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

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LeT me show you FroThy eloquence neiTher convinces nor soTlsifies me. l om from Missouri. You hove goT To show me. Willidm Vqndiver. The good congressmdn probqbly hod no ideo whoT he wos geTTing us inTo when he uTTered Those im- morTol words neorly 'IOO yeqrs ogo. Missouri hos since been lo- beled The Show Me SToTe. IT moy hove Token o cenTury, buT Missourions ore fighTing bqck, Tdking The iniTioTive, ond mosT of dll showing, insTeqd of being shown. When on unheord of, frosTbiT- Ten Town, somewhere in The province of Soskqfchewqn, be- come inTeresTed in our hockey Teom locol invesTor l-lorry OrnesT foughT bock. ln The end, iT wos SoskoToon singing The Blues. Horry O Then proceeded To purchqse The Checkerdome, formerly The Areno, ond renqmed iT, whqT else, The Areno. WhqT's in sTore beTond 84? Who knows, moybe pro boskeTbdll. Sur Willioms, The young couro- geous ST. Louison, who risked his sqfeTy To old o womon in peril, wos feoTured on The nqTionqlly TelecqsTed l'Reql People leqv- ing q good feeling omong Mis- sourions ond Americons os well. Becquse neighborhood woTch- es ond concerned ciTizens like Sur, ciTy ond counTy crime figures dropped To The IowesT level in 47 yeors, relinquishing ST. Louis of The dubious TiTle of Murder CopiTql, 160 - Closing U.S.A. WiTh dll The cduse for celebrq- Tion, iT wos no smoll wonder why Anheuser-Busch hod o record- breqking yedr. STqTisTics showed ThoT one-Third of every beer sipped, slugged, or chugged wos monufocTured by Anheuser- Busch. Tqke ThoT MeisTer Broul BuT oil wos noT joyous Cprobobly onoTher focTor in increose A-B sqlesj. Dioxin conTinued To con- TqminoTe Missouri's londs ond sTreoms, Sorkis J. Webbe wos in- volved in on incidenT morring his nome ond TrusTworThiness, meon- while Auggie Busch Jr. wos geT- Ting in involved in occidenTs, dl- Though mosT of The Time he forgoT whqT hoppened, Tried To forgeT whoT hoppened, or ThoughT iT would be beTTer if The whole Thing wos jusT forgoTTen. BuT perhqps, The mosT qTTen- Tion geTTing evenT surrounding ST. Louis wos The Miss Universe Pog- eqni. Heovenly bodies Through- ouT The world Troveled here in hopes of being given The disTinc- Tion of Miss Universe, All eyes were focused on ST. Louis, ond os is expecTed, we showed The world The bequTy, innovoiion, ond hisToricol significonce, ond closs ThoT is disTincTiveIy ours. LeT us rephrose ThoT fomous quoTe. FroThy eloquence neiTher convinces nor soTisfies me. I om from Missouri. LeT me show you. Missourions 4983-841.

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Showing pride in 'lhe stars and stripes, a U,S. soldier holds The flag high over The compound in Beirut. Hand calmly waving io the crowd, Sovi- el Premiere Yuri Andropov's death was mourned by many. li W ii X i w Q X l Pulling their heads logelher, Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson cap- Tured audiences wilh Their song and video for Say, Say, Say. Closing -

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St. Louis was the toast of the world when The Miss Universe Pageant came to the Gateway City. The Blues are back so back the Blues, shouted new owner Harry Ornest, when the Blues returned home from oblivion. St. Louisans bade farewell to golden glover Keith Hernandez as the Cardinals sent him packing to the Big Apple. Closing - 464