Oxford High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Oxford, KS)

Text from Pages 1 - 136 of the 1986 volume:

by Sandy Farha i Keri Thomas and Denise Woods are putting their brains to some good use in High-Q. 2-Homecoming! The Football homecoming queen candidates are left to right: Angie Williams. Kenna Kendrick, and Kristy Hendricks. 3 What can I say? I'm always hard at work. Can’t you tell?” asks Faye Stutzman. 4- Yuck! This doesn’t taste like Pepsi! Where did you say you got this anyway, Cath- erine?” exclaims Sandy Bain. 5 Say what!? A mar- gin? What’s a margin? What are you talking about? Put the paper where? Margin release does what? Man! Typing is a whole ’nother language! Get me out of here!” says Kristy Hendricks. 6- As if school isn't enough! First the food, then the teachers, then all the work and now photographers! What’s this world coming to?” Ross Voge wants to know. 7- Get down now Jason Cat- linorders Steven Bratcher. Weeble (David Lowry) and Travis Beeman are there just in case Ron- nie Gaither and the other seniors need any bouncers. Joel Horsch looks worried. S- Oh! My aching head! Denise Woods, yearbook editor, says in her agony. Looks as if she has year- books running our of her ears! Let’s hope the sun- glasses on the table will help her keep her cool! by Denise Woods I- Let me see your fingernails,” demands Paul Ne- whouse to his children. 2 Ah, come on, Dad, pleads Becky Woods to her time efficient father. Paul Newhouse. 3-'Tm the last unfreed slave that Lincoln forgot. mumbles the white housekeeper. Tammy Lowry as she heads toward the kitchen. 4- Youngest in the long line of children are Chad Long, third grader-. Nick Abston. fifth grader-, and tlaine , Denson, junior. 5-Demonstrating how to eliminate waste motion while taking a bath, Paul Newhouse sits on the living room floor. 6- The seconds. snaps Paul Newhouse. Ten seconds, that’s more like it. 7- You don’t understand at all.” yells Denise Woods to Paul Newhouse. Photos by Woods. CAST Mr. Gilbreth: Paul Newhouse (Dad) Mrs. Gilbreth: Sandy Bain (mother) Ernestine: Becky Woods Frank-. Todd DeMint Bill: Shani Hicks Fred: Elaine Denson Anne: Denise Woods Martha: Jennifer Long Lillian: Melynda Lacey Dan: Nick Abston Jackie: Chad Long Mrs. Fitzgerald: Tammy Lowry (The housekeeper) Dr. Burton: Clint Evans (family doctor) Joe Scales: Jeff Gill (cheerleader) Miss Brill: Keri Thomas (A teacher) Larry: Ross Voge (someone ' special’') -'iXi.- I In the w.) in the Mid i .i t. a distraught MostonVman hugs his son moments alter they sur tved a car bomb explosion outside « West Beirut restaurant in late August. They are shown being 1 away trom t he carn3ge t'ble strewn rumbled t!u High Mevtc- in September and the do ire city block •about 60 h 4ph� a. Police tried to MOVt froth;, if UR M 1 V'l I . � omb oo the building. 4 - 1 Ala .- Cl ami 'Vif s. k Patrimony ai i i 1 v V %.• , i V ’ A I V71 (I. (I as it oncom ntered vvini 13? people. 1 f tiir.t y t out cd of injuries later 6 A 7 cries of acvastatmk! oorth ({ oiK'ouiHorOil wind shear nc i I alias t « people. Thirty font people survived the crash but f injuries later 6 A Trans W orld Airlines c with 14? • and eight erew members was hijacked by Moslems itHin days but the remaining 39 hostages wore neiti . One American hostage was killed. PHOTOS BY AP w ■' • - •. :' • ... • er ;� •: ‘ vr v M Mm 'v ‘ ' S5% j : ••’•V A ■Ayv ': kv v . :V -:Y •-VV October 12. 1985. at Holy Name Catholic Church. Winfield. KS. Mr. David Kehres and Miss Karen K. White were united in Holy Matrimony. I and 3. Two prominent actors died in late 1985: Orson Welles. 70. of a heart attack; and Rock Hudson. 59. after a battle with AIDS. 2. Four Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Italian Cruise line Archile Lauro while on a Mediterranean cruise. One American was killed. 4. Ceremonies were held at various times during the year at the Vietnam Memorial in Washington to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Saigon government in Vietnam. The Vietnam Memorial is inscribed with the names of more than 5S.000 dead or missing soldiers from the Vietnam war. 5. The space program moved ahead. Space walker James Van Hoften the robot arm of the Space Shuttle Discovery after successfully launching the repaired Syncom satellite in September. Photos by AP World Press Photos. 19S6- eke Cecal, National And Jntemational News 17 Language Arts ..............20 History ................... 21 Music ..................... 22 Band ....................... 24 Math ....................... 26 Business Computers .......27 Speech 6 Drama .............28 Science ....................29 Newspaper .................. 30 Yearbook .................. 31 Home Economics ............. 32 Art ........................ 33 Physical Educatton ......... 34 Shop ...................... 35 1. Junior, Tammy Bingham stars as drum majorette. 2. Trying to be hard at work (or at least we think she's trying to be hard at work), Jennifer Long matches the vocabulary words to their correct sentences during a weekly test. 3. and 6. Here are Miss Steven Bratcher and his escort Angie Williams at the pep assembly before the Football Homecoming game. She- looks nice, doesn’t he? All ready for a rain shower and ready to pucker up for a kiss. 4. High Q is resurrected after a couple years in the tomb. Junior Paul Newhouse and Freshman Aaron Oliver come away from the table after winning a round of questioning against a Wichita high team. 5. On junior enrollment night, Elaine Denson helps Mrs. Brown while Yvette Abston supervises. 7. In order to always know where his pen is. Mr. Ralph Abston. Oxford High School Librarian, sticks the pen in his mouth and sorts the papers and gives the impression of working hard or are you hardly working. Mr. Abston. Jh Pursuit Of language, literature, And History Taking an open nole lest, Kandy Stover, junior, relies on her notes that she has taken in the past weeks in English III during a first semester test. By Denise Woods What part of speech is hello”? Noun? Adverb? Interjection? Or what? Who is the author of The Bells”? Rob- ert Frost? Edgar Allen Poe? Emily Dick- inson? Or who? While attending the structured Eng- lish calss at Oxford, you'll learn the answers to these various questions. Mrs. Wilcoxen instructs English II and IV. Ms. Myers instructs English I and III. Beginning their English career at Oxford, English I students during the first semester review all the grammar they've studied in school. Continuing on to the second semester, their read- ing highlights Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet” and Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations”. Advancing a year, English II students advance their grammar skills during the first semester. During the second semester, the students’ major reading is Shakespeare’s Julius Cesear and a poetry appreciation course. Adding to your grammar skills, Eng- lish III students are required to write research paper with all the extras. Their major reading assignments con- sists of the classics. English IV is for the seniors who are planning to further their education through college. However. English IV is not a required class for those already having four English credits by taking Speech, a foreign language, or Journal- ism. The class consists of reading two books, finishing techniques in gram- mar and reading Shakespeare’s Mac- beth”. by Yvette Abston History, it’s not just the past any- more. It’s now and the future too. We had history-related classes that in the future and the people that are involved, was taught in American His- Heavily scrutinizing his work, Tulsa Embrey. junior, proofreads his term paper before handing it Diligently working in English 111, John Cooney com- n 10 Ms. Myers. English III teacher, pletes his grammar assignment. Getting on the good side of Mrs. Aikins. Billy Wollard, Sophomore, goes up to her desk to get special assistance and a big smile from O.H.S.'s favorite substitute teacher. If only I hadn't stayed up so late last night. wishes Sonia Young, senior, in her first hour World Affairs class. History has a too soothing effect on Pat Betzen. senior, in first hour World Affairs class. Busily studying. Jason Catlin, Rachel Bratcher, Kevin McClung, and Cristine Thompson work like busy beavers. were taught by Mr. Dave Hunt: Ameri- can History, World History, and Con- stitution World Affairs. — World History is a study of na- tions or cultures in the past. — Constitution World Affairs, a re- quired Senior class, was learning the systems of government and how they worked. They became aware of their surroundings and how something around the world can affect their everyday lives. Political Geography and American History were taught by Mr. Ralph Ab- ston. — Political Geography is a class designed to acquaint the students with the countries of the world and any special characteristics that are unique to that country. — A study of nations, past to pre- sent with respect to what may happen Really In the know. Jeff Gill, senior, points to Australia in Constitution class . and he tries to gain a few extra points off Mr. Hunt. tory. Vocations Psychology was taught by Mr. Monty Wyckoff. — Vocations was taught first se- mester. The main goal of the class is to make students more aware of jobs, professions, schools, and requirements of each. Psychology, which was offered sec- ond semester, deals with man and how he functions mentally, past and pre- sent. Singers Presenting the Oxfordians: from row- Tammy Bingham. Becky Woods. Todd DeMint. Kassa Collingsworth, Sherri Wege. and Catherine Elwood; second row- Shannon Johnson. Christy Smith, Mary Prochaska, Rachel Bratcher, and Dallas O’Hearn. Presenting the Choir: front row- Tina Burton, Annette Neises, Buffy Buss, Christy Smith, Cherri Ward, and Sherry Taylor: second row- Dana Gaither, Susan Maybrier, Kristy Hendricks, Kathy Rakestraw, Melynda Lacey, Tara Estes, Louise Hall, and Sabrina Marsh; third row- Shawn Alsip, Kassa Col- lingsworth, Rachel Bratcher. Debbie Stover, Lori Mooningham, Catherine Elwood. Faye Stutzman, JoDe Potucek, Tammy Bingham, and Shannon Johnson-, fourth row- Dallas O’Hearn. Becky Woods, Ricky Jenkens, Sherri Wege, Mary Prochaska, Pat Betzen, Todd DeMint. Matt Mayberry, Denise Woods, Nikki Owens, and Mrs. Bradbury, instructor. McClung, Kristen Gill, Michelle Russell. Eden Sauzek, Melynda Lacey. Aaron Oliver. Catherine Elwood. and Julie Nethercot; fourth row- Sandy Farha. Adam Oliver. Jeff Leggett. Joel Horsch, Shani Hicks, and Ray Hodges. Presenting the Hag team: eft to nght-Dana Gaither. Tammy Bingham. Becky Woods. , K? ,v , XA ... . r ,.. . . k, tv . . - ii- . , Cunningham s Music Winfield, KS Elaine Denson. Sabrina Marsh. Annette Neises. Denise Woods. Kassa Collingsworth, and Sherry Wege. Presenting the band: front row- Sandy Bain, Tammy Bingham. Christine Thompson, Rhonda Smith, Crystal Howard, and Mr. Banks (instructor); second row- Sherry Myrick, Hilary Sauzek, Dama Oliver, Billy Wollard, Keri Thomas, Rachel Bratcher, and Jason Catlin-, third row- Kevin Musicians And Singers At Work by Sandy Farha Contests, programs, and halftime entertainment describe a few of the activities that the band participated in .... from working with Udall to put on a 2 school halftime show to standing on a corner in the cold of December to play Christmas carols for Santa. The band was not only very active but also talented. It’s hard when you lose good Seniors but we also gained fresh talent with the new freshmen. Mr. Banks is a very good band director and the stu- dents enjoy band so much more thanks to him and his original, fun ideas. Band received 3 I ratings at state contest this year. The band keeps the school moving in harmony so to speak. Keep up the great work gang! i. . 24 This page sponsored by Bodkin’s Motors Winfield, KS sophomore, Kenna Kendrick Senior, and Crystal Howard freshman. They really are concentrat- ing. Show us your stuff girls. 2- The clarinet section really puts it to it. (at least the ones that are playing) Show them how it is done Sandy Bain and Tammy Bingham. 3- Don’t laugh Kristen Gill! At least there is one thing Kris is serious about besides guys, her trumpet, (ha, ha) 4 Julie Nethercot sits this one out as Jeff Leg- gett prepares to play the next song. Sandy Farha shows Joel Horsch what part to play or is she really trying to get him to buy another sucker? 5- Ray Hodges puts his hot air to some good use for once, playing the tuba. Hey Ray! What hap- pened to your eye? 6- ’’Don't you take a picture of me Eden. growls Melynda Lacey. Looks like she did Melynda. What’s Aaron Oliver doing? 