Photos: Bethel Regional High School prom

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A group of Bethel Regional High School students heads into the Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center for prom Saturday, April 25, 2015. Some girls carried their heels inside.

The disk jockey was the outstanding senior boy in 1983 and his father helped build KYUK public radio station. Every couple promenaded down a lighted path lined with dozens of parents, siblings and other community members. Bethel Covenant Church put on a free dinner beforehand and a party afterward.

Bethel Regional High School's 2015 prom took place Saturday, April 25, 2015, with a nautical theme at Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center. Boys ordered tuxes flown in from Anchorage or went to the big city for a suit. Girls shopped online, browsed Bethel's Arctic Belle Boutique or checked out what people were selling through Facebook. They wore matching boutonnieres and wrist corsages, but there were no limos, no spendy dinners downtown, no spa pampering beforehand. Some girls carried their high heels and wore sneakers through the dirt parking lot. The cost to get in was $40 a couple for those who planned in advance.