Arlington High School - Simba Kali Yearbook (Riverside, CA)

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Me lECHANICALLY INCLINED. Sean Reynolds, Jeff Martin, and Greg Wrench perform repairs on a Kawasaki Auto Shop offered practical skills that could be used now and later in life. AT ATTENTION. John Szetela. Steve Simms, David Alderete, and John Sachs get inspected by Linda McHenry ROTC offered a taste of real life for those stu- dents interested in going into the armed forces. Addressing her class, Mrs. Liz Bourne converses with her FBLA mem- bers. The business department offered many classes for those interested in office skills. ELECTIVES • 177

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Elective Courses Strive To Teach Skills Needed Right After Graduation Reaching For Real Life Some people ' s curriculums left them wondering if they would ever use the skills that they were learning now. Classes such as cal- culus and physics were good for people that wanted to go into these or related fields. Some stu- dents opted to take classes that would get them ready for real life . I took agriculture, not be- cause I want to be a farmer, but because it taught you skills that you could use later in life such as public interaction and leader- ship, commented junior, Laura Petit. Some students chose to take elective classes because they are related to fields in which they were interested in as demonstrat- ed by senior Jeanette Manley, I took it (child care) because I want to be a teacher. It will help me to understand children, and it will look good on a resume. Classes such as child develop- ment might have been viewed as a traditionally female class, but there was at least one male that didn ' t think so. I took child devel- opment because someday I want- ed to be a coach, besides kids are great and 1 didn ' t care what any- one else thought, announced ju- nior, Pat Gabb. Be they calculus classes, ROTC, physics, or agriculture, they all had the same idea in store, to pre- pare students for the real world. by Frank Shelton took art because I felt it would help me to achieve my career goals. 1 ENDER LOVING CARE. Vicki Duns- more takes care of her calf. Agriculture offered skills you could use later in life. IXEYBOARDS. MONITORS, AND DISK DRIVES. Damon Noyes, Louis Rocha. and In Hyon work in computer class. Some students chose computers as an elective, because it presented an opportuni- ty to be trained on a medium often used in busi- ness today. 176 • ACADEMICS

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Tearing Into Five-four-three-Timeout! All sports in the school tore up the competition, both in actions and attitudes. As always, Ar- lington stood out among the crowd on the fields and off, for example in: WATER POLO-The sweat doesn ' t show but the pain is still there. Junior player Ethan Lema described it as, Playing soccer but having to swim in- stead of run and it ' s much harder. Because of all the dedication to the sport, the players had to spend much of their extra time getting ahead of classes so not to get behind. CROSS-COUNTRY-Thts was one sport that most athe- lets felt helped them the most in keeping in shape and in con- dition for sports later in the year. This team is the begin- ning of a strong girls team. We have a lot of promise, and it ' s really exciting. Next year we ' ll be even better, exclaimed Mewa Danh, junior. VOLLEYBALL-Many quick drills in a short time served to improve the performance of the volleyball team. In order to make these drills work, the girls had to perform them with- out letting the ball hit the ground. When we had to pass the ball and set it for shots, we had to keep the ball from hit- ting the ground, if it did, we had to run the track, explained sophomore Michelle Gainer. FOOTBALL-The team pol- ished the season by defeating all cross-town rivals by con- vincing scores. Beating Poly was great as a season opener, but when we beat Ramona, it was the highlight of the season because North wasn ' t going to be able to contend with us and they didn ' t, confessed senior Larry Jared. Winning was noth- ing compared to the hard work in practice and in the class- room. Coaches, players and specta- tors alike all demonstrated en- thusiastic golden pride in all seasons. by Duslin Fitch T. Mark Wensel practices jfe ball early in the season., Mark was on the team last season when they went to the CIF finals at Dodger Stadium.