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Terrace Review — Wednesday, April 25, 1990 B15

by Jessica Bowering

and Kim Karlsen

“In order to answer the question
of whether schools change over the

years, we studied school yearbooks .
from four years. We chose 1975,

1987, 1984, and 1988. As‘could be
expected, the main differences lay

between the 1970's and the 1980’s. -

Although we did find that the
school had changed a lot over the
years, it was surprising to note

how many things had remained the
‘Same.

During the 70’s, fashions seem to
have been vastly different than
they are now. When you look in
an older yearbook everybody, male
and female, has long straight hair.
Most people had it parted in the
middie, basically not styled. The

More recent yearbooks show a

wide variety of hairstyles. People
have their hair curled and hair-
Sprayed into every possible posit-
ion. One of the things we noticed
the most about styles and fashion
was that during the 70's there was
less variety than there is now.
- Women did not seem to wear

skirts very much. In general people
" wore bell-bottom jeans and shirts.

It was very casual and they did not
seem to put nearly as much effort
into their appearance as people do
today.

One of the areas in which we
noticed the least difference was
school activities. Students council
seems to be something that never

‘Changes. In the 70’s they had
“activities like school dances, talent

shows, careers days, and pumpkin
days, Although we have many of
these same activities, there seems
to have been much more interest in
them in the 70’s.

Ten years ago, one of the main
things that seems to have been
different about Caledonia is the
amount of school spirit. They had
all kinds of clubs that do not exist
today, and the amount of participa-
tion in these clubs seems to have
been much larger. They had things
like the Outdoors Club, Reach for
the Top, the T.V. News Club,
Photo Club, the Grad Commitiee,
the Annual Club, the InterSchool
Christian Fellowship Organization,
and the Medical Careers Organiza-
tion. Each one of these clubs had
a fairly Jarge membership which is
not at all the way it is in the

school now.

The curriculum doesn’t seem to
have changed very much over the
years. There have always been

certain basic courses that are
offered in every school in the

- province. There have been a few

classes, such as Seciology, that are
fairly new and have only recently
been offered.

The basic goal of school, ever
since there have been schools, has
been to graduate. But the things
that people have wanted to do
when they got out of school have
changed a lot. Ten years ago the

comments that the grade 12’s put

in the annual were much more
serious than they are today. We
noticed that many more people
seemed to write what they really
wanted to do rather than making a
joke. We noticed that a lot less
people seemed to aspire to univer-
Sity than do today; a lot of people
didn’t seem to really know what
they wanted to do. They just said
that they wanted to get a job and
get rich. Most of the females said

‘things like they wanted to get

married and have children or they
wanted to be teachers or secret-

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aries. Today most people are not
likely to put their true ambitions in
the annual, but I think a lot more
people want to go to university
and a lot more females are aspiring
to more challenging careers,
Sports have always been import-

. ant in schools. During the 70’s

there were more school teams and
different sports played than there
are. today. Today the school
focuses mostly on track. Back
then, the school offered all these as
well as gymnastics, wrestling and
rugby.

The actual annuals themselves
have only changed in the very
surface ways. They are no longer
black and white and today they are
usually printed, hard cover books
with higher quality paper. The
reproduction of the art work in the
yearbooks was not as good during

Letter:

The revolution of 1990
Teen Page;

Last week over 100 students
walked out of Thornhill Junior
Secondary School.

They didn’t really know all of
the facts. Some kids walked out
because friends did and others
didn’t really care that the extracur-
ricular activities were cut off.
(Actually, they weren’t). The
leader didn’t have all the facts
Straight but he did clear up some
problems we have in our school.

The walk out wasn’t very organ-
ized but .it worked to get the
teachers’ attention. The missing
basketball that started this whole
mess will probably be seen again
and I don’t think the P.E. teacher

the 70’s but the actual art seems to
have been about the same, We
noticed that the poetry that was
printed had changed quite a bit.
During the 70’s it was much
Shorter and they tended to make
use of different shapes with the
words. The poetry printed in more
recent annuals was much longer
and more traditionally structured.
Some things have remained very
much the same, though.

The thing that seems to have
changed the most about the school
is the appearance of the students.
School remains basically the same.
There are certain superficial differ-
ences in the way the students look
and the types of clubs they were
in, but the goals within the school
are still the same. We don’t think
that very much has changed at all.

Should have made the big fuss he
did.
—An amused on-looker

For those who missed the fun:
We understand the “April 12
Revolution" started with the theft
of a basketball following a "fun"
student/teacher basketball game a
couple of weeks ago. It’s not too
Surprising the teacher who organ-
ized the event didn’t see this as
"fun" and said so. The facts today

"are that the ball is still missing but

extracurricular activities are
ongoing and no suspensions were
handed out. Could be some lessons
to learn here... particularly for the
student who has the ball.
—Editor

Coming events

The new Terrace junior
tennis club for young people
eight years and older is set to
get underway. For more
information contact the recre-
ation office at the arena.

April 23 to 28 is Science
Week in Terrace and high-
lights will include a week-long
visit by Science World to
several local schools and on
April 28, the 25th annual

head off on their Edmonton
band trip.

The Terrace and District
Arts Council is accepting
applications for their scholar-
ships for summer fine arts
courses. For further informat-
ion, please write to Box 35,
Terrace, B.C. V8G 4A2 or
call 635-2529, Deadline for
applications is May 31,

There are 45 school days

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