Yorktown High School - Episode Yearbook (Yorktown, IN)

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On the negative side of life Your four tests tomorrow are forgotten as you hurry around the dark room trying to meet your 5:00 deadline. Working through lunch pays off as you fin- ish by 4:45. But before you can go home you have to get a few shots of play practice, a ball game, and Denny ' s Diner where the aroma of down-home coo- kin ' sends you on your way. It is then, after you reintroduce yourself to your parents, that you can devour the charred ruins of your dinner. It ' s all taken in stride because you know it ' s part of being on the negative side of life. Forgotten meals, last minute deadlines, and hours in the darkroom are nothing new to photographers. Photogs, as they ' re affectionately called, have things a lot rougher than what they are given credit for. Senior Mark Scholer explained, Everywhere you go and no matter what you are doing, photography invades your life. He did, however, admit to there being advantages. I like getting into everything for free, he laughed. There are disadvantages as well. Senior Tim Thom- as doesn ' t like, everyone banging on the door want- ing their pictures. But not all pressures come from inside the staff. People always want their picture taken, but if it doesn ' t make the paper they get mad and act like you ' re not their friend. That hurts, expressed Wendy Baker, senior. Time heals all wounds, and hard work pays off in the end. When the year is over, it ' s going to be great going through the yearbook and knowing I took those pictures. Besides, I ' ll know the story behind each one, concluded Senior Lorrie Stout. Lynn Miliar In the dark, is Senior Wendy Baker as she looks over a set of negatives. After choosing the best pictures, a photographer has the tasks of printing contact sheets and the actual pictures. Hey, I just wanna talk , promises one Yorktown boy to his date at the notorious Hawk Cemetery, which is a strange but popular hang-out for Yorktown couples.

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We were parking with another couple. When it was time to leave, I acted like the car wouldn ' t start. Everyone was getting all upset; my date was worried about making a bad impression on my mom. I waited until the last minute to finally start it. They didn ' t think it was as funny as I did. — Junior girl We were parking and another car came up. We didn ' t know what to do, so we just left. — Junior guy The night of the Sweetheart Ball, we went parking in a field before the dance. The car got stuck in the mud. We were covered with mud after pushing it out. We had to walk through two fields all dressed up to get to the dance. — Senior girl Vwtk We ' ll just talk . . . Want to go for a ride? ... 1 promise we ' ll just talk . . . Do you believe in ghosts? . . . Let ' s go talk . . . Sound familiar? These common lines and other sweet nothings have brought more cou- ples to the locally famous Hawk Cemetary than anywhere else. But what is Hawk ' s attraction? It has, like most cemetaries, a few dusty, old tombstones, a narrow gravel road, and a dragon. A what?! Okay, the dragon is pretty unique. Actually, it ' s only a tree that amazingly resembles a dragon in the moonlight. Of course, this moonlight affects more than trees. We went out there to drink but wound up parking, which is what I planned on in the first place, admitted one senior boy. A junior girl explained, My boyfriend and I wanted to be alone but our parents were home. We just ended up there because nobody else was around. No matter what reason, or excuse, is given, Hawk Cemetary provides that special place for many Yorktown students. The sentiments were best expressed by one sophomore boy who bragged, You remember those old fa- shioned submarine races? Well, we ' ve got ghost hunting! However, when asked if he has ever caught one of these ghosts he laughed, Nah, I ' ve always been too busy to look. Lynn Miller Marking time between light and sound cues are back- stage technicians Senior Mark Scholer and Junior Mark Harris during the fall production of Visit to a Small Plan- Opening

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Yorktown students discover High Cost of Friendship 9 Do you feel the bulk of your wallet dwindling in size lately? Has it been six months since your car ' s gas tank has touched F instead of E ? Has your finan- cial picture become so bleak that you ' ve started using food stamps at McDonalds? If you ' ve answered any of these questions yes, you may have become an unwill- ing victim of the High Cost of Friendship. The High Cost of Friendship (HCF as it is common- ly known) is an old problem around Yorktown. Howev- er, with the economy plummeting and unemploy- ment skyrocketing, it seems that epidemic proportions are arising. When asked to take a survey on the problem, several students had interesting opin- ions. times you go out to see movies and get pizza with your friends: after a while it starts getting expensive, remarked one senior. It wouldn ' t be that bad, but when you have to use all your gas to take friends home from practices and games, then you don ' t have any money left for your- self, revealed another. Not everyone felt that having friends was a costly investment. Replying to the same question, one soph- omore felt, If I thought that having friends cost me a lot of money, then I wouldn ' t have any. While most people were very decisive on the ques- tion, Senior Barry Kimbrough explained, A friend- ship can cost as much or as little as two people want. The cost isn ' t important, though, it ' s the people. Whether or not friendship is expensive isn ' t rela- tive. Having friends is an important part of growing up and coping with life, and most of us are glad to spend money on our friends from time to time. But when you put out five bucks on pizza, three on a movie, two on video games and five on gas; watch out for the symptoms of the High Cost of Friendship. Damon Brown