Worthington High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Worthington, OH)

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W.H.S. has the spirit of competition The schools rally around their teams in one great burst of school spirit. We Want Some Bear Meat! is a famil- phrase at WHS But this rivalry was not vays as fierce or as mutual as it is to- ty Twenty-five years ago, all the fights are between WHS and Westerville This airy was so intense that competition itween the two schools had to be mcelled. However, for years individual WHS ams had their own personal rivalry with y such as the rivalry between the swim ams, Mr Apthorp says, The swimming airy was a different sort of rivalry, not violent as it is today, but rather, friend- ly and full of respect. During the late seventies, UA was a state athletic powerhouse and the team to beat. Although Westerville was still WHS's major rival, the WHS football team had lost 20 straight games to UA. UA brushed off WHS as if it were a pesky fly. The rivalry did not intensify to its present level until the 1977 season. That year, with Bob Atha as quarterback. WHS pulled a 14-8 up- set over UA in the final minutes of the game. Worthington went wild! This had snapped a twenty year old winning streak. Although rivalry can sometimes get out of hand, it is the essence of competition. Two teams train hard for the big game. And when the game finally arrives the schools rally around their teams in one great burst of school spirit. As long as WHS and UA maintain their quality athletic teams, and the negative aspects of rival- ry are kept in check, the rivalry will con- tinue to be the focus of school spirit into the next decade. By: Bob Tinker Openng 9

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 ... Worthington has the most in Ohio Opposite Senior guys wll be happy to es- cape from the WHS zoo Top center: Home Ec. can be exhausting, even for guys Bottom center Physics classes can often be found doing experiments in the hats Top left Joe Rudolph t els us his secrets on how to be featured in the Phoenix Top rrxddte A Worthington victory over Wat- terson compiments this beautiful scnset Top right These are the future housewives of America MKJcle Jodi Nol helps out around the school WHS has a record number of Nation- al Merit semi-finalists this year. With a total of twenty-five semi-finalists, Wor- thington has the most in Ohio. Each year juniors take the PSAT test to find out how they may score in the SAT. If a student scores higher than the mini- mum required score for the state of Ohio, he or she gains the option to compete with other semi-finalists for college scholarships Colleges and uni- versities are supplied with names of these semi-finalists and may wish to contact these students because of their high scores Roughly ninety per- cent of all semi-finalists advance to fi- nalist competition and less than forty percent of these finalists become Merit Scholars. In many cases, students are able to receive a four-year scholar- ship, providing opportunities that may not otherwise have been possible. WHS 1987 National Merit Semi-finalists are: William Allison. Julie Barnes, Jac- queline Baumer, Chi Pei Chang, Nancy Christman, Michael Danke. Kristin Fo- ley, Jason Gelender. Kenneth Gifford. Renee Harton. Karen Hermann, An- drew Kammediener, Michelle Lamb. Ted Mathews. Brian Miller, Robert O'Toole. Stephanie Palmer, Kimberly Phillips, Lisa Pinsky, Adam Schawartz. James Sexton. Toby Strohl, Heather Tarczy. and Wendy White. By Jennifer Olsen Openng