Kirkwood High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Kirkwood, MO)

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CIRCA 1950 can-canners Linda Farmer and Kim Waltzen dance around at the Kirkwood Baptist Church Halloween hayride at Gres sfelder Park. OUTSIDE THE JAYCEES' collection of ghouls, goblins and gore, Chris Reynolds invites visitors to come in. llowee -- it's no real bi Wind whistled around the corner of the house, making the old tree outside the win- dow creak under pressure. Will Ledbetter, senior, grabbed his books and charged out his door a little after 7:20 a.m. Walking to school, with the misty, windy weather disheveling his hair, Ledbetter had forgotten that it was Oct. 31 -Halloween. While Ledbetter ambled across the parking lot, he stumbled over a smashed pumpkin. Memories of carving old pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns and of trick-or-treating flitted through Ledbetter's mind. Somehow it just did not seem like Halloween to him. Suddenly, four bubble heads darted by in front of him. However, it was only Beth Bell, Wendy Bopp, Laura Ferber, and Lynn Woodruff, seniors, who had dressed as 22 - - Halloween ago, said Bob Cramer, It was fun dressing up as Magenta from Rocky Horror. l'm a big fan of that movie. -Jill Wagenknecht ber of the Kirkwood . The city made some backs that restricted what Kooky Spooks for the day. As the dreary-weathered day crept on, Ledbetter felt like other beings had in- vaded. Characters from Mars, China, Arabia, Transylvania and Wonderland appeared in corridors. lt was fun dressing up as a sheik from Arabia, laughed Ron Evens, senior. I walked into one class and a kid yelled, 'Sheik your booty . . . sheik your booty . . Halloween was traditionally a senior privilege, but other classes participated. Tina Farmer, junior, Kate Wiss- man, sophomore, and Kathy could do. We were mainly cerned with safety, said Earl, spokesman from Hall. Last year there Marshall, freshman, were a few underclassmen who donned costumes. l knew dressing up was for seniors only, said Farmer, who dressed like a vampire. However, I was working for the Jaycee haunted house and most of us who worked there wore our costumes to school. This was the third year for the Jaycees' haunted house. Jaycee members kept the house located on the corner of East Clinton and Harrison, open from Oct. 26-31. The house had only half the attendance of a year some faulty wiring and mable insulation being for the maze. That was there wasn't a maze year. Besides dressing up or p ticipating in the haunt house, students went to p ties. Baptist Church memb held a hayride and a cookl at Greensfelder Park. AS the night drifted ir morning, Halloween slip back to being just a memog To Ledbetter, Hallowe was nothing special, j memories of carving puih kins into scary jack-o-Iante and of trick-or-treating.

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Speaking with iokeg Mouse ie phone rang and care- y Vicky Wolters, senior, -ed up the receiver, just as .iys, thinking nothing of it. he other end, there was a haunting silence, fol- d by mysterious breath- Nervously she clutched receiver, pondering ther or not to hang up. lst as she was about to e the receiver back in its e, the rough sounding -e on the other end mum- , Have you checked the ren? e slammed down the re- uer, recalling a similar in- nt in the movie, When A tiger Calls. e decided she would call of her friends, Sue Keil, I thought that the different variety of telephones was really unbelievable! - David Drake in hopes that she would re- lieve the tension. As Wolters picked up the receiver of the plain phone, she noticed a golden French phone gleaming under the light on the hall table. Its intricate design in- trigued her. She had seen one like it at the Phone Cen- ter but had never called on one, so she decided to call from that phone instead. X x w 5 qifcgifgif is 3 ft af-. Keil answered Wolter's call on her Mickey Mouse tele- phone, which she got for her fifteenth birthday because of her nickname Mickey. After discussing such things as the upcoming Stu- dent Council meeting, Wol- ters decided that she had bet- ter do her homework. Seconds later, the phone rang again, reminding her of the horrifying call she re- ceived earlier. As she put the receiver to her ear, laughter burst out on the other end, revealing fa- miliar voices to her. friends who made the prank call earlier, a great sense of relief swept over her. Discussion led to the up- coming Styx concert on Dec. 6-7. To save time, Wolters of- fered to get tickets by calling in the order. Quickly, she hung up and called Dial-Tix, the telephone ticket agency. Discovering that few tickets remained, she was glad that she had not waited. Thank goodness for phone, Wolters thought. the . 7 t ff' 5 GATHERED AROUND the phone in the Kirkwood Baptist gym, Alison Or- ton, Amy Mote and Karen Basich place a call to a friend unable to at- tend a roller skating party, Dec. 5. ON THE PHONE outside the main of- fice, Laura Perry, junior, calls John Kellum, her boyfriend, during her fifth hour independent. Telephones - - 21

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1' .4-JCI! -si, 7' T WITH CHAINS CLANGING, ghost Amy Pavelka, freshman, wails at vis- itors in the Jaycee's haunted house. SHREIKS OF SURPRISE come from Carolyn Schmidt as she and Susie Froesel step from the hayride lodge in front of gorilla Doug DuPree. f L HALLOWEEN ENTERTAINMENT in the faculty room comes from flasher Ronald Rushen, social studies teacher and participant in the festivi- ties. ENGROSSED IN MACBETH, Pete Wilson, John Durbin and Suzanne Lumley study in A.P. English on Hal- loween. Halloween - - 23 1 Y 1