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Binder in hand, freshman Ha-Vy Nguyen gets her class schedule before going into the Field House. “I was kinda nervous,” Nguyen said. “I was afraid of getting lost.” photo by tucker love
Arms waving to the music, freshman Meghan Love practices the Indian Flash dance in the auditorium with other members of the freshmen class. “The dance was actually really fun,” Love said. “We all got to be a part of something on the first day.” photo by tucker love
how to do the INDIAN FLASH
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“I liked lining the hallway for the filming of the Dynamite dance because everyone got to participate.” scott johnson, freshman
“I was afraid that I wouldn’t have any classes with my friends.”
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As she raises the North finger, freshman Diana Henriquez stands at attention during the BURG ER KI N G Freshman First Day assembly. “I was nervous 1.5% and surprised,” Henriquez said, “but in a good johnson way.” photo by taylor gwin drive
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“I like to eat at Burger King because of the crowns they have. Dr. Pepper is my drink. I like their chicken nuggets.”
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After graduating as a member of the class of ’92, Adams attended the university of Kansas, studying english, but planning on eventually becoming a lawyer. “To be a lawyer, often times english is the way to do it. Once i got into english literature and the study of books and languages and things, i really enjoyed that more-so and wanted to stick with that.” After student teaching at sM south, Adams HOLding His bLue pen between his thumb came to north and began his first year of and index finger, english teacher derek Adams teaching in ’99. sat at this desk laughing while he reminisced “[Coming back] was really weird at first. some about his high school experiences. of my old teachers were there and they’d say “[Friday night football] is what there is to ‘Oh, call me Frank’ or ‘call me donna.’ You get do,” Adams started saying. “i think that’s why used to it and eventually you need them as students go to [games] even if they don’t like much as they need you as colleagues. You kind football. i wasn’t a big football fan, but that’s of get over the fact that you were once their where everybody would go and it’s just where student and now you’re their colleague.” you went on Friday nights.” sitting in his desk, Adams gave a piece of While still a student, Adams learned to take advice that he felt students should know. chances. That confidence was a result of Adams “i guess one of the biggest things i would say, is involvement in the art department, theater, i think sometimes people don’t realize they can soccer, swimming, Pep Club. He was a member do more than they think they can. They kind of A.R.T., took art teacher greg brantman’s of undershoot, undersell themselves. i knew i jewelry class, and helped conduct school always wanted to go to college and get a degree, assemblies. but i think if i had to do over, i would have said “When i first came to north i was pretty shy. ‘just go ahead and go all the way through to i was forced to take chances and put myself the highest degree you can and then go find a out there. i was able to learn that from north. job. going back later, that’s harder to do now i think that it gave me a comfortable arena to when you’re older and would have been more kind of be myself but also be a leader in those beneficial to do at a younger age; to open more ways.” doors early on in life.”
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a history of Shawnee Mission North High School
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DRESSED IN HER cardinal red long-sleeve shirt, ’42 alumna Eunice Philgreen-Martin carried her ’39, ’41 and ’42 yearbooks to the Student Services conference room where she would soon share some of her high school memories. Graduating in ’42, Philgreen-Martin attended SM North when the school was still known as Shawnee Mission Rural High School. Philgreen-Martin graduated number seven in her class of 126. “I was one that liked school. I just liked all of it, you know? I was such a good girl that when I was a senior, I had never got a seventh hour, so I was late to class on purpose so I’d get to experience a seventh hour.” When Philgreen-Martin attended SM Rural, a seventh hour was another name for a detention. “[Seventh hour] was like a study hall after school,” she explained. Despite the one-time stint in detention, Philgreen-Martin said she wasn’t necessarily the most outgoing high school student possible. She described herself as never being one of the popular girls. She was timid, but smart. However, the shy quality presented itself as something she could work on to improve. Philgreen-Martin attended Baker University after her graduation. After only one year spent there, she chose to leave, attributing her shyness and World War II as reasons for her departure. The hiatus from Baker didn’t last long. In ’47, she returned to Baker and graduated in ’50. That was the year she married former Baker student and instructor Gorby Martin. Gorby’s career path eventually led him and Philgreen-Martin back to North. In ’53, Gorby began teaching physics classes at North
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flanigan THE VIETNAM WAR Memorial plaque hung on the wall facing the main office while ’62 graduates John Flanigan, Elaine T. Copp and Terry Love posed for a portrait in front of it. The plaque, a gift from the class of ’62, was presented on Friday Sept. 17, 2004 at an all-school assembly. The assembly included a speech made by ’60 graduate Charlie Plum, a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. “When the principal told everybody they could go home, nobody moved,” Flanigan said. “You could have heard a pin drop.” Following their 40-year reunion, a small
