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

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Spending some of his free time playing pin-ball is Shown Je well, I thought it was your treat today, declares Melissa Rowan to Donald Robinson and Curr Randall. Jeffrey Pierce and Richard Srokes enjoy a strategic game of pool, while Donald Robinson watches from behind. 54 Spare Tirne

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Body Heat Florida may be well known as the Sunshine State, full of warm tropical breezes, but there have been some days when temperatures have dropped below the level of human comfort - especially for the native Floridians. As the frigid air drifted down from the North, many Red Knights drifted to their closets to pull out their seldom used winter jackets. After ten months of hot, humid weather, North High's faculty and students were to dig down to the bottom of their dresser drawers to locate flannel shirts and heavy turtleneck sweaters. lf this did not quite keep Knights warm, they clinged to 'l ?wn9 ww, ,W Q that someone special for a little body heat. Others kept warm by carrying around a hot cup of coffee or finding a place where the sun was. To get out of the shade for a minute helped. When the temperature dropped into the forties and the wind chill factor read a cold thirty degrees, Red Knights cranked up their electric blankets and heaters. For a few natives, the only way to fight the cold was to bundle up in layers of warm sweaters, jackets, gloves, and even ear muffs. As the students trudged down the corridors in the morning, they gave the appearance of wrapped mummies. Trying to stay warm was the main goal for Red Knight's Julie Moy and Kelly Ludwig Even the tough men Steve De5hazo and Robert Trornbetri get cold. inevitably, by the close of the school day, temperatures rose a good twenty degrees and Red Knights had to peel off the layers of clothing, and lug them around. As the winter finally came to a halt, Red Knights released a sigh of relief and traded their flannel shirts for cotton T-shirts and bathing suits and once again headed for the beaches. The warm tropical weather made them once again, after two months, realize why Florida is known for being the Sunshine State, Bundlin' Up

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A Little Rest ond Reloxotion After long hours spent ot North High, Red Knights were more thon reody for o little rest ond reloxotion. Of course, not everyone spent their spore hours ot home. Red Knights were sure to be involved in creoting fontostic memories. Knights spent most of their time improv- ing their tons, going soiling, orjust checking out the gorgeous bodies on the beoches. Hoving such o convenient occess to the beoches of Sonibel ond Fort Myers mode it on eosy quest. lf the beoch wos not their cup-of-teo, the vorious video orcodes provided mony students with endless hours of entertoin- ment. Knights fed their quorters into the populor video gomes like Centipede, PocMon, ond Donkey Kong with hopes of ochieving high scores. Weekends were the perfect time to engoge in sports of oll kinds. Bockyord gomes such os footboll ond boseboll were ployed everywhere. Mudding wos onother fovorite weekend postime. Red Knightsjoined in competition with rivol schools to determine who hod the boddest 4 wheel, oll-terroin, vehicle. Romonce flourished not only on the weekends, but during ofter school hours os well. Couples spent precious times eoting ot restouronts, going to movies, ond donc- ing ot vorious clubs. Money wosn't olwoys necessory for o good time. Lovers often spent their time just honging oround the house ond wotching T.V. Red Knights olwoys seemed to hove o good time. However, os with oll good things, the spore times soon come to on end, too soon ond Knights hod to concen- trote on their studies while plonning for their next moment of spore time, '? f' ,ef f' l v ' is g ' W --- 4 X ,D .14 v,4., Q ,. r -, ' 'lr . -W. 52' 'J T 'fx ..,,ng. f If-I -an 'A' was 'S 'l ,gf 5 i mf, , 1 J. 1 'iw I Shoring o friendly conversorion on the beoch ore Monica Skinner ond Shelle y Gorrner. A lot of spore time ond quorters were put into the populor video gomes which wos proven by Tommy Matrox. Spore Time 55