Topeka West High School - Chevalier Yearbook (Topeka, KS)

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, 2. MQW ig . . , N5 ABOVE LEFT: Helping a student with his pro- ject is Mrs, Patty Callison. ABOVE: Discussing with Mike Printz how to go about developing his topic is Mark Morris, 79. LEFT: Sitting with Harold irwin, the owner ofthe only run- ning Great Smith automobile, is Frank Parli, '79,

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QJVPQU EFQIEI QQSQJEPXQ Elumremilizzfafil Enom? Oral History projects began in January and involved 21 students. The tape! slide productions were directed by Mike Printz, librarian. The projects got their start in 1976 as a special Bicentennial Program. Ten his- tories were done that year and the same number were .done this year. The ideal of the project is to have students aware of our rich local heri- tage and be able to share what they know with the community, Mr. Printz said. Topics this year included the Brookville Hotel, near Abilene: Little Russia, in North Topeka: The Grand Opera House, now the Grand Theater, the Menninger Foundation, and three ghost towns. People covered were Bradbury Thomp- son, a top graphic artist of the United States: and Georgia Neese Gray, the first woman to be U.S. Treasurer. An event that was covered was the first automobile trip to Pike's Peak, using a Topeka- manufactured Great Smith automobile. TOP: During their trip to Washington, D.C., Jewel Maddux and Doug Kirk, '79, find time to stop at the farmer's tractorcade. While in Washington they visited with various Kansas officials in government. RlGHT: Reading back- ground material on his project about the Men- ninger Foundation is Gary Boerger, 79. ABOVE: While researching their report on Georgia Neese Gray, the first woman to be U.S. Treasurer, Doug Kirk and Jewel Maddux, '79, talk to John Snyder, who was Secretary of State during that time period. O BPAIN S

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RlGl-lT: Due to record-setting cold tempera- tures, icicles were a common sight in Topeka. FAR RIGHT: Drifts reached to the top of D School during one snowstorm as students trudged through the ice and snow to class. BELOW: The school lights and the snow spar- kle during a cold winter night. BELOW RIGHT: Sledding down the amphitheater doesn't prove to be too successful for Dorothy Har' mon, '80, and Rhonda Carter and Jill Young. if f, Av :- rf f r' ' '79, when they sink into the wet snow.