North Fort Myers High School - Lance Yearbook (North Fort Myers, FL)

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Boob-Tube Fonotics Prime time, soop operos, ond cortoons occupied mony hours of free time os North High's Red Knights cheered ond loved their television heroes ond villoins. Prime time fovorites ronged from Miami Vice to Remington Steele ond The A-Teom. When students found free time from their busy schedules, they could be found engrossed in the vorious dromos ond comedies thot mode up prime time viewing hours. After the finol 2:00 dismissol bell, mony students hurried home to wotch the ever- populor soop operos. Guiding Light topped the list for most ovid soop opero fons. The odventurous scenes in Borbodos ond the love triongle between Roxie, Mindy, ond Rick kept mony viewers glued to their television sets. Generol Hospitol wos o close second fovorite of dedicoted fons with the return of Luke ond Louro. Those Red Knights who locked the fever of the soops, often tuned to Chonnel 44 to cotch their fovorite cortoons such os The Flintstones ond Scooby-Doo. These onimoted cortoons provided the students Christino Reinhold Ronold Reis Liso Retherford Lynn Rhodes Sondro Rice Shown Riley Debro Roberts Donold Robinson Renee Robinson Koren Ross Holly Rowe Jyll Rubinstein Jomes Sonford Scott Schroot Croig Scott Tommy Seorles Tonyo Seorles Louro Show Correno Sheene Michoel Sheffield Suson Shepord Down Siford Shelly Simons Troy Simons the chonce to escope from the world of od- vonced closses, demonding jobs, ond numerous extro-curriculor octivities. Although free time wos often scorce for North students, when it could be squeezed out of their busy schedules, they used the time to wotch their fovorite television shows. With the populority of home VCR's they could tope their shows ond wotch them ot their convenience. Mony settled in front of the boob tube with their fovorite snocks in potient onticipotion of their fovorite television shows. Juniors 189

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Donna Muchmore Joe Musso Jerry Negron Gregory Neuville Wendy Newinghorn James Nowocin Alfred Oakes Tina Ogden Judith Olson Patricia Orstrom Cory Overholt Kathleen Pacowto Staphonie Paporesta Lizette Patterson Lisa Payne Antoinette Peppenelli Robert Persinger Douglas Pierce Richard Pointke Cheryl Prince Tom Rojsavong Christy Ratliff Cheri Reavis Philip Reese rely: . n 'Nu . P : 'r .. N. 5 ' . ' 4113- , . Juniors Taking a break from their daily routine, Beth Gurnham and Kathy Pllrolnen sit down .to catch a glimpse of their favorite soap. .1frnnf:..,L,g.rE......f-.-,:::-Y:-Y,-:YY ------H -- 1 'M t' Looking through the paper, Jeanette Dials and Delrerto Jones see whot's on next. C We 7s...-. ,

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Mork Singletory Andrew Smith Steven Smith Lee Snyder Gregory Stonford Albert Stott Julie Stricklond John Stump Christion Summeroll Michelle Sutton Keith Topio Debi Tessier Theodore Teter Leigh Thor Louro Thomos Corlo Townsend Robert Trubiono Wesley Underwood Jennifer Volello Joseph Volentino Richord VonRyckeghem Noncy Vrocor Mork Woldee Debreno Wolker Fitness Kills For North High's Red Knights hove olwoys cored obout their oppeoronce ond physicol well-being. Yet, it hos been dif- ficult to individuolly determine the degree of physicol fitness thot one's body is in. Who would be in better shope - the ninety-pound girl or the one hundred seventy-five pound boy? Does thinness reolly indicote better heolth ond fitness? During our Silver Anniversory yeor, North's Red Knights were determined to find onswers to questions like these. ln order to get honest, legitimote onswers to questions like those, North's students, stoff, odministrotion ond foculty 190 f V ff. f :ll 'fi . 4 x t f XX employed the use of o fitness mochine. This mochine gove the generol fitness bosed on o person's weight ond for con- tent. All o person hod to do wos weigh in, give his exoct height meosurement, tell his correct oge, ond indicote whether he wos octive or inoctive. After hoving supplied oil thot informotion, he fed it into the fitness mochine. Then, the person loy on the toble ond the mochine's sensors were hooked to his feet ond honds, ond o slight current ron through his body. This current meosured his resistonce to the current. The whole process wos completed in op- proximotely five minutes. The person got l ' ' 'Z 1: , 5 ,f M R A I 1 lxfii off the toble ond woited for his onolysis. When it wos finished, the fitness mochine printed out o piece of poper with the per- son's fot content ond whot he should ideol- ly weigh. It olso mode recommendations on exercise progroms ond whether thot person should eot more or less. ' Red Knights took the onolyses mode by the fitness mochine seriously. During those doys it wos set up in the gym, hundreds of students ond odults took odvontoge of the involuoble informotion it offered eoch per- son. As North's Red Knights hove olwoys known, there is olwoys room for improve- ment, ond this yeor they reolly went for it. f