1 -Mr. Banks directs the band in a song. What a guy! Get with it, Mr. Banks! All Band Photos by Eden Sauzek. by Kassa Collingsworth Lights, camera, sing! Nervousness, butterflies, and excitement all go along with choir contests. Mrs. Bradbury was the choir instructor. Choir had done many things including anything from going to music contests to goof- ing off. There were two music con- tests held at Southwestern college where the choir got a two rating at both. Oxfordians had a good year also. They started it out by going to Coffey- ville to learn new songs and dance steps. At the contests the Oxfordians received a one at league, and a two at state. Later in the year both choir and Ox- fordians sang at the ice cream social. All in all, it was a good year. Wizards — of the Easiness and Math Kind, of Course by Sandy Farha Math these days isn't just one plus one. It goes deeper than that; much deeper. For example; 3x-2y = ? Can you figure this out? Try this one. Simplify the following; (2x-3y) (4x + 2y). These are just two examples of the Right-Deep in thought. Tony Schmitz, sophomore, mauls over a problem in Algebra II class after lunch period. kind of problems you could find in an Algebra I textbook. Can you imagine what kind of problems you could find at the end of that text? Flow about at the end of the Geometry text? Some of it’s almost mind boggling; especially if you haven't ever taken any of these type of courses and then try to figure out how to work them. The classes offered in math are as follows: Beginning Algebra, Algebra I, Algebra II. and Geometry. Above- Working on High O during an activity period, Todd DeVlint prepares math questions for OHS' first invitational scholars bowl. Middle- Concentrating to do her best. Keri Thomas, junior, thinks before she writes in Algebra II class during fourth hour. Bottom Right-Figuring out computer problems. Ricky Jenkins and Steven Bratcher, seniors, each have their own way of working in Computer Literacy class during third hour. Learning that computers can be used in Chemis- try, Keri Thomao. Yvette Abston, John Cooney, and Paul Jones curiously watch as an example is There is a new math teacher at OHS. Mr. Clark seems to be doing well. Mr. Clark didn’t teach last year but has 5 years at Cowley County Community College under his belt. 1 think he is doing quite well if the students he teaches come out of his class knowing how to work those types of problems. Don't you??????? by Kassa Collingsworth Can you make a home row” in typ- ing? Do talk basic” with an adding machine? What does balance” have to do with ledgers and checkbooks? The business and computer literacy classes Accounting, Business Law, Typing, Office Practice, Consumer Math and Computer Literacy offered OHS students the answers to these and other business questions. Mrs. Hiltzman instructs all the business courses at O.H.S. Mr. Banks and Mr. Left- Tulsa Embrey. junior, concentrates on typing a perfect paper in his first typing class for Mrs. Hiltzman. Above- Don’t bother us!” blazes in the eyes of Tammy Bingham and Becky Woods, juniors, in Computer I. iteracy I class during a textbook assignment. Dement instruct Computer Literacy. Computer Literacy is a new business class. The class is made up of 14 stu- dents. The first semester they were taught the basics and fundamentals of operating the computer. The second semester they have made up programs and watched films over computers. They have ordered new books and data processors. They hope to in- crease the class in the next school year. The business classes range from consumer math to typing. Accounting class has students. Business Law class has 4 students. The typing class is of- fered to Sophomores, Juniors, and Sen- iors. The class conducts time writing contests. The Office Practice class learns to use adding machines, to file and type up business forms. Consumer Math is a required math class for Juniors and Seniors. The class combines simple math basics to every- day situations. Also, the class did packets to earn how to keep the bud- get of a family of four. Speaking 4 Talking by Kassa Collingsworth The speeeh drama class was taught by Mrs. Wiicoxen. It was an English credit and was offered to all O.H.S. students. The class started the year out giving demonstrations. The demonstrations were anything from making cookies to changing the oil on a three-wheeler. Next the class gave all forms of speeches including, informative, persuasive, impromptu, all the way to orations. All speeches and demonations were to be a maximum time, and included certain things in them. Nearing the end of the year the class went to a league or regional speech festival. Here certain people did plays, duet acting, prose readings, poetry, IDA'S and so on. Those participating were rated just Debbie Torres. Leigh Dobosenski. Susan May- brier. Sabrina Marsch. and Mr. Nicolas are dis- ect ing a shark actually Mr. Nicolas does the touching. ■ Ill IillllIffififimfgi like a choral concert. If you rate as one of the top 3, you get a medal and qualify for state. The class also helped with the fall and spring plays. They sold tickets, made posters, applied makeup, and did hair. Speech was a really fun class to be in and alot of neat things go on ..... just ask Mrs. Wiicoxen???!!!” says the writer of this article Kassa Collingsworth. Extemporaneous speaking is a big part of any speech class and Sandy Bain practices her here for us. Mr. DeMent contemplates his next example during a lecture.. Some of the students really pose difficult questions for him. John Cooney, Keri Thomas. Paul Jones, and Yvette Abston are hard at work in Chemistry class notice they are having loads of fun, too. Malley’s Comet Matching Chickens by Todd DeMint Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble. This year's science classes were just that. They my not have used chants like that one, but all of the science classes did lab work. Mr. DeMent was one of our new teachers. He taught Physical Science and Chemistry. The Physical Science classes did experiments with weight and volumes of matter, motion, and light, while the Chemistry class spent their time in the lab doing chemical reactions. Mr. Kehres was at it again teaching Biology and Ecology. The Bi- ology class did several disections, from worms to a shark, and the Ecol- ogy class took plant and dirt samples. Both classes had a student teacher, Mr. Nicholas, and both classes made trips to the zoo and Chaplin Nature Center. Junior Paul Newhouse even created life in his science class. Under the di- rection of Mr. Kehres, he was able to incubate chicken eggs — colored ones in fact — and he sold them for a small profit. The coming of Halley’s Comet was a big interest for the freshmen science students. Early in the year, they did research on this phenomena. The news media had sufficiently covered the Comet in their reports . . . now the students were the reporters. {journalism Changes by Denise Woods Wildcat Times” ”Wildcat Courier” Kitty Times No, no, these won't do.” Hey, what about Kitty Courier again?” Yell, that sounds good to me.” Hey sleeping beauty, what do you think?” Sounds okay to me, bud.” Hear ye, hear ye, this year’s paper shall be called Kitty Courier .” Facelifting the paper this year was next in line. In previous years, the newspaper had been a sort of newsletter. Now we were going to have a type of publication that was worthy or at least approaching being worthy of being called a newspaper. We had many, many feature stories written by our own staff members. Denise Woods’ training at the journalism camp that she had attended during the summer of ’85 came in helpful to say the least. She returned to O.H.S. with hundreds of ideas for feature writing. Sandy Farha, Denise Woods, and Jennifer Long were the writers who submitted more articles for publication. Every staff member did have at least one article published, however. Gretchen Moore served as a type of acting editor. While Gretchen in fact assigned the feature stories and monitored them, the actual fitting of the copy and other jobs done typically by an editor were the job of Denise Woods who worked very closely with the advisor, Ms. Myers. Denise was responsible for the paste-up and final decisions about what, where, when. Adding stories and puzzles from students in other parts of the state increase the variety of reading and interest areas. The paper had no consistant publication date because we tried to work around our yearbook deadlines, and the newspaper and yearbook staff are the same. The staff managed to squeeze out a paper in between yearbook deadlines to get experience from both types of journalism. The staff also contributed on a weekly basis to the Oxford Register articles and pictures of interest about high school activities and sports events. Meeting deadlines for the publication of the Oxford Register had a tendacy to get rather hectic for us at times. But the Journalism Class was able to represent the school by becoming and by staying involved with the Register throughout the year. At the beginning of the year, Sandy Farha and Denise Woods were involved in a broadcast journalism experience. The radio station from Wellington asked the staff for weekly summaries about O.H.S. and these students read the articles on the air. Unfortunately, the radio station lost its funding and we were forced to discontinue the show, but those involved were given an invaluable educational experience. We had many positive responses to the format of the new Kitty Courier. We tried our hand at column lengths — two and three, art work and a variety of different trends that are now popular in newspaper. Mrs. Hiltzman typed up many of the articles at the beginning of the year during her advanced typing class. After Mr. George and the BCE purchased the Journalism Class an Apple computer complete with screen and and wonderful printer, we were able to use the printer almost exclusively. The computer with its word processor were indispensable. The pages were more legible and the computer made it possible for us to set our own headlines and to even earn a bit extra money by selling ad space for Valentine’s Day to students and others. While we used other school’s papers as models, we decided to improvise and come up with our own paper’s design. The actual printing of the paper was done at the high school office with the help of Mrs. Brown. Getting four pages of a newspaper on one page so it can be properly folded and fit with 8 other pages got hectic! Mrs. Brown was patient with us and didn't get too upset while we monopolized the copier for a good two to three hours every six to seven weeks. As the year ended, the final deadlines of the yearbook were foremost on everyone’s minds. Thus, the staff wasn’t able to put out a final copy of the Kitty Courier, a graduation issue. We were definitely proud of the second edition of the Kitty Courier and hope to continue see the paper continue in the manner established this past year. Interviewing is a tedious task as Denise Woods finds out as she talks with some of the Middle School and Grade School teachers. Correctly quoting individuals is the name of the game and Denise takes her task very seriously. These students were involved in some way or another in the production of the yearbook for the 1985-86 school year. Front row-Sandy Farha. Kassa Collingsworth. Lori Mooninghatn. and Faye Stutzman, second row-Jennifer Long. Yvette Abston. Eden Sauzck. Gretchen Moore, and Denise Woods, the I9S6 Wildcat Pursuit editor. by Denise Woods Looming over, were unbending deadlines, money seeking publishing companies, tight-fisted businesses trying to meet their own budget in trouble economic times, and a new yearbook advisor faced the 1985-86 yearbook staff at Oxford High School. However, the staff was determined to conquer all obstacles to produce a book full of 1986 memories for the Wildcat student body. Having started creating our cover and drawing up pages for Taylor Publishing Company, we switched to Josten’s Publishing Company due to the cost. Needless to say, it put us behind, but the staff plunged into redoing the pages for Jostens. New yearbook trends and ideas were brought to the staff by Ms. Myers, new advisor, from her years of experience and Denise Woods, editor, who gathered them at yearbook camp. One of the goals this year was to modernize the Wildcat with layout and writing improvements to be comparable with award winning yearbooks in the nation and to have the book judged nationally after it is published. Hard work paid off for the staff in the rise of ads and yearbook sales. It was the staff’s wishes that you will always cherish this Wildcat”, overflowing with memories from 1986. Head Photographer. Faye Stutzman. is seen here with her trusty camera — her better half taking pictures for the Wildcat. The above students are the actual staff of the 1986 Wildcat. Front row-Kassa Collingsworth. Assistant Editor: Sandy Farha, Photographer Assistant and Copy Editor, and Cutline Writer: Faye Stutzman. Head Photographer: Second row-Yevette Abston, Gretchen Moore, and Denise Woods. Editor. Not Pictured were Cammie Starlin Villa, Layout Editor and Copy Writer: and Jennifer Long. Photographer. Copy Writer. Artist, and Layout. The Editor and Assistant Editor are responsible for doing any and everything. Home Economics by Gretchen Moore Cooking, sewing, child care are just some of the interesting things you would do in Home Ec. I, II, III, and IV. In Home Ec.l, the class learned how to understand why people eat, recognize why food additives are used. They also judge the quality of food, why food must be properly stored, how to cook creatively on a budget. They also prepare a meal at the end of the year that is from another country. In Home Ec. II, III, IV, they first learned how to sew and the parts of the machine. From there, they learned child care, parenting, family relations, and creative cooking and finally some more sewing. The fashion show at the end of the year is the big event for the Home Ec. classes II, III, and IV. Tina Burton. Louise Hall, Cherri Ward, and Dallas O’Hearn have prepared a fruit pie that is indeed picture perfect and very tasty. Photo by Denise Woods. Prom means a new dress and Sherri Bieler is going to make hers in Home Ec. Photo by Denise Woods. A true masterpiece of art that’s good enough you better believe it to eat and Cristine Thompson, Hiliary Sauzek. Shelly Bieler, and Debbie Stover are ready to dig in. Photo by Denise Woods. Very carefully so as not to destroy its beauty. Mrs. Sharlene Book serves the fruit pie to Cherri Ward. Photo by Denise Woods. Zhe Art 'Department’s Jinal ]fear by Jennifer Long The Oxford Wildcat Art students really had fun. Enthusiasm and production was high and many different areas were explored. Students worked in clay, painting, sculpture, drawing, weaving, jewelery, and china casting. Student field trips were taken to the Scholastic Art Show in Wichita, and to the Ft. Hays Art Show at Ft. Hays State University. Unfortunately, 1986 was the last year that the Oxford Wildcat Art Department will be in existence. On April 8, 1986 the Oxford School Board voted that the art program would be discontinued because it was not seen as an academic necessity. Working with his hands to create his best art project yet. f reshman Steven Deyoe hopes to be able to achieve his expectations. This really does look good enough to eat and Kathy Rakestraw is ready to dig in and eat. The rest of her team. Crystal Howard, Dama Oliver and Ratchel Bratcher are just hams for the pho- tographer. Denise Woods. Sophomore Eddy While is busy at work and really gets into the swing of things in his art class. Physical Education by Gretchen Moore Ready exercise . . . one, two, three, four, five .... The Freshmen started the year off with Driver’s Education and Health and ended up with Physical Education, which is a required class for all freshmen at O.H.S. In Freshmen P.E., you play basketball and softball and lift weights, etc. There is an advanced Physical Education class offered, too, where you play softball, go swimming (at the beginning of the year), play tennis, play basketball, and lift weights. Enrollment was down, however, in the Advanced Physical Education class. The look on. Freshman, Hank Denson’s face shows how he is struggling to lift the weights. Photo by Sanda Farha Above Come on now. guys: tell me the answer to number six: Mr. Rinehart won't tell me or doesn’t know the answer.” teases Jason Catlin to his friends Justin Shepherd, Ernest Hall, and the bookworm in the corner during Mr. Rinehart's freshmen Wood Shop class one afternoon as they work in the classroom instead of the shop. Photo by Ms. Myers. Middle right-Giving helpful hints. Mr. Gary Barton advises Sophomore Robert Wixon as he learns by doing in first hour Automotive Shop. Hands on experience is exactly what they get from Mr. Barton's classes. Photo by Jennifer Long. Right-Steading the board with the skill he’s gained from experience and from some super teaching of Mr. Barton. Mark Lowry, junior, cuts the drawer front for his dresser. Photo by Jennifer Long. Left Preparing for another week of classes. Mr, Gary Barton, metal shop teacher, takes time to think about — “Oh. no, not another class of freshmen this year!” Photo by Ms. Myers Highlights Of A Very Productive Shop Department by Jennifer Long The Automotive Class overhauled an Alice Chalmer’s tractor. The Electronics Class overhauled radios, toasters, irons, etc. Wood Shop Classes turned out many fine pieces including beds, dressers, nightstands, desks, cabinets, and cedar chests. 