Issue 20

HARBINGER

Shawnee Mission East Issue 20 May 13, 2003

The

SENIOR issue

senior columns • senior profiles • colleges • letters of advice

Seniors

Kansas and Missouri

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Kansas: Baker University Catenhauser, Charlie Franklin, Barbara Friends University of Central Kansas Doyen, Eric Sembach, Janine Emporia State University Gunderson, Laura Washburn University Fisher, Craig Pittsburgh State University Pfanmiller, Kalin Trewolla, Adrienne MidAmerica Nazarene University McCumber, Carrie Superior School of Hair Design Held, Katherine Withita State University Ferguson, Jennifer University of Kansas Abrams, Allie Albertson, Corki Alexander, Hannah Altoro, Amanda Arensberg, Mark Ashlock, Michael Aufdemberge, Emily Barnert, Libby Barnes, Bryan Bauman, Kenneth Becker, Michael Beever, Samuel Berlau, Rachael Bieber, Ashley Boland, James Brown, Elisabeth Brown, Justin Brunson, Ericka Buck, Weston Cahill, Sarah Carter, Zach Chapman, Halley Cooley, Megan Cornwell, Jessica Dix, Jamie Dodd, Marian

Missouri: University of Missouri Clark, Emily Donald, Lorie Jaros Elliot Marr, Josh Miller, Hannah Murray, James Thomas, Sarah Thompson, Marianne

Ellwood, Amanda Emke, Emily Enslein, Alana Fedosyuk, Anton Fisher, Kelly Fisher, Nick Frankenberg, Rich Gilliland, Samuel Goehausen, Matthew Goldhahn, Leslie Gravino, Jacquelin Gray, Andrew Greene, Andrew Griffin, Adam Gundelfinger, Monica Henning, Lindsey Hertel, Kyle Hocking, Sara Hood, Aaron Hoover, Jenna Horn, Sasha Horner, Amanda Howell, Megan Jenkins, John Jones, Kristin Kelly, Chapman Kerr, Zach Kingston, Benjamin Kline, Jacquelin Koukol, Jerry Krigel, Steven Kueffer, Julianne Lacy, Ian Lewis, Paul Long, Franco Lucas, David Mahley, Laura Malekyar, Matin Masonbrink, Adam Maxwell, Christine McDonald, Trevor Meers, Charlie Meyer, Kyle Milburn, Nathan Miller, Blake Miller, Jeff Moosavi, David Norton, Tiffany Nowak, Allison Noyce, Kathryn Ogren, Catlin Pahura, Michael Parsons, Luke Pener, Rose Phillips, Katherine

Pierson, Lauren Pistorius, Leah Pope, Katie Rellihan, Andy Robertson, Drew Rock, William Schifano Irdris, Amir Seever, Meghan Selby, Joanna Shields, Stacey Sigman, Nick Simonsen, Peter Sivewright, Conner Sloan, Taylor Sollenberger, Brandon Stepp, Samuel Stiles, Nancy Stites, Nathan Stitt, Michael Stuckey, Rick Thompson, Emily Thompson, Rich Tidrick, Jack Tocco, Leonard Turman, William Turner, Michael Vandyke, Jayna Voss, James Walton, Devin Warring, Emily Welch, Jeffrey Wendlandt, Blair Wilson, Justin Witt, Trey Zagortz, Davis Zumbehl, Katie Kansas State University Allen-Cannon, Taylor Bauer, Greyson Bockelman, Joel Brown, Lauren Cattanach, Lauren Cheek, Marshall Conreux, Garret Corbin, Thomas Cueller, Monica Dallam, Peyton Dallman, Ben Del Rosario,

William Jewell Gillenwater, Bobby Willard, Elizabeth Washington University Logan, Jenny Glatt, Joshua Parker, Rebecca St. Louis University Jackson, Sasha

Westminster College Colston, Kevin Radtke, Matt Truman State Cope, Ryan Sisco, Megan

