Putnam City High School - Treasure Chest Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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De What? TAKE A TWIRP! Movie night started off the week ona Monday night. Commenting on the ovie, ‘It Came From Outer Space’, Darla Fielding said, ‘‘The 3-D glasses ere the best part of the movie.”’ Next on the agenda, the Pirate basketball eam conquered the Midwest City Bombers, the number one team in the state at this period, on Tuesday usic was put to dance moves at Talent Show practice by Jenifer Rolston, Ashley Clark, Tracy Roberts, Stacy McCowan, and Janna Reeves. evening. PCTV was incorporated as the theme for the talent show. Vice presi- dent of STUCO, Gary Johnson, organiz- ed three days of consecutive practice to prepare performers. Taking first place was Steve McLellan, second went to Dana Taylor, and ‘‘The Band’”’ consisting of Scott Culver, Joel Reese, Steve Davis, Tim Newcomb, and Marc Montgomery took third with the song ‘Jailhouse Rock’. Busy with the Valentine Express, messages sent with suckers, and the Computer Dating question sheets enabling personality match-ups with the opposite sex, STUCO members were kept jumping. Supporting this, Karen Perryman exclaimed “Twirp week was a busy week. We didn’t know up from down. We tried our best to handle all the difficulties, but some were beyond our control.”’ Twenty-five cents was all it took to buy that special someone a sucker from the Valentine Ex- press. Steve McLellan collects money from Dean Baker. Last minute directions were extended to Scott Culver and Steve Davis by Gary Johnson at Talent Show practice. Twirp = aa i | | | i : | fi | } : email Pia cowie Pree Pa ee ee ee a reste ae Tae) cele

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gp. Asbestos scare quickly contained To some, Friday, November 16, 1984, was the exciting release students have joked about but never expected. For others it was an extra load of complica- tions and time consuming problems. The surprise that took place was the detec- tion of asbestos in the southwest corner of the Putnam City cafeteria. Evidently, a repairman fixing the water line broke a seal. Superintendent, Mr. Ralph Downs, decided for student's and faculty’s pro- tection to dismiss them at midday. After the informing intercom announcement, the halls filtered while many students planned how they would relate the story to their parents. ‘“‘I've dreamed of something like this happening since grade school and my senior year it happened! | was going to tell my mother something really far out about why | came home ear- ly like a bomb threat or a fire, but | couldn't think of anything more weird than what really happened,” said Tim Kelly. Other students were not as lucky. Deb- bie Lusk relates, ‘“‘My mother didn't believe me and thought | was ditching, so she called the school.”’ It took 24 hours to clean the con- taminated area and the next 48 hours were used as a testing period by the State Department of Health and Labor. A night vigil was kept at the TV, waiting for news broadcasters to report no school on Mon- day for Putnam City. That, however, never came about, but in its place was principal, Mr. Bob Butler, with the reply, Channel Five reporters heed danger signs and view asbestos clean-up from cafeteria glass doors, while a camera crew films. ‘The state gave us the go ahead green, so we could resume school on Monday.” The absestos topic didn't end there, of course. Jokes circled for weeks. ‘‘We sug- gested getting the janitors ‘asbestos busters’ T-shirts and also administration T-shirts using a pun as a slogan, ‘We handled the situation as-best-as-we- could’,’’ said Tom Qualls. The seriousness faded as Ken Maggio teasingly retells his eye witness account of the clean up. ‘‘When we looked in, we saw men in little spacesuits walking around with janitors who just had on allergy masks.’’ West transferee, Chris Degraffenreid, applauded his decision of changing schools, ‘‘This is great! We never had anything like this happen at West.”’ (PP