Air Academy High School - Vapor Trails Yearbook (USAF Academy, CO)

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Strides For The Best: Air Academy has made great strides in its 25-year history. When the school first opened its doors - in what is now just a private residence on base - in 1957, the entire student body, grades seven through twelve, numbered 132, and 1958 commencement exercises honored nine graduates. Since then, over 5,135 stu- dents have received AAHS diplomas. Those graduates have not quit the building pro- cess, either. AAHS alumni include Boettcher, Rhoades, Fulbright and Marshall scholars as well as honors graduates from a variety of prestigious institu- tions. Other graduates have distinguished them- selves in such diverse areas as professional hockey and football, opera, fashion, theater, medicine, law, science, and military, and the clergy. Keeping With The Times Our curriculum has kept pace with the times. Ad- vancements in society have enabled us to improve and broaden our fields of instruction. Exemplary is the difference in the mathematics courses offered then and now. ln 1958, students took Math 9, 10, 11, or 12. ln 1982 we signed up for such specialized courses as Computer Math, Geometry and Calculus. Our areas of concern have changed, too. While teenagers in 1958 were excited about the very be- ginnings ofthe space program, we are faced with all the possibilities of space shuttle. While teenagers in the Sixties were concerned about missile crises, we are preoccupied with peace in the Middle East and the aftermath of the assasination of Egyptian presi- dent Anwar Sadat, not to mention the possibility of World War lll. Mr. Postman: Senior Student Council member Mike Sawyer ary, 1981, the Briargate area was fairly undeveloped. When he enjoys making decisions as he presides over the distribution of took the bottom picture in September, the site showed much alumni's Homecoming invitations. Makin' it: When district public progress. information officer Mr. Larry Perkins took the top picture in Febru- lntroductionf5

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Sunshine On My Shoulders: The summer sun sets over Yorkshire Crightj. UQ, UQ and Away: Despite the cold, balloonists from all over the country took off from Memorial Park Labor Day weekend Cbe- lowj. Rocky Mountain High: Mountaineering Club members Todd Murray and Dave Schmidt rest dur- ing their hike up Longs Peak Cmiddlej. Picture cour- tesy of Mr. Bruce Hamilton. Have You Never Been Mellow? The ecstatic class of 1982 responds at one of our first pep assemblies Cbottomb. 'Y 1, 41 Introduction . .

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