Natasha Ferlas, Jon Ferrel, Mandy Florez, Michael Freeman, Don Gretz, Liz Hanson, Allie Heintz, Andy Howells, Katie Kalkofen, Iris Kraft, Michael Kreeka, Klajdi Loethen, John Mattews, Zach McDonald, Bryan McDougal, Patrick McIntyre, Emily Miller, Allen Miller, Jamie Miller, Matt Neibling, Belinda Perdue, Kristin Persons, Cindy Rader, Julianne Randle, Kasey Rice, Michael Roberts, Bobbi Robinson, Molly Rogers, Catherine Seitz, Josh Shaeffer, Katie Sirridge, Charlie Szczncinsky, Whitney Thompson, Matt Thompson, Meaghan Vaughn, Lauren Wallace, Katherine Walsh, Bridget Wetzel, Peter White, Brittany Whitsitt, Rachel Young, Chris Johnson County Community College Alexander, Lauren Barlow, Aja Bettis, Brandi Brewer, Rebecca Brown, Jonathan Campbell, Jason Caps, Ginny Carrasco, Michael Collins, Jaci Collins, Matthew Davis, Christine

Central Missouri State University Loren, Roy McGilley, Rory Spencer, Meghan UMKC Bereolos, Jimmy Cerovich, Kevin Laughlin, Jennifer

Dinesen, Chris Donegan, Ryan Drier, Matthew Edwards, Sean Elliot, Robert Fazli, Tahara Francis, Tyler Garcia, Michael Haglighat, Arman Haugen, Aubrey Hollingsworth, Lisa Horan, Patrick Hoskins, Wes Janes, Jocelyn Jones, Josh Jorgensen, Aaron Kass, Lyle Kazmaier, Liz Kiddle, Jeremy Kinder, Katie Kissinger, Kendra Kuntorovskiy, Sergey Ladisheff, April Leak, Sean Luckenbill, Chris Mance, Katie Mason, Alana McClellan, Mark McDonough, Courtney McNown, James Mead, Sarah Morris, Randi Newport, Austin Nichols, Laci O'Bryan, Chris Oldham, Shawn Olenick, Colin Ostrander, Timothy Pearce, Erin Peter, Maile Pisciotta, Matthew Richards, Logan Rodriguez, Pablo Smith, Brian Sotomeyer, Stephany Titus, Chad Tyner, Natasha Voss, Greg Weber, Robert Woy, Dustin Wyble, Matthew Kansas City Community College Jamie, Enright

Mallory, Ray Meeks, Martie Niedt, Alex Steele, Travis Avila University White, Everly Kansas City Art Institute Woodward, Thomas

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The Heartland Minnesota: St. Olaf College Beckmann, Matthew Minnesota State University Wessely, Meredith

Wisconsin: Marquette University Harris, Richie

University of Minnesota Sullivan, Jacque

Iowa: Drake Appenbrink, Kristin Moriarty, Julie Nyguard, Eric Sears, Carolyn Shepherd, Jessie Sonderegger, Stephanie Suchman, Jeff Vander Lippe, Karla Buena Vista College Lyles, Nikiya

Nebraska: University of Nebraska Canaday, Courtney Sevcik, Jimmy Creighton University Carper, Greer James, Katie

Cornell College Betlach, Lindsay Reynolds, Parker Grinnell College Hughey, Meredith University of Iowa McCaddon, Reilly

Illinois: Depaul University Phillips, Kate Thrutchley, Ben

Oklahoma: Tulsa University

Southern Illinois University Sundberg, Matt

Klein, Jessica Knox College Claiborn, Caroline

Texas: Baylor University Solter, John Texas Christian university Jager, Paul Needham, Melissa Southern Methodist University Atha, Neil Smith, Kristin Rice University Martins, John

University of Illinois Bradbury, David Northwestern University Schermoly, Joseph Loyola University Davis, Jessica Orlowski, Michael

Arkansas: none

Louisiana: Loyola Drier, Matt Tulane Henry, Erin Lowe, Emily

Undecided Ames, Alice Blim, Chris Cooper, Collin Ecker, Kevin Funk, Callie Grossman, Ian Hernandez, Alex Mance, Katherine McNoun, James Oldham, Ryan Schere, Adam Waldman, Ariel Zeller, Kyle

Seniors page 4 & 5 For the last issue, we asked four teachers to write letters of advice and farewell to the graduating seniors.

Here’s what they said.

WORDS of wisdom

Washington University of Puget Sound Thurn, David Leffel, Sarah

Idaho University of Idaho Faulman, Andy

Montana Great Falls University Whitson, Katie

Seattle Community College Long, Andrew

Wyoming

Whitman College Wagner, Andrew

PAUL DEBARTHE: “Rituals are recyclable. Passage too, may be.

