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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We ll Never Forget Retrospect, the long reputed executioner of worthy intentions, did nonetheless correlate closely to an association with Shawnee-Mission North. A com- mon propensity for retracing the six semesters directly preceding fell to the lots of graduates who might well have done better to keep their senses focused instead upon future goings on. Fullness of memory was directly proportional to time passed at S-M - sophomores, though affected already with the schools taste for novelty, still inherited much with which their budding brains might wrestle . . . junior retrospect doubled that of subordinates by a year . . . and seniors remembered all the way back to the Lindquist image. Shawnee-Missionites did allot a good deal to mem- ory, frog, crawfish, and grasshopper entrails tickled the biologists gray matter, while the linguists recalled the signs of the subjunctive. They did, however, confuse various fine points - Poe's rhyming couplets and Bernstein's theory of relativity, for example. Using this long stitch in time to fasten down the hereafter, Red-clads put their anatomies to task by keeping one eye ahead and one behind. What they had come upon and seen they would not easily dismiss.