South High School - Sabre Yearbook (Wichita, KS)

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l This was fun! 1 Starting school at 7 a.m. Open lunch After-school conferences Sitting in Jim Davenport's office GYDDWWQ Dragging Douglas Midnight at McDonald's Pogo's on Monday night Watson Park Saturday afternoon Westway Friday night Football games Big Cheese after basketball games Passing periods Junior-senior window Sleeping in study hall Parking tickets Snow days Roaming halls with a pass Graduation parties Prom night Homecoming dances Spirit Week When 3 o'cIock came y Food fights at Taco Tico . Juniors washing car windows on the breakfast Reading days in English classes Substitutes Assemblies United Way campaign events Picking up caps and gowns and class rings Finals - and getting out of them Snow cones falling down your shirt When our teams won gg And staying two extra weeks to finish this yearbook Wash't it fun when Sissi Pham, jr., got mobbed by students wanting to buy candy between classes so they would have a treat during classtime'7 Nasn't it fun on the last day of school when seniors Teresa Pray and Doyce Pontius had to go talk to Americanna vlagness to get an admit to class so conferences wouldn't be given and their report cards wouldn't be held? f Wasn't it fun when the senior class gave Jim Culbertson an award for cooking pancakes all morning? This was fun!

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Heat changes daily n many ways, weather had a great affect on the school year. The heat of summer took its toll first. The hottest temperature of 1983 occurred July 27 and Aug. 6 when the mercury rose to 106 degrees. Because this kind of weather did not subside when school opened, the Board of Education acti- vated the Heat Contigency Plan. Students came to school at 7 a.m. and left at 1:45. Lunch was shortened to 45 minutes, which added some tardies to sixth-hour classes, but for most students, it did not present that much of a problem. As summerturned to fall, people found it nice to be able to walk outside without breaking into a sweat. The nice weather did not last long because in a few weeks, winter was upon us. Cold days hit hard. Temperatures in the single digits and below zero were bitter. lt did not snow until right before Christmas. The most snow accumulated in a 24-hour period occurred Dec. 20 and 21 when it snowed 9.0 inches. During the last week of 1983 and the first week of 1984, the mercury began to rise and temperatures in the thirties seemed balmy. The warm weather caused it to rain. Then winter set in and it snowed. Eight inches of white blanket covered the Snow covers the ground around this fir tree and begins to collect on its branches to prove that winter has arrived and snow is taking over. ground. School buses did not arrive sometimes until 11 a.m. or noon. Temperatures began their upward trek once again and melted the snow. Springlike weather brought out people to play frisbee and tennis to relieve the anxieties of cabin fever. A cold front moved in and dumped more inches of snow on Wichita. Then, a warm front moved in and melted it the next day. Then it began to rain again. Cold and warm days alternated for the rest of February. The coldest days of the school year occurred on Christmas Eve, Dec. 30, and Jan. 19 when the temperature dropped to ten degrees below zero. Finally, from the begin- ning to the middle of March, the weather was steady. It was nice and warm. Grass began to grow, trees began to bud. It was spring, leading to summer. That's what people thought. It rained. And rained. And rained. The most precipita- tion occurred March 23, when Wichita received 2.13 inches of rain. Then, it rained some more. Athletic contests were schedule postponed and cancelled. Rivers flooded. After a thundershower, it rained. Sunday, April 29, just after it had finished raining, of course, tornado sirens went off. Several funnel clouds passed over the city. Although none touched the ground, wind damage was reported. The funnels were caused by a frontal system moving in and a jet stream in the upper atmosphere, said Jim O'Donnell, meteorologist at KAKE-TV, Channel 10. Warm air from the southwest and moisture from the southeast helped. lt was the first time a tornado warning sounded so early in the day on a Sunday. Many churches did not have evacuation plans and made hurried decisions about where to send the members of the congrega- tions for safety. Many plans were made soon after and churchgoers were informed about the safest areas of their buildings. Then it rained some more, mostly on weekends. A popular joke that went around was What do you get after two days of rain in Kansas? Monday. How's that for dry humor?p0f,-fwa-ver, With work to be done after the school year is finished, Susan King, Tami Frost and Dana Drummond, all juniors, take a break for conversation. 22 Weathef 'MJ B E - AZ ,pw1-me:-54-ff-22592-1-f-ff . .. . The hot summer months causl many people to head for the loca Q Z 4 5 1 Scott Overacre relaxes thi teachers' self-imposed dress code