Mercer Island High School - ISLA Yearbook (Mercer Island, WA)

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Y 7' ...A-P' lABOVE LEFT? Doug Marriot and John Gilliland wait for their chauffeur to take them to North. Doug catches the rays on the way down. KABOVEJ Renee it looks like you iust ate an ant or something. No, it's just the school food, she exclaims. lLEFTl Chris Stumbles basks in the sun with his three bathing beauties. Y lABOVEl Jim Nelson is disgusted with Dan's and Trace's constant arguing. Tom Acker iust stands there observing the disturbance. CFAR LEFTP Paul Bennett is pretending he is really on a deserted island in the South Pacific, under a coconut tree. lLEFTl Kevin McLaughlin is giving a lip-sync concert to all the lunchtime fans. lNEXT PAGE: TOP RIGHTJ Annjette Bond and Sara Dale catch a few rays during lunch. Actually they are dreaming about being in Hawaii on the beach with two gorgeous guys. lBOTTOM RIGHTD Jeff Johnson: On Tour, with the National Waterskiing Foundation. While skiing he lands a large spray on the crowd.

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Knowledge Bowl POTATO HEADS otton. Sugar. Orange. Rose. for Masterminds, Knowledge Bowl maintaining a winning Islander The names of famous college really appeals to all the Mr. tradition, the players on Ml's three bowl games bring to mind cheering PotatoHeads out there. Like the teams are more concerned with fans, excited players, and million- man said, it's social. Demented and having fun. dollar tv contracts. Mention the sad perhaps, but social. UKnowledge Bowl is great, Knowledge Bowl, however, and the This social activity pits a group of explains team captain Eric images shift to brainy bookworms students against a reader-judge and Nickerson, ubecause you get to arguing over pointless trivia like list of quiz questions on various make fun of all the people who think Queen Elizabeth's true hair color. subjects. Each team must log in on a they're really smart. Quite the scene. signal bar before answering. A So, the next time that electronic A decidedly incorrect one, too. serious business. timer beeps, don't expect an For, although many outsiders would However, while advisor Ann intricate, intellectual answer. Expect like to view the activity as a game Parsell occupies herself with some fun. .lift l gt The captains, Martin Saxer, Eric Nickerson, and Adam Cooper, psyche themselves for the lLEFT TO RIGHT? Katie Weber, Alex Goldstein, Scott Eltringham, Jon Weinman, Jeff Weber, Hart Gilchrist, ultimate challenge. Could it be Nisid Haiari, Martin Saxer, Eric Nickerson, Maury Hatermann, Hilary Norton, Adam Cooper, David Dorr, in the trees? lBELOWl Members QBOTTOM ROW? Ann Parsell, Leigh Roundtree. ofthe team prepare to hit the bar in answering knowledgeable questions. KNOWLEDGE BOWL 96C

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In tlhe game of health, one should usually rely on experts. But, in the case of one illness at least, it's o.k.. to . . . PLAY DOCTOR. new disease has hit town. A sickness more contagious than AIDS, more deadly than cancer, and more likely to keep one home from school than the common cold. lt's . . . SPRING FEVER!!! Primarily attacking those with lowered resistances, this insidious condition sneaks up when one least expects it. The first hour of sixty- five-degree weather triggers the illness. Usually, the patient feels a sudden urge to eat lunch in a parking lot, to wear shorts twenty- four hours a day, and to turn the family car into a convertible. Apparently, light hurts the sufferers' eyes, since one usually finds them wearing Vuarnets or RayBans everywhere. But, the symptoms don't stop there. Cupid's deadly arrow strikes right where it counts, and suddenly that immature geek who sits beside one doesn't seem so immature anymore. Maybe he's not so bad after all! ln fact, the way he does those Trig problems is kind of sexy, The dreaded virus affects the muscle groups next. ln shock, one actually finds oneself logging . . . no, running, everyday. O'briens replace Olins as minds turn to thoughts of sun and surf. One drags out the tennis racquet from under the bed and dusts it off, along with the court shoes, bathing suits, Jam's, and coolers . . . whoopsl, COLEMAN coolers. Leaving no area untouched, the fever soon reaches the brain. Homework takes on a new, mostly unfinished dimension, while a perfect forgery of Mom's signature becomes an extremely useful art. By this time, the patient has calculated and memorized the grades he can receive on his finals and still pass. All seniors, furthermore, have figured out ingenious ways to con Mrs. DaPron into lowering their senior fines. Quite the epidemic. Prescription: Go to Luther instead of Economics. Wear that outfit Mom wants to throw out. Enjoy oneself . . . everything will work out in the end. Remember, the only way to win is to play the game, to play doctor! 3, +V. AIS 's . ' ' ' ' RK CLOSE AT DUSK - 7:30 PM VlZHlCLESl lN PARK AFTER CLOSING ARE susJEcr ro gmeoumn - PER NS Am: sign? fl that N. Q-un. SPRING FEVER 96E