3 I. Mrs. Parks explains the writing assignment as she points to a student for the answer to a comprehension question. 2. Mr. Parks. Oxford Middle School social studies teacher, does a tri- time pose for the photographer, he shows the location of a third world country on top-, he pensively grades examination papers in the middle; and at the bottom, he carefully ponders the response to a student's probing quest ion. 3. Mr. Logsdon. Oxford High School Principal, and Mrs. Brown, e very one ’$ secretary and problem solver friend, discuss the grades of the O.H.S. students while determining those eligible for the semester honor roll. 4. Robbie Janzen pauses momentarily from his work at the computer. 5. We find Junior Paul Jones examining his answers to the semester test prior to submitting it to be scored. 6. Crystal Howard is trying to decide whether the question in her mind warrants Ms. Myers’ help or if she is able to handle it on her own in freshman English class. 7. Coach Kehres and Michelle Russell check the ratings of the opponent in the newspaper. 8. Mike Smith, freshman, is he showing off his good looks for the camera. 9. Junior Beverly Wright is notably unenthusiastic about the whole thing. Juniors ................................... 3g Sophomores ................................40 Freshmen .................................. 42 High School Faculty ....................... 44 Board of Education ........................46 Cooks and Custodians ...................... 47 Middle School Faculty .....................48 Grade School Faculty ...................... 49 Eighth Grade ..............................50 Seventh Grade .............................51 Middle School Graduation .................. 52 Middle School Sports ...................... 54 Middle School Band ........................ 56 Sixth Grade ............................... 57 Fifth Grade ............................... 58 Fourth Grade .............................. 59 Third Grade ...............................62 Second Grade ..............................63 First Grade ...............................64 Kindergarten ..............................65 Far Right- STOP LAUGH- ING Kenna Kendricks� you think you’re embarrassed. What about me? You’re the senior football homecoming queen candidate that roped a little ole’ junior like me to be your escort.” mentally states David Lowry. Right ''YOU’RE KIDDING MEi this assignment cannot be due today. Please tell me that it isn’t due now. I know you've written on the board that it is due, but is it really due now?” asks Robert Wixon. Yvette Abston Shawn Alsip Travis Beeman Sherry Beiler Tammy Bingham Kassa Collingsworh John Cooney Brian Cooper Bart Dennett Elaine Denson Catherine Elwood Clint Evans Penny Embrey Tulsa Embrey Curt Farha Sandy Farha Kristen Gill Paul Jones Jeff Leggett Jennifer Long 38 Top Leix-ENROLLING in school is the most exciting event that Clint Evans and Dallas O’Hearn have done. Top Right- 7 DON’T BE- LIEVE IT, you’re giving them that answer!” thinks Paul Newhouse. Todd De- Mint raises his hand to give the judge the response. Bottom left-CONC£Nr ? r- ING to do his best on the English test, John Cooney, junior, intently reads the questions and answers to the best of his ability. Bottom right- NOW CUT IT OUT!’’ I’m trying to do my work and you’re not helping me by standing around with that crazy camera, ’’ smiles Beverly Wright, junior, dur- ing her afternoon English class. David Lowry Mark Lowry Jerry Middleton Lori Mooningham Gretchen Moore Shayne Morris Paul Newhouse Michelle Russell Eden Sauzek Cammie Starlin Kandy Stover Donnie Stutzman Keri Thomas Becky Woods Bev Wright 39 Class Of 88 Right-At enrollment ‘85. Elaine Denson helps out in the office. Here Elaine is helping Mark Jones and his mother. Below-Mr. Wyckoff, Ox- ford High School Counselor, looks on as Julie Net her cot, Diane and Tammy Lowry. Melynda and Pam Lacey, Mark and Cindy Jones, and Elaine Denson enroll. Far right-Miss Crystal Hiltz- man borrows Rhonda Smith’s instrument momen- tarily while Keri Thomas, Catherine El wood, and Mi- chelle Russell prepare to play another piece for the audience. David Ballard Cindy Betzen Mike Bursack Buffy Buss Lawrence Carson Todd DeMint Dana Gaither Shani Hicks Robbie Janzen Mark Jones Shannon Johnson Melynda Lacey Tammy Lowry Sabrina Marsh Matt Mayberry 40 No Photo Available No Photo Available No Photo Available Wade Metz Annette Neises Julie Nethercot Kim Payne Jode Potucek Tony Schmitz Christi Smith Rhonda Smith Sherry Taylor Debbie Torres Raymond Watts Sherri Wege Eddie White Lisa Wixon Robert Wixon Bill Wollord Mike Zollman Left-Melynda Lacey seriously explains her reaction to a grade on an English test between classes. Above-History is a class that tradi- tionally requires much reading and Kim Payne can verify that claim here for us. ji---- Shelly Bieler Rachel Bratcher Tina Burton Jason Catlin Greg Clements Chris Creed Hank Denson Steve Deyoe Tara Estes Ernest Hall Louise Hall Shannon Hardman Marc Hatfield Tim Hayes Ray Hodges Joel Horsch Crystal Howard Sean Knapp Class Of $9 Abo ve-Dttt'LY IN I HOUGH T, Aaron Oliver, High Q varsity team member, concentrates as the judge announces the question so he can search his memory banks for the much needed answer during a scholar's bowl game. Be ow-STICKING TOGETHER on the first day of school, freshmen Kathy Rakestraw, Rachel Bratcher, Dama Oliver, and Crystal Howard walk to lunch to ward of preying seniors. WE LOVE YOU SENIORS and a chorus line of freshmen girls Shannon Hardman. Rachel Bratcher. Kathy Rakestraw. Dama Oliver. Cry- stal Howard. Hilary Sauzek. and Sherry Myrick is a very common sight to see during lunch. Kevin MeClung Sherry Myrick Dallas Ohearn Adam Oliver Aaron Oliver Dama Oliver Nikki Owens Mary Prochaska Kathy Rakestraw Hilary Sauzek Justin Shepherd Mike Smith Debbie Stover Jeff Thomas Cristine Thompson Above-WONDERING what on Earth is going on across the room, Shelly Bieler, freshman, pauses during study hall time. Below-'TM BUSY-, so would you please stop bug- ging me, calmly states Jeff Tomas as Denise Woods shoots'' him. Rhonda Smith gets Mrs. Book’s help on a blouse she is making in Home Ec. II. Mr. Max Logsdon, principal, retires no. 31 uniform to Keitha Adams, former student at O.H.S. ?alph Abston - American History, Political Geography, ibrarian, Senior Class ponsor. Letterman’s Club Sponsor, Head Track Coach, ssistant Football Coach °aul Banks - High School, Middle School, and Grade School Band, Computer Lit., ophomore Class Sponsor 7ary Barton Welding, Auto Mechanics. Electronics, eneral Shop. Mechanical )rawing. Senior Class Sponsor harlene Book - Home conomics I, II. Ill, IV, Junior llass Sponsor. Kayette ponsor Jiane Bradbury - High School, Middle School, Grade School nd 6th Grade Chorus, Oxfordians arry Clark - Elementary dgebra. Algebra I 6 II. Geometry OJi.S. Hill DeMent - Chemistry, ’hysical Science, Computers Roberta Hiltzman - Consumer vlath. Office Practice, jTyping. Business Law. Recounting, Head Girls' Volleyball Coach Dave Hunt - Constitution. World Affairs, World History. American History. Driver’s id. Head Football Boy’s Basketball Coach, Assistant Track Coach, Letterman’s Club Sponsor David Kehres - Health, physical Education, Biology, rcology. Head Girls'Basketball Coach, Assistant High School -ootball Coach, Head Junior High Football Coach '.r is ten McReynolds IRC eacher William McReynolds - Art 1-12, unior Class Sponsor faculty Monty Wyckoff - Vocat ions Psychology, Guidance Counselor Top Left-Are you watching the cheerleaders again, Mr. Hunt? Bottom Left-Mr. and Mrs. Avin George enjoy their meal during a senior feed at a home basket- ball game. Above-Mrs. Hiltzman is trying to fool us. We know she's not really working, but don't tell any- one. Susan Parks - Para- Professional Marjorie Myers - English I S II. Journalism Yearbook, High- er Sponsor. Freshman Class Sponsor, National Honor Society Sponsor Glayda Wilcoxen - English II £ IV. Speech Drama, Spring and Fall Plays Greg Rinehart ■ Woods I. II, £ III. General Shop. Assistant Girls' Basketball Coach, Sophomore Class Sponsor Administration, Secretaries, And School Hoard Avin George. Superintendent. Max Logsdon, Oxford High School Principal Lonnie Bratcher, Elementary and Jr. High Principal Donna Kemp, Secretary Iona Brown, Secretary RoseMary Williams, Secretary School Board members from left to right, Dennis Metz, Alvin Williams, Pam Lacey, James R. Donley, Shirley Beeman, and Kenny Buss. Not pictured Sue Adams. This page sponsored by Daylight Donuts Winfield, KS Pat Ostrander, Mary Rader. Joan Potucek, and Phyllis Rush are the famous gourmet cooks at Oxford’s Bestrow. Above-Rachel Bratcher works at ironing her material for Home Ec. I. Come on. don’t be shy, Rachel. Middle right-Tammy Bingham stuffs icing into her tool for decorating her cake. Patience, my dear, is a virtue. Right-Mrs. G. Aikins is the honored guest at the freshmen boys' dinner cooked by Jeff Thomas, Greg Clements, and Mike Smith. Photos by Kassa Collingsworth. This page sponsored by Kasten Insurance Winfield. KS Cooks And Juture ___________1-fmuminbprs__________________ M iddle School 3acuity Left- Mrs. Liggett helps April Smith check out a library book in the new grade school library. Marilyn Metz - English 6. 7. S. Reading 7, S. Assistant Volleyball Coach. Assistant Girls’ Basketball Assistant Girls’ Track Randy Parks - Social Studies 6, 7. S. Assistant Boys' Basketball. Track and Football Coach Mary Ann Parsons - Reading Teacher Lawrence Peck - Mathematics 6. 7, S. Head Track Coach L eland Shaffer - Grade School and Junior High Physical Education Teacher. Head Girls’ Volleyball and Basketball Coach Doris Phipps Science 6. 7, S Above- Custodian Bill Sawyer listens to the latest gossip in the teachers lounge. Top right- Debbie Wege confronts Mrs. Metz with a difficult question. Grade School faculty Lowell Adams - 5th grade teacher Gladys Allen son - Para-Professional Louise Crain - 3rd grade teacher Terry Deffenbaugh - Para-Professional Dorothy Dobbs - K- 5th grade music teacher Claudia Hopkins - 1st grade teacher Jo Ann Green ■ Kindergarten teacher Kathleen Liggitt - Librarian Jane Moore - 2nd grade teacher Helen Morton - Reading Specialist You mean to tell me this isn't Romania!” says Mrs. Crain on Halloween dress up day. Jean Rodman - 4th grade teacher Maurita Schiff - 5th grade teacher Caroline Sneed - 4th grade teacher Kristen Swart zendruber - IRC Teacher Barbara Wagner - 2nd grade teacher Rose Walker - 3rd grade teacher Eighth (grade Rachel Alsip Shanda Black Tammy Burton Laurie Calvin Charlene Creed Tyson DeMint Robert Dorman Jeffery Elwood Tia Evans Audra Flickinger Denise Goentzel Chad Gressel Jody Hendricks Jamie Johnson Michael Kelley Brian Lemke Jim Miller Blake Nethercot T.L. Price Jam� Rebold Jeff Sawyer Terry Shockey Carlina Teague Gene Thomas Debra Tredway Debbie Wege Not Pictured: Brandi Breedlove 1 Above-Debbie Wege and Blake Nethercot study together while Tammy Burton does her homework in the background during their English class. Lower right-With the microscope in front of her. Tammy Burton waits for Ms. Phipps to answer her question. Now Upper right-ln Mrs. Metz' English Class, Chad Gressell says. Hey, guys, let me in on the joke!” as Jamie Johnson laughs along with the rest of the class. Seventh Qradt Christian Abston Clinton Bales Jared Bratcher Kent Collingsworth Shelby Conner Jennifer Davis Linda Davis Jimmy Dempsey Jamie Donley Bradley Foster Trina Higgins Jonathan Jones Herb Lemke Amy Madison Jason Metz Chad Moore Jeramie Owens David Parks Donnie Pennington Michael Peters Jennifer Rivers Justin Rouch Tony Rush Travis Scott Melissa Shelton Brian Skibbe Joseph Stoddard Michelle Ward Angela Webster David Wixon Chris Womack Marc Wynn Brad Young Bottom right-”What was the word you wanted me to look up in the dictionary?” asks Kent Collingsworth. Right-Jason Metz is trying to concentrate while other students are not as dedicated to learning like Brad Young. Clockwise-Debbte Wege. Jennifer Davis. Jamie Johnsom. Charlene Creed. Angie Webster, and Jamie Donley. Two Oxford Middle School Cheerleaders. Debbie Wege and Jen- nifer Davis, ride on the float during Top- lsn‘t that sweet?” This cake is displayed by none other than the chef herself. Tammy Bingham. Bottom left- Hey, Mom, look.” Todd DeMint makes a K-State comparison . Looks like he’s already been to KSU shopping. Above- Mmmm mmmm good.” Mr. Rhinehart and Rachel Bratcher enjoy their meal that the Freshmen Home Ec. I girls pre- pared at the end of the year. 53 This page sponsored by Donna's Winfield. KS Qol Tight! Win! Middle School Wildcats!!! Volleyball Front row-Angie Webster, Charlene Creed, Melissa Shelton; second row- Coach Metz, Trina Higgins (manager), Jami Rebold, Jamie Donley, Amy Madi- son, Michelle Ward, Jennifer Davis; third row-Tammy Burton, Jennifer Rivers, Deb- bie Wege, Jamie Johnson, Denise Goent- zel, Debra Tredway, Coach Schaffer. Photo by Denise Woods girls’ Basketball Front row- Charlene Creed, Angie Web- ster, Jamie Donley, Jennifer Rivers; sec- ond row-Denise Goentzel, Jamie Rebold, Debra Tredway, Tammy Burton. Amy Madison-, third row-Coach Schaffer, Deb- bie Wege, Jamie Johnson, Jennifer Davis, Michelle Ward, and Coach Metz. Photo by Denise Woods. girls’ Zrnek Front row-Amy Madison, Angie Webster, Jamie Donley, Charlene Creed, Jennifer Rivers; second row-Coach Schaffer, Car- lina Teague, Jami Rebold, Jamie Johnson, Debbie Wege, Denise Goentzel, Coach Metz: third row-Melissa Shelton, Jennifer Davis, Melissa Venskus. Debra Tedway, Tammy Burton, Michelle Ward. Photo by Ms. Myers. Attack With Power And Pride, QuysU! football Front row-T. L. Price, Robert Dorman, Jimmy Lee, Kent Collingsworth, Herb Lemke; second row-Jason Metz, Chad Moore, Marc Wynn, Travis Scott, Brad Young, Blake Nethercot, Chad Gressel) third row-(standing) Chris Womack, Don- nie Penningtone, Jeremy Owens, Tony Rush, Jared Bratcher, David Parks, Brian Sibbe, (standing) Coach Kehres; fourth row-Clinton Bales, Gene Thomas, Mike Peters, Jeff Sawyer, Brian Lemke, Jody Hendricks, Jeff Elwood, and Coach Randy Parks. Photo by Ms. Myers. basketball Front row-David Wixon, Chad Gressel, Brad Young, Tony Rush, Jeremy Owens, Chad Moore, Travis Scotti second row- Coach Randy Parks. David Parks, Mike Peters, Robert Dorman, Tyson DeMint, Brian Scibbe, Jimmy Lee, Jarid Bratcher, Coach Lonnie Bratcher; third row-Kent Collingsworth, T. L. Price, Mike Kelly, Jason Metz, Bradley Foster, Jeff Sawyer, Jody Hendricks, Chris Womack, and Clin- ton Bales. Photo by Ms. Myers. boys’ Zrnck Front row-Jody Hendricks, David Wixon, Jeremy Owens, Jarid Bratcher, Mike Pe- ters, Jeff Elwood; second row-Blake Neth- ercot, Tony Rush, Brad Young, Travis Scott, March Wynn, Justin Rouch, Clint Bales, Chad Moore, Mike Kelly-, third row- Coach Randy Parks. David Parks, Jeff Sawyer, Brian Skibbe. Chris Womack, Ty- son DeMintf, Christian Abston, Jim Mill- er, Robert Dorman, Brian Lemke; fourth row-Bradley Foster, T. L. Price, Herb Lemke, Donnie Pennington, Kent Collings- worth, Jimmie Lee, Chad Gressel, and Jason Metz. Photo by Ms. Myers. 