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

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Carol Kahney 9 Kraig Kalkbrenner 9 Gary Kampmeinert 9 Tom Kanyok II Derek Keener 10 James Keeney IC Julie Keeney 10 Mark Keller Il John Kelly 9 Carol Kenesey Il Paula Kennedy Il Kenny Kershaw Il Beth Knight 10 John Kiel Il Dan Kiely Il Andrea Kinner Il Pam Kinner 9 Dave Klaus II Jane Klein 10 Kristy Klingerman 10 Jeff Kleinheider 10 Joann Klump Il Julie Kmutson 9 Keith Kneemiller 9 Jenny Knewitz Il 108 Underclass Responding positively to a question asked by Jeanne Garafalo, sponsor, Shawn McVey and Bruce Houghton, seniors, practice for the telequiz. Concentrating hard in an effort to remember the answer to a difficult question are Shawn McVey and Cathy Madigan, seniors, and Martha Pigg, junior. ERLE te

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Students enter labyrinth Wandering monsters, ghouls, red drag- gons, dwarfs, and Dungeon Master; these are just of the few terms used by mem- bers of the Dungeons and Dragons Club. Dungeons and Dragons was a game that used dice and a board, but it wasn’t your average board game a student played. First of all, only one person knew the lay- out of the board, which was different every game. The player also didn’t just move the number of spaces shown on the - dice. Everything was taken into consider- ation, how much weight you were carry- ing, how heavily armored the player was, and how much light they had. The object of the game was simply to kill as many monsters as possible, get as much treasure as you could, and gain as much strength and as many spells and magic items and treasure as was feasibly possible. Even the dice themselves were not your average set of dice. They came with the usual six sided di, and along with it was a four, eight, twelve, and twenty sided one. The Dungeons and Dragons Club met on Thursdays after school in the library for a couple of hours each time. They usually played one or two games at atime. It usual- ly worked best when they had three or four people playing each game. A game, on the average, lasted about 6 hours. They were thinking of integrating a com- puter into the game. The computer would have speeded up the game greatly and offered more visual effects to the game. “It would be so much easier to keep track of what is going on, make it visually more exciting, and generally a better and fas- ter game once we involve a computer in the game,” explained Kurt Simmons, stu- dent co-ordinator of the Dungeons and Dragons Club. Role playing games of this sort weren't exactly as popular as the arcades were, but for those students who were involved in it, it didn’t even compare to them. Dave Humphrey 10 Tim Humphrey 9 Jannett Hunter 9 Ozzie Hunter Il Carol Hussey 10 Berniece Hutcherson Laura Ihle 10 Judy Ingolia Il Dan Ingrim Il Evelyn Inman Il Doug Irby 9 Elease Jackson Il Kathi Jackson Il Lisa Jaco 10 Barb Janis 9 Mike Janitch 9 Dave Janssen IO Brian Jarvis Il Greg Janseen 9 Joseph Jay 10 Tim Jennings II Geli Johns 9 Joe Johnson Il Keith Johnson 9 Terrence Johnson 9 Victoria Johnson Il Aretha Jones 10 Cindy Jones 10 Dan Jones |0 Dionne Jones 9 Donnie Jones II Kenny Jones 9 Kevin Jones 9 Loretha Jones Il Nita Jones lO Stephanie Jones 10 Scott Jung 9 David Judd 9 Karen Justice 10 Mark Kaeppel 9 Underclass 107

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What’s in a question? “Who was the famous author from Saint Louis who wrote the book, “The Waste- land’? Who was the man who single-han- dedly carved Mount Rushmore in South Dakota? These and many more were the sort of questions that members of Telequiz 5 had to field every Tuesday from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. in preparation for the big event. Lead by Mrs. Jeanne Garafalo, the Tele- quiz team consisted of Jim Simandl, Shawn McVey, and Bruce Houghton, Cathy Madigan, and Martha Pigg, ju- nior. These students were picked for their general recall ability of facts and “cocktail trivia.” The show was taped on February 17, for the Channel 5, KSDK, program Telequiz 5. Not only was the show taped, but a film a QUROn Anticipating another question during a weekly meet- ing, Shawn McVey and Cathy Madigan, seniors, and Martha Pigg, junior, prepare themselves for a quick reply. crew also came to McCluer North. They came to the school to film an average day, in a not-so-average high school. The clip made was shown during part of the show. It showed some shots of the com- puter center, concourse, and the advise- ment center. It also showed how a school could give its students so much freedom — without abusing it. But the show was the thing. The ques- tions asked in the show ranged from “How many feet ina mine?” to “Who was Thomas Jefferson’s running mate?” The first person to get it right won the points. If a question was not answered, it was passed and the teams went on to the next question. Mrs. Garafalo commented, ‘‘l really enjoy working with those students; they’re good kids and | like working with them.” Karen Knorr 10 Jeff Koenegstein 9 Lisa Layton 10 Thomas Lawson |0 Lana Lauher 9 Melissa Lashley Il Beth Laporta 9 Cheryl Larche Il Marie Landreth Il Eric Lanham 9 Brian Lange 9 Susan Lammert 9 Cynthia Lammert II John Lammers 10 Jan Lammers Il Jim Lammering II Tim Lammering II Tammy Lamb 9 Kim Lamb 10 Kelly Lael Il Brian Lacy 10 Karen Kyles 9 Deana Kirschenmann 9 John Kruszka Il Cindy Kruszka 9 Diane Kronmueller Il Todd Krone Il Ed Kretzler Il Kara Kretzer Il Steve Kossman Il Kurt Kostecki Il Kenny Kostecki 9 Kevin Kopp Il Ronald Koester 9 Underclass 109