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

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Twenty-five Yeors of Winning For better is it to dore mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by foilure, then to toke ronk with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, becouse they live in the groy twilight thot knows not Victory nor Defect. Theodore Roosevelt. Defeot hos been o word thot the Red Knights hove not ollowed to persuode them into the groy twilight. ln the post 25 yeors the Red Knights hove endured mony ups ond downs. North High hos o lorge ossortment of people, big ond smoll, shy ond outgoing, leoders ond followers. Although different in mony woys Red Knights work together. In competition ond oll ospects of school life the North Fort Myers High School Knights hove olwoys come out to be winners. The trophy cose in the moin office obounds with owords for o voriety of tolents. Athletic feots ore herolded with trophies in oll sports. Entire teoms os well os individuols hove brought honors to our compus. Red Knights hove coptured locol, district, regionol, ond store victories. Trophies ond ploques ore merely port of the owords thot Red Knights ocquired. North students' involvements in service orgonizotions hove olso improved public relotions with the community. Clubs such os lnteroct, ond Key Club hove brought outstonding recognition to the school by their community services. Longuoge is o very importont foctor in our lives. Students ot North High ore not on- ly involved in speoking English but olso Sponish, French, ond Germon. The speols- ing of these longuoges is not the only pro- spect thot is considered. Through the yeors our foreign longuoge orgonizotions hove been to mony locol ond stote competi- tions. They hove won ribbons, trophies, ond hove been ronlsed from good to outstonding The performing orts, consisting of bond, chorus, ond dromo ore orgonizotions which olso compete locolly ond stote-wide. The North Fort Myers bonds ond choruses hove olso collected numerous owords for outstonding ochievements. North's Thes- pion troup 2519 hos received superior rotings ot the district ond stote levels. Scholosticolly, North's students hove proven to do exceptionolly well os verified by progroms such os the Freshmon ond Sophomore Achievement progroms ond the Notionol Honor Society. Eoch yeor, North Fort Myers High School seniors post excellent S.A.T. ond A.C.T. scores. North High Red Knights hove celebroted twenty-five good yeors of outstonding ochievements ond success A ' honds. Showing greot triumph Alex Paz ond Nm Gardner shoke V 9 ' Red Knights ore winners in every subject ond sport. Knight Winners

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The scoreboord disploys Red Knights on their woy to one of rnony victories during holftirne. ...........am.,c,.,.,.f ,, ... After 0 footboll gome, the crowd gothers to celebrate their victorious win. 40 Knight Winners T24 ii Gliding ocross the finish line, Liso Whitrey onotherwin, e celebrates -We K i i i ii I i i i i i -wi m J cc, Aa

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Another Doy, Another Fiosco 7:00 O.rTW. 7:10 o.m. 7:15 o.m. 7:18 O.f'T1. 7:28 o.m. 7:29 o,m. 7:80 o.m. 7:32 o,m. Overslept - ogoinl I flew into the icy shower, brushed my teeth, ondjumped into my clothes. Inholing my burnt toost, I spilled scorching hot coffee oll over my white ponts. After seorching for onother poir of cleon ponts, I chonged ond gothered my 25 pounds of school books ond unfinished homework ossignments. I threw my school work into my thirsty cor ond ottempted to cronk the motor. Riding on fumes, I coosted into the gos stotion. Luckily, the cor died right next to the gos pumps. Dust ond sond flew everywhere os I squeoled into the student porking lot ond cloimed o spot. My school books ond popers tumbled OUT of the cor with me os I nobly tried to put one foot in front of the other to scomper through the porking lot to the office. Hoping to folk my woy out of onother detention, I reloted o fontostic tole of woe. Unfortunotely no one wos ot iv, Q Senior Down Morrison wotches her paycheck droin in- to her gos tonk. As her books ond popers tumble out of her cor, Down wonders whot will hoppen next, Doily Routine 7:45 o.m. 10:40 o.m. 11:10 o.m. oll sympothetic, so I received o pink un-excused slip ond notice of o detention for excessive tordiesf' I pocked the school books I wouldn't need ot the moment into my locker ond 12:05 p.m. ombled on to my first three closses. As I moved on, I procticed three or four greot excuses to loy on my teochers os to why my homework wos not 12:10 p.m. complete. With the gnowing poin of hunger in my stomoch, I steolthily roced to my woiting on compus, I drogged myself to the cofeterio where severol hundred onxious students were pocked in for the chonce to dig into todoy's mystery meot. With over holf of my doy now behind me, I popped o Pioloid into my mouth to settle my ocid indigestion ond once ogoin visited my locker to pick up needed books. I crippled o freshmon on the woy to fifth hour closs. Being definitely unprepored, lfoiled the pop quiz ond determined my closs overoge to be 432. cor for o quick trip to 1:10 p.m. My lost closs of the doy ond I McDonold's for lunch. Just os I wos olmost lote, but I zipped put my hond on the door in just os the teocher wos hondle, I felt the presence of obout to close the door. Being o not-so-friendly being. totolly exhousted from the Whotcho up to now? strenuous mentol ond physicol demonded Mr, Weotherwox octivity of the doy, I cought o os he grobbed my orm. I few winks ond slept until 1:55. knew I wos o deod duck -I 2:00 p.m. Whot ojoy to my eorsl The hod no poss to leove compus, dismissol bell rong ojoyous So, I trudged bock to the note. Off to my cor I rushed! deon's office to foce the My bottery wos deod. music. It wos not o pleosont 3:10 p.m. After ojump from one of my melody - two doys in buddies, I drove home ond internol suspension! wondered how I could Forced to spend the possibly top this doy inthe remoinder of my lunch time weeks to come. W3 i4 It 5 mf 'Wm H , an .fvf.rf,f, . 1 if I A :I f f 77 '7' , .. ,'., A .. I f .. .,. .. .. .. L. If ,J V. f44f.Q1W-'-U., ' ' ' I 41