North High School - Tower Yearbook (Wichita, KS)

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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.

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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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1 4 Douglas, Dates, School Evoke Laughter, Tears As Memories Surface Memories . . . What do you remember? Good and bad, embarrassing and funny, all moments to laugh at and get teary-eyed over. What about: Your first BIG date when you sat down to eat and on the first bite, missed your mouth, dumping the food in your lap? Or, how about the time you were in a hurry to get dressed after gym and forgot to zip your jeans, but didn't realize it until you bent down to get your pencil in your next hour? . . . And who can forget those fuelish nights cruising Douglas? Remember when it just didn't seem to be your night because every time you tried to talk to the chick in the next car she said: Bug off Turkey! ? One girl has particularly fond memories of her trip to KEYN's Haunted House where she sat in the electric chair and short-circuited