The Year in Review - 1989

Football Won:6 Lost 4 Record set: Most yards in 10 game season Shawn Whitley 1139 yd
Anthony Ballenger full scholarship Central MO
Terrell Lewis full scholarship SW Missouri
Gavin Wright partial scholarship Clark College
Girls Soccer: Won 11 Lost 7 Tied 1 District: Lost to overall winner Viz 7-2 in 1st round
Girls Tennis: Won 13 Lost 1 State , District and South Suburban Conference Champions
Waterpolo: Won 13, Lost 3 State Tournament 3rd place
Boys Track: Conference 2nd place
Girls Swimming: Won 11 Lost 4 State qualifiers Ashley Allison, Anne Wallace, Carrie Brightman
Anne Wallace: scholarship U Indiana Pennsylvania
Wrestling: Won 5 Lost 5 Alan Lowery: record for fastest pin (8 sec). Scholarship Western State Five qualify for state
Boys Tennis: Won 14 Lost 2 Conference 1st place, District 4th place
Golf Won 10 Lost 3 Conference 2 State Qualifier EJ Brumm
Girls Volleyball: Won 14 Lost 11 Tied 2 Conference: 3rd place
Tina Grutsch full scholarship U SC
Boys Swimming: Won 13 Lost 2 Conference 3rd place
Speed Skating: Heather Dudley full scholarship N Michigan
Boys Tennis: Joe Horwitz full scholarship SMU
Science Olympiad - qualified for nationals
National Merit Finalists
Nicole Ambose, David Bianco, Adam Craddock, Byron Kerman, Lee Nussbaum, Catherine Roestel, David Roman, Mark Sneider, Melissa Taylor

National Achievement Scholarship Program
Rodney Tatum & Larry Panchula

Dad's Club Award: Anita Rao
Faculty Service & Leadership: Todd Kirkbride
James A Wagner Scholar Athlete Award: Anita Rao
Iris Markman Fine Arts Award: Suzanne Bartlett
Bill Heyde Award: Jennifer Forrest
Post Dispatch Sports Spirit Award: Eric Rowe
Gold Certificate: Damaris Clay, Tina Grutsch, Eric Rowe
National Council on Youth Leadership Award: Stephanie Hammond
All USA Academic Team: David Bianco

Most memorable moments??
Jay Althen: "Changing in the locker room after swim practice and the sophomore cheerleaders running through the locker room."
Dawn Nickerson: "When Charlene Ross sprained her ankle falling off the toilet seat she was stangin on while she was trying to look at her pant legs in the bathroom mirror."
Robert Eliotti: "The time I belched during my performance in the one-act plays."
Missy Blives: "Playing the volcano game in the front hallway and only walking on the rocks (brown squares) and staying off the lava (yellow squares)
Eric Rowe: The night after we lost the Webster Groves football game when the team cried in the locker room."

Other Panorama Headlines:
Panorama wins 10th for Best of Show in national competition
Apple Lab to receive new user friendly Macintoshes
Teachers to retire at end of year: Edelstein, McKenna-Burke, Casey, Burmeister & Brombolich
Jazz, Marching Bands perform at Creve Couer Days Festival
Students woul benefit from extra testing center hours
Is the United States ready for a Black President?
"30 Days of Fitness" leads students, faculty to shape up
Debaters reach state finals
Blood drive a success (104 pints of blood)
Show Choir tours Chicago
NHS wines and dines new members
New technology to change curriculum
Students seek refuge in nurses' office
Generosity, hard work motivate students
Canned food drive class winners: Nolan, Courchesne & Belt
International dinner to give taste of flavor
Chess team anticipates another successful season
34 students to visit US Capital for Inauguration
Detention policy too restricted
Scholarship fund schedule talent show for mid-April
SADD to sponsor "Day of the Dead"
Editor: Make public smoking illegal
How to solve the car-keying problem
Turn on the soda machine
Footnotes takes first place in Washington DC

1989 Statistics
90% of Ladue students take the SAT. Only 11% of students from the state of Missouri take the test. Ladue's top 10% score 20 points higher on verbal and 40 points higher on math than the top 10% of students in all schools taking the test.
20/1 students to teacher ratio
12.6/1 students per professional staff member
7/1 students per computer
43 clubs and organizations
23 after-school activities