Graduation is forever, yet life beckons beyond”.

Neophyte; Graduation appears as an event. More appropriately it should be seen in the larger sphere of perennial cycles. It offers significance as a rite of passage, but, since you will continue to educate yourselves throughout your lives, and since much of the process has been mechanical adjustment to the educational conveyer belt, its significance simplifies to the ability to stay in line. You learned it in pre-school. You learned it alpha, numeric, at recess, and at lunch. You symbolize that ability in graduation. Stand in line! Step forward at the right time, smile, shake hands, grasp the proffered folder and demonstrate that you fit among the homos graduating into sapients.

The conveyor belt now specializes into tracks upon which you have more choice. You may choose to be refined by the world of hard knocking on wood. You may choose the parasitic approach. You may feed the cannon. You may further graduate yourself on the educational assembly line. Ultimately, you will need to do that for which you are little prepared, quest for the vision of yourself in your community through which you best can fulfill the innate purpose found within your innermost being. This introspection, this level of metacognition does not lend itself to mechanical calibration so we ignore it on the assembly line and presume the nationally standardized external measures sufficient. Those of us who allow or conspire for education on this level usually find the “Reject” stamp on our heads and we land in the trash can in which no child is left behind.

Passage and rite are both important. However, for you to look carefully at both faces of Janus and acquaint yourself with what holds them together may require more than an annual ritual cycle.

Follow the Socratic principle, “Know Thyself.” Seek Truth! As one of the fortunate from S.M.E., much will be expected of you. We are happy to coach, applaud and encourage as you rise to the expectations.

Should you, by the end of your line segment discover that reality would better have been demonstrated in the sphere, then come back and nudge us slightly toward the reject chute. Rituals are recyclable. Passage too, may be. Graduation is forever, yet life beckons beyond.

‘Been Nice Having You ‘Round!

Mr. D

Oregon Portland University Fritz, Sam

Nevada

California University of California at Davis Enders, Carolyn

Colorado

Santa Monica College Lindquist, Emma

Johnson & Wales Espinoza, Johnny Wooldridge, Kelly

University of Redlands See, Jennifer

University of Colorado Adler, David Clay, Shannon Steiner, Lindsay

California Community College Wyrick, Kyra

Arizona: Northern Arizona University Quimby, Sarah Van Auken, David

Utah

Arizona State Jones, Katie

New Mexico

Colorado State University Cavitt, Susan Cranor, Libby Denver University German, Sarah White, Collin Fort Lewis College Meyerdirk, Johnny Ruddick, William Colorado College Bayless, Dorothy Brown, Andrea

Ohio Wooster College Ebbits, Brian Miller, Clay

Michigan University of Michigan Coleman, Emily

Hiram College Klinzing, Daniel

New York Alfred Young, Danielle Parsons Levy, Stephanie

Oberlin College Ketter, Patrick Columbia University Payton, Kevin Titterington, Sarah Clement, Luther Clevland Institute of Vassar College Anderson, Vaughn Art Proffer, Ben Dieirks, Kristin Xavier University Garrison, Laura

Maine

New Hampshire

WORDS of wisdom

Vermont Norwich University Leibrandt, Jeff Middlebury Polfer, Leigh Young, Michael

Mass.

Boston University Buner, Matt Monea, Emily

Hunter College Rose, Hillary

Pennsylvania University of Pittsburgh Johnson, Anne

Tufts Zouein, Lousia May

Indiana DePauw University Beaver, Kevin Jones, Andrea

Rhode Island

Indiana University Calcara, Grant Horrell, Sam

Connecticut

Ball State Holst, Amy

Yale Kelly, Erin

Trinity College Brake, Jen

Fairfield University Warwick, Taylor

Kentucky

New Jersey Delaware Maryland

Tennessee

Virginia Liberty University Warner, Natalie

West Virginia

South Carolina Clemson Bower, Steven Furman University Mann, Jordan

DAVID GRAY “People who come prepared make their own ‘good luck’” Advice to the Graduates of 2003 Gleaned from a t-shirt I bought on a trip to Hawaii: • The Shortest Line Is Not Always the Fastest.

• No Rain, No Rainbows.

• He who Dies with The Most Toys, Still Dies.

• Better Truth in Solitude than a Pack of Lies • Don’t Worry About The Final Destination; Just Enjoy the Trip.

• Remember What Goes Around; Comes Around.

