In Popular Culture
- Class of 1966 - Greg Smith was on Survivor: One World as "Tarzan". The game is "afoot, Jeff." Greg was a one year letterman, 4th in State & 1st in District Wresting.
- Class of 1976 - Craig Jones took 2nd place out of the top three in the first round of voting for Grill Mayor 2012. In the final competition, Craig became the Grand Prize Winner and is "Master of the Grill"! Craig's winnings include a trip for two to New York City, three days and two nights first-class hotel accommodations, $100 Food Network Store gift card, Food Network Grilling Cookbook, Omaha Steaks grilling kit, assortment of Grill Mates products, dinner for Grand Prize Winner and one guest at a Food Network’s chef restaurant in New York City, two VIP access passes to a premier New York City barbecue festival a tour of the Food Network kitchens in New York City. Total approximate retail value of the Grand Prize: $5,000. Craig owns Savory Addictions - Gourmet Nuts where there is a fun photo of him with Food Network Star, Alton Brown.
- Theater Teacher - Marty Wolff, one of the school's theater teachers was chosen to represent the state of Missouri on the NBC weight-loss game show The Biggest Loser in 2006. He made it to the ninth of eleven weeks, and was the second-to-last to be voted off. At one point, he came to the school with a film crew to film a segment for the show involving a group of his students. After the show, he quit his teaching position at the school, left his wife for a fellow cast member, and moved to Chicago.
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“Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
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