St Xavier High School - Xaverian Yearbook (Junction City, KS)

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It almost seems as if Sister Eucharista has been in charge of the library since before it was built. That estimate is a little off but she did start work at St. X. when the Senior class was two years old. Sister Eucharista is a good arguement against mandatory retirement at 65. She is energetic and efficient — she even has a sense of humor. One day a student was wandering in the library looking for nothing . She remarked, I hope you find it. During the Christmas season this year Senior, Tina Blazer, had an inter- esting job. At Gibson's, where she was a clerk, she was one of Santa's Help- ers . Tina is a very vocal advocate of Women's Lib; maybe next year she'll get a promotion and become Santa Claus. I Being a small school in an army town has advan- tages that many other schools don't have. One is the wide variety of back- grounds of the students. Many are military depen- dents and have lived all over the U.S. and in coun- tries all over the world, bringing with them an un- derstanding of other people and cultures to share with their new friends. Students at St. X. feel that this understanding of others will help them to forget prejudices so that everyone will be able to work together as friends.

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 Jane Satterlee ..ADVISOR Lisa Griffin...EDITOR Vanessa Herron COPY EDITOR Jerry Breault--LAYOUT EDITOR Richard Schiele .PHOTO- GRAPHER Tom Mica Grant Collins Danny Kippes Vanessa Herron ........ ORGANIZATIONS Pam Robinett Karen Robinson ........ STUDENTS Anne Schiele Linda Repinec .CLASSES Judy Keating Anita Lichtenhan.SPORTS Jerry Breault Mike Wren Anne Schiele .....ADS Tom Mica Sheila Kippes Dear Readers: This years theme was People, partly because the staff didn't know how to spell Xaverian. The year- book, like People , will look at all kinds of stu- dents and their activities. Students should be proud of their school, what it stands for, and what they as a student body stand for. School was never easy, either you couldn't stand the students around you or the teacher who taught you. There were many conflicts between students that were not that easy to resolve. Many of the disagreements in nigh school will never be solved, but that's high school. St. X is just like any other high school and didn't get away from all this, so much for the nega- tive side of things. To be a student you real- ly have to stand out in a crowd, have your own ideas and let them be known. When ever St. X students went anywhere they always left a mark of some king. It may not al- ways have been what we wanted them to remember but they did remember. I can remember when I went to my last CYO con- vention. ft was my Senior year. Richard Schiele was the diocesan treasurer; we let everyone there know how proud we were of him by clapping and yelling ev- ery time he was to do something. Girls sports is becoming more and more popular at St. X. Volleyball went all the way to sub-state which was a big surprise to quite a few people. The first pioneers of girls basketball graduated this year. Thev fed the first four years of girls basketball to the best winning season. This is not all that went on during the year, but if you flip through the you can see a few of the things that went on during the year. 3

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During the Christmas va- cation , in addition to vis- iting relatives and baking cookies, Kem Perkins be- came Mrs. Frank Jones. She seemed to have ad- justed easily to her rather abrupt change in marital status. But there were some unforeseen problems. For instance: Now, who writes her tardy excuses and smoking permits? (For the record — her husband) When asked if married life was what she expect- ed, she half-seriously re- plied, Yeah, housework and cleaning. Pam Robinett and Vanessa Herron have been taking piano lessons from Sister Salome for 10 and 8 years, respectively. In late April they gave a sen- ior recital. Playing piano is a solitary pastime; there are no cheering crowds, and whoever heard of a pi- ano pep rally? But like a sport, it involves hours of hard work and practice. Playing the Appassion- ata or Soiree de Vienne is as great an ac- complishment as rushing 1,000 yards. In the past, marrying a highschool age wasn't un- heard of, but staying in school afterwards was. Just last year no married students were enrolled at St. X.; this year there are two. After her August 13 wedding in Savage, MN, Kathy enrolled at St. X. as Mrs. Johnson . How- ever, she wanted to be Kathv and not though of as different. In Minnesota getting married at seven- teen was considered weird and she thought that people in Kansas would feel the same. On the contrary, students ac- cepted her without reserva- tion. Keeping a job, going to school, and making her own home never seemed to be too tough to handle. My marriage with Bruce is what I expected it to be , she said. I miss my family who still live in Minnesota, but I don't miss living at home.