55 Pursuing Musical Zalents Jn . . Front row-Stephen Stephens, Jason Delp, Leslie Starlin, Karen Price, Kevin Price, Amy Neises, Heather Ward, Melissa Miller, Robbie Dorman, Charlene Creed, Buffy Sawyer, Mr. Paul Banks. Director-, second row-Travis Scott, Angela Woods, Crystal Rivers. Angela Webster, Jeff Elwood, David Parks. Christian Abston. Jeff Goyer, Dean Hodges, Brande Brown, third row-Linda Davis. Tony Rush, Jared Bratcher, Blake Nethercot, Chad Gressel, T.L. Price, Jennifer Rivers, Jennifer Davis, Camille Sneed, Melissa Venskus, fourth row-Debra Tredway. Amy Madison, Debbie Wege, Jamie Johnson, Debbie Wege. Mike Kelley. Brian Lemke, Jeff Sawyer, Jason Metz, Chad Bartleson. Clinton Bales, Herb Lemke, Jamie Donley. Michelle Ward. Front row-Charlene Creed, Christian Abston. Justin Roueh, Brad Young, Tony Rush. Chad Moore, Jon Jones, Trinia Higgins; second row-David Parks, Blake Nethercot. Angie Webster, Jimmy Lee, Jennifer Davis, Brian Skibbe, Jamie Donley, Carlina Teague. Rob- bie Dorman. Jared Bratcher; third row-Jeff Elwood. Herb Lemke. Clinton Bales. Donnie Pennington. Tammy Burton, Debra Tred- way. Denise Goentzel. Amy Madison, Linda Davis, T.L. Price. Jennifer Rivers; fourth row-Tyson DeMint. Michelle Ward. Debbie Wege, Jeff Sawyer, Bradley Foster. Brian Lemke, Mike Kelley. Jason Metz, Jamie Johnson. Melissa Shelton. Rachel Aslip. and Mrs. Diane Bradbury. Director. 6th Qr. Choir Front row-Nathan Cook. Melissa Miller, Amy Neises, Tyson Abies, Kevin Price. Bryan Buss. Trieia Shelton-, second row-Karen Price. Heather Ward, Steven Ste- phens. Henry Bieler, Leslie Starlin. Angela Woods, Jeff Goyer; third row-Jason Delp, Crystal Rivers, Maria Rowe. Brande Brown. Jake Burr. Daysha Lee, Dean Hodges. Buffy Sawyer; back row-Chris Jordan, Misty Carson. Mike Little, Chad Bartleson, Camille Sneed, Joey Coffey; Chrisy Bieler, Carrie Shaffer. Photo by Denise Woods. Sixth Qrade Top lefl-Camille Sneed sits on the edge of her chair listening to an exciting lecture about the Space Shuttle. Left-Learning how to use the computer in Mr. Parks’ class finds Chad Bartelson, Dean Hodges, Brande Brown, Amy Neises, Bryan Buss, Karen Price. Leslie Starlin, Kevin Price, and Patricia Shelton caught up in the mystery of it all. Tyson Abies Chad Bartelson Christina Bieler Henry Bieler Brande Brown Jake Burr Bryan Buss Misty Carson Joey Coffey Nathan Cook Jason Delp Heather Ward Jeff Goyer Dean Hodges Daysha Lee Melissa Miller Amy Neises Karen Price Kevin Price Crystal Rivers Maria Rowe Buffy Sawyer Carrie Shaffer Particia Shelton Camille Sneed Stephen Stephens Leslie Starlin Angela Woods Michael Little Joe Henning 57 Tiftk Qrade Nicholas Abston Troy Clark Cristy Coffey Wade Crain Brent Creed Curtis Goentzel Christina Gosselin Sabrina Hall Tanya Hayes Jon Hege Thomas Henning Sheila Horinek Janelle Jenkins Marvin Jones Amy Kreidler April Lemke Chad Mayberry Wade Moore Daniel Pasman Justin Payne Elizabeth Rebold Amy Robare Larry Rokhling Layla Rouch Stephanie Sauzek Leigh Schoech Jannifer Scott Tricia Scott Angela Schaffer Craig Sneed Tiffany Utt Corey Vaughn Ryan Webster Lori Uchiyama Mrs. Schiff s class does a bit of independent study before going to recess. Daniel Pasman and Jenelle Jenkins point out different locations on a world map. 58 fourth Qradc Stephanie Adams Cassie Bales Michael Black Robert Bowlby Ginger Carson Dustin Conner Heath Cooper Angela Davis Jeff Donley Wendy Falk Wilbur Gosselin Roy Hervey Brandy Knowles Eric Lacey Odessa Lee Tevra Madison Deborah Martin Christopher Middleton Arvin Morris Ashley Morris Jennifer Myrick Brody O’Hearn Brandon Paris Brian Parson Casey Pennington Jerrod Peters Jennifer Rohling Shae Savoy Brad Starlin Curtis Thompson Andrew Webster Julie Welty Robert Welty Daniel Wollard Donald Wollard Katrina Wollard Right-Andy Webster, Michael Black and Curtis Thompson enjoy the sunshine while playing during recess. -Sandy Bain and Tom Short enjoy a dance. Hey! Where’s Keri Thomas?” J-”We can't go anywhere in public without being recognized ’ says Dana Gaither to Elaine Denson. Smile for our public, dar- ling. We are stars!” i-Another John Travolta? Strut your stuff, Jeff Middleton! Clcssy Yvette Abston boogies to the beat. Looks like they're havin' fun! 4- ”You mean they have camera here, too? Jimmy Neises, one of I986’s biggest celebrities — ’’Please, no autographs.” 5-Getting down. Sandy Farha takes a turn with Tim Zimmerman . . . Look out Catherine Elwood! 6-”Oh. my! Is this going in the yearbook? But your dress is identical to Sandy Farha’s dress! exclaims Elaine Denson to Dana Gaither. 7-Joel Con- nors and Kelly Bell dance the night away. tf-Curtis Farha is still jamming with Jeffrey Leggett in the background while Tammy Bingham and Kassa Col- lingsworth try to give directions to the cookies. Was the Cookie Monster at the Prom? 9-Mrah! Mrah! Jeff Leggett and Curtis Farha get down and boogie away with first place in the dance contest. Don’t they look snazzy??!! O-Couples everywhere. Boy girl, girl boy and even boy boy! Everyone’s having a blast and getting down. Looks like loads of fun!! -It's a bird. It’s a plane . . . No!!! It’s Rambo Weeble (alias David Lowry) stepping on his lovely assistant Debbie Torres’ toes. These two pages are dedicated to Mr. Bill McReynolds, Junior Class Sponsor and O.H.S. art director, for the many years he gave the juniors his time to help put on a successful prom and for the time and effort he gave to all of his past future” artists. Thanks isn’t enough! You will be missed!! The Journalism staff proudly dedicates these pages to you. Zhini Qrndc Mark Bieler Amy Crain Naaman Darby James Dargel Nathan Falk Jason Gall Brandon Gressel Randy Havner Patrick Hendricks Dallas Henry Christina Hills Kimberly Houk Ellie Johnson Jenny Kreidler Steven Lawson Chad Long Heather Marymee Rachel Morton Jeff Nethercot Heath Nixon Leslie Parsons Mac Pingry Justin Rankin Danielle Ring Phillip Rush Kyle Ruyle Marcie Shaffer Jennifer Starlin Shane Starlin Jamie Thomas Michael Tredway Jennifer Turner Amy Utt Stephanie Voyles Craig Wartick Jamie Widener Carrie Works The third grade students sing their little hearts out for Mrs. Dobbs in music class and really do enjoy the whole event. Second Qrade James Bieler Dustin Cook Michael Evans Nathan Halbert Jamie Hamilton Lesley Heater Sarah Hervey Christina Hetzler Heather Huffman Shawn Jimenez Paul Jordan Christopher Knapp Elizabeth Lemke Mary Eva Logsdon Weylin Paris Denise Parson Allison Paton Charissa Rouch Michael Sandborn Kasey Sawyer Russell Schoech Desiree Schultz Brenton Shaffer Rae Skibbe Colette Sneed Amy Thompson William Weldon Rebecca Wilson CleAnn Wynn Christopher Knapp shows his friends the stegosaures in Mrs. Wag- goner’s second grade class. First 0mde Shelly Bartelson Lacey Browning Bren! Foster Jon Havner Laura Hetzler Joshua Jarvis Jason Jordan Elizabeth King Justin Kreidler Robert McCann Amber Morris Jess Neal Katherine Pasman Clinton Potucek Andy Robare Kevin Ruyle Nick Ruyle Bennie Rush Daniel Spoon Kelly Utt Brandy Works Not pictured: Angilee Burger Becky Peters April Smith Amber Venskus Top-Katherine Pasman and Shelly Bartleson check out new books in their brand new li- brary. Second from the top-Laura Hetzler watches her teacher for further instructions on her first trip to the new library. 64 Second from the bottom-We find Kelly Utt. Lacey Browning, Angilee Burger, Katherine Pasman, and Shelly Bartleson ready to learn how to use the library and check out books for the first time. Bot- tom-All the first graders form a semi- circle on the carpeting and wait to begin looking for an interesting book to read. Kinamjmm Heather Alexander Dawn Buss Justin Carson Carrie Conover Lee Dickson J. Leo Eastman Trena Falk Amber Halbert Erinn Hamilton Jason Hills Crystal Hinkson Jasmine Hodges Greg Horinek Laci Houk Erik Huffman Anna Johnson Robert Jordan Kathleen Lemke Kristen Martinez Raymond Nelson Joshua Nixon Stephen Parks Stacy Proulx Amanda Scott Robert Shockey Tyson Sivils Ronald Slavens Amanda Smith Jason Stoddard K.L. Stoddard Jeremi Tate Derek Totten Ryan Bain Jarritt Wartick April Weldin Megan White Bottom left-Derek Totten colors a picture while listening to Mrs. Green read a story. Bottom right-During their recess break, Megan White. Dawn Buss. K.L. Steddard and Crystal Hiltzman play on the teeter totters. 65 I. Paul Newhouse putting it bluntly, Get your hand off iny shoulder before I break your face!” 2. Travis Beeman asks, You’re gonna do what? Don't you touch my Bazooka bubble gum!” 3. I study oh, I study oh, it’s off to school I go,” whistles Christine Thompson. 4. This music is driving me crazy! Please! No more!” exclaims Jeff Leggett. 5. Tammy Bingham is decked out on all game days from her fingernails to her wild socks, all red and black. 6. You’ve got to be kidding if you think we’re gonna pose for a picture,” says Kathy Rakestraw, Debbie Stover, Shan- non Hardman, and Tina Burton. 7. Cry- stal Hiitzman is thinking, Adults these daysl They let us kids run around in the halls at games and eat junk food I What are we gonna do with them?” 8. Gretchen Moore says, Say what?! You ain’t gonna take my picture! Yvette Abston replies, I can't believe she took our picture!” 9. Go ahead and make my day. Give me another black eye. says Rachael Bratcher. riiT Stu-Co Works Hard Zo (join’ maammm Front row-Julie Nethercot, Tammy Bingham, Sandy Bain, Eden Sauzek, Sandy Farha Second row-Mr. Wyckoff (Sponsor), Michelle Russell, Yvette Abston, Catherine Elwood, Aaron Oliver, Denise Woods; Third row- Shani Hicks, John Cooney, Jason Catlin, Keri Thomas, Steven Bratcher, Bart Dennett, and Paul Jones. John Cooney, Vice President; Sandy Bain, Treasurer.• Catherine Elwood, President; and Denise Woods, Secretary. Ccttcrman 's Club Kun Zhe Concessions Front row-Mr. Kehres, Billy Wotlard. David Ballard, Tony Schmitz. Robbie Janzen, Mr. Abstorv, second row-Mr. Hunt, Curtis Farha. Donnie Stutzman, Jerry Middleton. John Cooney. David Lowry. Travis Beemani third row-Ross Voge, Ronnie Gaither. Steven Bratcher. Jimmie Neises, Ken Whaley. Jeff Leggett, Mark Jones, and Bart Dennett. by Denise Woods Adding new life to an old organi- zation. Ms. Myers, the new Na- tional Honor Society sponsor, chal- lenged the usually quiet and inac- tiv e organization to do something they’ve before never accom- plished. to host a Scholar’s Bow! Tournament on Saturday. March 14. The High-0 team created ques- tions and Todd DeMint, team cap- tam. snuggiy fit everything else into place. To be a member you must have a grade point average above a 3.5 and pass the scrutiny of the teach- ers of being of leadership material with a good attitude toward your school. Front row-Eden Sauzek, Julie Neth- ercot. Jeannie Shelton. Sandy Bain. Tony Schmitz. Ken Thomas. Bart Benner, and Denise Woods. Kay cites Are Very Special by Lori Mooningham On Sept. 24,I9S5, the Ox- ford Kayettes held their an- nual Arthrisis Drive in Ox- ford. This year, as every year, the number of arthri- tis victims increases, yet many of us still do not take this seriously,” said Denise Woods. Many people re- member the polio epidemic 25 years ago terriorizing parents. It is important that people know that MORE children have juvenile ar- thritis with its potential for crippling, that were ever struck down by polio in any 10 year span. The Kayettes were able to raise $244.22 to help in arthritis re- search. The town of Oxford Hoard has really been helpful and generous and the Kayettes thank you. by Denise Woods Dressed in costumes, the Kayettes met at Riverview Manor to sing Halloween carols to Christmas carol tunes. The resthome gave the Kayettes bags of pop- corn as a special treat and appreciation for coming. Later the girls drove to Keri Thomas’ home for the party down by the river for a potluck supper. After the meal, the games started. To finish up the evening, all went back down to the riv- er to see who could tell the scariest story around the bonfire, listening to the Chainsaw Massacre told by Mrs. Book, were scared out of their wits when a chain- saw roared to life in the darkness. A man emerged from the trees with a chain- saw roaring in his arms. Screaming, the girls ran to huddle around the fearless leader, Mrs. Book, to find out the man was Kenny Thomas, Keri's father. by Cammie Villa On Dec. 20th, a Christ- mas program was present- ed to the student body by the Kayettes. Two games shows were played, Family Feud and Body Language. Family Feud consisted of two teams, and it was played with rules from the TV show. The teachers won. The second game was Body Language and the ob- ject was to have one person on the team try to guess the word that the other person was acting out. Mr. Kehres and Mr. Rinehart did an excellent job — so well in fact rumor had it they were going to go look- ing for professional jobs do- ing this. Front row-Melynda Lacey, Buffy Buss, Julie Nethercot, Michelle Russell; second row-Eden Satizek. Kristy Hendricks, Yvette Abston (President), Dama Oliver. Crystal Howard, Sonia Young (Secre- tary,); third row-Jeannie Shelton, Catherine Elwood, Keri Thomas (Treasurer), Denise Woods, Sherri Wege. Becky Woods, and Sandy Bain (Vice-President). Upperclassmen From row-Mrs. Book (Sponsor), Jeannie Shelton. Shawn Alsip, Penny Ernbrey, Kassa Collingsworth, Tammy Bingham, Flame Denson. Michelle Russell-, second row-Gretchen Moore. F:den Sauzek. Kristy Hendricks, Yvette Abston, Jennifer Long, Sandy Bain. Sandy Farha; third row-Faye Stutzman. Catherine Elwood, Pat Betzen, Ken Thomas, Denise Woods, Sherry Bieler, Sonia Young, and Becky Woods. Front row-Mr!. Book (Sponsor), Sabrina Marsh. Cristy Smith, Tina Burton, Cherri Ward. Melynda Lacey, Julie Nethercot, Hilary Sauzek. Sherry Myrick-, second row-Sherry Taylor. Tara Estes. Louise Hall. Cristine Thompson. Shannon Johnson. Dama Oliver. Kathy Rakestraw, Crystal Howard. Debbie Stover. Nikki Owens; third row- Rhonda Smith, Shannon Hardman. Dana Gaither, Sham Flicks. Buffy Buss. Sherri Wege. Rachel Bratcher. Annette Neises. JoDe Potucek. Cindy Betzen. and Mary Prochaska. JCowerclassmcH Senior Kayettes Jnitiate 1- Rachel Bratcher removes her blind fold after she is finished being a human target at the annual Kayette initiation ceremonies. 