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LAUGHTER POURED OUT of the phone as John and Dorothy Swartz sat in their home in North Carolina and chatted with junior Shelby Robertson about their time spent at North in the early ’50’s. The two ’52 North graduates met their sophomore year of high school. “[John] came to Shawnee Mission North sophomore year and someone told me there was a new boy in class,” Dorothy said. “I saw him from a distance walking from one class to another and I was smitten.” Following graduation from North, John attended Duke University, majoring in mechanical engineering, while Dorothy started out at the University of Kansas. After her sophomore year, she transferred to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. “I went there because it was the only school that offered a major in art and still was within striking distance of Duke where John was and where I could get to on the weekends,” Dorothy
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1982 ALUMNA ELISHA Hallman Churchill’s gray Volkswagen Jetta pulled into the circle drive on the cloudy evening of March 21. She stepped out onto the curb, and grabbed her purse, preparing to walk into the building that had once been like a second home to her. Once inside, she noticed both the subtle and stark changes that had been made to the building’s interior since she her graduation, 30 years prior. When Churchill attended high school, she participated in band and Student Council and was a member of both the newspaper and yearbook staffs. “I appreciated the fact that I could be in Band and I could be on the yearbook staff and you could figure out the time commitment and everything and you could make it all work,” Churchill said. Something unique to Churchill’s high school experience was that her father, Ed Hallman, taught drafting in the building. “Honestly, [I liked that] my dad was here,” Churchill said. “It seems like it could have been a downer, but it wasn’t. I never had him for a class.” Churchill said one of her most memorable experiences came about because of her participation in journalism. “I can remember interviewing [the assistant principal], and I got the story completely wrong,” Churchill said, “and it was the most
humbling thing as you know, you kind of think ‘you’re in high school, you’re on top of the world’ and I got the story wrong. I remember having to go down and talk to him after the story ran.” The experience widened Churchill’s thenteenage perspective. “It was my first realization that I’m not invincible,” Churchill said. “Like, when you’re in high school you kind of think ‘everybody’s an idiot and I’m awesome.’ And that was the first time I thought, ‘that’s not right.’ I certainly don’t feel that way anymore” Churchill attended the University of Kansas and studied human biology. Her junior year, she auditioned to be the Jayhawk mascot. “[When I auditioned,] I told no one because how mortifying if you don’t get it?” Churchill recalled. “And then I can remember calling my mom and then it became this like, ‘I got it! I’m going to be the Jayhawk!’” Being the mascot provided Churchill with opportunities she would not have had otherwise. “Back then, the athletic budget was a little bit different and so they used to send cheerleaders to the away games,” Churchill said. “I don’t think they do anymore. But they would always send a Jayhawk whether it was the big one or the little one. I was the big Jayhawk, so that was a great experience.” In the early 1990s, Churchill began working as assistant manager of Kansas City Area Credit Union. “My experience writing on the newspaper inspired a love of writing and reading,” Churchill said. “One of the aspects of my job that I enjoy is writing the newsletter, but that task is only one of the things I do. KC Area CU is a small credit union and the job involves writing, people skills, elements of math, and problem solving. It’s different every day.”
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On September 22, 1922, Shawnee Mission Rural High School opened its doors to students in northeastern Johnson County. Over the course of 90 years, thousands of students have graduated from the school. Each and every student has had the chance to be apart of tradition as Shawnee Mission has transformed over the years. 90 years is a significant amount of time. In that time tradition is started, refined and carried on for years to come. This school, Shawnee Mission North, is tradition.
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HOLDING HIS BLUE pen between his thumb and index finger, English teacher Derek Adams sat at this desk laughing while he reminisced about his high school experiences. “[Friday night football] is what there is to do,” Adams started saying. “I think that’s why students go to [games] even if they don’t like football. I wasn’t a big football fan, but that’s where everybody would go and it’s just where you went on Friday nights.” While still a student, Adams learned to take chances. That confidence was a result of Adams involvement in the art department, theater, soccer, swimming, Pep Club. He was a member of A.R.T., took art teacher Greg Brantman’s jewelry class, and helped conduct school assemblies. “When I first came to North I was pretty shy. I was forced to take chances and put myself out there. I was able to learn that from North. I think that it gave me a comfortable arena to kind of be myself but also be a leader in those ways.”
