McCluer North High School - Polaris Yearbook (Florissant, MO)

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Copy “butchering’’is left to Dan Regnier, Asst. Editor, and Sharon Gray looks on to see what will become of her copy. STAND OUT ST;yrR Mark Ebling, the photography editor for the 1981 POLARIS, really put him- self out to get the best possible pictures for the yearbook. He oversaw all pho- tography arrangements. For example, to get the aerial view of MN on page 1, Mark took it upon himself to call the St. Louis County Police Department twelve times! They finally agreed, picked him up on the field between FJHS and MN, took him up in their whirlybird, and he took the picture. Now that’s really standing out, and up in a crowd! Co-Editors Monica May and Chris LaPorta go over the common terms of “yearbooking”’ with the new staff members. Every photographer has different assign- ments, and Photography Sponsor, Dale Davis, explains one to photographer Alicia Geraci. Yearbook 9]

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A history book's creation Did you ever stop to think how this book, or for that matter, this page, came into existence? It obviously didn't just make itself, nor did MN hire a company to do it. This book that you hold right now is the product of over twenty-five, busy MN students who worked everyday, right from the first day of school, through Christmas Break, up until the last day of school to complete — all 248 pages! Why so long? Well, a trip down to room C-3 or up to A.V. during 6th hour would have answered that question! That was where the staff met everyday, as a class, to produce MN’s history book. Upon entering, the whole concept of a regular classroom situation was gone. The students were the producers and therefore could come and go as they needed — whether it was to run up to A.V. to check on pictures or to go inter- view a teacher or fellow student. There was a constant murmur of activity. Everything centered around dead- lines. Approximately forty-eight pages had to be turned in at each of the five deadlines. Each student was assigned two pages per deadline and it was their 90 Yearbook responsibility to come up with a layout, (the positioning of pictures and copy on a page), set up interviews, write copy, assign a photographer, get a headline, write captions, AND do a stand-out job on all of it! Finally, after weeks of hard work, deadline night would arrive. All pages for that deadline had to be in the mail to the yearbook company by that evening. So when that bell rang at 2:15, no one even attempted to leave. Everyone would work to complete their pages, and have fun at the same time. After a few hours, of ‘work’', someone would yell for food, and a food-run was made. Upon its arrival, whether it be pizza, McDonald's, or Arby's, everyone munched out and took it easy for a while. Then it was back to the old grind. Everyone put the finishing touches on their pages, and finally after all the pages had been checked and double- checked by the co-editors, the dead- line was made! What next? Start over again. An- other forty-eight pages to do and an- other deadline to make! The result; A stand out yearbook for 1980. Yearbook Sponsor Mike Thacker, discusses a few points with the yearbook staff. Students with cameras are a familiar sight, and Jerry Schroeder, a Polaris ‘‘shutterbug’’, as- sumes one photographic stance.

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92 Probe And Interact Conducting an Interact meeting, Cindy Molen explains in detail the latest plans. Making her contribution to the Probe graffiti board, Junior Cathy Voss waxes creative. ¥ Ue 2 oP ws By STANO OUT STR He's a go-getter, a real organizer.” said Linda Eschen, Probe Sponsor, ex- plaining why Tom Firasak was a good stand-out Probite. ‘‘He is the most ac- tive, and he always completes any pro- ject he begins, and he makes his ideas into real projects. It's amazing.” For fu- ture plans, Tom would like to hold a mock congress, where students from all over the district get together and imi- tate the duties of congress for approxi- mately Por 2 weeks. ‘He is truly an involved, active and moderated young man,” con- cluded Mrs. Es- chen with a broad smile. At an Interact meeting, these few members listen attentively to the new project being dis- cussed.