Yorktown High School - Episode Yearbook (Yorktown, IN)

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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

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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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If A You ' ve had a really raunchy day. You were kicked into the rubber room for talking dur- ing second period, you flunked a geometry test that had been forgotten, and you were the only person caught throwing pudding pops at the first food fight of the year. As you start home you feel relieved, but suddenly you real- ize the worst is yet to come — your little fresh- man sister is going home to tell on you. The problems of going to school with broth- ers and sisters have been stereotyped by tele- vision, books and magazines. Showing that two people can ' t live together and work to- gether is a comical, but often inaccurate de- scription of family life in the 80 ' s. My brother and I get along great at school and at home. We joke around and talk things over. More than anything though, we ' re really good friends, stated Junior Kris Jacobson. We get along pretty well at school, added Senior Londa Shively. Even though we fight a lot at home, we still are pretty close to each other. Freshman Phil Starsky gave a comical de- scription of his relationship with his sister by saying, We get along better at school. At least my sister says Hi to me there. Showing a different view, Senior Tom Wei- lant explained, My brother and I have a pla- tonic relationship at home and at school. I don ' t bother him and he doesn ' t bother me. If you don ' t cherish the thought of spending eight additional hours a day only a few rooms from your brothers and sisters, you ' re not alone. If, however, you don ' t mind sharing the bathroom, bedroom and school, then you ' re in a large group of people who are quickly learn- ing to adjust to the reality of going to school with part of the family. Damon Brown Between discussing the theory of relativity and figur- ing out Newton ' s laws of gravity. Miss Moran ' s physics class displays the newest in Foster Grant Fashionwear. Finding themselves becoming good ol ' buddies dur- ing the Honor Society Halloween Party, Senior Laurie Rus- sel enjoys some ' down home ' talk with a new friend. And away we go. ' Juniors Colleen Coulon, Debbie Moore and Steph- anie Bean discover that going back to their earlier days at Yorktown can be a good way to have some fun. They talk at school too? While most brothers and sisters find it almost impossible to get along. Junior Sam Schlagel and his twin sisters Kathy and Kelly share each other ' s company. Opening 13