After graduating as a member of the class of ’92, Adams attended the University of Kansas, studying English, but planning on eventually becoming a lawyer. “To be a lawyer, often times English is the way to do it. Once I got into English literature and the study of books and languages and things, I really enjoyed that more-so and wanted to stick with that.” After student teaching at SM South, Adams came to North and began his first year of teaching in ’99. “[Coming back] was really weird at first. Some of my old teachers were there and they’d say ‘Oh, call me Frank’ or ‘call me Donna.’ You get used to it and eventually you need them as much as they need you as colleagues. You kind of get over the fact that you were once their student and now you’re their colleague.” Sitting in his desk, Adams gave a piece of advice that he felt students should know. “I guess one of the biggest things I would say, is I think sometimes people don’t realize they can do more than they think they can. They kind of undershoot, undersell themselves. I knew I always wanted to go to college and get a degree, but I think if I had to do over, I would have said ‘just go ahead and go all the way through to the highest degree you can and then go find a job. Going back later, that’s harder to do now when you’re older and would have been more beneficial to do at a younger age; to open more doors early on in life.”
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Along the east and west walls is a visual timeline of the last 90 years at Shawnee Mission North. On the south wall are stories from graduates recounting their time at Shawnee Mission Rural, Shawnee Mission High, and Shawnee Mission North High School.
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johnson SITTING ON THE floor in the Patron’s Gallery, surrounded by faculty artwork, ’02 alumna Ryan Johnson crossed his legs and adjusted his black fedora hat. Ten years prior, Johnson graduated from North, a member of the 80th class. “I thought North was great,” Johnson said. “I transfered here when I was a sophomore so that was my first year here. It was just a complete change from [Bishop Miege] and it was just great.” Like many students, Johnson spent most of his time involved in some activity or another. Having a love for music, Johnson found himself as one of the founding members of Combo Club, or as they called it in ’02, Combo Club-not-a-club. Sponsored by social studies teacher Ned Scott, the club met every Saturday in the old driver’s ed classroom, now room 191, an art classroom.
“We would just come up here on Saturdays at like nine o’clock, load all of our equipment in, scoot all the desks back, and I still have the carpet from one of the front doors so I can put my drums on the carpet without scooting away. I still have that at my house.” Besides Combo Club, Johnson also found time to take former teacher Sally Jones’ photo class four times, attend his friends’ theater productions, be a Pep Club officer his senior year, drum for a band, as well as other activities. “[When] I was 15 years old,” Johnson continued. “I actually played my first show in the cafeteria. It was a battle of the bands thing. I remembered our bass player, who didn’t go to school here, jumped up in the air and smashed his guitar neck. It was pretty bad. I think people talked about that for awhile. Going to school here, it was good.” Sitting in the gallery, leaning back on his palms, Johnson spoke of the things that to him, made North really great - caring teachers and the tradition. “It’s just traditions. North is just full of traditions. And that’s the thing about it, the finger, you know, the whole things. It’s those small things about high school that you’ll never forget. You might forget who you had freshman English class, but those little things are great.”
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said. “I majored in art [at UNC/G] during the week and I minored in Duke on weekends.” As students at North, both John and Dorothy found ways to get involved. School was an important matter to both of them. As well as attending all his classes, John was a member of the football, tennis and debate teams, and was a delegate to the Kansas Convention of Boys’ State the summer after his junior year. He was also the president of his junior class. Besides classes including mechanical drawing and art, Dorothy was involved in Pep Club, played cello in the orchestra, painted stage scenery for assemblies and posters for student office campaigns. “Our high school was a great foundation for my university studies,” John said. “I learned how to study and how to get along with all types of people.” The experiences Dorothy had during high school also had an impact on her life after graduation. Being involved with art much of her high school career and holding the position of Editor-in-Chief of the ’52 Indian, gave her experience that allowed her to work in art and publishing fields throughout her life. Now, both retired, John and Dorothy said they felt that using their time well was one of the most important things they learned at North. They are still connected with education by sponsoring scholarships at both the high school and university levels. “I would say now, looking back fairly many years, it’s not so important to worry about what other people think of you,” Dorothy said. “Do and try what you yourself think is important and right. Too many times you worry about ‘what someone else thinks of you?’ At this time in life - in the high school years - it’s too early to worry about success. [It’s] better to do one’s best and enjoy doing it.”
