Ypsilanti High School - Ypsi Dixit Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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Vanessa Wagner and Angel Barber spent sever- al weeks in Germany this summer, visiting Julia Jost who was an exchange student at Ypsi last year s GETTING AWAY If you really think about it, tend camps. Some go to you realize that summer is as important to student life as is the school year. Even though it’s only a short three months, where would we be without summer? It’s a change of at- mosphere we've all come to look forward to, especially in February, Each year, Ypsi’s students seem to take on the globe, as they launch into their summer plans. While some remain at Ypsi for driver’s education and summer jobs, others travel to foreign countries. And of course, the highways are flooded with families going to see their relatives in one state or another, as well as those who are in search of the won- ders that lay between the two coasts of our beautiful continent. However, there is another side to summer that is often overlooked. Many of our teams and organizations just keep working over the sum- mer to tone up the bod or prepare for the upcoming year. Many of our dedicated ath- letes and students give up valuable summer time to at- band camp, choir camp, football camp, wrestling camp, volleyball camp, flag corps camp, cheerleading camp and journalism camp. These are just a few; there are many more, Although the sport or activi- ty sometimes pays for the stu- dent’s stay in camp, often students pay their own way. They are willing to make this sacrifice because they know attending a camp is neces- sary if they want to improve their techniques and add new skills, The students who attend these camps put in many long hours of hard work and prac- tice. From their experience, they gain higher scores in competitive activities, pro- duce better quality publica- tions, and learn to be more effective leaders, Although their efforts often go unnoticed, the additional time spent by coaches, direc- tors, advisers and most impor- tantly by students, is the rea- son Ypsi’s extracurricular activities are among the best in the state. With deep concentration, Nate Simpson passes his life-saver to a waiting Kevin Smart during initiation at choir camp. The concert choir attended a weekend at MSU with Mr Boggs and counselors at the end of the sum- mer getting a head start on this year’s com- plicated music

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Karen Penive, Gina Comazzi, Jenny Holmes and Lisa Wilbanks do their own version of Hands Across America, which raised money for the hungry Joe Muscato arranges a surprise for Karl Barr at band camp. Pranks are an integral part of extracurricular activities at summer camps, and people who sleep too soundly find them- selves in a predicament in the morning While their fellow students caught the last rays of sun and cherished their last chance for summer fun at the beach Ypsi’s varsity football players were hard at work on the practice field get- ting in shape and polishing the tech- niques that earned them a berth in the state playoffs Many Ypsi students travel to exotic places for their summer vacations. Va- silia Beltsos traveled to Greece to visit family and friends, and to take in the exceptional beauty of the Greek shoreline You don’t have to leave town to have a good time in Michigan's summer. Su- san Hooker and Regina Farris enjoy vis- ting their friends and cruising in their ever-ready green machine STUDENT LIFE 5