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

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' could uffered losing 1 seven he sec- he first rdinals District :hools, lllways. l. Back For ex- ew Big rs a big 'S a big ' on the Burke, I of be- cl more :, more 'us vol- rt to be t-hour :d a big ol until ver last Ind big, that we tudents seniors of the Student l a new rfusion. change The big screen in the cafeteria, flashing computerized bulle- tins on school activities for the second year now, also added to the school's high-tech, big-time, 1980's look. With that much going on, with all those students expen- encing all those things that made this year dramatically dif- ferent from others, this school from others, even this world in this time from others, how could we ever pin a couple of words on a book cover and say, OKI There it is! There's the 1986-1987 school year, nght there on the page! ? We can't. We can write a lot of stories about it, though. And we can take a lot of pictures of it. But even a thousand pictures aren't worth a year. The pic- tures you'll see in this book are there to remind you of pic- tures in your mind. Odds are, for instance, you're not the guy you'll see pictured kicking a football in the sports section a few pages down the road. But, odds are that sometime in high school you've felt the feelings of victory he felt. Or maybe de- feat. Or nervousness. Or, maybe nothing. The pictures, not some catchy phrase, are the key to the year. So no catchy phrase on the cover. . .with one exception. We would like to call 1986-87 big, and we do think pictures have even more impact when they're really big, as you'll see when you tum the page. Look at the pictures and read the accompanying stories, then paint, draw, sketch, conjure up mentally, describe to a friend - whatever - your omm image of this catchy phrase: Tl-1E L l I l I J Newsstandl I I ,Mtg Portraits money, educa- rounds. PlCTUIitx87! aww Q :wma 1 N4 1 Q Q . 1' 1 I 4 is 415, . ,...-5, . M '51, fl fix? , 3359! I' F' Index As far as student activities go, some may seem alike, but they're all different. We all have our different hangouts, dress, and musical tastes. Sep- arately, they're diverse. To- gether, they're THE BIG PIC- TURE. Like a puzzle, the pieces of Center are small, unique. You can't symbolize one student as making up the heart of the school. The true image of CHS cannot be seen until you put them all together to get THE BIG PICTURE Challenging yourself academi- cally is one thing. Challenging yourself ,athletically, as well, truly completes your image of the school. There's nothing like representing CHS on the field to give you THE BIG PIC- TURE. We usually paint the year's pic- ture with the brush of school events. Not in this section. Here, relax and enjoy some non-events in our Gallery of ar- tistic impressions. Then plunge into The Year in Re- view, a rogue's gallery of quite real people and events. Two non-traditional and contras- ting ways of filling in THE BIG PICTURE. Classes alone don't make up a school. If not for the clubs and activities offered at Cen- ter, it would be just another place to spend the day. Social activities, combined with clas- ses help to form THE BIG PIC- TURE. Putting it all together, we can see how little components made the year what it was. Now that it's over, we can final- ly look back and get a clear view of THE BIG PICTURE. TABLE OF CONTENTSIS INTRODUCTION

