Excelsior Springs High School - Tiger Yearbook (Excelsior Springs, MO)

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Teachers Mrs. Snyder, Mrs. Stewart, Mrs. Lindquist, and Ms. Au- brey show that teachers have spirit too. John Herrick shows his spirit on hat and glasses day. This day showed the most participation. In reminiscence of earlier days tance Baughman. jr„ dresses for Kiddie Day. Cruising down the hallway Kim Sharp, jr., sup- ports her class during Spirit Week. Senior babies Stacy Clark. Stacey Huey, and Kim Bowes. Catching the photographer's eye Todd Reuscher and Randy Hon, srs„ show their femininity on op- posite sex day. Diapered and ready for baby day Chad Means, sr., helps with hall decorations. Spirit Week 13

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I 12 Spirit Week Spirit Daze Smiling for the camera. Terri Irons, soph., shows her spirit on Baby Day. Juniors Bobby Stirewalt. Brad Smith, and Cliff NlcAnally participate in Hat and Glasses Day. The Black and Gold Band gets hyped up before the Dueling Pistols game. The band helped provide spirit for the week. All classes got into the act on Baby Day. Baby Day was a new addition to the dress up days. km Rigs, r, sba - that babies come in all sixes. R CP was named itcmi—Team Ail Conference for the Baby Day had a lot of participation, Cheryl Frost, soph., joins in.

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• V • S .'i .. - • • 1 : - r. - The football rivalry and class competition led Sl3irit C13ZG to a week full of i On November 7, the traditional dueling pistols game was played between rivals Liberty and Excelsior. This rivalry dates back to 1938 when Liberty entered our conference. The pistols were purchased as a sym- bol to show the rivalry between the neighboring teams. This year, as in ev- ery other year, emotions were high as fans filled both sides of the William Jewell stadium. Sometimes this emotion is so intense that pranks against the schools occur. Rivalry has been shown by stealing school mascots, painting chickens blue, and spraying graffiti on the other’s school. This year the Tigers received, in advance, a letter from Liberty warning them to expect defeat again. Since the beginning of the games Liberty has dominated Excelsior by winning the pistols 29 out of 48 times. Their performance was repeated this year by defeating the Tigers 9-0. The lighter side of the rivalry during Spirit Week rests in the competition between the classes at East and West. Though not quite as grueling as the pis- tol competition between Liberty and Excelsior, the class competition comes in a close second. For the second year in a row, though a different graduating class, the sopho- mores won the overall competition, while second place went to the fresh- man; third, to the seniors; and fourth, to the Juniors. The seniors won the Grid Iron competition, with winners Danny Bemis and Chris Jones. Other candidates were: juniors Brad Shelton and Mike Hoffman; sophomores Gary Grass and John McEntire, while the freshmen were Kevin Greim and Jeff Duncan. The dress up days saw some addi- tions, but some of the traditional days remained. Monday was Farmer’s Day, Tuesday was Baby Day, Wednesday was Opposite Sex Day, Thursday was Hat and Glasses Day, and Friday was Black and Gold Day. Fanner’s Day re- placed Nerd Day, an old favorite, this year. When asked if they’d been encouraged to dress up, sophs. Suzzane O’Dell and Sonja Hendley pointed out that they were. “I thought it (the en- couragement) was really great because we helped each other out.” Scott Miller, student council presi- dent, stated that “more people partici- pated in dressing up this year than in any of the last four years, even more teachers.” He also said that the halls were decorated better this year, corre- lating to the dress up days. Spirit Week will always be somewhat the same every year, but changes do oc- cur. There are highlights and lowlights of the week, but to really see them, you had to be there. by Melissa Foster Elaina Stockwell Ron Whitesel, soph., gets assistance from Mr. Griffin in his Algebra class on Baby Day. Jason Harris, soph., waits expectantly for a kiss from the unidentified kisser, his mother, Bernice Harris, at the Spirit Week Pep Rally. “Last years days were better than this years days. I missed not be- j ing able to dress up on Nerd Day, ” Scott Hendricks, soph.,I said. Sitting on the sidelines. Cliff McAnally, Koreyj Manley, jrs., Todd Reuscher, sr., and Chucks W hitham, jr., watch the Liberty game. 14 Spirit Week