Leola High School - Buccaneer Yearbook (Leola, SD)

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Top: Seniors assist some of the freshmen with their new faces for the freshman initi- ation song Put Your Head on My Shoul- der Freshmen sitting include Leisha Fuller, Darin Duvall. Chris Thielsen and Jeff Jundt. Seniors assisting include Doreen Layton. Jim Morrison and Rhonda Reis. Above: Homecoming candidates enjoy a breezy ride through downtown Leola. Candidates include: Front: Queen Polly Kindelspire, Renee Rath, Brenda Hatlewick and Mary Kallas. Back: King George Weisser, Tarri Rott, Troy Weig and Mike Wolff Policeman Marvin Bonnet shows defen- dant Benjie Arioso to the judge during an FBLA skit. 10 Homecoming

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Kindelspire, Weisser crowned 1989 Homecoming Week festivi- ties came to a close with a dance September 30. The festivities were carried through the week with students wearing polka-dots and plaids on Clash Day, looking wild on Punk Rock Day, slobbing out on Sweats Day and showing school spirit on Blue and White Day. The climax of the week came Fri- day when Polly Kindelspire and George Weisser were crowned Homecoming Queen an£Nj ing. Kindelspire was really nervoi walking into the gym because Renee (Rath) had just said she'd had a dream that she slipped and fell as she walked into the gym, and that's all I could think of. Humorous moments during the Homecoming program came during skits when football players got a surprise kiss from their moth- ers and when FBLA members were accused of picking up Peb- bles (Annette Geffre) on the beach. The freshmgrv-tmiation -song alsoprovokedTaughter from the audience. The football game was not quite so humorous. The Pirates suffered a tough loss to the high rated Her- reid-Pollock Bulldogs 36-0. Weisser felt that the team's men- tal attitude before the game was excellent. I thought we were going to win. But our offense was bad; we couldn't score. Below left: Freshmen Shanna Sanborn and Mindy Ketterling prove that they're victors in the Campbell County Massacre. Below: Homecoming candidates Mary Kallas and Renee Rath share a laugh while watching a skit. Bottom: Junior Annette Geffre admits to judge Jim Morrison that she is Pebbles. Also pictured: Marvin Bonnet Homecoming 9

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r 0 Snocv Bottom left Senior Brenda Hatlewick was chosen as Miss Congeniality by her class- mates. Middle left: Georgia Guthmiller helps Jodi Schauer put the finishing touches on her outfit before going on stage Below: Pageant winners include: Sitting Queen Rhonda Reis and first runner-up Jodi Schauer. Standing: Second runners- up Polly Kindelspire and Renee Rath. contest with a rendition of Elton John's Candle in the Wind. Jan Schaffer won the junior division with a vocal solo, American Tril- ogy. Schaffer went on to place second in the state junior talent competition. She said that the worst thing about competing at the state level was that there were so many other good groups there. I didn't watch very many of them because that made me nervous ' explained Schaffer. The kindergarten class participat- ed in the first-ever Prince and Prin- cess coronation. Ethan Erdmann was crowned Prince, and Jenny Guthmiller became Princess. Reis now Queen Senior Rhonda K©is represented Leola at the 1989 South Dakota Snow Queen Contest in Aber- deen the wintry weekend of Jan- uary 5-7. Meeting all the girls and gaining the experience of talking in front of a lot of people'' were the best parts of the state competition for Reis. The worst? Getting up so early in the morning for inter- views. Freshman Jolyn Hoffman became 1988-89 Junior Snow Queen, with Anna Kallas and Jan Schaffer first and second runners-up. Philip Kallas won the senior talent tr Snow Queen 11