Kickapoo High School - Legend Yearbook (Springfield, MO)

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VARSITY - Front Row: Beth Ripper, JAYVEE - Front Row: Carol Fuchs, Melanie Johnson, Susan Wise, Sami Cheryl Fleetwood. Second Row: Libby Long. Back Row: Becky Hockensmith, Williams, Kendra Lair, Trudi Boyd. Traci Davision, Angie Horned, Jean Back Row: Karen Louisille, Cindy Netzer. Austin, Tanya Westphalen. 'W we 5, , A. r'T'T1 AA 1-r 1Ica vyiy , i .,., i 'Fi'-it FROSH - Front Row: Stacey Bunn, Back Row: Darla Rippee, Tracy Pam Payne, Lisa Stancer, Kim Hales. Hawkins, Leslie Roberts, Jennifer Wyricls. Freshman cheerleaders keep busy during the summer by practicing cheers that will be performed at games. Working hard to perfect cheers and formations is one of the many duties of the Jayvee cheerleading squad. 32 X Cheerleaders 3, '21, 2

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PERFEET Ili As a decade ends, we begin was the theme chosen by the 1980-81 Cabinet to celebrate Kickapoo's tenth year in existence. Because of a workers' strike, construction was slowed so students were forced to attend double sessions at Glendale until October 25, 1971. That day, Kickapoo High School opened its doors to 983 eager students ready to begin classes at Mtheirn school, even though the academic wing was the on- ly part completely finished. The original Kickapoo School was located on Highway M between Glenstone and Fremont. A one-room elementary school, heated by a wood stove, had only one teacher for all eight grades. Later, as Springfield grew, so did Kickapoo. It was divided into North and South Kickapoo. South Kickapoo was the new building located on Plainview. In 1962, Superinten- dent Willard Graff told the Board that there would be a need for a fifth high school by 1967 or 1968. In May of 1970, con- struction began, and Kickapoo High School was born. To honor Kickapoo's first decade, the Cabinet scheduled a birthday party on October 24, 1980. Hlt was designed to motivate the students, unify the stu- dent body, and get the point across that it was our tenth anniversary and a special year, commented Michele Johnson. By the fall of 1981, Kickapoo will have taken on a new appearance. The building will have added 23 rooms. This will help to accommodate the 1418 students and put the dif- ferent departments in their own wings. Because of the strike, the gym looked much like this from June until October when the students started school. - -er W I C, , ,Lfi,41,,' ' ,, . we. in... M,.....Ja . -as --W A 4 -3 if -.,, f . ,.,. . 7 Y , ,-.... Ji? y ,,y,Ay 'yy A, Q., T , 7 J .l.:i '7..1 7' C 'li Traci Davison cuts and serves cake to W? over 300 people while also trying to talk to Bruce Fulbright. Because of the heavy fog on Kickapoo's first day in 1 97 1, the school could hardly be seen from Campbell. Anniversary f 31

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4 4 'anvil 4 V 5 9.5 J . :H 6519 '. f 4:nw,, 4, , ff' 'fc WM , M, Students were cheered to by . . . NE but the BEST Perfectionistsl That's what the freshmen, jayvee, and varsity cheerleaders were. Having attended sum- mer camp and winning every spirit award, the freshmen cheerleaders were geared toward top performances. c'Our squad was very devoted. We gave up a lot of our weekends to perfect cheers, said Darla Rippee, frosh cheerleader. Securing second overall at camp demonstrated the jayvee's ability to be the best. uWe tried to be the best we could - we even had bunking parties for practic- ing cheers and getting everything right, added Kendra Lair, jayvee cheer- leader. After competing with 50 squads last summer the varsity cheerleaders com- piled the most points toward the honorable Award of Excellence. uWe practiced really hard to perfect everything we did. We also took cook- ies to the players at games, delivered surprises to them in their homerooms, and decorated the locker roomf' said Melanie John- son, varsity cheerleader. Practicing stiff body movements learned at camp, the varsity cheerleaders get ready for performance cheers. Hey, big Chiefs. let's aim high! Var- sity cheerleaders used smiles and stunts to raise school spirit during games. Cheerleader 33