Westport High School - Herald Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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16 SENIORS For the Seniors, the year of 1965-66 held hidden surprises and many unforeseen activities. This year, class members were met with the pressure of decisions as College Boards were taken and careers were planned. The American Field Service picnic, welcoming Kemal, was the kick-off of the school year. The fast pace of the Senior class was set. Seniors holding top offices in every organization prepared and participated in the annual eighth grade orientation, enthusiastically entering the halls of Westport as SENIORS. With the opening of school, constant activities began, never seeming to stop for an instant. The calendar filled with football games, parades, assemblies, meetings. Na- tional Merit results, lit rushes and teas, cross-country meets, parties, college night, basketball games and tour- naments, class elections. Senior Ballot, Christmas orphans and Homecoming, Inter-Society, and tons and tons of academic work besides! And thus the extraordinary class of 1966 has set and met the whirlwind pace of their Senior year. Throughout their years at Westport, the class has seen many traditions originated and reset. The change of class rings, the election of all male class Presidents after a seventeen year gap, the publication of a Crier every 2-3 weeks, the changed date of Inter-Society, the publication of an all- school lit magazine, the crowning of a JUNIOR Football Queen, the end of cafeteria segregation, and the breaking in of a new administration being a few among the many of their achievements!

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CLASS OFFICERS... Right to Left: Christopher Lee Bock, President; Esther Barnes, Vice President; Kathy Hoelzel, Secretary;Cheryl Phillips, Treasurer; Holly Passwater, Sgt.-at-Arms; Election to any class office in a large high school must be considered one of the highest honors the student body• can bestow upon a student. This honor is even greater when it involves the Senior Class. Since this is the last year in school, those who are chosen must be truly looked upon as true leaders. The positions bring with them a great deal of recognition, but more import- tantly election to a senior class office brings with it great responsibilities. Most of the duties of the officers are per- formed in the spring in con- nection with graduation, but the work is a year-round task. Selecting graduation announce- ments, conducting the Senior Survey, and circulating the Senior Ballot involve the students from September to June. Therefore, although election to a Senior Class office must bring elation and pride to any student, that same student quickly learns that he has been given one of the most de- manding and frustrating positions a student can hold. 18