Remember these?
I remember one day JT made an announcement that he was tired of people skipping out of "National Assemblies". He said we were having one that day and that there would be "EXTRA TEACHERS IN THE PARKING LOT....SO DON'T EVEN TRY IT!" Well, having had this particular gauntlet cast at our feet, there was no other choice possible but to bail. As soon as the bell rang for the assembly, Messrs. Feger, McClanahan, and, I think, Welch, and myself, headed for the back door. You could see Wayne Bradshaw's head glistening in the sunlight, poking up between two cars. He was FOCUSED, baby. Just not quite focused in the right direction. We made it to Feger's vehicle, I think this was pre-Dodge Colt days, and piled in to the cab of his truck, fired it up, and headed off up toward the softball field. As we crossed the big ditch, we met JT in his old green and white Chevy truck, coming in the opposite direction. We waved; he waved back. He never said a word about us skipping out. Heck, I doubt he even knew who he was waving at.
~Submitted by Mike Adams
Hangin' out at Sammy's.
Senior Prom: (L-R) Monte Welch, Randy Feger,
Mike Adams and Gary McClanahan.
Mark Wheeler
Don Farmer
Mike Adams, Randy Feger, Monte
Welch and Gary McClanahan
L-R: Delia Demaree, Carol Miller, Deanna
Strickland, Tracy Cooke, Mary Wudarcki, Michelle Mayes, and Joyce Hall. In front: Cheryl Bagley.
Lisa Edwards
L-R: Don Farmer, Cory Rinehart,
Donna Harp, and Dean Henry.
Linda Roark and Gary McClanahan
Sherree Sanders, Donna Harp and Doug Harp (Class of '77)
Boys and their cars: Mike Adams turns
a screwdriver on his super Nova.
