Shawnee Mission North High School - Indian Yearbook (Overland Park, KS)

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W Saw... Ocular facilities of S-Mites underwent consistent strain by taking in the nearly interminable procession of visual treats created and pre- sented by a comparably lengthy muster of clubs, classes, staffs, and committees. It rapidly became obvious that whoever organized Shaw- nee-Mission's curriculum and extracurriculum provided that not every- one was to be a watcher all of the time. Individual inspiration, how- ever obscure or microscopic initially, found its way to the collective eye of the student body before three years lapsed and left it unnoticed. The bevy, of course, did not swarm conjointly to the utmost spires of success, there for each to clang his own proud bell in clashing chaos with the restg but neither was the school rendered totally inert by drooping interest or inability. S-M N saw queens reigning, dramatists mimicking, journalists scrawl- ingg it saw athletes and debaters winning and losingg it saw the Pep Club filling the fieldhouse with crimson jackets and preposterous a- mounts of sound and the Student Congress filling its weekly forty minutes with parliamentary procedure and old business. It saw finally the individual seeking his own level on the pyramid that is Shawnee-Mission North.

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Portals of S-M North heard trampling hordes rush- ing through . . . Red-clads, attended by a super- abundance of flushed delirium, stationed themselves in desks and shortly took a toe-hold for the impend- ing period of turmoil. Witli no part of the pre- ceding vacation left in which to dissipate, the aggre- gation, for the most part, came with serious in- tentions. However, this facet was well-disguised by tlle outward note of jollity which typifies the re-amassment of old gangs. Each face in the crowd, whether depicting sophomoric hesitance or the ex- perienced pomp of upperclassmen, gave substan- tiating evidence to the attitude which early Septem- ber invariably brings. Teachers took pleasure in the mass arrival and con- templated wistfully the revival of such steadfast traditions as the pop quiz and eighth hour. Per- haps, there lurked a certain shrouded sympathy in them as they took errant newcomers Cor oldcomersl by the hand and prodded them in the proper di- rection. Not only the teachers had pre-planned howeverg students, also, exhibited initiative in ready- ing campaigns for class offices, digesting reading material for book reports next spring, and ac- quiring the charm with which they might escape the afore-mentioned steadfast traditions. Mothers even prepared-saving sacks for lunches and money for fees. Seemingly no one being deficient in fore- thought, youthful scholars came and hurled them- selves into the bottomless pit of learning.

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