North High School - Tower Yearbook (Wichita, KS)

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1 2 4 lobs Mean Helping Out At Home, Future Careers, Responsibility What is a job, you ask? A job for most North students was getting up at 8 a.m. the morning after a big celebration lasting until 2 a.m. the night before. It was the responsibility of making the payments on your car, or buying that cute sweater and pants outfit that you just had to have in one of your favorite fashion shops. lt might even just have been something to get you out of the house and away from your fighting brothers and sisters. Sometimes a job was prepara- tion for a career that you wanted to pursue after graduation. For many others, a job meant helping to support their family. For some kids, it was easy to have both a job and keep grades up at the same time, but for many other North stu-

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3 5 .. --ag, - Q Ee .ifx candidates parade onto the field to the tune of Feelings , Stand-in escorts were used for the male candidates who were on the football team. None too soon, the candidates retired to the stands and enveloped themselves in coats, mittens and mufflers. At the dance, the temperature was much more welcome and everyone abandoned their coats. Uncle Dickie Houser from KLEO was the emcee for the evening. Students and faculty, bumped, bus stopped, and boogied to songs like: Play that Funky Music, and slow danced to discs like: Beth, and Color My World. As with all the other home- coming activities, the dance was well attended. 1. The titles of Pigskin Pete and Varsity Sue are awarded to seniors Mark Damilini and Lynette Woodard at the homecoming dance. 2. Honk . . . Honk . . .Honk,Honk,Honk . . . Honk,Honk,Honk,Honk . . . Honk,Honkl fills the air as students participate in the annual car caravan the night of the homecoming game. 3. One banana, two banana, three banana, four, five banana, six banana, I can 't eat anymore! Senior lohn Lent participates in the banana eating contest, which he won during spirit week. 4. After a successful spirit week, North High students excitedly pack the stands at the homecoming football game, even though North lost to West, 7- 28. 5. Homecoming candidates for Pigskin Pete are: Mark Damilini, Wally Bettis, lack Ackerberg, Randy Burnett, and Eric Dunn. Candidates for Varsity Sue are: Terri Huff Barbara Kelly, Mary Ann Waggoner, Paula Brazill, Susan Ayesh, and Lynette Woodard. .

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3 f ,.VA V H V- .- VV-V l Q a e .eg . .1 0 t TQ. if . ,g si g r l . . ' a-tv . AF ,1- dxy, YW dents, it was a struggle to keep working and stay on the borderline between passing and failing. On top of all that, for a lot of students, there was the challenge of participating in sports and other extra-curricular activities, such as journal- ism, debate or choir. The most conventional occupations were sacking groceries at the local supermarket or selling products in the nearby shopping center. Unusual, but interesting jobs were running errands and reading letters to elderly residents of a rest home, assisting a veterinarian administer aid to sick animals, and doing one of the more unpleasant tasks of cleaning out cages at the Sedgwick County Zoo. 1. Carefully stacking clean glasses before the dinner rush is one of senior Mark Gilkey's responsibilities at the local restuarant. 2. Careful now! Senior Allen Nightingale tows a plane out of the hanger at Yingling Aircraft Center. 3. In an effort to save energy, the apartment complex that employs senior Gregg Larson, is having him clean the lamps. 4. Being able to get along with other people is an important fact of in being a salesclerk, as senior Kim Tucker well knows.