SHS Stage Band
Monte Welch and Lisa Edwards
Mike Adams and Carol Miller
Paula Rhoades, Kim Burgess and
Sherree Sanders getting all dolled up
Top 100 of 1978
1. Shadow Dancing -- Andy Gibb
2. Night Fever -- Bee Gees
3. You Light Up My Life -- Debby Boone
4. Stayin' Alive -- Bee Gees
5. Kiss You All Over -- Exile
6. How Deep Is Your Love -- Bee Gees
7. Baby Come Back -- Player
8. (Love Is) Thicker Than Water -- Andy Gibb
9. Boogie Oogie Oogie -- A Taste Of Honey
10. Three Times A Lady -- Commodores
11. Grease -- Frankie Valli
12. I Go Crazy -- Paul Davis
13. You're The One That I Want -- John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
14. Emotion -- Samantha Sang
15. Lay Down Sally -- Eric Clapton
16. Miss You -- Rolling Stones
17. Just The Way You Are -- Billy Joel
18. With A Little Luck -- Wings
19. If I Can't Have You -- Yvonne Elliman
20. Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) -- Chic
21. Feels So Good -- Chuck Mangione
22. Hot Child In The City -- Nick Gilder
23. Love Is Like Oxygen -- Sweet
24. It's A Heartache -- Bonnie Tyler
25. We Are The Champions/We Will Rock You -- Queen
26. Baker Street -- Gerry Rafferty
27. Can't Smile Without You -- Barry Manilow
28. Too Much, Too Little, Too Late -- Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams
29. Dance With Me -- Peter Brown
30. Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad -- Meat Loaf
31. Jack And Jill -- Raydio
32. Take A Chance On Me -- Abba
33. Sometimes When We Touch -- Dan Hill
34. Last Dance -- Donna Summer
35. Hopelessly Devoted To You -- Olivia Newton-John
36. Hot Blooded -- Foreigner
37. You're In My Heart -- Rod Stewart
38. The Closer I Get To You -- Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway
39. Dust In The Wind -- Kansas
40. Magnet And Steel -- Walter Egan
41. Short People -- Randy Newman
42. Use Ta Be My Girl -- O'Jays
43. Our Love -- Natalie Cole
44. Love Will Find A Way -- Pablo Cruise
45. An Everlasting Love -- Andy Gibb
46. Love Is In The Air -- John Paul Young
47. Goodbye Girl -- David Gates
48. Slip Slidin' Away -- Paul Simon
49. The Groove Line -- Heatwave
50. Thunder Island -- Jay Ferguson
51. Imaginary Lover -- Atlanta Rhythm Section
52. Still The Same -- Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band
53. My Angel Baby -- Toby Beau
54. Disco Inferno -- Trammps
55. On Broadway -- George Benson
56. Come Sail Away -- Styx
57. Back In Love Again -- L.T.D.
58. This Time I'm In It For Love -- Player
59. You Belong To Me -- Carly Simon
60. Here You Come Again -- Dolly Parton
61. Blue Bayou -- Linda Ronstadt
62. Peg -- Steely Dan
63. You Needed Me -- Anne Murray
64. Shame -- Evelyn "Champagne" King
65. Reminiscing -- Little River Band
66. Count On Me -- Jefferson Starship
67. Baby Hold On -- Eddie Money
68. Hey Deanie -- Shaun Cassidy
69. Summer Nights -- John Travolta and Olivia Newton-john
70. What's Your Name -- Lynyrd Skynyrd
71. Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue -- Crystal Gayle
72. Because The Night -- Patti Smith
73. Every Kinda People -- Robert Palmer
74. Copacabana -- Barry Manilow
75. Always And Forever -- Heatwave
76. You And I -- Rick James
77. Serpentine Fire – Earth, Wind and Fire
78. Sentimental Lady -- Bob Welch
79. Falling -- LeBlanc and Carr
80. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood -- Santa Esmeralda
81. Bluer Than Blue -- Michael Johnson
82. Running On Empty -- Jackson Browne
83. Whenever I Call You "Friend" -- Kenny Loggins
84. Fool (If You Think It's Over) -- Chris Rea
85. Get Off -- Foxy
86. Sweet Talking Woman -- Electric Light Orchestra
87. Life's Been Good -- Joe Walsh
88. I Love The Night Life -- Alicia Bridges
89. You Can't Turn Me Off (In The Middle Of Turning Me On) -- High Inergy
90. It's So Easy -- Linda Ronstadt
91. Native New Yorker -- Odyssey
92. Flashlight -- Parliament
93. Don't Look Back -- Boston
94. Turn To Stone -- Electric Light Orchestra
95. I Can't Stand The Rain -- Eruption
96. Ebony Eyes -- Bob Welch
97. The Name Of The Game -- Abba
98. We're All Alone -- Rita Coolidge
99. Hollywood Nights -- Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band
100. Deacon Blues -- Steely Dan
Senior Trip (on the bus): row one, a sleepy Linda Roark; row two, Donna Harp and Randy Feger; row three, Mike Poor and Celesta Knight.
Gary McClanahan, Linda Roark, Karen Sprouse (Class of '76) and Mike Adams are...celebrating.
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil...
smell no evil? Janet Miller, Rose Marie Medearis, Holly Teague (Class of '79) and Sherree Sanders hamming it up.
Bathing beauties: Paula Rhoades, Jamie Bachus, Sherree Sanders and Cindy Vann.
Feger holding his instrument.
Mike Adams, Rodney Sanders, Band Director Calvin Remy, Monte Welch and Randy Feger (without his instrument).
(L-R) Janet Miller, Paula Rhoades and Holly Teague (Class of '79) grinding on some Twizzlers at basketball camp.
Karen Kentner and Randy Feger
Band Officers
Christmas at Jan's: (L-R) Cindy Vann, Mary Gay, Janet Miller (standing) and Paula Rhoades.
How about those crazy summer days in Karen Kentner's neighborhood when we were around sixth or seventh grade? There would be fifteen or twenty of us running from house to house with water hoses and Lord knows what else. You'd think we invented wet t-shirts. I can remember Monte Welch, Randy Feger, Donna Harp, Doug Harp (Class of '77), Judy Cranford (Class of '79), Judy Robbins, Karen Kentner, Deanna Strickland, Gina Corley (Class of '79), Don Farmer, Billy Fitzgerald, Kelly Mitchell, Mark Wheeler, the Taylor boys and me a couple of times. What a great childhood.
~Submitted by Cheryl Bagley
Mark Wheeler
Randy Feger kissing Cindy Vann.
