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Inventive
Buy a spirit ribbon! Buy a
car wash ticket! Buy a raffle
ticket! Buy a newspaper! Buy
. . . Buy . . . Inventive ways
for students to spend their
money initiated the school
year and prevailed throughout
both semesters.
Candy sales, particularly
those for M&M ' s, were among
the most popular
school-sanctioned campaigns,
each of which was aimed at
providing clubs and
organizations with money for
their yearly projects.
Among the expenditures that
students made this year at
school was $10 for a
yearb~ .
a $2 increase, the
first in six years. "Like
everything else, the production
costs are increasing, and we
were forced to increase the
cost of the Rebelaire to
compensate for the production
costs," said Mrs. Hope Carroll ,
advisor of the yearbook.
Spending money extended
beyond the campus as many
students were responsible for
their own personal expenses,
from entertainment to food to
clothing. Gasoline was a major
expense that depleted the
student's rapidly dwindling
resources as more and more
ABOVE RIGHT: With an eye to current
fashion trends, Usa Norris earns money
as a salesperson at Norris, Etc., by
helping customers choose the
proper
attire. FAR RIGHT: Even though the cost
of the nickel Hershey bar has risen to 30
cents. and candy boasts nutritional
ongredients, Tommy Murphy finds it just
the cure for a sweet tooth. RIGHT: Unda
Hill, Y-Teens treasurer, counts money
from dues paod at the first meeting.
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campa1gns
was asked of him.
Where did students obtain
the funds necessary to help
them complete their ·'free
education" ? (An article in the
May ' 79 issue of the Rebel
Dispatch declared that the
Senior Class had spent $1 .3
million in their 12 years of
take student finances
school.) Many students
maintained part-time jobs to
help with finances, some of
which were school-related as
in the COE and DECA
programs, while other students
relied solely on allowances or
parental generosity.
Making and spending money
at least aided some students
in learning to budget their
money and to manage on
fixed incomes. To alleviate
some of the inflation crunch,
various teen hangouts offered
coupons for free or reduced
food , an inducement few could
resist.