• People Who Come Prepared Make their Own “Good Luck” Graduates—Good Luck

ANGELO COCOLIS “Honesty is the best policy, because it has little competition”

North Carolina

Dear Seniors:

Wake Forest Zumbhel, Sarah

There are many wonderful quotes on life, here are a few I would like to share with you.

Warren Wilson College Pence, Bill

• The gre.atest gift we can give others is a good example.

Duke University Woodsmall, Amy

• Honesty is the best policy, because it has little competition.

Mississippi

• Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough.

University of Mississippi (Ol’ Miss) Hamam, Jillian Weltner, Heather Williams, Erin

• A hug is a perfect gift—one size fits all and nobody minds if you exchange it.

Alabama

Georgia

Florida Orlando Junior College Young, Blake University of Florida Golub, Kristina Fullsail Film School Alejos, Jeffrey

• If you want to soar with the eagles in the morning – You can’t be “Hooten” with the Owls at night.

• Live today as if it were your last, but work as if you would live forever.

• The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

• We never know the love of our parents for us until we become parents.

Congratulations and best wishes to the class of 2003.

Dr. Angelo Cocolis

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Vaughn Anderson, Susie Schweiker

senior profiles

Hard work pays off

of wisdom

Spending too much time on school work results in a college with too many women If you are the sort of student who has skipped every worksheet that’s been assigned since Spring Break, maybe you could take a page from semopr V a u g h n A n d e r s o n’s (text)book.

“My major weakness is that I spend too much time doing schoolwork,” Anderson said. “I’m something of a masochist.”

Is masochist going too far? Maybe, but his hunger for education is in no way unrealistic.

Anderson plans to attend Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY next fall. His passion for literature and creative writing made the decision to be an English major easy.

“It just seems right to me,” Anderson said of his visit to the college. “ It appealed to all of my interests.”

In addition to reading novels by such writers as Navokov and writing poems, he draws, he dabbles in watercolors, he plays the violin, he listens to classical music, and of course, he does a lot of schoolwork.

“Vassar’s a good match for me,” Anderson said.

And how about the fact that, until 1969, Vassar was

SUSIE SCHWEIKER: “Above all, live so that because of you, the world is a better place.”

an all-women’s college?

Did the favorable ratio of 60 women to every 40 men weight into his college decision?

“Not really,” Anderson said.

Smiling, he adds, “but it’s a definite advantage.”

Although Anderson differs from his fellow seniors in their study habits, he shares a common fear that many collegebound seniors have.

“I’m a bit apprehensive about how my mom basically keeps me alive,” Anderson said. “I guess I’ll have to learn how to obtain food on a regular basis.”

With the work ethic Anderson has, though, it seems like he’ll be on his feet soon enough.

“I’m a bit apprehensive about how my mom basically keeps me alive. I guess I’ll have to learn how to obtain food on a regular basis.”

WORDS

Vaughn ANDERSON

After high school plans: Vassar College

Dear Seniors, Writing a letter of advice is challenging—a rather long period of time has passed since my own graduation.

However this is what the eighteen-year-old me needed to hear: •Never stop learning.

•Make time for great art, for great literature, and for great music.

•Eat great food, get enough sleep, and stay active.

(Note: laughter is good exercise) •Find the profession that is your passion. Wake up excited to do something you love.

•Admit it. You don’t really need a lot of stuff.

•Be willing to adapt. The world will change profoundly during your lifetime.

•Invest in those you love. Nothing else will ever matter as much as they do.

•Seek solitude when “the world is too much with” you.

•See the miraculous within the ordinary.

•Go outside and play.

•Choose your words carefully. A single sentence can make all the difference.

•Daydream. And then dare to make the dream come true.

Above all, live so that because of you, the world is a better place.

With all best wishes always, Schweiker

Soon-to-be SENIORS Hindsight being 20-20, I look back on the last three years and realize that I could have made some different choices. I could have done more homework and taken advantage of more extra credit opportunities. When I didn’t understand something, I could have come in and talked to teachers. And looking back on the choices I’ve made, I can’t help Ben Huntley but reminisce about my career at staff artist East and my final year to come.

I remember as a little freshman, I was scared to make eye contact with anyone I didn’t know.

