Kirkwood High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Kirkwood, MO)

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Dressed up in crazy apparel, Kim Loomis, senior class presidenf, organizes coronafion for The Red and WhiTe SpiriT Dance. Paul DeClue, alum, and Jack Noble, senior, awaiT The announce- menT. Decked out in red and whiTe, STacy Kline, senior volleyball player, Talks To Coach Wayne Pounds before a maTch againsT Ladue, OCT. 26. M he dress-up gam Gray sweaTs, sTriped socks, a green and blue polka-doTTed Tie, and red sunglasses was noT The usual aTTire for field hockey players, buT cloThes like These did make Their mark every so ofTen on Kaki Kelly, field hockey player. Dressing up for cerTain games be- came a Tradifion noT only for specTa- Tors buT for many aThleTic Teams as well. lVlosT aThleTic Teams dressed up nicely, buT Kim Loomis Qseniory decided ThaT we should all dress up weird be- fore imporTanT games, said Kelly. l'Seeing people walk down The hall dressed as zany and wild as me really gave me a loT of spiriT, she said. Along wiTh The field hockey Team, some members of The girls' sofTball and volleyball Teams also dressed up. Robin STauffer Qseniorj wore whiTe knickers, cleaTs, sfriped socks and a baseball haT before one of our soffball l'Shannon Farrar Qfreshmanj I and l decided To geT inTo The spiriT of Things and so we N goT really spazzed ouT and dressed up funny. - Julie I PeTersen, sophomore ur ' I I games, said KaTie Quinn, Junior. Zany, wild, and weird, however, were noT The only ways To dress. Baskefball and fooTball players came To school decked ouT in Three- piece suiTs and sporTs jackeTs The day of a game. Girls' Pep Club officers also kepT up wiTh sTyles by donning Their red wool blazers for pep assemblies and games. Our blazers had always been a Tra- diTion, said STephanie Adams, GPC presidenT. We wore Them Qblazersj To all of The games. People would espe- cially look for our blazers aT away games. individuals also joined in The game of dressing up for acTiviTies. They showed Their school spiriT by dressing up for Red and WhiTe Day, spiriT dances, and The Turkey Day game. I jusT always Tried To wear red and whiTe on The days of a game, said lvlrs. Mary Davenporf, English Teacher. l'lT reminded people ThaT There was a game. Cosfumes 27

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ang qeominuea from p. 252 This Theme, The girls used differenT farm animals and wroTe individual verses To The song ThaT accompanied Them. 'iWe divided up inTo groups of Two or Three, said Linda TinTera, senior. Each group was responsible for wriT- ing a verse and making The posTer for Their parficular animal. For decoraTin The besT hall overall g , The judges, John Dean, lvirs. Jan Ed- wards, H.L. Hall, Dave Holley and ivlrs. Carol LaTTimore, awarded The senior class wiTh S25. The class depicfed iTs Theme, 'iKirkwood Arcade wiTh var- ious represenTaTions of popular video games. Senior hall was clearly head and shoulders above The resT, said Dean. They chose a currenT concepT and carried iT ouT very well in The decora- Tions. To geT a head sTarT on decorafions, many sTudenTs spenT Time afTer school and on weekends making prepara- Tlons. 'il sTayed afTer school almosT every day during The weeks before Turkey Day To help decorafe junior halI, said Staples hold up senior class decorafions as Ran- dy Carlson, senior, works in The library hall. R9 9005 W0 Daper cups as Kelly Baine and efesc Jcmesf IUVWIOVS. prepare cold drinks To refresh The fooTball players aT halffime, Nov. 25. 28 - Turkey Day Acrivmes that dqmm The BPC officers arrived aT The game early. Fred Well- man qseniorj and i rang The bell Till our ears hurT. - Pe- Ter Johnson, senior Jill Colquhoun, junior. SC members also spenT hours afTer school and on The weekends prepar- ing for Turkey Day. Bundled in winTer coaTs. They decorafed in The unheaT- ed porTable building QPMSQ, where Temperaiures someTimes dipped be- low freezing. 'iAshley Hall Qsophomorej broughT a porTable heaier one weekend, said Tom Vogl, sophomore. i'We plugged iT in along wiTh a radio and blew a fuse Though. Boys' Pep Club CBPCQ also spenT a considerable amounf of Time prepar- ing for Turkey Day. BPC officers along wiTh Randy Carlson, senior. spenT sev- en To 40 hours. Nov. 20-24, and an- oTher Ten hours wiTh Doug Loudens- lager, junior, building The bonfire for The TradiTional burning ofa STaTesman effi- gy, Nov. 24 'iWe gof The wood from my dad's company, said Carlson. HIT weighed around 200 pounds, so we had To use a forklifT To geT iT on The Truck. IT was hard geTTing The scaffold for The dummy up because iT was Too long, said Jack Noble, BPC presidenf. i'We ended up cuTTing iT in half. On Turkey Day Eve. people gaTh- ered in clusfers around The bonfire. As The lasT of The Websfer dummy burned To a crisp, cheers bursf forTh from The crowd. As They IefT The scene, mosT were anficipafing The nexT day's evenT.