Bonner Springs High School - Totem Pole Yearbook (Bonner Springs, KS)

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11 - - -■ CONSTRUCTION CONSTRUCTION A maze of scaffolding supports the rafters of the new shop as the building addition begins to take form. To the delight of students and faculty alike, new parking lots were constructed to supply ample parking for B.S.H.S. 4 Construction With the old shop classrooms torn out, Mr. Burns' drafting classes were forced to adapt to the cramped confines of the lower hall.

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Phases and phrases fill high school years At a time when people strive to be different from each other, it becomes only clearer that people are much alike. This likeness is especially true in high school. During high school, teenagers undergo nearly identical physical and mental changes. And because of these resemblances, students find themselves speak- ing and thinking along the same lines. In short, we all go through the same phases, and express them with the same phrases. For four years, we all confront similar problems, feel similar joys, suffer similar disappointments. Most teenagers experience love and all its pleasure and pain for the first time in high school. Also, students are forced to make tough decisions about family, friends, school, career, and themselves. As a result, most of us languish through a period of confusion and self-doubt, wondering if we made the right choices. It is not an easy four years. To express these emotions, we find ourselves using the same phrases and idioms: “She's a babe! or I'm gonna' score on those potato chips, or sometimes during bad times I'm all bummed out. The most impor- tant thing to remember is that everyone else is experiencing the same feelings, and to turn to your friends for help; they know what you're going through. A poet once said, No man is an island''—he is right. We are all bridged together by our fears, our fantacies, and our flaws.

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Construction alters school With the passing of a $6.5 million bond issue, construction of a new shop addition and other improvements began last fall. In addition to the changes in the appearance of the build- ing, the construction forced students and teachers to adjust. When the teachers' parking lot was ripped up, the faculty was forced to park in the students' lot, overloading the park- ing facilities. Also, the entire industrial arts department was pushed out of its rooms and into halls, the cafeteria, the audi- torium, and anywhere possible. But knowing it was all for the school's betterment, everyone adjusted perfectly. Willi perfeci weather helping out, the outer shell of the new shop was completed by early fall. When winter set upon B.S.H.S., the work crews set upon building inside creating a new shop out of metal and mortar. 5 Construction