In classes with upperclassman, I would sit in the corner and hope to God that the teacher didn’t call on me, because I knew if I got the answer wrong, the mean upperclassman would laugh at me and I would run off crying into the little boys room. My first year in high school, I had trouble talking to girls, my voice cracked and I shaved because if I didn’t a few random hairs grew like wildfire. As a freshman, a fun weekend was going out and riding my skateboard. As a freshman, I got arrested for criminal trespassing and was grounded from December to May. That same year, I brought

home the worst grades my parents have ever seen. I looked upon the next four years fearing the time I was going to have to spend at East.

Summer came and summer went, then I came back to school all grown up and ready for my second year in high school. As a sophomore, I discovered the hell that is trying to get to school in time to get a parking spot. I thought I was cool because people were younger than me. I remember showing up at freshman parties, being the cool kid because I was older and I could drive. As a sophomore, my locker moved from the fifth floor to the fourth floor and I stoppped carrying a backpack. As a sophomore, I went out to lunch for the first time and all of the quotes and the articles in the Eastonian started to make sense. As a sophomore I experienced my first school dance and my first high school love. As a sophomore, I couldn’t wait to become a junior.

Yet again, nine months passed, and then summer came and went, and I walked into the SM East doors as a junior.

My third year in high school, I was referred to as an “upperclassman” and I had my first senior friends. I was able to park on campus and I had to read Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. And as a junior, I will have to start visiting colleges and thinking about what I want to do with the rest of my life. And as a junior, I can’t help but sit and ask myself,

A Junior’s Anticipation ‘Where did all of the time go?”

And now, in several weeks, summer is upon us again. I will walk out the doors a junior, and come back the crème of the crop, the oldest of the bunch, one of the coolest kids in school. I will be a senior.

My last year in high school, I will write my senior paper.

As a senior, I will be a SHARE chairperson and I will attend as many sporting events as I can. I will park in the senior lot and go out to lunch—legally. As a senior, I will play the senior prank I have been planning these past several years. As a senior I will decide where to go to college and what I want to do with the rest of my life. My last year in high school, I will be grateful for the last four years, thinking that they’ve been the greatest time of my life.

I am looking forward for summer and I am looking forward to coming back next year as a senior. I am not, however, looking forward to the beginning of the end. I believe that every day is the first day of the rest of your life. But next year, every day will be one of the last days of my career at East, and maybe even adolescence. Maybe I don’t want to grow up and maybe that’s why I’m scared. Or maybe I’m just thinking too far into this. I will let you all know next year.

Have a great summer.

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semior colmns, profile

Hope you had the time of your life

Making Your Mark at East There is an entirely different world outside of Shawnee Mission East, and sometimes it just takes a person to get there to realize that.

If you’re lucky, you’ve known that Katie Whitson and you’ve at least Assistant Editor tried to establish who you are without following the flock around you. It is up to every graduating class to try and set a good moral and ethic code for all those that will soon approach the same point. I wish that I had made a bigger impact on everyone around me, by running for STUCO or joining the soccer team freshman year instead of just the conditioning, but in retrospect, we all add something to our class, even the class clown or the quiet kid that sits in the back. Each of us does something, and if not by everyone, we will at least be remembered by a few. To everyone that still has a semester or more to go before leaving, try and do the following to gracefully leave your mark…

1. Get involved with SHARE- there is nothing more important than giving back to the community that you have the pleasure of belonging to.

2. Be nice to other people! Everyday, give at least three people a compliment or smile at a random student/teacher walking down the hall.

3. Get involved with a club, sport or other recreational activity (this does not refer to drinking or drugs). In the end, you’ll be thankful you did because you’ll make friends and figure yourself out.

4. Schedule regular meetings with your school counselor so you can figure out what you want to do after high school.

There is nothing worse than being in the last days of your last quarter and not knowing where you want to go, especially if your first choice is no longer accepting applications.

5. Dream big- every great feat is the spawn of one person’s idea, no matter how big or impossible it may seem. Remember: deeds not just words.

To all of you whom I have had the pleasure sharing my high school experience with, Thank You. p.s.- Word to The Deuce

Well, thats it. High school is over and Matt Goehausen gone forever. No Assistant Art and Design more fire drills, pep assemblies or Editor Lancer Day parades.

I just hope that everyone made the most of it.