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and was an assistant football coach and track coach. The two decided to start a family. “I always wanted to be a mother,” she said. “We came down here because we thought Shawnee would be a good place to raise a family. This is where I grew up.” The couple had five children together and lived on the same piece of land that PhilgreenMartin had spent her childhood and teenage years. Despite Gorby’s decision to leave North to become a dentist in ’60 and the completion of SM Northwest - where four of PhilgreenMartin’s children graduated from - she still held ties to her alma mater. Senior Jeffrey Martin played basketball for North all four years of his high school career, and his grandmother, Philgreen-Martin, made it a point to attend as many of those games as she could. “Participating in events at SM North brings back memories of the things that I was involved in at SM Rural like the National Honor Society, the Mission staff, Quill and Scroll, girl’s chorus, and the Triple Trio” she said. “You know everything is so much bigger. Students have more opportunities now than we had then. It’s great seeing Jeffrey pursue his interests. Support for all of her grandchildren was important to Philgreen-Martin. When SM West played at North this year, PhilgreenMartin spent her time watching both the Varsity game for Jeffrey and the sophomore game for her grandson, sophomore Alexander Martin, who attended West. She would walk between the Field House and auxiliary gym, changing her T-shirt from red and black for Jeffrey to black and yellow for Alexander. Sitting in her North-red sweater, one who had just met her wouldn’t think the nearly 88year old would have ever been known as shy. For Philgreen-Martin, teaching 4th grade for 24 years in the Turner District allowed her to break out and become a more outgoing person. “Keep learning and enjoy it while you are in high school, because the next year you will be moving on to the next adventures of your life,” she said. “You will have feelings of nostalgia and regret that you won’t be returning to the place that you spent so much time making friends and expanding your knowledge. You must realize that there is a big world out there with problems for you to solve, that you will be a part of making the world a better place. Care enough to do your very best.”
group of alumni decided they wanted to give something back to North. A committee, including Copp and Flanigan, was formed that chose to create a Vietnam memorial. The memorial was meant for not only fallen North students, but all students in the Shawnee Mission school distrtict who lost their lives during the war from ’66 to ’72. “There were five or six of us,” Copp said. “We worked on finding all of the Shawnee Mission students, East, West and North. We researched; we tried to put things in newspaper articles to find other family members that might have had a family member that passed away in the Vietnam War. We came up with 26 and then we came up with one more later.” The presentation brought Love back to the North area. Having lived in Lakeview, Minn., Love and his wife soon moved back to Shawnee area after the memorial was hung inside the school and Copp asked him to help co-chair their 45th reunion. While Copp and Love both graduated in ’62, the two didn’t actually meet until the plaque dedication. When the class of ’62 graduated, they were the biggest graduating class North had ever seen with 750 students. “Our class was the largest class to ever graduate from North,” Love said. “The following year in ’63, they split it because West opened and that siphoned off a lot of kids there.” The size of their class didn’t affect Copp and Love’s feelings that North provided a basis for their lives and many others after high school. “You’ve got to realize high school is fairly elementary,” Love said. “It’s forming a good basis, and if you have a good foundation, you’re going to have a good house. It’s very important and you will remember it all your life.”
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TUCKER LOVE C O N TA C T 913 636 3056 tuckerdlove@gmail.com @tuckerdlove - twitter, instagram
E D U C AT I O N Kansas City Art Institute sophomore, Graphic Design GPA 3.9
Shawnee Mission North High School graduated May 2012, senior orator ranked 14 of approx. 400
WORK & VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE Youthfront Summers 2009 - 2011— Teen Staff Summer 2012 — Camp Courier/Grounds Summer 2013 — Dining Hall Supervisor - worked in the kitchen, supervising high school students who volunteered time to participate in the Teen Staff program. YMCA January 2013 - Present - Child Care Associate, provide after school care to elementary school students.
AWA R D S ( s e l e c t e d ) JEA Fall 2010 Writeoff Competition - Superior Rating, Cover & Endsheets 2011 Adobe/Jostens Design Contest - Second Place 2011 Quill & Scroll Sweepstakes winner - Student Life 2012 Quill & Scroll Sweepstakes winner - Theme Development 2012 Northman 2012 Margaret McClatchey Honor Thespian 2012 North Star Scholarship Award Kansas Honor Scholar
ACTIVITIES (selected) 2008 - 2012 — Indian yearbook staff 2012 — Editor-In-Chief - NSPA Pacemaker winner 2010 - 2012 — Thespian Executive Board - Publicist, President 2012 — Pep Club President 2012 - 2013 — Jacob’s Well Kids Community
EXPERIENCE software & equipment — Pages, Keynote, Numbers; Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop; Canon DSLR cameras, Macs, Letterpress, Screenprinting experience — identity & branding concepts, analog construction, journalism, photojournalism