Warsaw High School - Ozark Echoes Yearbook (Warsaw, MO)

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Top Gun on top For the 87-88 school year at Warsaw High School students had picked their favorites of just about everything. Students named Top Gun as their favorite movie. Other movies topping the list were Dirty Dancing, Revenge of the Nerds II, Mannequin, Crocodile Dundee, and Predator. Along with the favorite movie came the favorite actor, Tom Cruise. Students also chose Kirk Cameron, Patrick Swayze, and Rob Lowe. Molly Ringwald and Tracy Lawrence topped the favorite actress choices. The favorite looks at Warsaw High School were wild, preppy, serious, and normal. Levi, Guess, Polo, and Pepsi were the top name brands. Feet are well covered with Reebok, Adidas, Kaepa, and Nike. The school text book came in last as far as favorite books are concerned. Top choices were Where the Red Fern Grows, and the Bible. Charlotte ' s Web is Stacy Taylor ' s all time favorite book because, it ' s full of emotions and every time I read it it made me laugh and cry. Lance Ramsey, senior, stated, I prefer Levi jeans over any other brand of jeans because they are the only brand of jeans that fit my long legs and my rear-end. In an effort 1o keep the Persian Gulf open to navigation, tlie Untied States began in July to es- cort vessels to protect ttiem from Iran. In Sep- tember the U.S. Navy blew up an Iranian ship that was caught laying mines in the Gulf. Several mines were confiscated. USA frightened by peril in Gulf The waters outside the Persian Gulf resembled a floating parking lot, accord- ing to Time. A menacing cluster of mines had brought the world ' s busiest oil traffic to a sudden halt. Mines bobbed into sight one after the other. By week ' s end at least five had been spotted, and every tiny fishing boat that sailed by was carefully watched in case it tried to plant more of the dangerous devices. The mines, discovered after one blas- ted a hole in the U.S. -owned tanker Texaco Caribbean, added a lethal new twist to Washington ' s showdown with Iran. The explosives were the first to be found in the Gulf of Oman, a vital stag- ing area for ships plying the Persian Gulf. The mines of August drew a crowd of western warships to the area. The helicopter carrier USS Guadalcanal vj as due on station with eight minesweeping Sea Stallion choppers. Also enroute were the battleship Missouri and the dock ship Raleigh, which carried three small, wooden-hulled boats. After rebuffing American calls for help all summer, Britain and France decided to send seven minesweepers to the region. The old-fashioned Iranian mines had Western naval officers thoroughly spooked. The Pentagon estimated that 50 of them had been deployed and that Iran had nearly 1,000 more in reserve. It would take 50 minesweepers to keep the channels of navigation in the gulf open permanently, said a French ad- miral. The Iranians have us at their mercy with only a few hundred mines. The Dow Jones industrial stock average dropped 608 points, the largest in history, on Monday, Oc- tober 19. Some called it a crash , others called it a meltdown and others called it Block Monday. Whatever it was. it stripped S500 billion from the market value of U.S. securities.

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stock exchange proves unstable The global crash of the stockmarket on October 19, 1987, created a whole new financial reality. What crashed was more than just the market. It was the Reagan Illusion; the idea that there could be a defense buildup and tax cuts without a price, that the country coulc live beyond its means indefinitely. Now it was over, and the dream of painless prosperity had been punctured. Bui what a wild binge it was! Speculative for- tunes built on junk bonds and stock manipulations helped paper over the cracks in an economy beset by sluggish investment and productivity. The stock exchange had never pretended to measure the underlying value of American companies. Instead, it produced collective judgment about the future profits these firms would generate. By suddenly and wildly re- evaluating its expectations about the years ahead, the market may have hel- ped fulfill its own gloomy prophecy. Kris Nolte, senior, stated, The stock market crash worried me because I didn ' t want what happened in the 1920 ' s to happen to us in the 1980 ' s. I thought it would be harder to pull out of it these days. Scare continues About one out of every 200 people, or 1.5 million Americans, were diagnosed as having the aids virus one year ago. Today, however, there are four million Americans that have the AIDS virus, about one in 75 people. By the year of 1993, it is expected that more people will die of AIDS than died in World War I, World War II, Korean and the Vietnam Wars combined. The first case diagnosed of having AIDS was in 1969 of a boy in St. Louis. The epidemic really took off in 1977. Since then, the number of AIDS cases has greatly increased. Of the people who had AIDS, 80% were teenagers. The best way .to prevent getting the virus was to have safe sex. It had to be a lifetime, one-to- one relationnship between two people. Condoms did not prevent AIDS. Micro- scopic holes were large enough for the virus to pass through. A person could not contract AIDS from casual contact or drinking from water fountains that AIDS victims had drunk from. No cure had yet been found and the only thing that could be done was help prevent the spread of AIDS. Laura Cadger, senior, stated, At the present time I don ' t feel particularly threatened by AIDS; however, I will be paying attention to future developments in the event that new ways of contract- ing the virus are discovered. 4 1 ' news theme designed by heather perry