Everyone is excited about graduating and moving on to the next stage of life, but to be honest I’m really going to miss high school. It has been very good to me and I can honestly saythat I had the time of my life. I made the most of the past four years and lived my life to the fullest. High school is supposed to be the best four yesrs of your life, and everyone should try their hardest to make it be just that. I doubt that their is anyone that can say that they really tried their best, had as much fun as they possibly could, played as hard as they could, and have no regrets about anything during their four years of high school. But as long as you come close, it doesn’t matter. As long as you can look back with fond memo-

Reminiscing to the Beatles There are places I remember…

And so starts the Beatles song.

I sit in Computer Applications class and I contemplate how to say goodbye to what my world has centered on for the past four years. Suddenly I am Tom Woodward blindsided by this tune, which is Staff Artist coming from a neighboring computer.

All my life, though some have changed…

During my stay at Shawnee Mission East things have changed a considerable amount. I realize how much this line applies to my high school career and the building that I have called home for a small wrinkle in time.

Some forever, not for better…

In my stay I watched the high school environment steadily change with school shootings in Colorado, Oregon, and Arkansas. I would have never imagined that my high school would have cameras and a staff of police officers.

Some have gone, and some remain, All these places had their moments...

I continue to reminisce as the sounds almost eerily connect with different themes and events. I think of my favorite teachers and then Mr. Debarthe as the song moves towards a line that states, “There is no one that compared to you.”Without Mr. Debarthe I probably wouldn’t be looking at a future as bright as the one I stare at and daydream about today. Just as fate brought this song to my ears at just the right time, fate brought my path towards Mr. Debarthe at a similar instance. The funny thing is that I almost dropped his class at the beginning of that year. I have Mrs. Hunter, my counselor/coffee talking friend/confidant to thank for steering me away from that terrible notion. It’s really nothing

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less than beautiful how everything worked out. For some reason I stayed in Mr. Debarthe’s class despite how much he had damaged my pride after my first classroom presentation. I don’t really know what that reason is but I can only imagine that it is a reason similar to the one to thank for his survival of several freak accidents on the farm growing up. And because I decided to stay in the class I was able to continue upon the path of finding the importance of Art in my life. I was in the Art and Literature group in the class and I cite that as the reason why I am going to be attending the Kansas City Art Institute this next fall.

When I think of love as something new…

In Mr. Debarthe’s class I learned many new things that made my love for Art concrete and irreparable. From Rodin to Rembrandant and Michelangelo to Rafael, Mr. Debarthe gave me all of the inspiration I needed to become an artist myself. His passion for teaching made me develop a passion for learning, and the knowledge that I sought was almost exclusively Art related. I still seek that knowledge today with a similar passion and likewise I must continue to thank Mr. Debarthe.

Though I know I’ll never lose affection…

As I leave East I am certain that I have found my life’s work- Visual Arts. Whether it will be through owning a gallery, becoming an Art dealer, or continuing make my own works of Art, I don’t really know yet. But I do know that this love isn’t one that will soon pass.

I know I’ll often stop and think about them…

I’ll never forget my high school experience. I have learned so much about life in these four years and I am sure that I am ready to venture out into the real world.

And then, just as I begin to appreciate all that Shawnee Mission East has given me, the bell sounds signaling the end of the hour.

Class is over, and it’s time to move on.

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ries,few regrets, an lessons learned, then you must have done high school right.

During my time here at East, I have learned many things and gone through many changes. I have learned that life is too short to be worried and stressed out about little things. I’ve learned that high school is a time in which you have to live it up and have no regrets. I’ve learned that being yourself is the most important thing you can do. Most of all, I’ve learned how to live my life right, and that is what high school is all about.

I urge everyone to make to most of the best years of your lives. Carpe Diem! (Sieze the day!) No worries. No regrets. I think Ferris Beuller said it best, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while you could miss it.” High school is the same way. It has been the fastest and best four years of my life.

Hopefully the next four can compare.

East High football rules!

senior profiles Kelly Wooldrige Plans: Johnson & Wales, Denver, Colorado In the Genes Kelly comes from a culinary background that includes a mom who is a food teacher and an uncle who is a professional chef. “I’ve always been around [cooking]. The professional kitchen is so much different than a white collar office job. I don’t know if I could stand that.” Currently he hones his skills at the Hallmarkowned American Restaurant under executive chef Celina Tio. A Real Food Snob Kelly admits that his favorite meal of late came from Pachamama’s in Lawrence where he had a seared Missouri elk with palento and a roasted reduced Zinfandel sauce on top. But normally, he is just happy eating greasy food. “If I only have a couple of minutes, I will make myself a roast beef sandwich with horseradish and cheddar...like Arby’s but with taste!”