SENIOR ALPHABET
Ambitious - Barrett Johnson
Bashful - Charlotte Brewer
Childish - Nancy Knight
Dumb - Paul McKnight
Evil - Eddie Stites
Foxy - Michelle Mayes
Great - SENIOR CLASS
Hilarious - Mary Gay
Intelligent - Beth Land
Jumping - Don Farmer
Kind - Cindy Vann
Lovable - Paula Rhoades
Mean - Sheila Johnson
Nasty - Cheryl Bagley
Original - Bret Whatley
Private - Lisa Edwards
Quiet - Janet Harrison
Rejected - Angie Asbill
Skinny - Charlene Whitekiller
Talented - Carol Miller
Unusual - Delia Demaree
Vigorous - Mike Adams
Witty - Steve Waters
X-tra Sweet - Rhonda Hiseley
Yellow - Eddie Brewer
Zany - Rayd Welch
~excerpted from the
Sallisaw High School student newspaper
SENIOR CAR NAMES
Nancy Knight - The Bug
Don Farmer - Fagmobile
Paula Rhoades - The Green Bean
Janet Miller - Klunker
Cindy Vann - Bertha
Tracy Cook - Blue Bomb
Joey Pitts - Bessie
Lee Smith - Ole Yeller
Terri Green - Kinky Ditch Digger
Sandra Lockhart - Brown Moving Dooky
Carol Miller - Banana Machine
Delia Demaree - Bessie Buick
Perry Lattimore - Silver Streaker
Rodney Sanders - The Ram Rod
Monte Welch - Ole Blue
Kim Burgess - Baby Do Do
Deanna Strickland - Betsy
Tammy Hawley - Brown Noser
Cory Rinehart - The Rod
Linda Roark - The Cat
~excerpted from the
Sallisaw High School student newspaper
More of the hotties from senior prom (L-R): Jeff Knoke (Class of '79), Monte Welch, Randy Feger, Gary McClanahan and Mike Adams.
Clockwise from bottom left: Brenda Humphrey, Barb Slone, Charlotte Brewer and Chris Carr.
One thing I remember is my first car. Oh, how proud I was of that car. It was a 1974 Vega station wagon that smoked like a freight train. I was asked to wait before I pulled out in the line of cars leaving school as no one wanted to be behind me because they really wanted to be able to breath. So, I would sit in the parking lot and let all the cars leave before I would pull out. But, boy, did I ever love that ol' piece of junk.
~Submitted by Brenda Humphrey
SENIOR SURVEY
What are you going to do after graduation?
Lisa Edwards - Leave!!
Charlene Whitekiller - Move out!
Janet Reese - Get an apartment and party down!
Michelle Mayes - Get away from Sallisaw and party hardy.
Michelle Honeycutt - Take it easy.
Perry Lattimore - As little as possible.
Crystal Metheny - Take it easy.
Angie Asbill - Go into commercial art.
Bret Whatley - Going to be a junk collector in New York.
Sheila Johnson - Nothing.
Nancy Knight - Don't know.
James Crutchfield - Go to work.
Carol Miller - Raise old nick.
Barbara Dover - Work (as soon as possible).
Janet Marshall - Celebrate!
Greg Tindall - Leave Sallisaw.
Karen Kentner - Get married.
Janet Harrison - Go to college.
~excerpted from the
Sallisaw High School student newspaper
BEFORE WE WERE SENIORS
Rena Sizemore
Shelly Miller (Class of '81), Sandra Lockhart and Janet Miller looking way too precious.
Don Farmer, Rodney Sanders and Kim
Burgess circa December 1965.
Perry Lattimore
Donna Harp, Judy Robbins and Cathy Robbins.
Monte Welch looking pretty spiffy at the freshman prom.
The gang on "50s Day" in junior high.
Randy Feger, Coach Stanley Collins,
Daniel Fine and Emmanuel Hill
Sandra Lockhart and Linda Roark
Vicki Dailey and Cindy Vann
Rodney Sanders and Mike Adams
Don Farmer and Donna Harp
Tammy Hawley, Janet Harrison and Terri Green.
Mike Adams (in background), Cindy Vann and Eddie Stites.
The beach was the site of so many good times. Spotted here from the Class of '78 are Karen Kentner, Perry Lattimore, Mike Adams and Deanna Strickland.
Sherree Sanders and Billy Fitzgerald
Kneeling: Janet Marshall; Kim Burgess; Charlene Whitekiller; Paula Rhoades; Vicki Dailey.
Back row: Coach Stanley Collins; Sherree Sanders; Cindy Vann; Rose Marie Medearis;
Anita Poindexter; Charlotte Brewer; Janet Miller; Rene Sizemore.
