North Kansas City High School - Purgold Yearbook (North Kansas City, MO)

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-f ..-we-aa-rw' -f 1:- ' f' snr an in i 1983-84 Calendar , he 1983454 school year was filled with military action. ln Qctober, 239 U.S. marines were killed at Beirut lnternational Airport when a terrorist drove a truck bomb into the U.S. compound. ln November, U.S. troops invaded Grenada, fearing communist infiltration from Cuba. Trouble in the Mideast, including Iran, lraq, and Lebanon, kept U.S. servicemen busy patrolling the shores on Navy ships. More trouble in Central America caused the U.S. to send military advisers and other aid to those countries - a controversial move. Deaths during the 84 school year included Alabama Football coach Paul Bear Bryant, age 69, T.V. newscaster Jessica Savitch dead at age 35. joe Delaney, the Chiefs, running back, died at age 24, in an attempt to save some drowning children. On the positive side, sales for the game Trivial Pursuit reached 570 million by the end of 1983. Challenger astronaut Bruce McCandless was the first man to leave a spacecraft without a life line. He used a gas-powered jet pack. Left to righq top row, the world was in disbelief when, on September 1, a Soviet air ro air missile shot down a commercial Korean airliner, Mehmet Ali Agca, Pope john Paul Us attempted assassin, is ,-2.-xr.: I forgiven by his victimg In Novem ben ABC television aired The Day After, a controversial movie about nuclear destructiong Cabbage Patch dolls were so popular at Christmas time that those people lucky enough to have possession of one were often selling them for major prohtsg US President Ronald Reagan, and Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov were named TIMES' Men of the Year, Bottom row, the Raiders overran the Redskins in the Superbowl, 38-93 the '84 Winter Olympics were held in Sarajevo, F 575' ris Yugoslavia, where the U.S. team earned 4 gold, and 4 silver medals, on February 10, it was announced that Yuri Andropov was dead - he had died 22 hours earlier, In May, the Soviets told the world it would ti not participate in the Summer Olympics at Los Angeles. 2 I msrrevoeil-www-Fees? ezfir-'ev'-Qvseausawqae anlfdir ,M 2 ff' A ' N ' ' V faseaa-a.'fr1f:., Fw-' r- f - nf-1 V-fe'-er' ff --1 -A -if fe... W A V . - . ' I - - M . -. , .. . . 'ff f V 7' - 91 1 me Y- 'f f'.f::ii?7'l'-'I '1 1 ' - - . .A , ....,.,,,,AwAA,W, A ,Mlm W, V. . A. V , a .,,, ,,., A ,, -V V V F , , .,,i,g , E .- 4 .. v - - .rf -.L . . . , - ,ft 2, - , , -,A . 5- WE r 0 QA

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Mother ature cancels classes This page, top, The pre-Christmas snowfall that dropped 9.20 on Kansas City created a unique sculpture of the Northland Fountain, the only one in the Kansas City parlcs' area that was designed to freeze in the winter months. This page, above, and opposite page, top right, The two weelcs of school with 900 and above weather sent everyone loolcing for a cool place to relax, including junior jennie Speer. This page, righq and opposite page, The ice storm not only left one hundred thousand people without electricity but also I0 school buildings. This caused the North Kansas City School District to cancel school for one week. f one wished to experience the extremes of all types of weather conditions, 198584 would have been the year and Kansas City, Missouri, would have been the place. Because of this extreme weather, students in the North Kansas City School District were forced to miss 9 days of school. First came the heat: Cn August 27, two days after the start of the new school year, the temperature soared to 1030. This led to the decision to begin the school day at 6:30 A.lV1. and to finish the day at 1:00 P.lV1. This schedule continued up to and including August 30. When the regular schedule was returned to, heat breaks were given during the day. Beginning December 17, heavy snow began falling and continued to do so until December ZZ and a total of 9.2 of snow was added to that already on the ground, The snow, accompanied by the sub-zero temperatures and blowing winds, caused many cancellations throughout the city. Among the cancellations were most of the schools. Students in the North Kansas City School District returned to school for a single day, and then did not return until after Christmas vacation on January 3, 1984. The weather eventually began to clear. Some thought spring might even come early until on March 18, the temperature began to drop and the falling rain began to freeze. This continued throughout the day and night, and the rainfall reached a total of 1.5 . Across the city people awoke to fallen branches and trees, and downed powerlines. As a result thousands of homes and businesses were without power, as well as many of the schools. The North Kansas City School District cancelled school until after spring break. Because of the missed school days, the number of days in class fell below the state requirement and the difference had to be made up. The last day of classes for the underclassmen was set for june 1 instead of May Z4 as originally scheduled. Seniors graduated on May Z4 and left for senior week on May 25. 'ii A '11 1, 'wi' .a,. . fx , . v ivy, - Q . ,ga . 4. biz! , 4 ff aim? Er V ,,, afar., 45 I , ff. , 4 - sh... f f- . , swr -. 4 af,