After College “I want to move to New York and work for either Scott Brian at Verita’s or for Eric Ripert at Le Bernardin (whom Zaggot’s calls Da Vinci with fish) ...eventually I want to own my own restaurant.” Its name? “The Afterglow in Lawrence.”

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lines, thoughts and pictures

Stones, pebbles and bricks: a historical vision Andrew Wagner Assistant Editor Wayward crossing, pebble tossing, picture fuzzy perfect thought: memories and imagery and pebbles not yet tossed.

Going dancing, socializing, musical and mesmerizing in a crowd, a throng of loudly shouting footings clutching stones.

Lucky trappings, frequent nappings while we smile in our sleep dreaming fruit trees, pinstriped suitings, still our pebbles we will keep.

In a clearing near a river, colored freeway shrouding air cut by sunshine, losing mind’s time, find a dreamery so clear. . .

Writing papers, meeting standards, fitting all that’s fit to print, only those things being instructed we’re not disallowed to think.

Red brick houses, white stone boxes, posters cover cowed constituents in classrooms, desks unmoving, in a simple symmetry.

Timely lunching, clocks and crunching all our lists in timely note, all in key, altered speech, moving side to side in tone.

“To the first one,” says the cursed one, “To the trenches, from the bench we deliver our decisions, senseless incisions ever since.”

And he passed away in ragged fray, a cloak and smoke now broken, when he realizes his eyes are lost in time, four years behind.

Fellow echoes, fiery pride will fortify, can screw up eyes to symbols, crashing cymbals in assemblies of thoughtlessness.

Losing balance, moving ballast in a lawless sea of anarchy we’re floating, we are boasting, treading water in the cold.

We are farmers, we are dreamers paid to never color air, clutching pebbles, losing memories we will never toss away.

In my old age in this friendly cage I am losing, I am lost.

In my aging I have quickly found in learning how to learn.

As I sit here near this clearing, high school lawns trimmed clean and neat, I remember and consider all my trappings and my ways.

As I wonder, as I saunter ‘bout these summer teasing days, my old fingers I uncoil, letting loose my storied stones, dropping pebbles in my wake and memories I have found today — I recoil, and I’m ready, on my way.

Exercise in thought-provoking senselessness photo by c. dow tate

Waltz of moments gone by, a memoir of you Ben Proffer Editorial Editor “One day, when I’m awfully low, when the world is cold …”

The first lines of the last dance of prom keep rolling through my head. Those words infuse my blood and cast me into a state of nostalgia that transcends basketball games, jazz concerts and petty rivalry. It brings me to a place that remembers only smiles and the feelings a moment of pure, blitheful ecstasy can evoke. This feeling is not a product of one moment, but of the memory of hundreds, and if you’re lucky, thousands of flashes that soak you to the core like warm rain on a summer’s day. It’s all about sharing something, recognizing something undeniably good with people who for a moment communicate emotion without words, without thought.

Sentimental perhaps, but that’s how I am, and that’s how you should be too. Being sentimental is simply the ability to know and feel beauty in the world, in people, in situations. For me, a smile of purest hue can be just as gorgeous as a tree bathed in light dripping with sundrops after a storm. My best friend, bouncing on the balls of his feet, eagerly anticipating the music that will vibrate into his bones and inspire his enthusiastic, if somewhat disjunct, dancing. A guitar brought by chance, pulled out to the applause of the entire class, which thrums and layers the voices of students who find greater inspiration in each other than they do in the three and a half semesters that passed before. The vacuum of a newly wedded heart to a dream that will never be fulfilled, that will sustain and lay waste to nine months. This is why we’re here; this is what makes the time worthwhile. Those

who are fortunate feel these things as I do and will share with me all the miracles of our youth. Make being bound together a blessing and not a curse.

I have one request for those who have read thus far, drop the hurtful ideas of masculine and feminine that entrap men from being sentimental and expressing the full gambit of emotions that each and every one of us share. Do not enforce the ideas of femininity that belittle women and have caused them to remain lesser beings in the minds of most Americans today. Both women and men cage themselves by supporting these molds passed down from times when people were still burned at the stake.

Free yourselves from the shackles of mental oppression.

Now it’s passed time to say goodbye and goodnight; so let me make an end. Ω