Maur Hill High School - Maurite Yearbook (Atchison, KS)

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Dinner-Dance Successful The league of St. Maur Dinner- Dance was held November 9, at the Constitution Center in Kansas City, Kansas. This was the 51st year of the occasion. Three hundred were present at the dinner-dance. It didn’t raise as much money as last year but was still consid- ered a success. Tony Carracci and his orchestra provided music for the people. The band was enjoyed by all. Forty-eight students from Maur Hill and Mount provided service to the dinner. Everyone thought they did a fine job. Three people were awarded with Knight of St. Maur Plaques. The plaques serve as reminders of Maur Hill’s appre- ciation of their contributions to them. Edward Stork, Dennis McCarthy, and Colonel Courtney S. Turner were the recipients. Mr. Edward J. Stork is in his 27th year as a staff member at Maur Hill. He came in 1959 and began teaching science classes. In 1969, he became Dean of Academic Affairs. Mr. Dennis McCarthy is a professor at Benedictine College and chairman of the art department. He helped Maur Hill by making the cross at the entrance, the cross and stations of the cross in the chapel and the new grotto. Colonel Courtney S. Turner is char- ter member of Benedictine College Board of Governors and a member of Board of Directors. He retired from the U.S. Army after World War II, with the rank of Colonel. (Story by Angela Do- mann) P. J. Keeley speaks at the Maur Hill Dinner. Mr. Keeley is Board Chairman of Maur Hill Board of Directors. Fr. Abbott Ralph Koehler, Dennis Mc- Carthy, Colonel Courtney S. Turner and Edward Stork were announced as the New Knights of St. Maur. All three men have contributed very much to Maur Hill. Lee Hurley sets up for the Maur Hill Dinner- Dance. Forty-eight students helped set up and serve. Dinner-Dance 23

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Christmas Dinner Success In recent years students have always looked forward to Christmas Dinner. This year all the student’s looked very much forward to the dinner and most seemed disappoint- ed. “I think the Christmas Dinner is a really good idea. I had fun but I didn’t feel it was as good as it has ever in the previous years” said Dorthy Amrein, Atchison, Junior. Laura Meyer, Atchison junior said “This year Christmas Dinner was not as good as past years. The quality of the food has diminished so much that people no longer look forward to this occasion.’ Christmas Dinner is held after a week of Kris Kringle by secretly giving candy to a classmate. Before the dinner, students find out their Kris Kringle by exchanging gifts. Then the senior girls start the buffet line to the food, with other classes following. The teachers serve the students. After everyone has eaten, the teachers give some kind of entertainment. Santa Claus came Mary Kleinholz receives her horiscope for the new year. Mary hopes the new year will be brighter than the past year. Julie Blodig and Jenny Immel wait patiently for Chris Durall enjoys his Christmas feast. This their Christmas Dinner to arrive. Many of the is the one time of the year where the faculty girls felt the dinner wasn’t as good this year as serves the students, it has been in the past. and gave candy to everyone and brought gifts to some students. Chris Silver, Mission Hills, Ks. senior said “The Christmas Dinner was fun, but the seniors weren’t able to sing their song and we wanted to. The food was good and Kris Kringle was fun too.” (Story by Angela Domann) Julie Geiger and Barb Hale sing exuberently at the Christmas Dinner. This is something the girls look forward to at the dinner. 22 Christmas Dinner

