Oakville Senior High School - Tiger Paw Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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JFS ,ev V is-.er Tigerette Host Don Lemkuil proves To Dwight Pdrker ThoT Oakville is no differ- enT Thon Voshon oT 7:30 in The morning Under the lights, Senior coptdins Mike Menendez ond ScoTT Pinson meeT Their Mehlville opponenTs for The flip of The coin. Diallng nine to get out, Junior Nikki Lockos, reoches ouT for her homework by cdlling Mom To bring iT up before fourTh hour. Friday nights at Oakville Tronsldtes inTo fooTboll, fun, ond friendship for Seniors, Michele Friedmeyer ond Tricio Ndgel ond Junior Ndncy Bischler. Steaming hot weather broughT Senior Kim Klocke ond her friends ouT To The courTydrd for fresh dir during lunch. Opening

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ines of communicoTion Tie us closer eT The good Times ring off The vvdll As eighT o'clock rolled oround, l wos sTill conTemploT- ing giving her o coll. When The clock sTruck nine, my ThoughTs Turned To ocTion. Seorching Through The phone book, l finol- ly come ocross her losT nome which covered o poge. Where should I sTorT? Would her num- ber begin wiTh on 894, 892, or 4187? WiTh eoch push of The buTTon, my finger Trembled more. AfTer five Tries, l finolly reoched The righT number. IT figures! Her number begon wiTh on 8416. Before pushing The buT- Tons, i hod procTiced my open- ing lines. l iusT hoped my voice wouldn'T crock. The ulTimoTe worsT, her liTTle sisTer onswered The phone. AfTer o period of giggles, she finolly onnounced To The enTire house ThoT o i'boy hod coiled for her sisTer. AfTer opologizing for her sisTer's behovior, my blue-eyed dreom ond l conversed obouT The NoTionol Honor SocieTy Tu- Toriol progrom, The new lighTs on The field, ond The overTime vicTory of The Ookvillefivlehl- ville gome. WiTh This cue, l Took The opporTuniTy To osk her ouT. 'il heord The Ookville-lvlehlville gome wos on coble. Do you wonT To come over ond woTch iT? Silence momenTorily filled The oir, Then she meekly on- swered, l'Sure. EcsToTic from her reply we soid 'lgoodnighT. f

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,wwwwfwwf ww' 9 W eT ThoT rddio ouT of The hdll I ood vibrdTions Tune in sTudenTs As The week progressed, I grew nervous wiTh dnficipo- Tion. Eooh song on The rodio reminded me of her. Swifohing The sfdfion To IO3, I heord Co- sey Von Allen giving KHTl?'s newesT hipe, The Rivdl Reporf. Hoping To moke o good im- pression, I donned my newesT orgyie sweofer ond my foded Lee jeons. Finolly reddy To go, I hopped in The fdmily Cufloss, Turned on The rddio To hedr my fovoriTe Loverboy song, ond sped off in seorch of my dredm girl's home. The mop she gove me didn'T help in finding her house: iT only helped me geT IosT. Affer o frusfrofing sedrch, I found myself sconning The ,,,,, I If 2 house numbers in d desperofe dTTempT To drrive on Time. I knew I wos righT on Time when I heord KI-ITR's news reporfer dn- nounoe The resignofion of Seo- refdry of SToTe, Jomes WoTT. I wosn'T exocfly shocked by This news beoouse of oil The publio- iTy he hdd been geTTing lofely. NoT reolly inTeresTed in The news, I Turned off The rodio ond hedded for The door. Dredding The Thoughf of meefing her pdrenfs ond IiTTle sisTer, I rdng The doorbell. My dreom on- swered The door dnd sTood me in fronT of her pdrenfs. AfTer dll The inTroduoTions were mode. we Ieff for on evening of Co- ble. I I 7 I T