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by Jason Kocherov 5 The Reall Story lt was the big time, the 1980's lialley's Comet whizzed by, for some an astronomically big show, but for most a big celestial washout not even match- ing the Big Dipper, much less, as comet profiteers had claimed, the Big Bang. A big campaign against drug abuse got underway, a backlash to the shocking drug-related deaths of big stars such as entertainer John Belushi and basketball player Len Bias, and big business helped out with the big money involved. Apartheid remained a big issue, especially for liberal Big Men On Campuses across the country, and big business helped out a little there too, especially when the re- ally big corporations of General Motors, IBM, and Honeywell announced in rapid succession that they planned to divest their holdings in South Africa. Congress made a big fuss over tax reform, and then over Lt. Col. Oliver North, whose big ideas about creative financing for the Nicaraguan contras got his president into a big mess. And President Reagan's ovm big ideas about big budgets created a different sort of a big mess, in creasing the national debt by another S200 billion. Now that's big. Meanwhile, as GM peddled their Big Stick trucks and Polaroid advertised their products as Bigger than Life, Wen- dy's tried to sell us their new Big Classic burger. It was the good stuff, they claimed. They even opened a franchise in near-by Ward Parkway, right by the school, so everyone at Center could have ready access to the good stuff, but many of us continued to walk dovm to the McDonald's on 85th for the traditional Big Mac stuff. As always, car dealers offered those of us who stayed up studydng with late-night TV llBig, Big Savings! on used cars, but most of us had enough trou- ble dealing with our already Big, Big Insurance Payments! In music, Wham! had made it big a few years back with their llMake it Big LP, as had Tears for Fears singing some Songs from the Big Chair. Heavy metallers Spinal Tap re- leased a song called l'Big Bottom, and Billy Joel in 1986 fi- nally released a new album, entitled llThe Bridge, which in- cluded the song, 'lBig Man on Mulberry Street. AC fDC sang a song called l'Big Balls, part of a wave of songs with nasty lyrics which triggered a big flap among parents, led by Tipper Crore, wife of Tennessee Senator Albert Gore. On TV, ABC offered Amerika, a xenophobic look at how the nasty Soviets might rule the U.S., but this only triggered a big flop among viewers. On the other hand, Bill Cosby, said by another big media hero of 1986, David Letterman, to be the most powerful man in show business, got the big laughs and big ratings. Also, an early-'80's movie called 'lThe Big Chill spammed a big craze for the music of the '50's and '60's. ln 1986, famil- iar rock-and-roll station ZZ99 changed its name to ZZCiOLD and its format to nostalgic hits, and we saw a slew of 1986 movies not only containing soundtracks full of old music, but also directly named for old songs, such as Peggy Sue Crot Married and l'Stand By Me. l'lollywood's big hits of '86, though, were Tom Cruise and 'lTop Gun, proven both by big box office retums and by all the military haircuts which cropped up in the hallways around school. Also big with those rn fashion were big hom-rimmed glasses and big, oversized clothing, especially sweaters and sweatshirts. And Life in the Big City went on as usual. Folks still tried 2!lNTRODUCTION DESIGN .. . STEVE TAYLOR for the big bucks in the instant Lottery, but now they could also play the big, new ULotto game. The I?03'3l5 Suffefed some big disappointments, most of which involved losrng games, but then so did the Boston Red Sox, who lost rn seven to the New York Mets in the World Series and became the sec- ond team in history to lose the series after winning the. first two games as visitors - the first being the St. Lours Cardinals last year against the Royals. The Kansas City School Drstnct made a big noise over desegregation and magnet schools, but we didn't notice too many people missing in the hallways. But that was all out there in the big, bad world. Back home at CHS, we also experienced some big events. For ex- ample, for the third time in three years we had a new Big Cheese. Remember last year's yearbook thought it was a big deal to have three Mr. Bigs in live years: three in three's a big improvement, don't you think? But the revolving door on the principal's office seems to have slowed, and Dr. John Burke, formerly of Shammee Mission East, shows every sign of be- coming a pemianent principal. In two other big changes, those of us who missed more than 20 days of a class found ourselves in big trouble, more precisely big F 's on our grade cards, while some of us vol- untarily increased attendance by making the big effort to be awake and at school by 7:00 a.m. for the new opt-hour course offerings. A lot of us, however, simply breathed a big sigh of relief now that we didn't have to get to school until 8:00, a big gain of 20 minutes extra morning lag time over last year. When we got to school, at whatever time, we found big, yellow numbers on the parking lots, and later found that we had to register for an assigned parking space. Some students found that to be a big hassle, and a group of big-name seniors made a big stink about it in the l'Letters section of the SEARCI-ILlC1I'lT. Numbers also played a big part in Student Crovemment Association's big plans, which included a new numbering system for the hallways to clear up the confusion. Outside as well, the look of the school began to change in a big way when, still amied with the recent bond money, the administration proved they were big spenders on educa- tion by having a big, new greenhouse built on school grounds. The bi tins or to the W encing ferent in this words 1986-T W W A1 B. tures tures you'll few pa schoc feat. 4 T year.: We W4 have when accor ment: of thi:

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Sleepy halftime. Enjoying the sun at the Chiefs-Bengals game, Chilone Watson C119 sleeps on the shoulder of Julie Jakobe lllp before the bands halfnime performance. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 'f 1 li kos, 7 ' afplvlslou PAGE ossucaw . . . STEVE TAYLOR l