Memphis University School - Owl Yearbook (Memphis, TN)

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About to be stuffed into a locker, Deepak Tharapel struggles against a black-clad bully. Using wrestling techniques Coach Ray should begin teaching, David Phillips takes advantage of Kevin Iverson as he is immobilized by the anonymous assassin 2. Under cover of their innocent eighth-grade guise, ROC Johnson, Gus Lipman, Marc Kesselman, and Gene Lee enact phase one of their plan to rid the school of Mr. John Springfield once and for all by making lethal homemade, radioactive, superpolyunsaturated, dimethylsulfoxide- transferred BC Powder, to be sprinkled all over his jogging suit. Somehow, though, this ingenious plot failed. 26 STUDENT LIFE

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As Hutchison senior Deborah Bass annoints his head with water, Bernhardt Trout giggles deliriously at the thought of winning his second Mr. Wet MUS contest. Bernhardt ' s dream was washed away, however, as surprise entry Bill McKelvy came out of nowhere to win the event in a Cinderella-like finish. Enjoying an obvious supremacy in wrestling knowledge, Chris Sullivan prepares to inflict the infamous arm- drag to single-leg takedown combination upon Coach Eddie Batey. FALL FEST 25

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The Lower School Life Munchkins . . . peons . . . Members of this put-down minority have no respectable title like Sophomore or Junior. They have only supervised study halls instead of free periods, and a cramped corner is their only lounge. But they don ' t care. The responsibilities of driving a car, going to college, and holding a job do not weigh upon their growing shoulders. And they have graduated from the pampering and parental protection of the Sesame Street, Tonka-truck years. High school — the ultimate goal (and rude awakening) — is close at hand. Reckless and free, life belongs to the Lower-Schooler. Isolated in their square building (the Hull Lower School), jr. highers are unaware of their status. They don ' t know; they don ' t care. They don ' t care to know what words of wisdom one has to offer. (Having the Rules of Civility memorized does not mean one lives by them). After all, these guys are at a real high school now. Theirs is the field behind the stands on Friday nights. And nobody can tell these buzzards what to do . . . Well, except maybe . . . uh . . . Mr. . . . you know who. Endowed with natrual study skills far superior to those of his peers, Swayne Latham proves his worthiness of promotion to the tenth grade, the year when most students develop such laid back study skills. King of the underworld auditorium, Mr. John Springfield surveys his oppressed subjects with a smile of delight that only a principal could have. Jonathan Rowe is about to score again in this organizational period, paper football grudge match as Chad Kelsey watches helplessly. John Kirkscey stands by to make sure things do not get out of hand. LOWER SCHOOL 27