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

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The upstairs landing provided ex- tra eating area as well as study hall room. -Juniors Patrice Wolz and Beth Hinney take advantage of the quiet to play a hand of gin rummy. First Quarter Groundbreaking for the new Blue Springs Civic Center began early in the year. The center will house the auditorium, cafeteria, and classrooms. ■ iB H ■ ■ Everybody was proud of the new Herschel Neil Gymnasium. Dr Larry Clark, principal, gazes ap- preciatively at the wildcat seal in the center of the playing floor. First Quarter Division — 7

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In order to facilitate a better physical education program for girh. the school district rented the Assembly of Cod Gym- nasium- It was ready to be oc- cupied by the second quarter. The first quarter started the year off in style. As usual, it was a little rough coming back to the day-to- day routine of going to school, es- pecially after the long, lazy summer. But when we had the opening assembly on the south lawn, we knew that the 73-74 school year had really begun. The boys ' gym wasn ' t finished yet — neither was the Assembly of God building where the girls ' P.E. classes were to be housed, so there wasn ' t a whole lot going on in either place. The physical education classes didn ' t seem to mind. What happened first quarter? It ' s all here, on the next fe y pages. How does that fit into the Master Plan? You ' ve got to figure that out for yourself. 6 — First Quarter Division

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Parents and alumni join .students at special assemblies, adding to already crowded conditions. Seating arrangements at assemblies often find students taking refuge on the floor from crowded conditions. Builders working on the Civic Center cannot build fast enough to accommodate all the students coming into BSHS. Enrollment increases, which went up 30 per cent over previous years, posed a problem in the gymnasium as the year progress- ed. Students are stepped on numerous times trying to squeeze out of the new Herschel Neil Gymnasium. Commons areas are used to ease crowded classes in the academic 8 — Expansion Essay