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

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Lindo Albrecht Joseph Amdto Karen Anderson Kdthleen Anderson Lisd Albrecht Ldurie Aldy Julie Allen Elisd Allen Liso Allen Thomos Allen sf -.E 1 E Q,- Big Brother focuses on Seniors Nineteen eighty four is upon us, and Big Brother is lurking over The senior cldss. My ds- signment is To wdtch dnd fol- low the cldss. I looked through my lens dnd focused on d group of seniors who were tdlklng dbout The movie An Ottlcer and a Gen- tleman. They were drooling over The thought of Richard Gere. Ivlorilyn Sdhrhdge ex- cldimed, I loved The movie dnd Richdrd Gere's gorgeous body. As I wdlked fdrther down The hdll, I noticed guys dll dround me in nice dress pdnts, ties, ond locrters, while The girls wore The ldtest fdshions of boots. jedns, ond swedters. I didn'T Think I could get into The Preppy look, but I knew I could get into The Florida bedch look. The bright shirts, OP's, dnd cdsudl look. Tom Ernst stdted, 'TOdkvllle is d conformlst school. People dress The sdme, but if you dress d little outrd- geous, like me, people don't look down on you. They just Iook. As I wdtched senior Tom wdlk down The hdll dnd disdp- pedr into d clossroom, my eyes zoomed into dnother dred where d Tedcher wds tcilking to d group of girls in Account- ing cldss, Telling Them to push The pencil while They tdlk, but The girls were more interested in discussing weekend pldns, ddtes, dnd crulsln' in d cor- vette. I chdnged The lens to d night Time scene dnd closed on sen- iors contemplating ideds for The night. The group couIdn't decide if They wonted to go out ond edt dt Red Lobster or Rich and CharIIe's, or stdy home dnd pick up some fdst food. They decided to stop dt McDonalds and return home to wdtch cdble Television. They sdt down to wotch The Loverboy concert on MTV. As I Thought dbout the future of the seniors, my cdmerd lens wds cledrly in focus. I knew my dssignment wds complete. After dll, my findings dgreed with The senior survey of '84 4 'IA Seniors

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Bruce BrunTs Jacai Budak Joann BueTTner SamanTha Buford Ellen Campen AniTa CarlTon Cindy Chambers Susan Chandler TimoThy CheTTle Thomas Cira Barbara Claeys Kim CIevensTine STeven Cocos ChrisTine Coleman Paul Coleman ChrisTian Collins Debra Conine James Conners TimoThy Cook Sherry Creasy v. ., 1 As ff . Seniors lose sleep and saniTy Hi, welcome To College Comp, a course noTorious for iTs drasfic reducfion on a Senior's SPN Qsleep per nighT5. A course infamous for The usage of The Red Pen. I Think she wenT Through a whole pen on my paperl cried The woeful Ke- vin MorgesTer. In order To vvriTe a composiTion, a cenTraI Theme is needed, The dreaded Topic. Where do These Topics come from? Ms. Kennedy suggesTed ThaT her kids look Through a Time magazine. Mike STolzer had a similar approach, 'll derive my Themes from arTicles I 146 - Seniors read on conTroversial issues in The media. Rob Ladage had a less convenTional, more mysTicaI meThod. I dream of The ideas aT nighT. Then I puT Them Through a compuTer-like siffing process se- lecTing only The besT. When a selecTion is made, The Senior musT be careful iT isn'T Too TriTe. OriginaliTy counTs agrees Ms. Kennedy. One sTudenT, whose vague wriTing was char- acTerisTic in The pasT, wroTe an enTire composiTion on llcon- creTe To solidify his wriTing. An- oTher unusual essay gave an ar- gumenTaTive approach To ban- ning sex. BuT we won'T geT inTo ThaT. So originaliTy, ThaT's The TickeT. Or is iT'? Though originaliTy can be a consideraTion in an essay, a paper musT firsT be readable! I place grammar mechanics high on my IisT of essay consider- aTions. said Ms. Kennedy omi- nously. Maybe There is no secreT To College Comp, jusT hours and hours of hard work. Juniors be- ware, sTarT sTocking up on SPN.