Raymore Peculiar High School - Panther Yearbook (Peculiar, MO)

Page 9 text:

L W'Afk 3 ,4 ,L e Am r e My'mww W e w? WM , U L ew 0 e75 e z WK M ' Wemv L 7 :nrollment ;, v L. , NW, 9 through? lives 0n Chers, ad- ' the COm- , mark the m3 assured Eire will be the last 20. Ld the middle z i, e 7e; by e 1,1, KM The new Peculiar elementary school. The old PeCuliar SChOol. WQMM , 7 MW MM, A e 77 MMQW ,1 ; w M 4W3 ,z , W HiStOrWS

Page 8 text:

Two decades together a W X . M W waizw ?WW4a ,, The year 1981-82. marked Raymore- has been built along with two elemen- , w a X i X a X? Peculiar High School's 20th year. That tary schools. The present enrollment VWT may come as a shock to many people, of the senior high, grades 9 through? The old Raymore school. The new Raymore Elementary school. MW, - W because our school really isn't as an- cient as some may think it looks. In April of 1960, the two districts of Raymore and Peculiar were consoli- dated into one school district. The new junior and senior high school was completed in 1961. In that year, grades 7 through 12 had an enroll- ment of 184 students with 11 teachers. Since that time a new middle school 12, is 781, with 45 teachers. The spirit of Ray-Pec lives on through the students, teachers, ad- ministration and people in the com- munity. The year 2002 will mark the 40th year anniversary. We are assured that in the next 20 years there will be even more changes than in the last 20. An aerial view of the senior high and the middle school.

Page 10 text:

Panther Royalty a tradition; is it still important? Is this page still necessary? This question arose this year as to whether the Panther Royalty was still im ortant to the average R-P stu ent. Mrs... Mary Dobson, 1968 Panther Queen reflects on the impor- tance of the title fourteen years ago. a A It was an honor. But we didn't find out until we got our annuals who was cho- sen, For today she feels that, It is 'still important and the people who get it are well de- serving. Not everyone any- more even get the annuals. It used to be everyone had an annual, and were interested in who was chosen. Traditionally the King and Queen are chosen by the fac- ulty. Gail Huber, a lifetime resi- dent of Cass County, is the 1982' Panther Queen. ' I think its important to ev- eryone. I felt it was a big hon- or. Gail seryed as. captain of the Pom-pon squad, 8: secre- tary of National Honor Soci- ety, twhich is one of the major reasons she felt she was cho- sen queeni, she was a member of student council, Varsity Club, Home Ec. Club,.Y.A.C., 'Foreign ' Language Club and sheskeeps stats for the boys' basketball team. . Tim Olson, Panther King, moved to the R-P district his freshmen year. Since then, he has been very active in Pan- ther activities. Tim was one ofthe four captains of the Varsity Foot- ball team. He is in Varsity Club, National Honor Soci- ety, President of the Student Council, Y.A.C., and also plays baseball. Both Tim and Gail plan on attending college. Gail plans to major in Law Enforcement and Criminal Correction. Tim plans to major in Business and Computers. 7 1 Tim stated, I really appre- ciated the honor. As captain of the football squad, one of Tim's duties was to escort one of the queen candidates at the Homecoming ceremonies. WPanther Royalty Gail works at The Walmart in Belton. She began working there the summer before her senior year. Gail and Tim shared much of their spare time together their senior year. They stopped to pose between one of their classes after they had been chosen.