Piper High School - Pirate Yearbook (Kansas City, KS)

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f an r 5.3 EWG FUELU E Students are in many ways isolated from the rest of the world but they are influenced by it and happen- ings on the national scene affected students and aroused their interest. The future was a major concern. We saw the resignation and pardon of a president for the first time. The talk of inflation along with the economic picture dominated their attention. Food and fuel short- ages, worldwide problems such as overpopulation, star- vation, and wars contributed to student worry. Drugs, grades, schoolwork, sex, athletics, traveling, and cars provided outlets for students to forget much of what they didn't care to know and didn't care to worry about. Most had a certain fear of the life after high school and what the future would be like. A life filled with trivia kept the student from thinking about the years ahead . . . getting a job or selecting a college or major. Students were concerned with grades, being admitted to college, handing in book reports and re- search papers, meeting deadlines, scoring two points, throwing the shot put further, skipping school, getting a job, ACT and PSAT scores or another day of typing. All of the concerns and activities play a vital part in our development for the future. The Future 7

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EPHIQ DEQIQLE The people at Piper can be classified into four main groups: jocks, rah-rahs, scholars, and teachers. A few students feel they are capable of all four, but for the most part every student can tit into one category. The student body is made up of 247 students that do everything from lighting off smoke bombs to winning scholarships. The student-teacher ratio is eighteen stu- dents to every teacher, which provides for a more per- sonal relationship with the teachers. Jocks can be identified by Piper Athletics shirts, Converse tennis shoes, and ties on game days. The rah-rahs are obvious. Hardly a clay goes by when some girl isn't wearing a cheerleader or pep club uniform, talking about a pep assembly, or flirting with the jocks. Now, the scholars are the ones that always sit in class, never cause trou- ble, and never fail to say after a test, I just know I flunked it , when everyone knows they will make an A , The teachers, in case you haven't noticed them this year, are the ones that stand or sit in front of class everyday and pour knowledge into our heads so that we will be prepared to confront the great big World outside of Piper when we graduate. But, it is by being around these different kinds of people that we learn and develop into what we will be in the future. 6 The People

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QHIE EQH XIBE W WS Most of the traditional school activity was the same this year exceptg freshman no longer sat in the corner of the lunchroom where the seniors once did, the Annual Staff did not sponsor a dance because of lack of funds, and there was no bon-tire at Homecoming because it was feared that the Junior High would burn down. Other last- ing traditional events at Piper lived on and influenced each Piper graduate. Most seniors still went only half a day, in fact more than 8076 of the seniors were present less than six hours, Juniors reluctantly ran the concession stand and put on the Prom, team members still Wore ties on days of games, and purple and white-clad pep club members cheered on their team. Homecoming took place even though student participation was at a minimum. The school song was sung at every pep assembly, except one when the freshman cheerleaders forgot to start it, and the Pirateers performed faithfully at every home game. Tradi- tions at Piper are few but are always followed. 8 The Traditions