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World and National Review Star War Killer Earthquake Aggrevate Soviets Shakes Mexico In a war that has grown much colder, the United States Strategic Defense Initiative or in other words, “Star Wars”, defense plan has done nothing to in- crease the climate. In the eyes of the Soviet Union, Star Wars is a plot the Russians say that is against them, to accelerate the arms race and move the battle into outer space. Yet the White House argues that it is only trying to catch up with the Soviets. Though we are working on a more sophisticated type of weapon, it is not completed so the Soviets remain ahead by a considerable margin. Who knows, we may be wasting billions of dollars for nothing because we aren’t even sure that the sophisticated piece of weaponry will even work. Though Star Wars is called a weapon, it is really just a type of sattelite that will prevent Soviet missiles from entering U.S. air space. You see, the sattelite is being developed to disarm the warheads practically before they leave the ground. With a defensive weapon that will destroy incoming missiles before they “come in”, the United States has taken a giant leap up to the Soviets. The Star Wars plan is a more peaceful weapon that it seems the Soviets want to get involved with. Reagan feels it is a weapon to try and stop the arms race and not to increase it than the Kremlin feels it will. President Reagan insisted that Star Wars was a bargaining chip for the summit. Well, the meeting was had and the topic of Star Wars was discussed, but when the summit between the superpow- ers Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorba- chev came to a close in Geneva, the Soviets said no arms agreement would be possible unless the United States alters the Star Wars plan. What they are really saying is that they don’t want us to put them in a position where they have no way of winning. As it seems, the Soviets are on the run. The Star Wars defense plan enables the United States to drastically catch up in an arms race in which it was so far behind. What bothers the Soviet Union so much is the superiority of the United States technology. Once the United States makes a firm commitment to build a strategic defense weapon, as it did to put a man on the moon, the Soviets will inevitably lose the race. And in the Star Wars plan that the United States has already started to develop, the United States has a huge advantage. So in an arms race that has been Soviet dominated for years, Star Wars is help- ing the American Empire “strike back”. (Story by Mike Lutz) It is said to be one of the worst disasters in Mexico’s history. It de- stroyed as much as half of Mexico City’s metropolitan area. In case you can’t figure it out, the disaster is the Earthquake that happenen in late September. The earthquake struck on Thurs- day, September 28, measuring 7.8 on the Richter Scale causing incredible damage and an innumerable number of deaths. Then as rescurers were rummaging through the rubble trying to help people trapped under all of the collapsed buildings, another quake struck, this time measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale. Just big enough to delay the rescuing and topple over any half way falling buildings. After the second quake the death toll was predicted to be between 10 and 20 thousand per- sons and possibly more than that. There is one big problem that Mexico is going to have to face when everything gets cleared up, and that is the effect that the quake will have on Mexico’s already severely bad econo- my. All is not lost though, as many nations are trying to help by sending money and supplies to the crippled nation. In the United States, two senators put in bills to give Mexico up to $75 million in aid. Another problem with Mexico is the fact that in Mexico City where the earthquake seemed to have done the most damage, there is an ever present population problem. Mexico City is ithe worlds largest metropolitan area with a population of 18 million, and it continues to grow by about 560,000 per year. Recently some people have been moving out of the city because of the lack of work and other things such as food and shelter. But with the recent disas- ter, more people are moving back to the city for the first time to try and find jobs. In fact, the number of people moving back to the city is about 30 percent greater than the number of people moving out. Many people were already leaving Mexico City because they knew about the threat of the earthquakes.You see, the city is built on an ancient lake bed which is actually just water logged clay. That is one of the main reasons there was so much damage done. Whenthe earthquake hit, Mexico City bounced around like a big bowl of jelly. Even before the quake buildings were starting to give in to the soft soil. Some buildings have fell as much as six feet into the earth. Maybe the worst thing to come out of the disaster was the fact that two of the city’s hospitals collapsed trapping thousands of helpless people. Overall Mexico is surviving. Many of the city’s aspects re- turned to normal. But the suffer- ing will continue for years to come, and many of the dead will never be found. (Story by Mike Lutz) PEOPLE YOU KNOW People are crazy. You bet they’re intriguing. Of course they are famous, and rich, they’ve undoubtedly got to be rich too. Their names and faces were all over 1985 magazine covers, front pages, and billboards. And perhaps most commonly seen on home and movie screens. And what’s more, each of them, in his or her own special way are severe pains in the you know what. Maybe it would be nice to bring some of these faces into the open, as if they already aren’t. It is almost impossible to avoid them. Joan Rivers: You can dress her up but you can’t shut her up. Robin Leach: “Slithered his way to the top by elevating glitterati voyeurism to a new low”. George Will: “Most prominent of the seasons knee-jerk neo-cons.” Hulk Hogan: “At last! A white Mr T!” Lionel Richie: “At last! A black Barry Manilow!” Phil Donahue: “Phil is ... what’s the word I Want? Smarmy? Patroniz ing? Pandering? Help me out here You in the back.'A push wimp?’ Sure but ... yes? ‘An unctuous nerd? Thank you” Rainbow brite Dolls: “Smurfs weren’t squeaky enough. Carebears weren’t icky enough. He Man wasn’t sufficiently dumb. Oh, no! We needed this. She’s so good and cute and nice that Strawberry Shortcake wants to put spiders down her dress. (Story by Mike Lutz)