2- Freshmen Cristine Thompson and Sherry Myr- ick are blind folded and made to pass hot dogs at the slumber party. 3- Cherri Ward ponders at what will happen next- Jas she gets ready to pass her hot dogs in the: relay. Zhe 3resimum Class Of 86 4-Freshman Dama Oliver poses for a picture after the initiation is over and she still looks j good. 5 Senior Denise Woods looks on as her little sister Hilary Sauzek imitates alfalfa at the initi- jf at ion prior to the slumber party. 6-Rachel Brather has been blinded and made into! a human target by her Kayette big sister, Kristy) Hendricks. I'm sure if you ask any of the Kayettes, they will say it was a blast and any of the freshmen will say it was not only fun but fllfy wgrili it................... ..... HHHH by Sandy Farha It all started in mass confusion: seniors running around trying to get things set up for the initiation part, photographers trying to get their cameras loaded in order to get some of this in pictures, fresh- men scared and trying to find out how bad it’s going to be and ev- eryone else trying to find a good seat to watch the action without getting any of the action on them. The initiation was fun for all but to describe it in detail would ruin it for the freshmen of the future. Afterwards came the skits that were-well-let’s just say they were original. After all of the entertain- ment we all grabbed our pillows, sleeping bags, and blankets and then we curled up on the lunch- room floor in front of the VCR. At 5-.00 A M. those of us who had stayed up all night had the plea- sure of waking up the sleepy heads. I Faye Stutzman, Basketball Homecoming Queen candidate, tries to just relax before she is exeorted out onto the basketball court. 2-Gazing at the remaining corsages, Sonia Young and Denise Woods wonder how the corona- tion will turn out. 3- Please don't stick me,” warns Denise Woods, senior, to her sister, Becky, as she takes her own sweet time pinning on the corsage. 4-Making last min- ute changes, Denise Woods and Sonia Young adjust corsages to in- sure they will stay. 5-Unaware about what’s going to happen, Clint Evens, junior, is about to get a dose of the Wildcat spirit by Penny Embrey and Elaine Denson. 6- Where do you think it goes,” asks Fay Stutzman, senior, to Lori Mooningham. junior, as they figure out were the corsage would look the best. 7-Finally deciding where the corsage belongs, Mrs. Hunt pins on the corsage. 8-Kathy Ra kestraw, Crystal Howard, and Faye Stutzman keep their hands busy to help with their burning curiosity. 9-”Please do it right this time.” warns Denise Woods, sen- ior. to Becky Woods, junior, as she replaces the corsage. IO”it’s ail here.” proclaims Catherine El- wood. junior, to Mrs. Hunt, pepclub sponsor, as they check for last minute hangups. Il-Patiently wait- ing, Catherine Elwood, Mrs. Hunt. Rhonda Smith, and Lori Moon- Pep Club I feel we started the year out great as far as spirit goes but as the year pro- gressed the spirit was left behind, not only in pep club but also in the entire school. Attendance in pep club was very low at most of our games after football season. I felt that there was more crowd involvement this year than usual. More parents were involved and it was ap- preciated. Let's hope next year is better and that we can keep people more inter- ested and involved. I know we can do better so let's all give it our all! Let's show that wildcat spirit! Sandy Farha inghatn find ways to pass the time till the coronation. 12. Front row- Mrs. Hunt, S. Bain, F. Stutzman, D. Woods; second row E. Denson, T. Bingham, K. Collingsworth. Y. Ab- ston, K. Thomas, C. Elwood, S. Farha, and B. Woods-, third row-S. Marsh, C. Smith, M. Russell. K. Gill, E. Sauzek, T. Lowry, M. Lacey; fourth row-. Talyor. T. Estes, D. Gaither, B. Buss, S. Wege, A. Nejses. J. Potuchek. J. Nethercot, R. Smith; fifth row R. Bratcher, D. Stover. K. Rakestraw. C. Howard. C. Ward. D. Oliver, FT Sauzek; sixth row-T. Burton. M. Prochaska, S. Hardman, S. Myrick. and C. Thompson. (Picture 12 by Jennifer Long) Photos I-11 by Ms. Myers. fSSBBEB M I -c hrista McAuliffe, a high school teacher from Concord, N.H., folds her training uniform as she packed for a trip to Houston where she began training for her trip into space in January, I9S6. 2-On Jan. 2S, 1986. the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded minutes after take-off making it the first in-flight disaster in 56 manned U.S. space missions, i-Super Bowl XX champions. Chicago Bears Jim McMahon and kicker Kevin Butler, on the sidelines during the game. 4-Cincinatti Reds player-manager Peter Rose broke Ty Cobb's career hit record in September. The historic No. 4,192 hit was a single to left field on a 2 1 pitch from San Diego Padres right hander Eric Show. 5 The Kansas City Royals won the World Series. Royals pitcher Bret Saberhagen embraces third baseman George Brett after pitching a five-hitter to give the Royals the World Series crown over the St. Louis Cardinals. Saberhagen, the winner of two series games, was named as the MVP in the series. AP WORLD PRESS PHOTOS. Jn Zhe Pursuit Of Winning High Q I Denise Woods, Paul Newhouse, Todd DeMint, and Keri Thomas discuss their response to a bonus question at the Topeka, KS Super Saturday at Washburn University. 2-Cristine Thompson and Sherry Myrick look and listen as the moderator reads a question at a pre season scrimmage with Belle Plaine early in the fall. l-Keri Thomas and Aaron Oliver ponder before telling the team captain if they have an answer to the bonus question at the Belle Plain-Oxford pre-season scrimmage. 4-The 1985-$6 High Q team members.- by Todd DeMint The High-Q team actually went to some tournaments, and showed great improvement. The varsity team consisted of Todd DeMint, team captain, Keri Thomas, Aaron Oliver, Paul Newhouse, Paul Jones, and Denise Woods. They participated in tournaments in Derby, El Dorado, Topeka, Eureka, and Wellington, and had two scrimmages with Belle Plaine. They defeated such teams as Wichita North, Augusta, and Bishop Carroll. They got to have a high ol’ time before, between, and after each match of a tournament like playing frisbee, pigging out, and cruising with Ms. Myers. The JV team consisted of Aaron Oliver, JV captain, Adam Oliver, Kevin McClung, Tony Schmitz, Cristine Thompson, Sherry Myrick, Jennifer Long, and Sandy Bain. They participated in the Oxford Tournament, in the Wellington Tournament, and in a freshmen tournament in Derby. The Oxford Invitational Scholars’ Bowl Tournament, though officially hosted by the Honor Society, was put on jointly by the High-Q team and NHS. The High-Q team supplied the funds, wrote the questions, worked at the tournament, and bought lunch for everyone with money earned from taking gate at home games. Its success depended greatly on the judges; Larry Clark, Roberta Hiltzman, and Ralph Abston. From row-Aaron Oliver, Paul Newhouse, Cristine Thompson; Second row-Jennifer Long, Keri Thomas. Tony Schmitz (an NHS Member), Sandy Bain (an NHS member); third row-Todd DeMint (THE TEAM CAPTAIN). Paul Jones, Denise Woods, and Sherry Myrick. Not pictured are Adam Oliver and Kevin McClung members of the Freshmen team. and Sponsor Ms. Myers. 5-The Varsity Team members consisted of Paul Ne- whouse, Aaron Oliver, Keri Thomas, Captain Todd DeMint, alternate Denise Woods, and the Sponsor, Mrs. Myers. 6-Keri Thomas pauses be- fore buzzing in to answer. 7-Mrs. Aikens moder- ates the game and Paul Newhouse intently lis- tens. S-At WIBW Super Saturday, Todd DeMint raises his hand and prepares to answer a ques- tion. 9-Jennifer Long, Sherry Myrick. Todd De- Mint. Cristine Thompson, and Paul Newhouse await for the round to begin against Belle Plaine. 10-As the judge reads a question, the varsity team quietly and patiently listen. Photos by Ms. Myers. Hut One! Hut Zwo! by Denise Woods Hut three! The football snaps toward quarterback, Jeff Leggett’s open hands. He hurls the oval ball to running back, Jerry Middleton’s waiting arms who grasps the ball. In long, swift strides, Middleton goes for a much needed touchdown. THUMP! Middleton slowly rises from the tackle ready to do it again if he should be passed another ball in the next play. That was how the season was in a nutshell. Starting off without a hitch, Oxford devoured Collegiate, South Barber, and West Elk. THUMP! Oxford gets tackled off their run of victories by Sedgwick, Bluestem and Caldwell. During the Caldwell game, the half-time score was 0-0 and Caldwell was getting nervous because no other team had managed to play that well against them this season. To stop the losing streak, Oxford devoured Cedar Vale. Nonetheless, Central barely defeated Oxford in their next game by two points. The league playoffs loomed ahead and a chance to take a title. However, the Wildcats were caged in their attempts by Udali for the last game of the season. The Head Coach of the team was Mr. Dave Hunt. Mr. David Kehres and Mr. Ralph Abston were his assistants. The team’s senior players were; Steven Bratcher, All League Offensive Interior Line and Defensive Linebacker; Ronnie Gaither; Jeff Gill; All League Defensive End; Jimmie Neises-, Ross Voge-, and Ken Whaley, All League Offensive Runningback and Honorable Mention Defensive Back. When asked what he thought about the season Ronnie Gaither replied, ’’The season just wasn’t long enough.” Top left-Coach Kehres studies the football game critically. Right-Coach Abston and the football team members are eagerly waiting for coach Hunt to tell them what the game plan is. Middle- Winner of All League Defensive Backer and Offensive Guard, Steven Bratcher poses for his senior portrait. First row: Chris Creed, Aaron Oliver, Joel Horsch, Adam Oliver, Mark Hatfield, and Robbie Janzen. Second row: Assistant Coach Dave Kehres, Steven Deyoe, Curtis Farha, John Cooney, Tim Hayes, Jason Catlin, Hank Denson, and Drake Ven Deest. Third row: Bart Dennett, Mark Jones, Billy Wollard, David Lowry, Lawrence Carson, David Ballard, and Ken Whaley. Fourth row: Travis Beeman. Jeff Leggett. Ronnie Gaither, Steve Bratcher, Jeff Gill, Jimmy Neises, and Head Coach Dave Hunt. Not pictured Assistant Coach Ralph Abston. Hustling to get his helmet on, Steven Bratcher anxiously waits to reenter the game as Mr. Abston watches the game intensely. OHS vs. Wichita Collegiate 7-0 OHS vs. South Barber 14-8 OHS vs. West fclk 20-S OHS vs. Sedgwick 6-33 OHS vs. Bluestem 6-20 OHS vs. Caldwell 0-21 OHS vs. Cedar Vale 14-8 OHS vs. Central 6-8 OHS vs. Udall 12-20 Overall record: 4-5 League record: 2-4 Oxford is down to action as they get ready to hike the ball. 81 (( Zhe Oxford Cheerleaders by Sandy Farha Cheerleading went well this yean there was definitely a very positive attitude. The cheer- leaders were Seniors Sandy Bain, Kenna Kendrick; Juniors Sandy Farha, Eden Sauzek, and Sopho- mores Melynda Lacey and Tammy Lowry. At the Watermelon Feed talent show the cheer- leaders entertained the community with a dance routine they had learned at camp. This summer the girls really worked hard, not only getting ready for cheerleading camp, but also doing hard work on their own time to earn money to buy cheerleading jackets. On the final week before camp, the girls prac- ticed every day after work and other activities. Everything worked out great at camp due to the tremendous dedication and I mean big time dedi- cationi At camp, which lasted four days, the girls really put an effort to be a number I” from beginning to end. On day one, when the girls were checking in, they began with that 110% effort by being extra friendly to fellow cheerleaders. They also deco- rated their hall to show what great spirit they had. The girls were really outgoing and nice to everyone there. They introduced themselves to all the girls in their hall and made friends with everyone they met. The girls also made an extra effort to make the cheerleaders from the Kansas School of the Deaf feel at home. During the evalu- ations, time when judged or tested, the Oxford girls made vibrations on the floor to show their applause for the deaf, instead of merely applaud- ing. The final day after the last evaluation everyone went into the huge gymnasium for a last good-bye and to receive awards and other prizes. The Ox- ford cheerleaders knew they had done well and thought they'd get 3rd or 2nd place. When 3rd place was given out and the 2nd place was given to the school they thought would get 1st, the girls really started to worry. They couldn’t have possi- bly won 1st, could they? They started to really sweat. Things were running through their heads — Let’s see, we did very well at all of our evalua- tions. We were friendly and outgoing and we even looked alike from our outfits to the way we all wore our hair the same exact way.” on and on messages ran through their heads. They were all sitting the same exact way and clenching hands together and yes, prayingl Then 1st place was announced. Oxford High Schooll” screams and yells were heard. They were hugging each other, crying and running to the front of the gym to receive their ribbons and, of course, the best part of it all, the trophyl Congratulations girls you deserve itl The girls have really put a great effort into cheer- leading this year. They really cheered on and sup- ported our teams. Thanks alot girls for putting in an extra 110%. It’s appreciated and so are you. The cheerleaders, set out this year with one thing in mind — To make a name for the Oxford Cheer- leaders — To be the best they can be and to be 1.1 think they have accomplished it and are a great success. Don’t you agree? Let’s keep up the great workl Top- Hey goodlooking! You should be in picturesl Congratulations on first placel Look at those ear to ear grins. Are they happy or what? Below- Shedding tears of happiness and joy the cheer- leaders all hug each other. We did itl Great jobl Above- What a classy group! The Ox- ford 1985-86 cheerleaders