Ladue Horton Watkins High School - Rambler Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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Excuses Excuses Excuses . . . During The course of The school year, many sTudenTs find Them- selves laTe for class or missing an - QQ - assignmenT. One of The flrsT les- 'Y ' sons learned by high school sTu- W ,900 denTs is how To invenT a reason- F ' able excuse such as The halls gg were crowded or my friend ' ,K was having family problems and needed someone To Talk To . ci Many excuses were unTrue. How- ZZ ever, someTimes The TruTh seems M6 much more unbelievable. Here a few of The excuses The yearbook Q 'Q sTaff was given . . . A 2 o T l ,QSO ,ip YA k L. ' QU Xxbv- ni'-N L or 0 fkb T.-9 Qefi G? Q 'xi' O 5 px,-fo O A7 I was Talking To a Teacher' 4 1 x QL Q, '7 'L' AI. Yi'6is of W 'H 512: '4- 1, . - V..x Hn, Q C44 . 'Xto SLD X. 0 T yy ug VN .lf 'K QP , r 'Co AA X ' Var, 7 30 f2v'T'TQ,f' X WA UQ If ,QP O ,AY fl' 0 I had To Take a TesT. X jg Excuses, Excuses l was in The nurse's office

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mlm, LefT: Friends for life, Seniors Cafhy Sum- mers, David Meyer, and Barb Sfeinberg smile as They ponder Their separaTe fu- Tures. Below LefT: Sophomores Mau- reen Lewis, Ali Krain, April Saks, and Bonnie Yafkemon porfray The building blocks of friendship. Below: Freshmen Alan ZimbaIisT and Todd Kirkbride are The Dynamic Duo. When I Think of whaT ci friend is, I Think of you And how so ofTeh you seem To read my mind: I Think of calling you: The phone rings: lT's you on The oTher end, AccepTing me no maTTer whaT mood I'm in, Sharing The laughTer, The good Times, The sad. WheTher I need you or noT, I know you'II be There, Making my world a IiTTle friendlier, being a friend. Friendship 1 E

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Excuses Excuses Excuses . . . fxwxgsog Lv T' QE o' sm .1 msc . if W X, My T50 I T. . 'L .QV 24 Q Q TMJ' The halls were crowded NoT really' -2 'YW' . film, ,E 'T' AADT ri X-0fU new 0 x T V X0 .OJ ,, J -v . is T 7 u Ill L 1 . ' J 5 A O 51 6' r . XY X' . J YXN TN D Seminar ran long. You call ThaT a seminar? MJ' mom ,lg f AT Ladue, sTudenTs gave ex- cuses almosT as ofTen as They Turned in assignmenTs. As mosT Teachers looked aT The siTuaTion, They said ThaT The excuses did noT save The sTudenTs. Mr. Brad Heger said, Excuses are only exercises in fuTiliTy. As well, none of Them are original any more. Mr. Jim Davies added, Their efforT is noT worTh iT, because an excuse only means someThing To The person who made iT, noT me. MosT Teachers believed ThaT The sTu- denTs knew ThaT Their excuses were preTTy flimsy. UnforTunaTely. even when exTensions were giv- en, only abouT half The work was finally Turned in. However, some Teachers, such as Mrs. Marjorie STelmach, rewarded creaTiviTy in excuses: I will give Them Two poinTs on a pop quiz if They can explain why They didn'T read The sTory. Luckily for The sTudenTs, The Teachers were willing To help Them if The sTudenTs did noT give a poor excuse. BuT we sTudenTs sTill wondered whaT kind of ex- cuses our Teachers made when They were our age . . . 9v'f' 73 cu In .I The prinTer was broken. IT helps if you Turn iT on. T W,,,,m,,,, M 'il ,,., ,M W, -. T X 'V i-. V . A .Y ' K - f 'i'kkLi'L . ' U Excuses, Excuses