Moore High School - Timekeeper Yearbook (Moore, OK)

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.1 ,V L ,,,. 'mx :Q .2-uw-f. 1 elp Please. National Merit finalist Dylan Romo asks junior escort Amy Adams to hold the incense so he can put his robe on, Dylan was a valedictorian tor the class of 1986. 00d Times. Thinking about the hilarious awards at the senior breakfast is senior Mike Morrison. After the breakfast, the seniors practiced for graduation at the Lloyd Noble Center. ff..l-L31 i, i A if If, 3' 54 is raduation Plans. Senior Richard Sauer discusses plans for after graduation. Seniors had to make im- portant decisions that would affect their lives such as college. careers or marriage, aiting Around. Reflecting upon what it will feel like to be a graduate is joyous but bittersweet for senior Mark Wheatley, Graduation ex- ercises were at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman. Notionol Merit!SchoIostic Meets Academics l 29

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Fond Memories. As he gradu- ates. senior Jay Courtright remembers events that happened during his high school years. Jay was a national merit finalist and a shot-putter in track. 8I4'lIC.S' 3 in ers... i'4'Q' if 1 3 'J gg ,ff orklng Scholashcally r W I I didn't think I would win. I d0n't believe I was the only one. - junior Ethel Glisson Not every school competition was athletic or spirit oriented. Some competitions had a scholastic motif. The four major academic contests were the Na- tional Merit Finals and the scholastic meets at Rose State, OSU and Central State. ln the National Merit Finals, students took a Preliminary Scholastic Achievement Test, PSAT, to become semi-finalists, and the SAT for the real competi- tion, National Merit Finalists. Prestige and money, a 51,000 renewable scholarship to be exact, prompted students to compete for the honor. The finalists got many other benefits such as being treated well on campus and having forms for scholarships filled out for them. The only pressures, said senior Richard Sauer, are the ones you put on yourself. That's the way it should be. The SAT boards honored five students, the greatest number of National Merit Finalists picked in this school's history. They in- cluded Jay Courtright, Mike Morrison. Dylan Romo, Richard Sauer and Mark Wheatley. Scholastic meets also encouraged academically-inclined students to do even better in school so they could qualify to go to these meets. At Central State, four students placed. The only contestant to take second was junior Amanda Meade, who placed in sociology. Three ranked fifth. Juniors Lynn Lesseg in French, Mark Weber in spelling and senior Amu Soininen in the fourth level math event. Two scored at OSU. Junior Robert Courtright placed first in world history, junior Lana Hutchins took second in poetry. At the final and largest scholastic meet, 12 students placed and Moore ranked fourth overall. First place winners were senior Kyung Hwang in music history the also took fifth in music theoryj and junior Terry Anderson in art. Second place winners included juniors Gina Woods in home economics and Accounting ll, Lana Hutchins in spelling and Marcus Zielke for computer programming. Placing third were juniors Lynn Lesseg, who entered the French event, and Beverly Nice for biol- ogy. Senior Keri Jump ranked fourth in shorthand. Senior Dylan Romo in English IV and juniors Chris Cooper in economics, Kristina Southwell in English III and Mark Weber in the French category con- stituted the fifth place winners. Whether or not these individuals and others brought home the gold, they still brought pride to the school by competing. l at lil if . was JW rs 7 ,J . -, h ave 'if Notionol MeritlScholcstic Meets Academics

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Ilaall UBC C S8 tuden s 0 en eir o ai eac er hen I transferred to Moore High School two months ago, I didn't expect to meet such an assortment of different people. Every conceivable kind of person was here, along with some who were incon- ceivable. I tried to fit in with a group, butI couldnit decide as to which one. I supposed I could have tried to fit in with the intellectuals. They were all very conscious about what was going on and they talked about it quite a bit. They were so smart, however, that I felt left out sometimes. Then there were the nerds, who really made me laugh when listening to their conversations. To my surprise, I found them to be nice and often more sincere than those who have laughed at them. I played soccer, but I didn't know if I would have fit in with the jocks. I really loved my sport, but I enjoyed separating myself from it on occasion. Groupies were the most interesting people I met. Whether their favorite was Duran Duran, U2, Madonna or all of them, fans devoted their entire lives to following their beloved musicians. The beautiful people, who looked the best and who dressed in the most expensive manner, were often perceived as the most popular ones. I doubt that my personality could have fit that mold. I really could not find an ideal group of people with which to hang around. I decided to become friends with people from all the groups. I was unique in that sense. H. Divider People