Aurora Central High School - Borealis Yearbook (Aurora, CO)

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-'-o.n..,,,. Senior Pal Manson gets to know Takashi, a member oi the Japa- nese Junior Olympics team. Man- son was at a meet in Pullman, Wash- ington where he earlier vaulted his personal best of 16'9 . Junior Tyra Parker spends a sum- mer ol hard work and lun in Massa- chusetts. She is in the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library of Phillips Academy during Andover Summer Session. Summer 9

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vin' L kemembering a summer af mzrdufark ami fzm with zz Smile It was 6:30 in the morning on June 27. The alarm went off, Ju- nior Tyra Parker rolled out of bed in her room in Johnson Dormi- tory. lt was the first day of school. First day? At the end of June? Didn't school end on June 6? Not for Tyra. She was beginning her first day at Phillips Academy, an elite boarding school in pictur- esque Andover, Massachusetts. Officially called the Andover Summer Session, it was a gruel- ing six week test of Tyra's aca- demic ability. She carried two classes, Law, Politics and Soci- ety and Social Psychology, six days a week. Totaled into hours, she spent an amazing 180 hours in class and an additional 10 hours on homework this summer. Tyra cites very good reasons for subjecting herself to school in the summer. l got the chance to learn from the best teachers in the country, meet students from all over the United States and the worldg and get a taste of college life. While Senior Pat Manson did not get a taste of college life, he did get a healthy serving of life on the Olympic trail. ln fact, his sum- mer reads like a script from The Road to Seoul jKoreaj , the site of the 1988 Summer Games. The polevaulting phenomenon started out by jumping 16'5 VA to win a meet in Chicago and earn a spot on the United States Junior Track and Field Team. A month later he was on the road again. He blazed past vaulters from Mexico, Japan, and Canada to take first place in his first time out as representative for the Unit- ed States at Washington State University in Pullman. Less than a 8 Summer 1 week later he finished a respect- able second in Canada. He did so well that he was invited back as a guest vaulter at the Canadian ln- vitational where he placed in the top three among both juniors and seniors C20 and overj. And if that was not enough, he also took first place in the Junior Olympics in iowa City, iowa. An understandably estatic Manson said, l had a better summer than ever, I accom- plished all my goals. Yet another student opted for hard work instead of a long, re- laxing summer. Senior Rebecca Payo literally danced the summer away. She auditioned for and won a chance to attend a six week workshop sponsored by the Cleveland School of Ballet. She spent eight hours each day dancing. But even harder than that, according to Payo, was the pressure of performing in a differ- ent atmosphere. I had to prove myself all over again. Jerry Kohlbeck was also dedi- cated this summer, thought not to academics, nor athletics, nor the arts. The senior spent three weeks in New York and Pennsyl- vania that were dedicated strictly to having fun. He had no memo- ries of any mind-boggling, back- breaking days unless you count the extremely long, extremely taxing days that l spent on the beach watching women. