Grandview High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Grandview, MO)

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S Q K 1 VX Alumni back to gKW For 67 years, graduates keep coming back to their alma mater

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nw., '1 X ...NM ,J -43 -.. 'IU ll Rum :YF PM DIIYH Two minutes until the bell, re- sounds across the parking lot, as Vice- Principal Keith Tempel urges Iatecomers to sprint to class. As the day drags on, students can be found gazing from the southside classrooms into the sea of over 250 foreign and American made auto- mobiles. Customized trucks and vans are huddled in small groups with mud-run- ners elevated by oversized tires. Other cars seem to be parked in categories. For instance, athletes convieniently park, so they can make a straight beeline to the gym. Band members reserve the area near the west side doors so they won't have to lug their instruments across the entire parking lot. And, some students lay claim to the far section near Highgrove School. Steve Clark, junior, said, We park further from the other cars, because then there is less chance of being hit.', Other students value their cars in a similar manner. Sophomore, Corey Greathouse, polishes the engine chrome of his 1967 red and white Fire- bird to a sparkling shine at John Anderson Park. My car is my life. I take care of it as if it were gold, sophomore, Corey Greathouse said referring to his 1967 Firebird. According to driver's ed instructor, Rudy Wichman, every 16-year old dreams of having his own car. Whether they own their own car or not, everyone looks forward to day's end when they can hop into the car and relax. When the final bell rings, chaos be- gins as students make a mad dash to get to their cars and battle to get onto Highgrove Road. Like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, stu- dents are transformed to Indy 500 drivers, professionally manuevering their way into a thick stream of traffic. Caution is a word unknown to these drivers who depend soley on luck and speed, not to mention the glory of do- ing it. And at 7:43 the next morning, two minute warnings will echo throughout the parking lot again. -Debbie Tibbets -lui jx- 27 www . Cars X CM

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In the backyard of Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, graduates from '78 and '79 go in for a friendly scrimmage. Relaxing at his home on Manchester, Dennis Lemon, '56, now has two children going through GHS. Recalling her secondary education, Sara Makin, '14, notes how high schools have changed since she graduated. Grandview Board of Education Vice President ' ' I Q .I Pete Northcutt '66, talks with John Neely, superin- , . tendent, before the January 12 meeting. ...Z F Kids are involved in so many things today. Cars, T.V., organizations at school are things we didn't have. We didn't have enough people to form organizations. This is easy to understand because for Sara Makin, the first and only graduate in her class of 1914 from Grandview High School, average graduating class for other schools totaled about 15. But she sees advantages for the high school students of today, Kids have so many more subjects to choose from than we did. Our subjects usually were English, Ge- ography, and Foreign Language. It's strange, when l was growing up the main goal for girls was to get married and set up a home, not to be educated and get a job. But Sara Makin became a liberated woman long before it was fashionable. I graduated from school and got a job at Grandview Bank. I retired a year later and raised two sons. Then l went back and retired only 11 years ago. Then my husband passed away in 1976, we had been married 58 years. For Sara Makin, age has no limits, her life is filled with experience. -Ammie Holt 29 Alumni I KW