From Kindergarten Roundup to Graduation Your senior year in high school can be a very difficult time. This is your last year of security. The last year of participating in school events and activities. After graduation, you are faced with the question of what to do and where to go. Many of this year’s seniors have been laid off and job prospects are scarce. Money is tight and high paying jobs are hard to come by. The seniors have worked hard to make the most of their final year in school. “ Kindergarten seems so long ago. It is a big relief to finally get done with thirteen years of school, ” said Kelly Lamb. — Teri Bennett added, May 23, “ We have been working for years for that one special day 1982.” “ Sometimes, I wish I could go back to junior high and start all over,” stated Tommy Johnson. Many seniors like the feeling of security that they have in high school. They have a roof over their heads and food to eat. A lot of students have a job so they can earn extra spending money. This money is usually spent on movies, gas, clothes, or on their car. Kelly Blackwell confessed, “ I’ll miss the security I have in knowing that I go to school every day where things are familiar and I can still act like a kid.” “ Everything I dreamed of happened this year,” said Brian McNeal. “ Prairie is really ‘Someplace Special’ ” added D. J. Holvenstot. “ This year was special to me because we won volleyball games against teams we had never beaten before. We came to school late or skipped school,” commented Kathy Nearad. “ I think I learned the most as a senior, My junior year I just wasn’t into school,” replied Kevin Hadenfeldt. Todd Salat likes being a senior because “ He’s king!” Sam Selzer feels that the seniors run the school. Curt Woods has another view of the senior year at P.H.S. “ I served my time, gave it my best, and now I’ll move on to bigger and better things!” Brook Weldon says he can’t wait to get out of high school and “ start life.” Dot Pospiscil is the teacher that influenced the majority of students according to a class survey. Scott Douglas said his most enjoyable class was World History because “ Jeff Wessel is a Cub fan.” Most seniors picked sex roles or consumer ec as their favorite class. Marlon Blaha and Tim Appleget said they like P.E. and recess. Chris Gallagher liked “ being crazy and getting away with it.” “ When you act goofey, teachers say it’s just senioritis,” stated Lisa Campbell. Doug Blair best sums up the feelings of seniors when he says, “ We’ve made it through all our years of school and it looks like we are going to graduate. We want to and then again we don’t want to.” How will we feel after we graduate? Will we be glad we did or will we wish we were back to the safety and security of ‘Someplace Special’? i, FAR ABOVE: Is Tami Karasek getting dressed for a night out with the guys? ABOVE: Jeni Pedersen, roving reporter for the Hawk Talk, is caught off-guard by a surprise photographer. LEFT: Prairie has its own punk rock group. Members are Sarah Danielson, Colleen Vauroch, Kim Tjelmeland, Darcy DeCoster, Lori Stockton, Sindy Dubishar, and Jackie Colling. Actually , these seven are some of the girls that dressed up for Senior Punk Day. 109
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