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

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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

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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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I i 2 U X: r. Ui aa? Ei 1 if Q Z . if Y i ii H --1 if L i i 'I i THE News stand PIClUHt'87! The SGIGCUOI1 by Jason Kocherov fof Good Stuff to Ready. Now that's a big picture. Compare the impact this picture has with the smaller ones you saw on the last couple of pages, if you haven't al- ready when you read the end of The Really Big Story. Sure, those other pictures are nice, and they may say something to you, but they're just not very big. Th ey don't grab you like Julie does here and say, Hey, look at me. lt's like the paintings of the little kids with the big eyes that you see in doctors' offices as you flip through the dated waiting-room maga- zines. in fact, the magazines themselves often feature big pictures to get the point across. Lots of students aren't big on reading, but you'd have to mount a pretty big search to find a student who has never leafed through a magazine with at least some degree of interest. School librarian Monica Chapman describes student interest in and check-outs of magazines in the library as, respectively, unreal and phenomonal. Of the 76 titles the library stocks, from Hot Rod to The 1YewKepubIic, from Seventeen to Newsweek, often as many as 60 individ- uai issues get checked out in one day. Originally, Chapman used a sys- tem of two-week checkouts, but, she says, so many were gone at ,once that we had to switch to overnight check-outs. Piainly, students iike magazines. Why? Some students will read almost anything. Mark Blaser 612i describes his reading preferences as, Uanything that's in front of my face at the time and seems somewhat interesting. Usually, for Blaser, that means Time and People. Tricia Scagliat9J, a regular reader of Seventeen and Time, also reads 'just whatever interests me. Some students, however, read for specific reasons. Clarence Ste- phensont12i faithfully reads Sports Illustrated to gain knowledge in the career field I plan to go into. Like many students, Keith Bodenhamerf12i reads magazines to keep up with an actively-pursued specific interest: ul read Dirt Bike and Hot Rod because motorcycles and cars are my hobby.'T And, as Chapman points out, We don't have very many current books. The magazines fill a real gap there as a valuable reference tool. The section of this current book and valuable reference tool you're about to launch into is all about being current: what we did for fun this year, where we went for fun this year, and sometimes maybe even why we did it this year. The following pages contain not a bunch of general, vague stories about student life, but a collection of hot, trendy maga- zines adapted for a fictitious magazine rack made just for Center. Leaf through this rack, then, and you'll find our own miniature maga- zines entirely devoted to travel, students' cars, the social scene, money matters, relationships, and, like the commericals say, much, much more! fwhether you subscribe now or noti Like in the school examined by these imaginary magazines, you'll find far more than one story here. As one popular magazine would tell you, We'll take you there. We'll let you care. Or, as we'd tell you, We'll take you there and then we'll show you . . . THE BIG PICTURE. I , . DIVISION PAGE! 5 STUDENT LIFE