New Knoxville High School - Memoir Yearbook (New Knoxville, OH)

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A huge yellow orange bus Rolls to a stop — Evil, inquiring eyes tau d noises Shrieks Hustle, bustle JL- - ' .-Ji -J: Crowded. Kids pile out Onto thvsidewaik. Rush to the doors, And anxiously await The bell. Looking up to taller, braver Peers: Which door? Yellow, red Or green ? Eenie, meenie, minie, mo — This one Ah, safe. The pledge My address and phone number- 3o much foleaTn7 ' Field trips Reading -week Assemblies Pink slips AndOTT- The new friends -Experi€n€e-s afid4ee4ifig S ' - But just remember to pack on Tuesday. Top; -firtttre- lympi3n; Brook Braden, ' practfces-h r-b rrtr- walkovers in anticipation of her dream. Left, the sixth grade class caught a terrible case of Ranger fever at the pep rally beiore the NewJierjnen arne The cause has y£J tn he de- termined. However, some speculate that the fact that their teacher ' s son played for the Cardinals had some effect. Elementary 9

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a yy? Trasedy struck the sports world on June 19 of 1986. Just two days after beins drafted by the World Champion Boston Celtics, ail-Ameri- can Len Bias of Maryland died of co- caine poisonins. Tragedy struck again just eight days later when Cleveland Browns star safety Don Rogers died of cocaine poisoning. The 23-year-old was to have been married the next day. Many fans said good-bye to one of the greatest college football coaches of all time. On March 12 Woody Hayes died following an il- lustrious coaching career at Ohio State. The boys of summer ' s best met in October. The New York Mets de- feated the Boston Red Sox 8-5 on the 27th to win the World Series. In game six, however, it looked as though Boston would win its first World Series in 68 years. With Bos- ton leading three games to two and ahead 5-3 with two outs and no one on in the tenth inning, the New York Mets came back and scored the win- ning run on a ball hit between the legs of Red Sox first baseman. Bill Buckner. Ray Knight was named the World Series MVP. Post season baseball recogni- tion went to Mike Scott of the Hous- ton Astros who won the National League Cy Young award while Roger Clemens, who struck out 20 batters in one game for a major league rec- ord, won both the American League Cy Young and MVP. Mike Schmidt of the Philadelphia Phillies took home the National League MVP award. Ohio fans celebrated as the Cleveland Browns defeated the New York Jets in their first playoff game. Trailing the Jets by 10 points with under two minutes to play, the Browns came back and eventually won the game in the second over- 8 Current events time period, ' 23 ' ' - A week later they hosted the Denver Broncos for the AFC champi- onship. Again the game went into overtime, and again the final score was 23-20, but this time the Browns were on the losing end. The Broncos met their downfall two weeks later on January 25 when the New York Giants, who mauled their opponents in the playoffs, rolled to a 39-20 win to capture Su- per Bowl XXI. In sailing Dennis Conor, who in 1983 became the only man ever to lose the America ' s Cup, redeemed himself as Stars Stripes completed a 4-0 sweep over Kookaburra III to bring the America ' s Cup back to the U.S. in February. In college basketball Bobby Knight won his third NCAA champi- onship as his Hoosiers defeated Jim Boeheim ' s Syracuse Orangemen, 74-73 in the New Orleans Super- Michael Jordan of the Chicaso Bulls makes a fortune off the court as well as on with his own line of footwear called Air Jordan. Woody Hayes was the fifth winninsest coach in collesiate history (238-72-10), indudins three national championships at Ohio State. dome. Indiana was led by Keith Smart who scored 12 of his team ' s last 1 5 points including a game-win- ning sixteen footer. After being idle for almost three years. Sugar Ray Leonard de- feated Marvelous Marvin Hagler in a split decision to win boxing ' s Mid- dleweight title. After 16 seasons, Julius Erving, the man who single handedly car- ried the ABA and NBA, hung up his shoes. Better known as Dr. J, the founding father of the slam dunk won the first ever slam dunk contest and eventually a NBA World Cham- pionship ring in 1983. As one legend retires a new one is just beginning. Chicago Bulls su- perstar, Michael Jordan, is soaring to even greater heights. After complet- ing his first healthy season, Jordan led the league in scoring with 37.1 a clip. He also won the slam dunk contest and finished second to Los Angeles Laker guard Ervin Magic Johnson in the MVP voting. Al Unser Sr. joined A.J. Foyt as the winningest Indianapolis 500 driver with four victories. He also broke his brother Bobby ' s record as the oldest Indy winner.

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the event that I were an animal, I would want to be . . . ... a dog because I like it. It chases wild animals and I ' m wild. Matthew Clamme ... a lion because he has spi- key hair. Micah Guigou ... a snake because he eats lots of animals. Matthew Squibb ... a horse because they ' re soft. I like their skin. Gina Ferraro ... a whale. Then you couldn ' t get killed much. Brian Jones ... a tiger because 1 like the way they crawl. Danielle Hennon . . . an elephant. I ' d want to be in a circus. Erin McCullough ... a sheep. They ' re so soft. They get so dirty. Krista Oberlan- der Top, Scott Thompson, Eric Klopfenstein and Nathan Bambauer savor their first school lunch of pizza, corn, peach, a cookie and milk. Right, Grant Guigou shakes his jar of milk with hopes of turning it into butter. Row 1 : Matthew Bambauer, Terri March, Ross Brown, Carrie Bar- ber, Erin McCullough, Bruce Fet- zer. Tiffany Brown, Danielle Hen- non, Nicky Karch. Row 2: Michael Strom, Aaron Sowma, Eric Klopfenstein, Erin Kruse, Krista Oberlander, Alexandra Lee, Gina Ferraro, Scott Thompson, Laura Jurosic. Row 3: Ryan Wietholter, Anna Stienecker, Sarah Lloyd, Leslie Stienecker, Jared Elsass, Brian Jones, Nathan Bambauer. 10 Kindergarten