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Freshmen
Shin-Zabawa

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"... I was just your basic kind of flake. I had a job after school just
to keep my cars and motorcycles running." -Comedian Jay Leno

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said that perhaps I should think
about leaving school and getting
a job. You know education isn't
* for everybody. My mother got
so mad, she said, ’Start study­
«| What sports and extracurricu­
ing!’ So it worked out okay.
.
lar activities were you in?
"I worked at McDonald’s. I
wasn't real involved in sports; I
was like one of those grease ball
j car guys who was always leav­
ing rubber in the parking lot. I
was just your basic kind of flake,
I had a job after school just to
keep my cars and motorcycles
running."
What will be different about
"The Tonight Show" when you
take over?
There will be a different song, a
different set. It's hard to say
what you're going to do without
sounding like what was there
before wasn't any good. The
music will be more youth-ori­
ented; we' 11 get some of the newer
groups who would have nor­
he best dressed car mally not been on the show."
T wins. Each year If you had been able to attend
during Homecoming Week prom what message would
the cheerleaders sponsor a you have for the students?
car parade that travels "Just find something you like to
from the school through do and do that. Like for myself
! back again. Junior John never saw beyond the borders of
growing up in a small town I just
downtown Ralston and
the town. I never thought you
Lucas waves to the onlook­
could go any further. Almost all
ers.
the odd balls in the high school
issection is a required my friends in show business were
D project in biology in the town where they grew up.
class. Freshman Chris The real trick is to be interested
Payne learns first hand in something, photography or
about the frog's anatomy. whatever, and try to do what
you want to do. The worst thing
that could happen is you've done
it for 7 or 8 years and it didn't
work out. You can always go
back and work at Sears . . . just
get out and maybe you'll stumble
on to something."
What do you think of Omaha?
" ... Actually, I like the big wide
streets and I think I had a pretty
good hamburger there."