Turner High School - Turnerite Yearbook (Kansas City, KS)

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Smith and Rouse Break Records After a hopeful start, the track season progressed disappointingly. Duals were lost and Turner placed low in other meets. School records were set and broken, but the team's overall record was disappointing. The season was not a complete let down, though, with Sean Smith and James Rouse breaking school records. Smith represented Turner at the State Indoor along with Ron Helm, Russell Beck and Philippe Schlouch The sophomores showed great promise in their Invitational, placing second. Coaching the team this year were Bill Smith, Jim Tate, Ned Mattingly, lim Dorsey, Jeanie Bond and Jeff Schettino. 21 at ,, :Y Q T if-'S I W 5 , . , . ' X of Q,-shwf 41 51 if wgjgse'-ta ., K Q ff ii, 1. 2' 'A 'W A 'IO The Technique

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All Talk and Plenty of Action Are you going in extemp. this weekend? No, just poetry interp. A passerby might ask, What is extemp. and poetry interp. ? Extemp. stands for extemporaneous speaking and poetry interp. is poetry interpretation. There are two of the events in Forensics. What is Forensics, well briefly it's competition in various speech and drama events. Informative Speaking , Original Oratory, Extemporaneous Speaking, Prose Interpretation, and Poetry Interpretation round out the speech events, while Duet Acting, Improvised Duet Acting 2T 31 Dramatic Interpretation, and a one act play comprise the drama area of competition. Forensics like other types of competition requires long hours of practice and leaves you physically drained. The team attended tournaments at the following high schools: Bonner Springs, Washington, Pittsburg, Regionals at Shawnee Mission East, Shawnee Mission South, and State at Emporia Kansas State College. The highlight of the season was when the Turner team took the third place trophy out of twenty- three schools competing at the Pittsburg tournament. There was no roster of team membersg the following people attended various contests at various times: Tom Athans, Theresa Barth, Debby Bledsoe, Richard Carter, Sherri Collins, Kim DiPalma, Cindy Frogley, Kim King, Chuck Matney, Tami McDaniel, Matt Myers, Donna Nixon, Sherrie Sanders, Barb Shull, Deneice Skaggs, Julie Smith, David Wallace, Kenne Williams, Chris Wiss, Mike Woods, and Pam Yeary. The coach for Forensics was Mrs. Mary A. Hansen. 1. Pam Yeary prepares an extemporaneous speech. In extemporaneous speaking, the contestant picks a topic dealing with some current event and has 30 minutes to prepare a 5-7 minute speech on it. An example of a topic which could be drawn is, Capitalism, endangered or extinct? 2. Theresa Barth, Sherri Collins, and Barb Shull discuss the schedule of events during Regionals at Shawnee Mission East. The students in the background have come from all over eastern Kansas in hopes of qualifying for a berth at the State Speech and Drama Festival in Emporia. 3. Team members: Julie Smith, Chuck Matney, Matt Myers, Cindy Frogley, Richard Carter, Kenne Williams, and Kim DiPalma perform the one act play for the judges. The one act play was made up of excerpts from A THURBER CARNIVAL by James Thurber. The play was similar to a vaudeville routine with short skits and glib one liners like, Why didn't they repeal inhibition while they were at it'? The Technique 9

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yank.. 21 at The '77 track team included Rick Adams, Tony Alexander, Russell Beck, Micky Cambron, Lonnie Cannon, Mike Castaneda, Terry Deckard, Darryl Duncan, Mike Fugate, Bruce Gentry, Ron Helm, Steve Jackson, Charles Lawhorn, Don Lawrence, Jeff Magee, Troy McNett, Kent Peoguet, James Rouse, Philippe Schlouch, Sean Smith, Tony Snodgrass. Ron Stallings, Bruce Sterner, Larry Thoele, Jim Walker, Kyle Way, Mark Wilson, and Bill Yoakum. 41 LEFT PAGE: 1. Head coach, Bill Smith, watches over practice with Coach Bond. 2. Senior Mike Fugate symbolized dedication by running many hours on his own time. 3. Larry Thoele, ready at the starting blocks. 4. Russell Beck, junior, represented Turner at the State Indoor. 5. Coach Mattingly proved himself as a track coach as well. RIGHT PAGE: 1. The long distance runners circle the track with their favorite coach, Jeff Schettino. 2. Sophomore, Rick Adams, participated in both track and field events. 4. Jeff Magee showed promise in the high jump, The Technique ll