Silver Lake High School - Golden Eagle Yearbook (Silver Lake, KS)

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DebaTing squad places sixTh aT sTaTe DebaTe and Forensics STaTe debaTers finished in sixTh place as a squad. The debaTers ThaT wenT To sTaTe were Debbie BrungardT, Tammy Harrison, Diane DulTrneier, Maria Shell, and Tina Harrison wenT as an alTernaTe. Kyle Dillinger and Tarnrny Harrison debaTed TogeTher aT Regionals, buT due To a conflicT wiTh sTaTe wresTling Dillinger was noT able To go To The sTaTe debaTe Tourna- menT. BrungardT wenT in his place. Several people qualified for sTaTe Forensics. STeve Brown qualified in Two differenT areas. Everyone had To go To aT leasT eighT TournarnenTs in debaTe ex- cepT The novices, who were firsT year debaTers. The novices had To go To aT leasT five. There were Two overnighT TournamenTs aT Schlagle and Shawnee Mission. PaTTi Frey said Speech noT only helps one open up To oThers, buT iT also leTs one learn abouT The subjecT. lT's a real learning ex- perience. AY' ff' -2, 2 1 at 4 KM? . ,. I , Above: Watching televlslon, lunlor Troy Wolf and sophomore Mike Jacobs eaT chips. -photo by Debbie BrungardT. Right: Debate: Front Row: Debbie Brun- gardT, Tammy Harrison, Coach Gail Nay- lor, Kyle Dillinger Second Row: Danny Le- deboer, Maria Shell, Sonny Garner, PaTTi Frey, Susie Howell, Tina Harrison, Lara Dil- linger, Mike Jacobs Back Row: Troy Wolf, Diane DulTmeier, Melinda Shell. -phoTo by Mrs. Ernesfine Thompson. 74 f CLASSES f DEBATE T

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l only Took one science class during Hu---u.....,,,., ,.-nad by Darci Reichardi by Rick MacCausland by Melissa Corp if fini Above: Does photo-flo come nexT? wonders David Biswell freshman as he reaches for The conTainer.-phoTo by Maria Shell. Far LefT: These are some examples of arTisTic Typings from The oTh hour Typing class. LeTT: Observing The bubbling waier In The flask, Lonnie Sides sophomore, waiTs for a chemical reacTion To occur,-phoTo by Julie l-lawkins. Lab by Shelli Sumner The firsT Three years of high school ----- biology, a required course ThaT every sophomore had To Take. l was never any good aT ex- amining dead animals so l decided To ex- plore anoTher parT of The science world. My senior year i Took my chance and enrolled in chemisTry. Boy, was ThaT o mis- Take! On The firsT day of class, The Teacher sTarTed lecTuring and l ThoughT I had acci- denrally enrolled in a foreign language class. He was using sTrange Terms Thai' l didn'T even know exisTed, l knew righT away iT was going To be a lang year. As The weeks slowly dragged on. The class was learning Empirical formuals, UnforTunaTely, l was sTill back aT The sTarTing blocks wiTh The Table of elemenTs. l Thoughi' l was never going To gei' over Those high hurdles of sym- bols. Well, The Time finally came when l moved up from elemenrs To compounds. As soon as l had made The climb, l was sTruck by Avogadro's number, which l never could figure ouT. After srudying from The TexTbooks for Three weeks, The class advanced on TOlfifh9 excifing parT of chemisiiry -- Technicaliah- oraTory experimenis. Our lab group wcrsThe worsT one ouT of The class. We were always confused from The beginning of The experi- menT To The end. We deTermined mad sci- enTisTs never c3uiTe undershood whaT.we were doing, or why wefwere doing in Our A firsT experimenT deaiT wiTh waTer and acid. We occidenhy proved one Thing - woTer and sodium don'T mix. We puT Them To- geTher, and righT before our eyes, we worcned rnerwnoie evaporating disk and TTS conTeriTs ours? inTo flames. We felT iike if really wasn'T our faulT because before we sTarTed ThaT experirnern, we Told him we didn'T know whaT we were doing. From ThaT day on, he Took our word for iT. Our lab group never did anoiher Technical lab again, We goT siuck wiTh The basics. They weren'T Too bad of firsT buT doing The some experimerfrs over and over goT very mo- noTonous. As far as grades are concerned, l guess l did alright l could have done beTTer if The chemisTry course could have been over a period of Three years. AT leasT ThaT way, l mighi' have been able To undersTond Avo- gadro's number. X Houn ofCLASSESf73 '

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Forensics: Front Row: Marla Shell, Clndy Blankenship, Melinda Shell, Tammy Harri- son Second Row: Darcy Etzel, Diane Dult- meier, Patti Frey, Tina Harrison Back Row: Kyle Dillinger, Mike Jacobs, Troy Wolf, Danny Ledeboer, Tony Leiker, Steve Brown, Coach Gail Naylor, Debbie Brun- gardt, Lara Dillinger,-photo by Kim Brooks. Strife GJ T H Y: li. .A L.i by DeAnna Vincent Death has been and always will be with us. lt is an essential part of human exis- tance. And because it is, it has always been a subject of deep concern to us. Since the dawn of humankind, the human mind has pondered death, searching for the answer to its mysteries. Death is not a catastrophic. destructive thing: in fact, we can see it as one ofthe most constructive, positive, and creative elements. The clinical term for death ls: the perma- nent cessation of all vital functions. The clini- cal term for birth is: the act of being barn, Death is the finai stage of growth, whereas birth, when life begins, is the first. Our modern society sees birth as a cause for celebration, lt sees death as a dreaded and unspeakable issue to be avoided at all possible times. People see death as a thing to be feared. This may be because death reminded modern society of human vulner- ability. We may be able to delay death, but we cannot escape it, Death strikes indis- criminately. it cares not what a person has done, or who he ls: everyone must die, whether rich or poor, famous or unknown, Maybe this is why it is so hard to die. Death can strike at anytime so we become obsessed with the idea and hide our chil- dren from lt. Llle a short gasp of alr then a loud cry he gives, to say that he lives. Death a short gasp of alr then silently he lies, to say that he dlos. written by Dr. Bili Nice Death is the key to the door of life. it ls through accepting the finalness of our indi- vidual lives that we are enabled to find the strength and courage to devote each day of our lives -- however long they may be - to growing as fully as we are able. lt is denial of death that is partially responsibie for people living empty purposeless lives. Top Left: As freshman Tlna Harrlson goes over her speech, freshman Lara Dillinger helps out.-photo by Debbie Brungardt. Middle Left: At a Topeka cllnlc senlor Kyle Dillinger gives freshman Lara Dillinger pointers.-photo by Diane Dultmeier. Left: Relaxing after a debate tourna- Hanna watch television.-photo by Diane Dultmeier. D. ment, Coaches Gail Naylor and Debbie X Foi2ENslcsfcLAssEsf75