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

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C nie nt Depo rtmentol English ................-.,,.,.-,,- Speech and Drama Math ........................ .--. Science ......... Social Science ....................- Language .......... .- ..........,... 40 42 44 46 50 52 Business ....................,,..., 56 Music ......................-..,- 58 Fine Arts .....................-... 72 Physical Education 78 School Life Student Congress ...,..Yc.......... 122 Dances .......... 128 Publications ...................... 132 Quill and Scroll ..s................ 138 Debate .......................... 140 Boys and Girls State 147 Productions S... .e .,.............c. 152 Clubs ........................... 158 Student Body Sophomores ...................... 1 68 Juniors ......,...............---. 180 Seniors .......................,.. 194 Senior Summaries ...c............. 214 Index ................ 230 Advertising ............-...-..... 243 Autographs ...................... 252 Unlike the collegiate situation, there were no majors or minors at North. At the same time, unlike most high schools, a generous school district and versatile faculy enabled S-M to dangle a number of alluring alter- natives before the raised eyebrows of its students. Bogus classes existed, but not here. Instead, exacting teacher requirements, modern science equipment, and progressive policies insured against scholastic shams. Language labs, coupled with four-year courses, summer school classesg accelerated and decelerated programs-these boosted scholarly concern and fulfillment. While reveling in the most profound med- itation or while neglecting it, all S-Mites managed to indulge in a good bit of extra- curricular enterprise before the year slipped by them. Within the ivy-covered halls of book-lore, they entangled themselves in other labor. To some - the very ambitious - keeping up with the schedule they had set was like playing Flight of the Bumble- bee on a tuba. Nevertheless, when they looked back on it, the reality of what they had done, proved quite an ego-builder.

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Administration Executive .............-......... Faculty ......................... Board of Education ........-.....-.. Office Staff ...................c... Parent-Teacher Association Athletics Footba l I .................-........ Homecoming ..............-.....,. Basketball ........................ Track ................. Track Ceremonies .....-....a..... Cross Country ...............-.... Swimming ....................... Tennis ........................a, Golf ....a......................c Pep Club ....a..............,,... Cheerleaders ..................... Table of An administration for the manipulation of the masses and the transacting of official business, surrounded by a throng of bright- eyedl, but unripened adolescents, held its ground and withstood the year-long ordeal of supervising the boundless number of projects of would-be masterminds. The clean-up, resulting from the less successful student schemes, and the regular refueling of' the eager striplings, however, burned an equal amount of administrative energy, and kept S-M affairs moving at a rapid pace. The seasons of the year came and went, and the changes in temperature brought changes onto the S-M sport scene. In their turns, the bulky blades of the gridiron and the golden, young Apollas of the cage company, took a dominating position in the school's athletic endeavor, and whether in track or tennis, sport-minded S-Mites became human dynamos to polish their competitive dex- terity. The results brought many a crowd to its feet, and with something to cheer about, red-clads found a source of delight. Admittedly, S-M N's burgeoning population might have undergone a general personality change had it been jammed into the graphic frame schoolhouse of one small room. How- ever, a high school is more than a building and its grounds. Individual traits and idio- syncrasies, age levels Cboth sophomoric adolescence and senior decreptitudeb, com- munity surroundings - the totality of these things comprised the substance of Shawnee- Mission North. just as no two people are precisely alike, so, no pair of secondary institutions match either. Here, S-Mites liked thinking they had a splendid nature.

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