Blue Springs Junior High School - Wildcats Yearbook (Blue Springs, MO)

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..x- BUS DRIVERS. Front row: Cathy Kuhn, jean Beaty, Cheryl Kenter, Norma Sallee, Ruby Ball, Barbara Patton, Mary Tongue, Carol Pohl. Back row: Shirlee Trissler, Carolyn Everett, Gail George, Dole Bacus, Stephanie Bittner, Janice Spicer, Holly Fortner. -5 the Blue Springs Examiner 5 We thought we'd be able to P3 come back from lunch and watch 5 the first teacher in space. 8 Eighth grader Marty Sullivan's excitement turned to shock Tues- 2-day, january 28, as did the rest of O America's. News of the shuttle Challen- -6-J U1 -Q ger's explosion and the deaths of E teacher Christa McAuliff and six others was met with disbelief and 2 sadness by students at BSJH. -2 After lunch, somebody said it Q, 'blew up, said Ryan johnson, a i ?' , lt y , E 07.2 .1 I CAFETERIA LADIES. Janet Magus, Laura Murdock, Sylvia Williams, Anne Tharp Lois Staub, Carol Ambrusko, Beverly Elliott, Glenda Conn, Donna Ash Shirley Phelps, Bette Cashner Aileen DeHart, Carol Greer Billie V , , anWinkle Karen Hamontree, and Beverly Evans. classmate of Marty's. With the use of a satellite dish, the students had been watching a special NASA broadcast of the event in Debi Pyszka's English class. But lunchtime came before the liftoff. At first we didn't know what had blown up or if anyone was hurt, said Ryan. The news came soon. We were really sad and shocked, he said. We had been real excited about the liftoff. Q. 3 We were overwhelmed, said classmate Abby Nitzsche. One minute it was there and the next it was gone. At first everybody thought it was a joke, she said. We were amazed at how the crew had died so quickly. Pyszka, a space exploration enthusiast, had taken a keen inter- est in this Challenger trip. She was among the 11,000 teachers nation- wide who had applied to be a passenger.

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