are bottom: Junior. Sandy Farha. second row: Ju- nior. Eden Sauzek. Senior, Sandy Bain, Sophomores. Meylnda Lacy and Tammy Lowry and Senior, Kenna Ken- drick. Far left- Check it out! At camp from day one the cheerleaders were identi- cal from their outfits to their hair. Looking sharp ladies! Left- Aren't they cute? Little piggy tails and dressed in pink. Now it’s off to evaluation. Ffurry! This page sponsored by Walnut Valley Lanes Winfield. KS Scoreboard South Haven . . . . L Argonia ............L South Haven . . . . L Caldwell ...........L South Barber .... W Norwich ............W Argonia ............W Douglass ...........L Udall ..............L Garden Plain ......L Fairfield ..........L West Elk ...........L Bluestem ...........L Christian Ch ......L Caldwell ...........L Dexter .............W Udall ..............L Cedar Vale ........L Central ............L Top left-Annette Neises concentrates as she serves the ball. Below-Kassa Collingsworth blocks a spike. Sandy White anticipat- ing is ready to help Kassa if she needs it. Top right Kassa Collingsworth waits anxiously for her team mem- ber to serve the ball so she can get in on the action. Bottom middle-Sandy Bain and Tammy Lowry laugh to relieve some of the strain of a hard game. Bottom right-Kassa Collingsworth spikes the ball fiercely against Udall as her team members look on. V Js dor Volleyball We didn’t actually win all of the time, but we all had fun. We learned so much; experience is what we needed. We all were young in experience; not many of us had played in a game let alone start on Varsity. Maybe we didn’t win as many games as expected from us because of tradition, but we tried our best and we think that was enough.” said Eden Sauzek summing up the year. by Eden Sauzek Roberta Hiltzman coached the 1985-86 Wildcat Volleyball team. Jan Slack was Mrs. Hiltzman's assistant. She also coached the Junior Varsity to their record of 2 wins and 7 losses. The four seniors this year were: Jeanne Shelton, Sandy Bain, Angie Williams, and Sandy White. The other Varsity players are: Keri Thomas, Kristen Gill, Michelle Russell, Eden Sauzek, Kassa Collingsworth, and Tammy Bingham. The Junior Varsity alternates were Tammy Lowry, Melynda Lacey, Sherri Wege, and JoDe Potucek. This season was a learning one with a lot of hard work and dedication to the sport, even though our record of 4 wins and 15 losses doesn’t seem to show it. We had a young team, and so I think that next year will be a better season with the year of experience behind us.” Roberta Hiltzman, Coach. Front row: Assistant Coach Jan Slack. Jeanne Shelton, Sandy White. Sandy Bain, Angie Williams, and Head Coach Roberta Hinkson. Second row: manager Julie Nethercot. Kassa Collingsworth. Tammy Bingham, Kristen Gill. Michelle Russell. Keri Thomas, and manager Yvette Abston. Third row, JoDe Potucek, Melynda Lacey. Tammy Lowry. Dama Oliver. Cherri Ward. Hilary Sauzek. Christine Thompson, Crystal Howard. Rachel Bratcher, and Kathy Rakestraw. Fourth row: Debbie Torres. Dana Gaither. Shannon Johnson. Annette Neises. Sherri Wege, Buffy Buss. Sherry Myrick. and Mary Prochaska. Excitement is troys’ Basketball The Varsity team: first row - Jeff Gill, Steve Bratcher, Bart Dennett, Wade Metz, Shayne Morris. Ross Voge. Jeff Leggett and Ken Whaley. Second row - Jason Catlin. Jerry Middleton, Curtis Farha, Mark Jones and Tony Schmitz. by Denise Woods Roaring crowds and warring opponents is what you found while attending the boys’ games. During the close games electrified excitement grew as both teams played their heart out for the covetted win. Accumulating a record of 8-12 the Wildcats played hard throughout the whole season. The top overall Wildcat scorer was Bart Dennett with a total of 217 points. The second overall Wildcat scorer was Jason Catlin with 210 points. This years' graduating seniors were Steve Bratcher, Jeff Gill, Ken Whaley, and Ross Voge. All-League titles were presented to Bart Dennett, junior, and Jason Catlin, freshman. 1 felt that everybody tried real hard. We lost a lot of close games and felt it was due to inexperience. I felt that there’ll be a good group coming out next year and they’ll do quite well next year. 1 was really proud of the effort no matter the circumstances in the game,” says head coach Dave Hunt. ”1 thought it was very exciting getting to play as a Freshman. We had a very good team we just couldn’t get together. I thought we did very well for most of the guys not having much varsity playing time.” says Jason Catlin. Front row - Head Coach Dave Hunt. Ken Whaley, Bart Dennett. Ross Voge. Jeff Gill. Steve Bratcher. Jerry Middleton and Assistant Coach Larry Book. Second row - Eddie White. Tony Schmitz. Curtis Farha. Shayne Morris. Jeff Leggett. Mark Jones. Wade Metz and Robbie Janzen. Third row ■ Chris Creed. Joel Horsch. Adam Oliver. Ray Hodges. Steve Deyoe. Jason Catlin. Kevin McClung and Aaron Oliver. IWlDC,) 1U , Determination all over his face. Mark Jones shoots for 1 points. Left-Elected All League, Jason Cat- lin. Freshman A-team player, gets into the game, literally! Bottom left-Bart Dennett, who made All League, attempts to raise the score to a bigger lead over Belle Plaine. Bottom right Hustling against the Belle Plaine Dragons, hometown of Curtis Farha, Curt struts his awesome stuff. • Game Scores Wildcats 47 Otetopa 43 Wildcats 55 Sedan 57 Wildcats 37 West Elk 52 Wildcats 50 Garden Plain 61 Wildcats 53 West Elk 44 Wildcats 36 Belle Plaine 45 Wildcats 52 Udall 53 Wildcats 58 Conway Springs 54 Wildcats 50 Dexter 34 Wildcats 54 Caldwell 57 Wildcats 70 Cedar Vale 51 Wildcats 43 Udall 44 Wildcats 49 Caldwell 51 Wildcats 53 Douglass 53 Wildcats 34 Central 44 Wildcats 44 Argonia 43 Wild-ats 58 8luestem 39 Wildcats 37 Belle Plaine 52 Wildcats 69 Cedar Vale 51 Wildcat 33 Central 50 ' : . • Jerry Middleton shoots a free throw and follows through with some ’’Wildcat” pizzaz! Game Score for Lady Cat Oxford 50 Cheptoa 41 Oxford 33 Sedan 31 Oxford 42 Wett Elk 40 Oxford 32 Garden Plain 40 Oxford 36 Weit Elk 47 Oxford 27 Belle Piaine 23 Oxford 50 Udall 47 Oxford 53 Conway Spring 25 Oxford 45 Dexter 39 Oxford 49 Caldwell 47 Oxford 54 Dexter 38 Oxford 34 Caldwell 51 Oxford 35 Central 32 Oxford 37 Dougla 53 Oxford 28 Central 38 Oxford 60 Argonia 32 Oxford 33 Bluestem 69 Oxford 48 Cedar Vale 32 Oxford 26 Belle Piaine 30 Oxford 29 Cheney 39 I -Driving in for a lay-up. Sandy Bain shoots for 2 points at a game in Wildcat Country. 2-Jumping high for the advantage. Eden Sauzek, junior, attempts to shoot a basket. S-Putting her skills to work. Sandy Bain drives past her opponent. 4-Sandy thinks fast while deciding on her next move. dribbles around to set the Girls’ 1985- histling to receive a pass. Mylinda Lacey 1986 basketball Front row Head Coach DavidKehres. Dama Oliver, Sherry Myrick, Rachel Bratcher, and Asst. Coach Greg Rinehart; second row-Julie Nethercot. Mylinda Lacey, Tammy Lowry, Annette Neises, Jode Potucek, Kassa Collingsworth; third row-Michelle Russell, Sandy Bain, tden Sauzek, Keri Thomas. Kristen Gill, and Gretchen Moore. by Gretchen Moore The girls traveled to Sedan on December II, 12, and 13 to play against Chetopa, West Elk, and Sedan. On December Nth, the girls played Chetopa and won. The next night they played Sedan and won. On Friday, December 13th, the girls played West Elk; they won. They took first in the Sedan tournament and the season was off. After Christmas, the next game was scheduled for January 3rd. Finally the day arrived for the game against West Elk. They played a good game but lost against them but came back to beat Belle Plaine by 4 points. The next game was against Udall. Udall was a tough game; they were behind in the fourth quarter and came back to tie the game in the last few second of the game. They went into overtime. There were 3 minutes to win the game. There were 5 points scored in the overtime, but the girls pulled through-they beat Udall. They were on a roll and were waiting for a challenge after defeating Conway Springs and Dexter. On Friday, Jan. 25, their tougher challenge came. It took three overtimes to beat the Caldwell Bluejays. Mr. Kehres said that the Lady Wildcats played the full 32 minutes to win the game and then some. This game gave the Lady Wildcats a chance to be first in the League. Monday, Jan. 27, the Lady Wildcats travelled to Dexter for the tournament. They played Dexter and beat them again in a complete shut-out. The girls played Caldwell Thursday, Jan. 30, they lost. The girls played Saturday, Feb. I, against Central. They played a tough game. They beat Central by 3 points. They took 3rd in the League Tournament. The next game that was played was against Douglass and they lost. Homecoming, Friday, Feb. 7, the girls took on Central again but lost. Tuesday, Feb. II, the Lady Wildcats played the Argonia Raiders and led all the way. Friday, Feb. 14, the girls travelled to Bluestem. Friday, Feb. 21, the girls once again traveled to Cedar Vale. The girls didn’t start out too well, then after the first half they came back and won the game. Tuesday, Feb. 25, on the road once again the girls went to Belle Plaine and lost the game to them. It was a very close game all the way through. The girls were then seated 3rd in the Sub-State Tournament. They played Cheney at home on March 4th. The girls played tough through the whole game, they just couldn’t bring the score up any higher. ! This page sponsored by Vince Erwin Glass Wellington, KS I think that the tWl season went really well. There wasn’t as many out as we lil e fo See bf.it the ones who were out worked hard and continued to irriprov throughout the season. In the future we must have more participation and we will work toward that end.' The track members that we Nave his year re- presented our schoaf well. Coach Dave Hunt I We had a very small squad with only 2 freshman and 2 seniors. But even though we were a small squad we turned in some very good performances as is evident by the fact that we took 6 people to the regionals. With the good performances that we had this year from so few people, I’m looking forward to having a larger turnout for track next year. Head Coach Ralph Abston We need a lot more people out for track. It helps improve your speed and your indurance. It also helps to improve your ability in other sports.” Ross Voge, runner. We could have had a better year if m e peo- ple would have gone out. But we had the best ones out there tryiijgj I improva T. p fsonal rec hdne year I’rr gSing to break the school’s record.” John Cooney, pole vaulter. TP.ACK Boys' track team members are; Bottom-. Chris Creed. Ross Voge. Kim Payne, and Travis Beeman. Jerry Middleton, and Jeff Leggett. Top-. Tony Schmitz. John Cooney, by Yvette Abston Enduring the pounding rain, the extreme cold and the beating sun rays, the Oxford boys track team came through it all. Showing us that they had it in them to overcome the depleating size and outstanding odds and have a good year. The 85-86 track team was as follows: Seniors — Ross Voge, 100-200 meter dash: Ken Whaley, Pole Vault. Juniors :— Jerry Middleton, hurdles? John Cooney, Pole Vault? Jeff Leggett, Javeline? Donnie Stutzman, high jump-400 meter run? Travis Beeman, shot and discuss. Sophomores — Eddie White, 400 meter run? Kim Payne, shot and discuss? Tony Schmitz, 100-200 meter dash. Freshman — Chris Creed, two mile run. Several of these were fortunate to make it to the regionals meet at Cheny. Those were Ross Voge, Ken Whaley, Jeff Leggett, Donnie Stutzman, and John Cooney. Each member showed be congratulated for holding out and putting forth the effort that has made of proud of our track team. Hoys’ Zmck 91 Kris Gill is seen in action as she puts those mus cles to work throwing the shot put. We were small but we showed them that Oxford still had a track team. It was my best season yet. I have received 12 medals. Hopefully next year we will have more people out.” Julie Nethercot Girls' track team members are bottom: Sandy Bain, Kris Gill, and Kassa Collingsworth. Top: Rachel Bratcher. Cherry Ward, and Julie Nethercot. by Yvette Abston The 1985-86 girls’ track team had a few more obstacles to cross than most with only four members. But they did not let that bother them. They came back and showed us that you can have a smaller team and still have a good season. They were This page sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Thoburn E. Woods Oxford. KS a dedicated bunch that put out time and effort to make this year what it was. Sandy Bain, our only Senior, participated in the long jump. Kristen Gill showed her talents in the shot and disk. Julie Neth- ercot, our only female regional recipient, ran the 100, 200, and 300 meter run. Rachel Bratcher ran the hurdles and the 100, 200 meter dash. Both Coach Hunt and Coach Abston were pleased with the attitude and desire for winning shown throughout the year. Qiris' Zrack The weather sure can mess up a nice hairdo. Kris Gill laughs about the cial. I wonder who it could be? Any guesses? wind good-naturedly. Looks like she's thinking about someone spe- It was pretty toug||(in the beginning. I had doubts about |p g able to make it that I §pfck it out,.Sft!l im- proved ’fn glad 1 stayed out. I 'tfwowlm als £|n d rmpfb dr them. Raonel Bratcher 93 Ice Cream Social . . 96 Arts 'n Crafts ......97 Awards ..............98 Graduation ..........100 Senior Credits .... 102 Prom ............... 104 I -Reading and writing, Mr. Abston, high school librarian, is eager to help the students find whatever they need to excell in school academics or to find pleasure reading from the vast selection of books on the shelves. 2-Keeping up on the news around town, Jenni- fer Long. Junior, reads the Oxford Register during lunch break at school in the library while waiting for the bell to ring. 3. 4. and 5-The high school select the Queens for the Watermelon Feed. Miss Oxford is Sandy Bain, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Bain of Oxford. Jeanne Shelton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Dargel of Geuda Springs is the 1985 Miss Geuda Springs. The reigning queen of Ashton is Pat Bet- zen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Betzen of Ash- ton. 6-Blue Collar troubadour Bruce Springsteen was the undisputed Boss of rock n' roll with songs about Vietnam veterans, steelworkers and fac- tory workers. 1-What's this? Do we find Mrs. Hiltzman skipping class or taking a coffee break? 8- What goes on in a classroom depends if the teacher is absent or present. Ffowever. some students go ahead and study either way. We leave it up to you. Is the teacher in the classroom? 