems of the future, and to try to polish them just enough to reveal their future value is the purpose of this yearbook. Although sports were often criticized as being given too much attention, an undefeated football team was under a much deserved spotlight during the fall. The baseball team, winning the East Penn Conference League title, also helped nourish the healthy team spirit. Speeding again to victory and entering in district competition was the girls track team for its second year. On the darker side of sports, however, was the winter season. The basketball, swimming, and wrestling teams all had losing records, and controversy concerning basketball coaching and fighting fans further split the fragmented season. Individual highlights threw a complimentary light on the school as well as a bright hope for the future through promising students whose scholastic and athletic accomplishments set them above the ordinary. Apparently the school board did not always agree on the price of excellence. In attempting to prepare a budget in spring, the board proposed drastic cuts in teaching post and sports which many parents, students and teachers felt were vital to the quality of education. The school board’s decision to be frugal reflected the attitude of the nation as its people conserved energy, gas, and money. After the election of Jimmy Carter the economy recovered and politics became calmer as the country slowly and cautiously moved back into its industrial grind. Conservative was the adjective describing the year in all its aspects but underneath still glowed the ever-present spirit of suppressed enthusiasm. (w) 5

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1977 WW YXYYY YWYY X Y Y EDITOR Bernadette Cherski MANAGING EDITOR Carole Reinert ASSOCIATE EDITOR Carol Levanduski DESIGN EDITOR Michelle Lener SENIOR EDITORS Lori Groller Sue Wuchter Sandy Crush Audrey Hichar Barbara Robertson Paul Lynch EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS John Percival Martha Vlattas Karen Chew Juliann Solderitch Judy Wasley Judy Snyder INDEX EDITORS Donna Miller Joan Kopfer PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER Dale Faix of Miniphot Studio STUDENT PHOTOGRAPHERS John Neupauer Jayne Augustine Jenny Abraham ADVERTISING MANAGER Barbara Robertson ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE Anna Roman BUSINESS MANAGER Karen Young BUSINESS ASSISTANTS Lisa Meltsch Sue Polzer Covering an entire year can be quite difficult, especially in only one issue of a publication. But after 10 months of adding and condensing, The Whitehall resulted for your enjoyment and everlasting memories. With the idea of a magazine format, we had to carry it out to the fullest degree which included the necessity of Michelle Lener’s, design editor, scattered ads and scattered stories. To ease any possible confusion the table of contents was devised to tell location, content, and page. Sports information was divided among six highly organized articles by senior editor Lori Groller, while Sue Wuchter organized administrators, faculty, and special services into two separate stories, “Beneath the Dome and Behind the Scenes; Those Who Make It Happen. Paul Lynch, active in the choir and theatrical productions, developed the Entertainment story with the help of the managing editor. Martha Vlattas prepared for the art for this lively story about musicals, dramas, band, and choir. Doing away with the typical yearbook divider pages, introductions and bold major headlines separate one story from another, while lively true-to-life stories take the place of the usual sugar-coated yearbook reporting. Three times as much copy had to be written since most magazines possess little or no white space. With students taking off for all corners of the world on school related trips, Carole Reinert, managing editor, compiled the facts into a free-wheeling recollection of humorous and exhilarating moments with the jet-set. In addition to this short feature story Carole developed the student life section “From Dusk Til Dawn.” While associate editor Carol Levanduski set right an originally haphazardly put together classes section entitled Personality Profile, she also kept a close watch on the fluctuating finances. Barb Robertson pulled together the strings of a disjointed year in the national and local community in addition to selling, designing, and writing all of the ads. Before you is the culmination of an entire school year’s work and an entire summer’s sacrifice. Read and enjoy! CA yiAj2 Editor-in-chief ART STAFF Karen Gutshall Andrea Grason Tori Robertson Sally Schaadt Heidi Laubach Mary Wagner ADVISER Miss Marjorie Lazarus 4

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Bamberger's Lehigh Valley salutes Whitehall High School and the graduating class of 1977