Hazelwood Central High School - Torch Yearbook (Florissant, MO)

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I 2 Theme ' 'The besT porT of my high school life wos The fun I shored wiTh The peo- ple oT CenTrol. ' ' - Angelique HompTon DISCOVERING I-Iowlss puT on urhe riTz hough ouThor George Orwell's book, 'l98Ll, I wos desTined To chonge our lives, his concepT of big broTherism hod IiTTle influence on CenTrol sTudenTs. From The momenT we sow The new Hawk on The AudiTorium and The raised Seol in The enTrywoy, iT become obvious ThoT The Hawk wos To play o prominenT role in our lives This yedr, one ThoT oll would remember . . . Through The Eyes of a Hawk. Turning inTo The Horseshoe for The firsT Time, our eyes were immedioTely drown To The fronT of The AudiTo- rium. There The words I-lozelwood CenTrol were mounT- ed, insTilling o sense of pride wiThin us. Senior Jdnice Check soid, IT mokes people noTice us more ond iT brings ouT school spiriT. The Hawk wos dlso o porT of The second surprise of The yeor. Upon enTering The fronT doors of C-holl, we were sTorTled To find ThoT The bronze Seol, wiTh iTs ornoTe Howk, hod been roised ond enclosed in o disploy case. No longer would The TrodiTions ossocioTed wiTh The Seol exisT. For years, iT hod been sTepped on, kissed, and scrubbed,.The objecT of many lunch-Time escopodes. One could only look oT The Seol now, or perhops decoroTe iT on SpiriT Week. Brion Adoms C425 soid, lT's nice, buT I wish we could sTill corry ouT The old TrodiTions. AlThough The Howk in grophics wos olreody conspicu- ous oround CenTrol, o new gidnT gold Howk greeTed fans oT The firsT home bdskeTbolI gome. The Howk, flying Toward The courT, wos poinTed by '82 groduoTe Bill lvlocy, wiTh ossisTonce from senior Chris Nixon. Chris soid, Even Though Mocy puT in mosT of The work, when I groduoTe I con look bock oT The Howk ond feel ThoT I wos d porT of iT. Everywhere we wenT, from CenTrdl Pdrkwoy on Home- coming doy To Busch STadium for The Show-lvle Bowl, The evenTs ThoT shoped our lives become golden memories Through The Eyes of a Hawk. CKoThy Corroll ond Suson Dobsonj T The Traditional Seal goins o new perspecTive ofTer iT wos liTTed from The floor ond ploced inTo o disploy cose by The Closs of '83 Hawk mascot Debbie Dornfeld M25 leods The Homecoming porode. .2 I T- iv- 'fl :li I 'T

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Santa and his reindeer help The HealTh Occu- paTions Class win firsT place in The door decoraT- ing conTesT. 5 Md 523- T QSJDICA F T352 in la., 11. I Q- 'hx-I-s .U ,t' .f'l. l 4 ODeningfAccomplishmenTs . W, Game-wlnnlng saves, such as These, bring na- Tlonal recogniTion To Bruce Killough C425 QPhoTo by Dave SmiThj 1 1 IT was very exciTing be could. V ' ACHIEVIN6 unlighT sTreamed Through The fronT doors send ing off a blinding reflecTion. As senior Judy Sla Ten sTrained To focus on The shiny objecT, she saw The words Hazelwood Cenfral engraved on a Trophy nameplaTe in The display case near C-hall These gliTTering monumenTs of glories pasT were seen daily . . . Through the Eyes of a Hawk However, noT all of The Trophies were of pasT glories The '84 Hawks capTured Their share of memories for display. For The firsT Time, The SofTball Hawks won The sTaTe championship, CenTral's fifTh sTaTe Team TiTle ever. The VarsiTy FooTball Team also puT us in The limelighT when The Hawks played Two playoff games aT Busch Sfadium, losing narrowly in The sTaTe finals. We conTinued supporTing school spiriT as senior Bruce Killough was selecTed for The NaTional Junior Soccer Team which represenTed The U.S. in Russia. AlThough a knee injury broughT an early end To his career as a CenTral soccer goalie, This did noT limiT his achieve- menTs. He sTill sTrove for perfecTion. Bruce said, l feel The same way wiTh all of my accomplishmenTs: if I have God To back me, I can'T Iose. However, noT all of our achievemenTs were in sporTs. ing wiTh a Team as good as ours and being capable of being The besT we With I sTuder cans y food C Jack Daleflfly if ' , li Havvlss make Their move i ll T ,i Ki l 5 CenTral enThusiasm was prevalenT aT ChrisTmas Too. We collecTed 5,000 cans of food To donaTe To The needy, allowing CenTral's NaTional Honor SocieTy To beaT EasT in a school compeTiTion. STudenT Council also demonsTraTed school spiriT when members re- cruiTed more blood donors Than any oTher Hazelwood School. STudenT Council PresidenT Mike Conlon C425 said, We are proud because The American Red Cross recog- nized our efforTs, and They presenTed us wiTh a plague. The pride of winning and doing one's besT is infecTuous aT CenTraI. Even Though we may noT have individually gone To Russia or To The sTaTe championship, These evenTs provided a common link among us and made us feel ThaT we were a parT of each accomplishmenT. School Teamwork grew wiThin us . , . Through The Eyes of a Hawk. CKaThy Carrollj px, , 1 4? rx