9-President Reagan, with his wife Nancy, gives the A-Okay sign from his hospital window in July '85 after undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his lower in- testine. Spring Wrings fee Cream Social, I-Hilary Sauzek sews the final touches on her pillow. Isn't it cute? I wonder if we can borrow her pillow sometime? 2-Shawn Alsip deco- rates her cake in Home Ec. class. That’s a really pretty cake. Shawn. 3- Look at that beautiful cake! I wonder if it tastes as good as it looks. No one will ever know if I take a tiny taste. Ouch! oh uh. hi. Mrs. Book.” 4-Sherry Myrick and Shannon Hardman share their meal with Mr. Parks. Is that wine? Photos by Kassa Collingsworth Cake 'Decorating, Crafts and lots of fun for £ I Storing hope” for future years, Jimmy Neises made this chest out of Cedar in his first hour shop class. What pattern did you pick for your China. Pugs? 2- 'Don't do tha - thanks. I needed that. says Debbie Stover. Mrs. Book. Dallas O'Hearn. Hilary Sauzek and Christine Thomoson all sit down to something delectable. 3-Rock-a-bye-baby — made by Jennifer Long in 3rd hour shop. The cradle is made out of Cherry. Isn’t that sweet? 4-Steady as she goes. Crystal Howard works on her pillow in Home Ec. I. 5-Jerry Middleton must have decided he needed a desk to study on. I guess he’s finally going to hit the books. (Knock on wood) PHOTOS BY JENNIFER LONG. Oxford High Auditorium Marik 20 and 21 8:00 P.M. Shock Of His Life by Donald Payton produced by special arrangement with Meuer Pub. Co. Mr. Maxwell ....... Tony Schmitz Mrs. Maxwell ................. Denise Woods Wilbur .......................Paul Newhouse Betty Lou ................Kassa Collingsworth Connie ........................ Jennifer Long Hercules ...............................Aaron Oliver The Place: The Maxwell's living room. The Time: An evening of the present. Shut And Bar The Door by Tom Gray Based upon an old English ballad produced by special arrangement with Baker’s Plays. Boston. Mass. 02111 Lenore .........................Mary Prochaska John ...........................Aaron Oliver The Princess ...................Becky Woods The Thief .................................Paul Newhouse Jock .........................Cherri Ward The Prince ................................Ross Voge The Place: Interior of small cottage in Merry Old England. The Time: April evening. The 13th Century. A.D. The Morning After by Philip Johnson and Howard Agg produced by special arrangement with Samuel trench Miss Elizabeth Pratt ...........Sandy Bain Betsy (the maid) ..............Rhonda Smith Miss Julia Scatterpole ...Shani Hicks Miss Amelia Chatterley . . Cristtne Thompson Miss Caroline Grant .......Tammy Bingham The Place: Drawing-room of Miss Pratt’s house. The Time: Valentine’s Day - (SCO’s. Director .............G lay da Wilcoxen Top It is the terror of all Merry Ole’ England,” gloats the Thief. Paul Newhouse. as his student in crime. Cherri Ward, stands by watching her master “Shut and Bar the Door”. Middle left The beautiful and en- chanting princess, Becky Woods, in Shut and Bar the Door’’ pleads for help to John and Lenore to res- cue her prince, Ross Voge. Middle right- This is women’s work” think 13 year old Wilbur, Paul Newhouse, as he lazily sweeps the floor in Shock of His Life. Above- Look! We're rich!” pro- claims John, Aaron Oliver to his lovely wife, Mary Prochaska in “Shut and Bar the Door, but to her is wasn't worth the risk of having her throat slit. Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell. Betty Lou. and Connie (Tony Schmitz, Denise little talk in Shut and Bar the Door.” Woods. Kassa Collingsworth, and Jennifer Long) gather around for a John and Jock (the Thief and his accomplice - - Aaron Oliver and Cherri Ward) get together and plan KSU all the way! yells Todd DeMint. Looks like he has KSLI fever. Look at those bulging eyes! Is there a doctor in the house? Certificate- Cheaper By the Dozen” High-Q Letter Service and Leadership Medal Pepsi, it’s the choice of the new generation, but we don’t have a choice. It is the only pop machine in our school. says Eden Sauzek. Cheerleading Medal 50-word per minute Typing Pin Top Typist Award Volleyball Bar Certificate Original Oratory Certificate National Honor Society Basketball Bar. Certificate £ 1 Patches Certificate Band I rating at State I wonder if any of these books have information on Scottish Terriers. says Keri Thomas. Maybe they have information in the romance novels. Volleyball Bar 6 Certificate Certificate- Cheaper By the Dozen Top Junior English Student National Honor Society High-Q Letter Basketball Bar. and Certificate £ 2 Patches Certificate Band I rating at State Ii qs8 1BI !!! I 9 irn yfW ■ WiDngnri Smile Tony Schmitz. English isn't as bad as Literature! Football Bar Certificate Certificate- Shock of His Life” Basketball Bar Certificate Math Medal National Honor Society Top Sophomore English Student Jennifer Long shows Aaron Oliver the Seniors from when she was a freshmen. Maybe now he knows why the freshmen mind the Seniors, or at least why the class of 87” did. Outstanding Artist in Oxford High Certificate- Cheaper By the Dozen” Shock of His Life High-Q Certificate Journalism Medal S Certificate Certificate- Shut Bar the Door Medal Shock of His Life” Top Freshmen English Student High-Q Letter 101 Football Bar Certificate by Gretchen Moore Prom 1986 started out to be a real adventure. The Juniors first had to raise money. They waited patiently for April 12th to arrive and to decorate. Then, to their amazement, April llth came without a warning. They decorated with burgundy, dusty rose, and silver crepe paper draped from the ceiling, which came together in the middle of the ceiling, and stars were hanging from the center of it, down the sides and the walls. In the hall, they had four pillars that were draped in the burgundy, dusty rose, and silver crepe paper. To walk in, you had to pass through a tunnel. Upon entering, you had the backdrop, a sky scene, where you got your pictures taken, with angel hair in front of it. The entertainment was when the Junior ensemble sang Heaven”, the theme for Prom ’86. The music for the dance was provided by Southwind Productions. We would like to give a special thanks to all who helped with the 1986 Junior and Senior Prom, especially Bill McReynolds, who produced his best and final prom ... we’re gonna miss yal Above-Mouthing the words to the music (or telling her date to slow down) is Keri Thomas. lelt-Flying through the air with the greatest of ease is Ken Wha- ley. Behind him is Steven Bratcher with his arms in the air. Top-As the d.j. plays a fast one, Curtis Farha and Catherine Elwood get out on the dance floor and get down.” Above-Robert Gill and Jennifer Long are really into the rhythm of the music during the dance. Left-A new style in formal attire is Tammy Lowry and her excort, Law- rence Carson, at the Jr. Sr. Prom. Below -Jimmie Neises and Catherine Elwood (she has so many partners!) are out in the center of action and dancing up a storm. left-And the winners are — Jeff Leggett and Curtis Farha. ABOVE- Senior Fay Stutzman enjoys her last O.H.S. Prom. Middle Left- Smiles and good times will only lead to Rachel Bratcher and Law- rence Carson. Right-Is it really Mr. Shayne Morris all dressed up and lookin' like a nicely groomed fel- low? Bottom right- With an expression on face like that, you must know that Penny Embrey is really having fun! c cdod ywtttadMMn' Above- To the right. Ricky. I said to the right!” Srs. Ronnie Faither and Rickie Jenkins at Worlds of Fun. Kansas City will never be same after a trip there by the Class of '86. Right - Totally awesome” Srs. Ronnie Faither, Jimmie Neises, Steven Bratcher. Ross Voge, and Ken Whaley stop and pose for a picture at Worlds of Fun. 104 Left-Valedictorian Denise Woods and the Salutatorian Jeanne Shelton. Below Jeff Gill and Ross Voge at he wheel at Worlds of Fun on the annual senior trip. Lower left-Receiving his diploma from School Board President James Donley is Jimmie Neises. Dedicated to the Class of 1986 Leaving You're leaving the old fun. But gaining the new. With twelve years done, You've paid your due. Away you go. To work or school. There you know. What makes you cool. It depends on you. On how you succeed. So don’t miss the cue. Cause that’s all you need. Getting on the wrong track. Can mess you up. It’s hard to get back. But never give up. by Denise Woods 105 Senior Credits BAIN. SANDY-. Cheerleader 2, 3, 4; Head Cheer- leader 3, 4; Chorus I; Oxfordians I; Spring Play 2; Senior Play 4: Yearbook 3; Newspaper 3; Student Council 3, 4; Student Council Treas. 4 Band I, 2, 3, 4; Band Vice President 3; Band President 4; Band Soloist 4; Kayettes I, 2, 3, 4 Kayette Board 2, 3, 4: Kayette Vice President 4: Pep Club I, 2, 3, 4; Miss Oxford: Who’s Who, Volleyball I, 2, 3, 4, All- League Volleyball 4: Basketball I, 2, 3, 4; Honorable Mention Basketball 4; Track 2, 3, 4 Top Account- ing Student Medal 4; National Honor Society; Top Drama Award 4; 1-Act Certificate and Medal 4. BELL, KELLEY-. League Speech Festival 3. BETZEN. PAT-. Chorus 2, 3, 4; Kayettes I, 2, 3, 4; Miss Ashton-, Recognition for 4 years of Home Ec. Award. BRATCHER, STEVEN, Chorus 4; Spring Play 2; Stu- dent Council I, 2, 4; Band I, 2; Lettermen’s Club 2, 3, 4: Lettermem's Sec. Treas. 3; Lettermen’s President 4; Student Council Representative I, 2, 4; Football I, 2, 3, 4; All-League Offensive Guard; All-League Defensive Linebacker; Basketball I, 2, 3, 4; Track I; Who Who’s 4; Homecoming Escort 4; Speech Play 3. KENNA KENDRICKS DRY. Cheerieading 2, 3, 4, Band 3: Pep Club 2, 3, 4; Kayettes 2, 3, 4; Home- coming Queen 1985. GAITHER, RONNIE-. Chorus 4; Lettermen’s Club 2, 3, 4; Football I, 2, 4; Basketball I, 2, 3; Track I, 2; Speech Play 3. GILL, JEFF-. Fall Play 4; Lettermen’s Club 2, 3, 4; Lettermen’s Vice President 4; Football I, 2, 3, 4; All-League Defense End; Basketball 1,2, 3, 4; Track L 2, 3; Certificate- Cheaper by the Dozen.” HENDRICKS, KRISTY. Cheerleader 3; Chorus 4, Spring Play 2; Yearvook 3; Newspaper 3; Student Council I; Band I, 2; Kayettes I, 2, 3, 4; Kayette Board I, 2, 3, 4; Pep Club I, 2, 3, 4, Volleyball I. 2, 3; Basketball I, 2, 3; Track 2; Who’s Who 3; Football Homecoming attendant 4. JENKINS. RICK-. Chorus I, 4; Oxfordians I; Student Council 2; Class Vice President 2, 4; National Hon- or Society 2; Speech Play 3. NEISES, JIMMIE-. Chorus I; Speech play 3; Letter- men’s Club 3, 4; Football I, 3, 4; Basketball I, 2; Class Vice President 3; Class Sec. Treas. 4. SHELTON, JEANNE: Chorus I, 2; Coed Hi-Y I. 2; Student Council 2: Kayettes 3, 4; Kayette Board 4; FHA I, 2; Volleyball I, 2, 3, 4; Honorable Mention - Volleyball; Basketball I; Track 2, 3; Class Secretary 2; Class President 4; National Honor Society 4; Who’s Who 3: Kansas Honor Student 4; Miss Geuda Springs. STUTZMAN, FAYE. Chorus 2, 3. 4; Yearbook 3. 4, Band 3, 4; Newspaper 3. 4; Pep Club 2, 3, 4; Kayettes 2, 3, 4; Track 2, 3: Basketball Homecom- ing Queen 4. VOGE, ROSS: Fall Play 4; Lettermen’s Club 3, 4; Lettermen’s Treas. 4; Football 4; Basketball 4; Track 2, 3, 4; Basketball Homecoming Escort 4; I- Act Play Medal 4. WHALEY, KEN: Chorus I; Speech Play 3; Student Council I; Oxfordians I; Class President I; Letter- men’s Club 2, 3, 4; Football I, 2, 3, 4; All-League Runningback; All-League Defensive Back; Basket- ball I. 2, 3, 4; Track I. 2, 3. 4. WILLIAMS, ANGIE: Pep Club I. 2, 3. 4, Kayettes 1.2, 3, 4; Kayette Board I; Spring Play 2; Cheerleader 3; Football Homecoming Queen Attendant. WOODS, DENISE-. Chorus I, 4; Oxfordian Manager 4; Fall Play 2, 3, 4; Spring Play 2, 3, 4; Yearbook 2, 3, 4; Yearbook Editor 4; Newspaper 3, 4; Student Council I, 3, 4; Student Council Sec. 4; Student Council Vice President 3; Math Contest 3; Kayettes I, 2, 3, 4; Kayette Board 2, 3, 4; Pepclub I, 2, 3, 4; Pepclub Sec. 2; FCA I; National Honor Society 2, 3, 4; Basketball Homecoming Attendant 4; Kansas Honor Student 4; DAR Citizen Award; VFW Essay Award; Class Sec. I; English Award 2, 3, 4; Algebra Award I; Speech Award 3; I Dare You Award 3; Governor’s Scholar-, High Q 2, 4; High Q Letter 4; Journalism Award 4; National Honor So- ciety. YOUNG, SONIA-. Chorus I-, Student Council 3; Kayettes I, 2, 3, 4; Kayette Board 2, 4; Kayettes Sec. 4-, Basketball Homecoming Attendant 4; Out- standing Home Ec. Ill and IV Student. Senior Prophecies Ken Whaley is going to be doing commercials for the Hostess Twinkie Company. Sandy Bain will be on the road as a secretary to George Strait. Faye Stutzman will be independently wealthy as the head of the stage crew for Iron Maiden. Kristy Hendricks will become a multi-millionaire for the invention of paint on jeans. Angie Williams Will become one of the top models for Merle Norman cosmetics. Steven Bratcher will carry on the Bratcher tradition and get married and have six kids. Ronnie Gaither will become a mechanic (no experience necessary). Jeff Gill will become the next fashion designer of William Tell ties. Ross Voge will take steroids to become the next Mr. Universe. Denise Woods will be campaigning to become the first woman President. Kenna Dry will become the mother of her own cheerleading squad. Pat Betzen will be the first woman to win the Kentucky Derby. Ricky Jenkins will become a member of the legendary Chippendale striptease dancers. Sonia Young will go on to become a mad scientist and invent a new children’s vitamin. Jimmy Neises will be the first small town hog farmer to become a highly acclaimed astronaut for NASA for his experiment with pigs in outer space. Jeanne Shelton will become a wealthy co-partner to the highly acclaimed Barttles James Wine Cooler, Corp. Kelley Bell will become a home ec. teacher and teach the kids to make fashion clothes (such as rabbit fur sweaters). Top- Hey Pat Betzen. should I buy a post card? asks Sonia Young. Hey look this one is already written on.” says Pat. Bottom-Pat didn't your mom tell you not to make faces because your face might stay that way? Above- Mr. Max Logsdon. Sr. High Principal? Mrs. Roberta Hiltzman, business teacher? and Mr. Lonnie Bratcher, Middle School Principal all help out at a home basketball game. Is Mrs. Hiltzman telling us that Pepsi is the new generation?? Middle Left- Smiling mischieveously, Mr. Book subs in Mechanical Drawing. 