Wasson High School - Wahian Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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Otis John King carries empty boxes from King Soopers after successful sales during football season. l TREASURY usiness tycoon John King managed the Treasury Committee this year in an effort to boost school funds. King Soopers opened with new ideas -from way-out buttons to school sweaters. Novel items con- tinually overflowed King Soopers. Solitary salesmen prowled the school grounds in search of new victims for their sensational items. Treasury played a larger role in morale building this year by having a greater variety and number of items and by encouraging students to participate in more school activities. Showing the morale aspect during Gleep Week was the sophomores' insidious crime of kidnapping John Otis King, owner of King Soopersf' The goal of the Treasury Committee was to pro- vide greater funds for school activities and to present the students with more lavish decorations and displays. expected lunch hour rush. Secretary of Treasury Otis John Kmgand Treasury C0 mmittee stock candy before the

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4 Mike Bennett, Wasson Thunderbird Dave Melanson the Palmer Terror and Dave McNezlly Mo me Hippie, star in My Old Man comedy sketch igh spirits reigned through the efforts of the Nlo- rale Committee and its leader John Knippers as the members produced riotous and entertaining as- semblies which portrayed true Wasson spirit. Pep assemblies took on new color and a more important position. New people, characters, and inno- vations proved the assemblies overwhelming. Going on a Terror hunt, l'm not afraid, l've got my gun, was chanted by Nick Rossi during a Beat-Palmer Pep assembly. Also satires on The Dating Game, The Rowan and Martin Laugh-ln, and Queen For A Day proved popular. Another new idea was to hold the pep rallies in previously unthought-of localities such as the parking lot and lawn. John Knippers, Secretary ot Nloraleg Tommy T-Bird, and a new arrival, Tammy T-Bird, led a cavalcade of high spirited Wasson students through a year of gaitv and high morale. Father the Carpenter is sung by Nick Rossi and John Knippers to John Hughes.

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SAFETY COMMITTEE - FRONT ROW: Steve 'DeFelice, Johnny Knippers, Dave Greer, Dave Melanson, Jim Lucas, Oscar Kierum, Randy Gross. Dona Julian Collier, secretary oi safety: Dave Svoboda, Benita Ann Price. BACK ROW: Pat SAFETY ' ey! Where's your pass? Woe to the T-Bird who was found in the halls without the little piece of paper! Safety Committee members were stationed in the halls during fourth and fifth periods to see that students were not disturbing classes by gathering in the halls. Safety Committee also saw to it that no food was taken from the cafeteria into the halls. On December 2 Dave Collier, Secretary of Safety, conducted a safety assembly sponsored by the Cham- pion Highway Safety Program. The assembly focused on safe driving attitudes. Included was a short film demonstrating safe driving techniques. After the film there was a brief lecture on the three rules which lead to safe driving. Randy Gross regulates traffic in the main hall by checking library passes