Paseo High School - Paseon Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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FIRE!!! The Childish Bet I feel that anyone who would jeopardize his education and future by burning a room in his school to win a $5.00 bet should be horsewhipped. Anyone who will sit around afterward and say they didn’t care about the room burning up and also say they wish the whole building burned down is as bad as the person who would bet or dare a person to burn down their school and should be punished. Soul Searching---- does this mean you're searching for your soul? Well may even be you’re trying to reach a goal. a destination, a place to go. Soul Searching is seeking and finding, Not letting anyone stand in your way. But the one thing you must know before you search is what you’re searching for and is it worth it. Soul Searching can mean a lot of things. Searching to find. Searching to kill, Searching to keep Searching for love and happiness among you and persons around you. Students, teachers and everyone needs to search for their souls because of the simple fact so many people are lost within themselves (Whether to do this or whether to do that) People are so busy trying to do what’s in and don’t really know themselves. Soul Searching is needed. Simply because everyone is playing a role. There’s no need in this. Why not be yourself. Stop trying to satisfy others and satisfy yourself sometimes. Be positive and with no doubt you will find your soul and yourself! And it will be worth the trip. You keep on Searching until you reach the highest ground. .......Stephanie Owens Walking that road human or beast doesn’t thoroughly understand. Searching for that block unknown to man. Hearing the cry of pain and misery. We continue to struggle the hill of our destiny. While our passing of wicked and phony smiles, we wonder if they’ll be truthful just once in a while. Then we find the sleeper refusing to wake, unaware of the tricks of Satan to possess his mind and soul determined to take. But who really cares where ever we go. Whether it be high or low. We’re Soul Searching, that’s our theme, ex- ploring our model and discovering our dream. Now we see our dream, but also the might. How could it ever be reality without the light. Benita Jacoway 14 Fire

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FAVORITE FEMALE VOCALIST 1. Natalie Cole 2. Chaka Khan 3. Denise Williams FAVORITE MALE VOCALIST 1. Stevie Wonder 2. Smokey Robinson 3. Ron Banks FAVORITE BOOK 1. Roots 2. Carrie 3. Rich Man, Poor Man FAVORITE TV SHOW 1. What’s Happening 2. Charlie’s Angels 3. Welcome Back Kotter FAVORITE ACTRESS-MOVIE 1. Cicely Tyson 2. Pam Grier 3. Diana Ross FAVORITE ACTOR-MOVIE 1. Richard Pryor 2. Billy Dee Williams 3. Richard Roundtree FAVORITE SLANG EXPRESSION 1. You Trippin’ 2. Play it off 3. Dig that AVERAGE AMOUNT SPENT ON ENTERTAINMENT EACH MONTH $33.25 AVERAGE HOURS PER WEEK WATCHING TV 53.4 Ballot 13

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 THE DEVASTATING ACT OF A RADICAL The fire that occurred at Paseo High School affected me as a senior student in many ways. I was suddenly stunned that an in- dividual with such low morals had suddenly begun to burn his future down and my future was bursting in flames with it. I could not possibly figure out why an act of such stupidity had been had been performed. While I stood paralyzed and watched the firemen battle the blaze, my mind went back to the time in history when it was for- bidden and against the law to teach a black person how to read and write. And now time has changed that ungodly rule; blacks can now learn to their full mental capacity. I was so offended that a black whose ancestors fought for freedom and the right to learn to read and write would suddenly destroy his right to learn. It suddenly occurred to me that I would be graduating from this school this year. I thought in despair what the general public might say about the school I once had so much pride and dignity for. Earl Thomas A soul search is needed in the hearts and minds of the student body. Students at Paseo commit actions, involving violence before searching their minds and souls. If they would stop and think before they make their step toward the direction they are headed, many disturbances would be avoided. To make this step it takes maturity and a positive mind. Many of us at Paseo are immature and cannot accept the task that maturity brings. When the ad- ministrators put forth a rule for the student body to abide by. the first thing they say is Na Man! but answer this question—will “Na Man!” give you a better school system? Many of us block away in our minds that Paseo is an educational center for our benefit. We come here with our “coolest rags and try to check out everybody ex- cept our own minds and souls. That's where the search is. So let’s all get together and search our minds and souls and if we find anything that should not be. let's take it out. Roxanne Byers