Wahoo High School - Thunderbird Yearbook (Wahoo, NE)

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Chieftain Staff Becomes a Class The school newspaper staff kept busy this year as it was assigned its own class period. The ten staff members, with the aid of advisor Doug Watts, were able to turn out a new edition of the Chieftain each month. This meant much hard work, including interviewing students, taking pictures, writing and typing stories, and laying out pages. One of the staffs writers was usually on the scene at school functions to cover the stories. News of all the sports events, school plays, and dances could always be found in the Chieftain. There was also up-to-date news on all the clubs and their activities around school. Most of the layout work was done downtown at the Wahoo Newspaper office. This provided the staff members with actual press experience, as well as some good times. On the whole, the 1978-1979 Chieftain staff had an educational, enjoyable, and successful year at WHS. 8 1. Kathy Swartz enjoys the latest issue of the Chieftain. 2. Chuck and Frank work on headlines of the sports page. 3. Jay uses the waxing machine to prepare an article for his page. 4. 1978-1979 Chieftain Staff: Frank Koranda, Larry Jansen, John Ruzicka, Jay Rohman, Kris Davis, Chuck Tillman, Melanie Prokesh, Kelly Poulsen, and Diane Bonow. 5. Kelly lays out articles at the newspaper office. 6. Melanie and Kris put their page together at the work table.

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S.C. Sponsors ‘Mini-Concert’ Sadie Hawkins Dance, Benefit Marathon Dance, and several K K Sound Dances were some of the activities sponsored by the 1978-79 Student Council. The Student Council also sponsored a specail “Red Tag Disco” to go along with the growing popularity of disco. Another very special activity sponsored by the Student Council was the S.A.C. Band mini-concert. The S.A.C. band, who go by “Flair”, entertained the W.H.S. students with popular rock and roll songs held in the Little Theater. This event was enjoyed by everyone and turned out to be very successful. Other chores that are not always noticed carried out by the Council were filling the pop machines, selling school hats and scarves, and giving the teachers flowers on their birthday. Officers for this years Student Council were President-Lynae Barry, vice-president - Randy Pearson, secretary - Becky Olson, and treasurer - Casey Hengen.