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Wild and crazy memories With the best of friends Preppies, freaks, jocks, cheerleaders, snobs, geeks, and nerds were the dif- ferent clicks in high school. No matter which group a student was classified in, he or she had a best friend to share the most embarrassing and memorable moments with. Kevin Byrd and Scott Rogers, seniors, declared themselves jocks. Rogers ex- plained that their time together was spent showing off. One night we went to the show in Sedalia. When we got into the car Kevin tried to impress a couple of girls by spinning his tires. As we were spinning, ixie of the hubcaps flew off and roiled toward the girls. Michelle McGhee and Tracy Martin, juniors, spent a summer together water- logged. During the summer, the two girls went to the ballpark and had water fights. They would use buckets, cups, and hoses to try to soak the other. One night I had control of the hose and I was waiting for Michelle to walk out from behind the concession stand. When I heard her coming I started spraying. Little did I know I was spraying Dr. Boise, our superintendent! ex- plained Martin. Lori Wolfe and Kris Nolte, seniors, ex- plained how to flirt with a bumble bee. One hot summer day the two girls drove the Nolte ' s truck to the beach. With the windows rolled down, the truck rode down 7 highway. Suddenly, a bumble bee flew in the driver ' s window, buzzed by Nolte ' s ear, and crashed right into Wolfe ' s nose. Wolfe didn ' t know what hit her until Nolte pointed out the yellow dot right between her eyes. I guess you can say I got pollinated, commented Wolfe. Dustin Lear, Steve Yach, Steve Intel- mann, seniors; and Tony Jones, 1987 graduate, practiced for the mud marathon. We went to Bennet Spring to fish. When we caught our limit we walked back to the truck but we forgot our tackle boxes. We were all to tired to walk back down to the lake to get them so I drove the truck down. Being our luck we buried the truck in some mud. We spent four hours trying to get it out. One of the funniest moments was when Yach was pushing the front of the truck. As he helped, some of the mud came out from under the truck and hit him right between the eyes, throwing him to the ground, laughed Dustin Lear. Andrea Sherman and Shelly Hutton, sophomores, began training for amateur boxing. At the Clinton tournament, Andrea and I were running around during halftime. For some reason, Andrea decided to be witty and hide around the corner so she could hit me. But to tier surprise it wasn ' t me that she nailed but the fat guy walking in front of me. She hit him right in the stomach and his pop- corn went flying all over the place. She tried to apologize but the man saw no humor in it, said Hutton. Jerry Spry and Kevin Henderson, juniors, crashed and burned. Jerry and I were driving Dad ' s Bronco down a gravel road about sixty miles per hour. I was going so fast that I lost con- trol and we hit a ditch. We not only hit one ditch but also the road, another ditch, a fence, and the road again. I got out of the Bronco and I didn ' t think that there was any damage until I walked to the other side. That ' s when I knew I crashed and was going to burn when my parents found out, said Henderson. Pam Claycomb and Rachel Newberry, eighth graders, didn ' t have to be told to jump off the roof they did it on their own. 1 spent the night with Rachel one time and we got really bored. So, to put a little excitement in our lives we decided to jump off the roof. We jumped out a few times and then her dad caught us. We got into a lot of trouble, explained Claycomb. theme designed by kristen nolte P