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

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Singing “Inside of You,” Pervis McAllister, Darryl Wik liams, Elton Underwood and Andrew McAllister, bring the Afro Ball talent fo a close. Giving up her thrown is last year’s Queen, Miss Ca- mille Morris, to this year's Afro Ball Queen, Miss Kim Henderson. iti eT withers NEN yO Doing a jazz dance for her talent, Paula Burns ends it in style. Alone on stage, Eugene Peebles gets down by play- ing his saxophone. Afro Ball 31

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Freaks are people foo , “Freaks.’’ What are they? Who are they? To summarize the questions many of you ask yourselves, they are the students you find mostly in the smoking area or wallsing around the halls in blue jeans and jean jackets. But nor all of them are like this, Tom Tarrant explains, ‘There are different classes of freaks. Ir does nor depend only on whar you're wearing. Nor all frealks wear jeans. It depends on how much you smoke and your attitude abour things.” Junior Dave Taylor said he doesn’t mind being stereotyped as a freak, and the same goes for Senior Sreve Gerken. ‘It's what you are or wharf you like to do. To me it doesn't matrer what name they call you, Just as long as you're happy with yourself,” Steve said. Tom brought up a fact having to do with freaks and jocks. ‘Frealss like sports just as much or more than jocks do,” he told us. If you look af our reams here at North, half of them are freaks. Freaks enjoy sports more than what people give them creair for,’ he added. Dave said thar during the summer a group of so-called freaks always gor rogeth- er on Safurdays and played a game of baseball or foorball for the fun of ir. When did they become freaks? Accord- ing to Dave, he has been a freaks since he was born. Tom told us in ninth grade he converted. Why do people become freaks? Some told us thar they didn’t like the way jocks acted and others said because thar was where all their friends were or because they just wanted to be there. Bur all in all people were people, no matter whar they did or who they were. Enjoying an after lunch smoke, Debbie Plunis and Lisa Birkemeier ler their food digesr. Telling a friendly joke ro security guard William C. Fields, Myron Melren laughs with the crowd. Here is one of the famous spots ro find freaks relaxing berween classes — the bleachers.