Center High School - Yellow Jacket Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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Heat slows summer plans he mercury in the thermometer IT reached 113 degrees throughout the city, but officially the highest tempera- ture reached 109 degrees on july 1. Record-breaking temperatures throughout the Midwest, Arkansas, and Texas left people, espe- cially those without air conditioning, to suffer in the blistering temperatures. To help combat the summer heat, students spent more time in air conditioning or at lakes, pools, or water slides. I enjoyed a majority of my summer playing frisbee at the lake and going to various water slides, stated Mona Appleby, 10. Although some students simply spent more time in the water, others felt the scorching heat stopped them from having an ordinary summer. I spent a lot of time in air conditioning when I would have ordinarily done more things out- side ' remarked Tina Eveland, 10. ABOVE: Keeping cool in the summer heat. Kim Wardlow, 11. participates in a school car wash LEFT In the excessive temperatures, the Marching Band prepares to perform at MU Student Life 7

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RIGHT Student Orientation Day brings students into the heat to see their friends BELOW Making the perfect catch. Cheryl Eimer. 11, participates in a summer softball game ' 7 ABOVE: During the hottest days early in the school year, students find comfort in the air-conditioned Media Center 6 Student Life

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ABOVE: Gloria Steinem and Melanie White. 12, talk at the Democratic National Convention BELOW At lunch lane Mandabach. 10. and Scott Ponick, 9, display some ash from Mount Saint Helens Nature makes big news in U.S. |i hick blanket of black ash filled the sky IJ as Mount Saint Helens errupted in an upheaval of poisonous choaking gas. Besides Mount Saint Helens, America saw other news unfold-the election of Ronald Reagan as president; the prime lending rate at an all time high of 20%; fire storms raging through California forests, destroying homes and taking many lives; a summer heat wave that curbed crop surplusses and claimed hundreds of victims; many toxic dumps found unsafe for the public, and the worst flu epidemic in ten years throughout the country. Even in the wake of these items of bad news, many advances were made throughout the course of the year. N.A.S.A. completed the first reusable spacecraft, the space shuttle Enterprise. After a three year journey, an American satellite passed Saturn taking pictures that made scientists rewrite past theories on the planet. Finally, an insulin pump implanted in the skin proved to be a discovery that promised diabetics temporary relief from daily shots. 8 Student Life