Lees Summit High School - Reflector Yearbook (Lees Summit, MO)

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With her hair in corn-rows, Ginny Skelton makes Bo Derek look like a 4. This guy proves that blonds have more fun but thai brunettes will never tail , There is no question where the football players got that crazy idea to shave their heads. 'vs , nm ,14x ,N i 'Nh Q, v- ,f E rx.. W,

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..-M., -.Agni-.-Tessa-4 .1--a -,- A memorable day for the residents of Lee's Summit and its surrounding communities was Iune 8, 1984. On that particular day, the Olympic Torch Relay passed through the Kan- sas 'City metropolitan area. AT8:T and the Telephone Pioneers of America sponsored the relay. The torch was headedffor the site of the 1984 Sum- mer Olympics. The Olympic torch is a tribute to the religious origin of the early Olympic athletic contests. A runner carries the flame brought from the Temple of Zeusat Olympia. The sa- cred fire is carried overland from Greece, except where water travel is necessary, by a relay of men and women. 'Each person lights his torch from that of the person before him. When the flame reaches theswaiting basin, the fire is lit. The fire- .signals the beginning of the Olympic Games, and the fire is kept burning until the end of the closing ceremony. 5 On Iune 8, around 10:45 a.m., the relay exited U.S. 50 at Chipman Road. The caravan wound its way through Lee's Summit following Blue Parkway to Colbern Road, then headed to Raytown via M-350. Crowds gathered to view the emotional event with tears of patriotism in their eyes. Sen- ior, Becky Marcum commented, I'd like to do something like that one day . . . it would be an honor. Enroute to an official city reception at City Hall, the torch was carried through Swope Park-, the Country Club 4Plaza, Penn Valley Park, and Crown.Center. Kansas City Mayor, Richard Berkley and Ron Le May, vice-president of external affairs for AT8zT Communications, greeted the torch and runner at City Hall at approximately 2:15 p.m. Kansas City had the oldest torch bearer, Ansel Stubbs, a 99 year-old man, andthe youngest bearer, Katie Johnson, a 4 year-old girl. On Iuly 28, the torch reached its destination of Los Angeles, creating quite an emotional scene and signifying the onset of the 1984 Sum- mer Olympics. , 101 Opening w....,..,...4 i.-- .i .-... ...s.....w.....,..,.....M . ,.,..,Q ., .V .Mn YV.- V A-If mxgm, ,U-A ,I Tir.-f---2.02-Q.-L. .ffm-.Jael-ff . ,f rmon Fire .4 . .-. , s ,-,i!i,,,i Y ...i