Blue Springs High School - Campus Cadence Yearbook (Blue Springs, MO)

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When it all gets to be a drag, you can always take refuge on the front stairs. Senior Charla Peters takes a break here. How you doin ' , pal? asks Den- nis Lewis, senior, of his bony friend, Mr. Bones. Science students enjoy posing with Mr. Bones. Hey! look at this piece of evidence. John Steven Finney and Fred Quattlebaum plan the strategy for the first rebuttal. TBIS IS US... 4 — Theme Development

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When McDonald ' s came to town there wan not only a new place to eat, there was a new place to work. Susie Hirst, senior, works counter. This is our school. We are operating under the open con- cept , which means there aren ' t a lot of walls. Most of us like that set-up; it keeps things in- teresting. If you get bored listen- ing to the lecture on Black History you can switch your attention towards the next area and get an earful of Psychology. Our school building is three years old. The class of ' 74 is the first class to start as sophomores and go all the way through. They are also responsible for the lettering on the hill that tells the world that we are Blue Springs High School. Someday, we are going to be a six million dollar campus. Right now we have the Kathryn Wells Fine Arts Building, and the Herschel Neil Gymnasium, and the Civic Center is under con- struction. The school district also rents the Assembly of God Gym for girls ' physical educa- tion. Yes, this school (our school) is getting bigger . . . there are more people a s well as more buildings. The 1973-74 school year holds the record enrollment — 930 were enrolled. Projected numbers for next year range in the thousands. That ' s quite a switch from the figures like the size of the graduating class of ' 43. There were 20 seniors then.

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Dances are the highlight of the BSHS social season. Sponsored by i ' arious clubs and organizations, they gave students a chance to get down and do their stuff. Like in every school, sports were an integral part of our activities. We beat our archrivals. Fort Usage, several times. This is us. We ' re a motley crew. We ' ve got rednecks, greasers, freaks, jocks, straights, super-straights, and a legion of ethnic groups. We ' re tall, short, fat, skinny, blonde, brunette, and redheaded. We study hard; we goof off. We come to school regularly and have a record for first hour tardies. We like to participate in extracurricular activities and go home right after school. We ' re friendly . . . we ' re hostile. We like school ... we hate it. But for all our individual differences, and there are a lot of them, we are still alike in some ways. Probably the most ob- vious characteristic we share is that we are all students of the same school. This may not seem like a big deal to some people, but when you consider that we ' re all so different in so many ways, it ' s nice to know that something attempts to hold us together. This year was crucial for us. There were so many new things; things that had to be tried and proven. And we shed a lot of old traditions. Most of the changes had to do with things like . . . changing the name of the yearbook, discontinuing the senior picnic, and the student body voted on the Homecoming queen. These may not seem like traumatic changes in a few years, but they were for some of us this year. But this year with all its changes and we with all our differences can boast, Well, somehow, we made it through. Theme Development — 5