Wamego High School - Wa Kaw Yearbook (Wamego, KS)

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Journalism: They Were Two Classes Combined. One of the changes of the Language Arts department was the combining of the newspaper and yearbook staffs into one Journalism class. Since both offer aspects of the Journalism field, staff members bene- fitted from the opportunity to exchange ideas. The Wa-Kaller , published every three weeks, contained numerous stories about school life. The Flashback staff took pictures and wrote copy to capture a record of the school year. Many hard, long hours were spent on the production of both the newspaper and the ye arbook. TOP: Editors, Steve Fulmer and Debbie Grothe, discuss a problem with advisor, Mrs. Steimel. MID- DLE: Members of the yearbook staff are: Debbie Grothe, Editor; Jeanne Clark, Activities; Paula Day lor, Administration and Cur- riculum; Randy Hoerman, Sports; Joann Lonsinger, Business Man- ager; and Lois Doll, Activities. BOTTOM: The people who pub- lished the newspaper are: Kent Trimmell, Sports Editor; Steve Fulmer, Editor; Nancy Carnahan, Page 4 Editor, Dennis Plummer, Page 3 Editor; Terry Lonsinger, Page 2 Editor; Marilyn Prockish, Julie Owens, and Nancy Schleif, typists.

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Debate They Won a 1st Place Trophy The rebirth of Debate as a curricular class proved to be very exciting and profitible experience for the debate students. Three teams, Brynn Stewart and Mike Moc- tezuma, Lorraine Simpson and Linda Haynes, and Richard Webster and Leon Sylvester participated in both league and non-league tournaments. At the Val- ley Falls Novice tourney for 1st year debaters, Miss Haynes and Miss Simpson captured first place with the Jury System as their topic. The team entered the Wichita Invitational for their overnight trip and once again demonstrated their abilities by placing second. The students soon discovered that a successful debate team requires hours of extensive research on a topic. When asked about the accomplishments of the students, Mrs. Greene, debate instructor, stated I am very pleased with the debaters this year. They've worked beyond their call of duty. UPPER LEFT: Mike Moctezuma and Brynn Stewart dis- cuss new techniques for their rebuttal. LEFT: Linda Haynes and Lorraine Simpson proudly hold their 1st place trophy. ABOVE: Richard Webster ingeniously persuades his audience while Leon Sylvester, a team- mate, keeps his time. 11

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Athletic Banquet: Slaymaker Is Speaker Ron Slaymaker spoke at the annual Athletic Banquet given in honor of the Wamego athletes by the Wamego Lions Club. Slaymaker is basketball coach of the KSTC Hornets. In his college days he was national Free throw per- centage leader. Guest speaker Slaymaker spoke about achieving goals. Jim Lee, Dean Plagge, John Harshbarger, and Cheri Wright, High School coaches rounded out the program with talks about their respective sports. TOP: Ron Slaymaker Basketball coach at KSTC speaks at the Athletic Banquet. RIGHT: Many Wamego ath- letes were hearty eaters at the Athletic Banquet. BOTTOM: Wamego High coaches and their wives were seated at the head table.