1 wonder what mischief he’s been up to. Who. me? Say whay? I can't believe I'm student teaching at Oxford High School. says Mr. Kevin Nicholas. Look at that smile!! He really 108 does love us! Closing This page sponsored by Sentry -Merchandise Mart Winfield, K$ by Denise Woods Graduating, being elected into a hard won of- fice, making cheerleader for next year, complet- ing the yearbook, having the top grade in class, receiving a one in a music contest, and lettering in a sport are goals the Wildcats have pursued and conquered this year at Oxford. We all don't reach our goals that we pursue the first time we try, but we shall pursue those goals again next year. We have everyone around us at times trying to persuade us or to encourage us. There will always be something, some- where to pursue. Above-Kristy Hendricks stretches during Government class — a very small class — and really looks tired . . . . or is it boredom? Jeanne Shelton reads her library book intently. These girls obviously are fast workers and have finished their assignment. At least that's what they want us to believe. Do you believe it??? Right-Amusing? Kim Pane leisurely reads his paper as he relaxes for a few minutes before going back to work. Seems as if school work is never really done. I -Standing, or should we say sitting, in as secretary. Mrs. Avin George smiles as she takes a message in the board office. 2-Hard at work. Catherine Elwood makes up some more work. That girl is al- ways absent!!!!! Wonder why?????? S-Kenna Kendrick practices programming in Computer Literacy. Kenna Originally produces her very own printout on the screen. She's really into computers! You're kidding, right? You're not kidding. You really are going to take my picture, thinks Mr. Lonnie Bratcher. Oxford Middle School Principal. I -’’Don't take my picture will kill you!” Looks like someone has really tangled with Joel Horsch - so watch out. 2- Hmph, Mr. Parks made it to the big time on Broadway. Don’t make me laugh, thinks Mrs. Parks. Another round of Pepsi on me. At least I can spend money like it were the 'Big Time . I-Sick again, Catherine? Oh, my lungs. I can’t breathe, says Cathy Elwood, Cristinc Thompson still hasn't gotten her voice back. 4- These kids are always cutting in the lunch line,” thinks Me. Barton during lunch duty. 5-The Middle School gets its share of student teachers, too. 6-Mr. Dennis Metz, member of the school board, tries to hide behind the wheel of his tractor Gotcha anyway!! 7- keep trying to explain this without showing my anger because I'm getting my picture taken so please get it right this time. says Mrs. Metz, gritting her teeth. Photos by Ms. Myers. I 3 Some Real Pursuers Above- !7usf me am my shadow . . Oh. my. I didn’t know you were here. Oh. my. Do you have to have a picture of me today for the yearbook? asks Mrs. Wofmook. And you know the book wouldn't be complete without you, Mrs. Wolmook. Left- Go ahead, make my day! says Mrs. Brown, Sr. High Secretary. Looks like you’re too late. replys Donna Creed, custodian. 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Elizabeth 63 Buss. Dawn 65 Logsdon. Mary Eva 63 Carson. Justin 65 Paris, Weylin 63 Conover. Carrie 65 Parson. Denise 63 Eastman. Justin 65 Patton. Allison 63 Falk. Trena 65 Rouch, Charissa 63 Halbert. Amber 65 Sandborn. Michael 63 Halmiton. Errin 65 Sawyer, Kasey 63 Hills, Jason 65 Schoech, Russell 63 Hinkson, Crystal 40, 65, 66 Schultz, Desiree 63 Hodges, Jasmine 65 Shaffer, Brenton 63 Horinek, Greg 65 Skibbe. Rae Ann 63 Houk, Laci 65 Sneed, Colette 63 Huffman, Erik 65 Thompson, Amy 63 Johnson, Anna 15, 65 Weldon. William 63 Jordon. Robert 65 Wilson. Rebecca 63 Lemke. Kathleen 65 Wynn. CleAnn 63 Martinez, Kristen 65 Nelson. Raymond 65 Third Grade Nixon, Joshua 65 Parks, Steven 65 Bieler, Mark 62 Proulx, Stacy 65 Crain, Amy 62 Scott, Amanda 65 Darby, Naaman 62 Shockey, Robert 65 Dargel, James 62 Sivels, Tyson 65 Falk. Nathan 62 Slavens. Ronald 65 Gall, Jason 62 Stacy, Stacy 65 Gressel, Brandon 62 Stoddard, K.L 65 Havner, Randy 62 Tate, Jeremi 65 Hendricks, Patrick 62 Totten, Derek 65 Henry, Dallas 62 Wartick, Jarritt 15, 65 Hills, Christina 62 Weldon, April 65 Houk, Kimberly 62 White, Megan 65 Johnson, Ellie 62 First Grade Kreidler, Jenny 62 Lawson, Steven 62 Bartleson, Shelly 64 Long, Chad 8, 9, 62 Marymee. Heather 62 Browning, Lacey 64 Morton, Rachel 62 Foster, Brent 64 Nethercot, Jeff 62 Havner, Jon 64 Nixon, Heath 62 Hetzler, Laura 64 Parson, Leslie 62 Jarvis, Joshua 64 Rankin. Justin 62 Jordon, Jason 64 Ring, Danielle 62 King. Elizabeth 64 Rush. Phillip 62 Kriedler, Justin 64 Ruyle, Richard 62 McCann, Robert 64 Shaffer. Marcelle 62 Neal, Jess 64 Starling, Jennifer 62 Pasman, Katherine 64 Starlin, Shane 62 Potucek, Clinton 64 Thomas, Jamie 62 Robare, Andy 64 Tredway, Michael 62 Ruyle, Kevin 64 Turner, Jennifer 62 Ruyle, Nick 64 Utt. Amy 62 Rush, Bennie 64 Voyles, Stephanie 62 Smith, April 64 Wartick, Craig 62 Spoon, Daniel 64 Widener, Jamie 62 Utt, Kelly 64 Works. Brandy 64 Fourth Grade Second Grade Adams, Stephanie 59 Beiler, James 63 Bales, Cassie 59 Black. Michael 59 Cook. Dustin 63 Bowlby, Robert 59 Evans, Michael 63 Carson, Ginger 59 Halbert. Nathan 63 Conner, Dustin 59 Hamilton. Jamie 63 Cooper. Heath 59 Heather, Lesley 63 Davis. Angela 59 Hervey, Sarah 63 Donley, Jeff 59 Hetzler. Christina 63 Falk. Wendy 59 Huffman. Heather 63 Gosselin. Wilber 59 Knowles. Brandy 59 Coffey. Joey 56, 57 Lacey. Eric 59 Cook. Nathan 56. 57 Lee, Odessa 59 Delp. Jason 56. 57 Madison, Treva 59 Goyer, Jeffery 56, 57 Martin, Deborah 59 Hodges. Dean 56. 57 Middleton, Christopher 59 Jordan. Chris 56 Morris, Arvin 59 Lee, Daysha 56, 57 Morris, Ashley 59 Little. Mike 56 Myrick. Jennifer 59 Miller. Melissa 56. 57 O’Hearn, Brody 59 Neises, Amy 56, 57 Paris. Brandon 59 Price, Karen 52, 56. 57 Parson. Brian 59 Price, Kevin 56. 57 Pennington, Casey 59 Rivers, Crystal 56, 57 Peters, Jarrod 59 Rowe, Maria 56, 57 Rohling, Jennfier 59 Sawyer, Buffy 56. 57 Savory, Shae 59 Shaffer. Carrie 56, 57 Starlin, Brad 59 Shelton, Patricia 56, 57 Thompson, Curtis 59 Sneed. Camille 56, 57 Webster, Andrew 59 Starlin. Leslie 56, 57 Welty, Julie 59 Stephens. Stephen 56, 57 Welty, Robert 59 Ward. Heather 56. 57 Wollard. Daniel 59 Woods. Angela 56, 57 Wollard, Donald 59 Wollard, Katrina 59 Seventh Grade Fifth Grade Abston. Christian 51, 55, 56 Abston, Nicholas 8, 9, 58 Bales. Clinton 51, 55. 56 Bratcher, Jared 51, 55, 56 Clark. Troy 58 Collingsworth. Kent 51. 55 Coffey, Cristy 58 Conner, Shelby 51 Crain. Wade 58 Davis, Jennifer 51, 52, 54, 56 Creed. Brent 58 Davis, Linda 51. 56 Goentzel, Curtis 58 Dempsey. Jimmie 51, 55 Gosselin, Christina 58 Donley, Jamie 51, 52, 54, 56 Hall, Sabrina 58 Foster, Bradly 51, 55 Hayes, Tayna 58 Higgins. Trinia 51, 54 58 Jones, Jonathan 51 Hege. Jon 58 Lemke. Herb 51, 55, 56 Henning, Thomas 58 Madison, Amy 51, 54, 56 Horinek, Shelia 58 Metz, Jason 51, 55, 56 Jenkins, Janelle 58 Moore, Chad 51, 55 Jones, Marvin 58 Owens, Jeramie 51, 55 Kreidler, Amy 58 Parks, David 51, 55 Lemke, April 58 Pennington, Donie 51, 55 Mayberry, Chad 58 Peters. Michael 51, 55 Moore, Wade 58 Rivers. Jennifer 51, 54, 56 Pasman, Daniel 58 Rouch, Justin 51, 55 Payne, Justin 58 Rush, Tony 51. 55, 56 Rebold, Elizabeth 58 Scott, Travis 51, 55 Robare. Amy 58 Shelton, Melissa 51, 54 Rohling. Larry 58 Skibbe, Brian 51, 55 Rouch, Layla 58 Stoddard. Joseph 51 Sauzek, Stephanie 58 Venskus, Melissa 56 Schoech, Leigh 58 Ward, Michelle 51, 54, 56 Scott, Jennifer 58 Webster, Angela 51, 52, 54 Scott. Tricia 58 Wixon, David 51, 55 Shaffer, Angela 58 Womack, Chris 51, 55 Sneed, Craig 58 Wynn. Marc 51, 55 Utt, Tiffany 58 Young, Brad 51, 55 Vaughn. Corey 58 Webster, Ryan 58 Eighth Grade Sixth Grade Alsip, Racheal 50 Abies, Tyson 56, 57 Black, Shanda 50 Burton, Tammy 50, 54, 56 Bartleson. Chad 56, 57 Calvin, Laurie 50 Bieler. Christina 56, 57 Creed. Charlene 50, 52, 54, 56 Bieler, Henry 56, 57 DeMint. Tyson 50, 55, 56 Brown. Brande 56, 57 Dormam, Robert 50, 55, 56 Burr. Jake 56, 57 Elwood, Jeffery 50, 55, 56 Buss. Bryan 56, 57 Evans. Tia 50 Carson, Misty 56. 57 Flickinger, Audra 50 126 Goentzel, Denise 50, 54. 56 Gressel. Chad 50, 55, 56 Hendricks, Jody 50, 55 Johnson, Jamie 50, 52, 54. 56 Kelley, Michael 50, 55, 56 Lemke, Brian 50, 55, 56 Miller, Jim 50, 55 Nethercot, Blake 50, 52, 55, 56 Price. T.L. 50. 52, 55. 56 Rebold, Jamie 50. 54 Sawyer, Jeff 50, 55, 56 Shockey, Terry 50 Teague, Carlina 50, 54, 56 Thomas, Eugene 50, 55 Tredway, Debra 50, 54, 56 Wege. Debbie 48, 50, 52, 54, 56 Grade Middle School Teachers Adams, Lowell 49 Allenson. Gladys 49 Bratcher, Lonnie 46, 108, 110 Crain. Louise 49 Dooffffff. Terry 49. 110 Dobbs, Dorothy 49 Green, Jo Ann 49 Hopkins, Claudia 49 Liggitt, Kathleen 48. 49 Metz, Marilyn 48, III Moore, Jane 49 Morton. Helen 48, 49 Parks. Randy 36, 48 Parsons. Mary Ann 48 Peck, Lawrence 48 Rodman. Jean 49 Schiff, Maurita 49 Shaffer. Leland 48 Sneed, Caroline 49 Swartzendruber. Kristen 49 Wagner. Barbara 49 Walker, Rose 49 Williams. Rosemary Womack, Betty III Ninth Grade Bieler. Shelly 32. 42 Bratcher. Rachel 21, 22. 23. 33, 42. 47. 67, 71, 72. 73. 75. 85. 89. 92. 93. 103 Burton. Tina 22. 32, 42. 67. 71. 75 Catlin. Jason 21. 23. 35. 42. 68, 86. 87 Clements, Greg 42. 47 Creed. Chris 42. 86. 90. 91 Denson. Hank 34, 42 Deyoe. Steven 33. 42, 86, 94 Estes. Tara 22, 27. 42. 71. 75 Hall, Ernest 35. 42. 94 Hall. Louise 3. 32, 42. 71, 94 Hardman, Shannon 42, 67, 71. 73, 75. 96 Hatfield. Marc 42 Hayes. Tim 42 Hodges. Ray 23. 24, 42, 86, 113 Horsch. Joel 23. 42, 86. 110 Howard, Crystal 10, 23, 24. 33, 37, 42, 70, 71. 75, 85, 97 Knapp. Sean 42 McClung, Kevin 21. 23, 43, 78. 86, 113 Myrick, Sherry 23, 24, 26, 43, 71, 75. 78, 85, 89, 96 O’Hearn. Dallas 22, 32. 39, 43, 94. 97 Oliver, Aaron 19, 23. 24, 43, 68, 78, 86, 98, 99, 101 Oliver Adam 23, 43. 86 Oliver, Dama 23, 33. 43, 70. 71. 72. 75. 85. 89 Owens, Nikki 22, 43, 71 Prohaska, Mary 22, 43. 71, 75, 85. 98 Rakestraw. Kathy II, 21, 22, 33. 43. 67, 71, 72, 75, 85 Sauzek, Hilary 10, 23, 24, 32, 43, 71. 73. 75, 85. 96, 97 Shepard, Justin 35, 43 Smith, Mike 37, 43, 47 Stover, Debbie 22, 32, 43. 67, 71, 75. 97 Thomas. Jeff 43, 47 Thompson, Christine 21. 23, 32. 34. 43. 67. 71. 73. 75. 78, 85. 97, III VanDeest. Drake 43 Ward, Cherri 10, II, 22, 32. 43. 71, 73, 75, 85. 92. 98. 99 Tenth Grade Ballard, David 40 Betzen, Cindy 40, 71 Bursack, Mike 40 Buss, Buffy 22. 40, 61. 70. 71. 75. 85 Carson, Lawrence 40. 103 DeMint. Todd 8, 9, 22. 26. 39, 40. 53, 78. 101 Dobosenski. Leigh 28 Gaither. Dana 3, 22, 23, 40, 60, 71. 75. 85. 94 Hicks. Shani 8. 9. 23, 40, 68. 71 Janzen. Robbie 37, 40, 69. 86, 94 Johnson. Shannon 3, 22, 27. 40. 71. 85 Jones, Mark 40. 69, 86. 87 Lacey, Melynda 8, 9. 22. 24. 40. 41. 70. 71. 75. 82. 83. 85. 88. 89 Lowry. Tammy 3. 8. 24. 40. 71. 75. 82. 83. 84, '85. 89. 103 Marsh, Sabrina 28 407 17 5 Mayberry. Matt 22. 40 Maybrier. Susan 22. 28 Metz, Wade 41, 86 Neises. Annette 2. 22, 23. 41. 71. 75. 84. 85. 89 Nethercot. Julie 3, 23. 24. 40. 41. 68. 70, 71, 75. 85, 89. 92 Payne. Kim 41. 90. 91, 109 Potucek. JoDe 22. 41, 71, 75. 85, 89 Schmitz. Tony 26. 41, 69. 78, 86. 90. 91, 99. 101 Smith, Christie 22, 41, 71, 75 Smith. Rhonda 23. 41, 44, 71. 75 Taylor. Sherry 22, 27, 41, 71. 75 Torres. Debbie 28, 41, 61. 85 Watts. Raymond 41 Wege. Sherri 22. 23. 41, 70. 71, 75. 85 White. Eddie 2. 33, 41. 86 Wixon, Lisa 41 Wixon. Robert 35, 38. 41 Wollard, Billy 21. 23. 24. 41. 69 Zollman, Mike 41 Eleventh Grade Abston, Yvette 3, 18, 27. 29, 31. 38, 61. 66. 68, 70, 71. 75, 85 Alsip, Shawn 22, 38, 39, 71, % Beeman, Travis 38, 66, 69. 90, 91 Bieler. Sherry 38, 71 Bingham. Tammy 18, 22. 23, 24, 25, 27, 38, 47, 53. 60, 61, 66, 68. 71. 75. 85 Collingsworth. Kassa 15, 22. 23, 31, 38. 60. 61, 71, 75. 84, 85, 89, 92, 99 Cooney. John 20, 27, 29, 38. 39, 68, 69, 90. 91 Cooper, Brian 38 Dennett. Bart 38, 69. 86. 87 Denson, Elaine 8, 9. 17, 23, 38, 40, 60, 61. 71, 74. 75 Embrey, Penny 27. 38, 71, 74, 103 Embrey, Tulsa 20, 27. 38 Elwood, Catherine 4, 22, 23, 24. 38, 40. 68, 70. 71. 75, 102, 103. 108. Ill Evans, Clint 20, 38. 39, 74 Farha. Curtis 38. 60, 69. 86, 87, 102. 103 Farha. Sandy II. 23, 25, 31, 38, 61. 68. 71. 75, 82. 83 Gill. Kristen 23, 24. 38, 71, 75. 85, 89, 92. 93 Jones. Paul 27, 29, 36. 38. 61. 68, 78. 79 Leggett. Jeff II. 14. 23. 25, 38. 60. 67. 69. 86. 90. 91. 103 Long. Jennifer 8, 9. 18, 31, 38. 71, 78. 79. 94. 99. 101. 102 Lowry. David 10. 14. 38. 39. 61, 69 Lowry. Mark 35. 39 Middleton. Jerry 39. 69. 86. 87, 90. 91 Mooningham. Lori 22. 31. 39 Moore, Gretchen 31. 39, 66. 71, 89 Morris. Shayne 39. 86. 103 Newhouse. Paul 8. 9. 19. 39. 60. 61, 66. 78. 79. 98. 99 Russell. Michelle 23. 37. 39. 40. 68. 70. 71. 75, 85. 89 Sauzek. Eden II. 23. 31. 39. 68. 70. 71. 75. 82. 83. 85. 88, 89. 100 Stover. Kandy 20. 39 Stutzman. Donnie 39. 69 Thomas. Keri 4. 23. 24. 26. 27, 29, 39. 40. 61, 70. 71, 75. 78. 85. 89. 100, 102 Villa Starlin, Cammie 31. 39 Woods. Becky 2. 8. 9. 15. 22. 23. 27. 39. 70, 71. 74. 75. 98 Wright. Beverly 37. 39 Twelfth Grade Bain, Sandy 4. 6. 8. 9. 23, 24. 28. 60. 68. 69. 70. 71. 75, 78. 79. 82. S3. 84. 85. 88. 89. 92. 95. 107 Bell. Kelly 6. 60. 61 Betzen, Pat 6. 21. 22. 61. 71. 107 Bratcher, Steven 6. II. 15, 19, 26. 68. 69, 81, 86. 102 Dry Kendrick. Kenna 2, 4. 7, 10, 14. 24. 38. 82. 83 Gaither. Ronnie 6. 69, 104 Gill. Jeff 6. 8. 15, 21. 86, 105 Hendricks, Kristy 2, 4, 6. 14, 70. 71. 72. 109 Jenkins, Ricky 6, 22, 26. 104 Neises, Jimmy 7, 61. 69, 103. 105 Shelton. Jeannie 7, 69, 70. 71. 74, 75, 103. 107, 109 Voge, Ross 4. 7, 8, 15, 69, 86, 90, 91. 104. 105 Williams. Angie 4, 7. II, 14, 19, 85 Whaley. Ken 7, 69, 86, 102 White, Sandy 10, 85 Woods, Denise 4, 5. 7. 8, 9, 10. 15. 22, 23. 30. 31, 39. 68. 69, 70. 71. 73. 74. 75, 78. 79. 99. 104 Young, Sonia 7, 15. 21, 47, 70. 71. 74. 75. 107 High School Teachers Abston. Ralph 19, 44, 78. 80. 81, 90. 92. 94 Aikins. Genevieve 21. 47 Banks, Paul 23. 25. 44 Barton. Gary 35. 44, 110 Book. Larry 86. 108 Book, Sharlene 32. 44, 97 Bradbury. Diane 44 Brown, Iona 2. 37, 46. Ill Clark. Larry 44. 78 DeMent, Hill 29, 44 Hiltzman Hinkson. Roberta 12, 44, 45, 78. 85, 95. 108 Hunt. Dave 44. 45. 69. 80. 86 Hunt, Judy 74. 75 Kehres. David 17, 37. 44. 69. 80, 89 Kemp. Donna 46 Logsdon. Max 2, 3, 37. 44. 46. 108 McReynolds. Kristen 44 McReynolds, William 44 Myers. Marjorie 45, 78 Nichols. Kevin 28. 108 Parks. Susan 36, 45, III Rinehart. Greg 45. 53. 89 Slack. Jan 85 Wilcoxen. Glayda 45 Wyckoff, Monte 40. 45. 68 School Board Adams. Sue 46 Beeman. Shirley 46 Buss. Ken 46 Donley. James 46 George. Avin O. 45. 46 George. Jeannette 45, 46. 108 Lacey. Pam 46 Metz. Dennis 46. 110 William. A.L. 46 127 ML Defter 3rout Zhe Editor t Professional 'Directory By Denise Woods The staff and I would like to thank you for your support of the yearbook by purchasing a book or advertising. Connecting thought lines with our new advisor became a challenge for the staff throughout the year. I would like to thank all those who stuck with the class for the whole year. Also, I would say special thanks to Sandy Farha for helping me in the tough times, Cammie Villa for always coming up with a good layout, and everyone else for all their effort in making this yearbook a success. 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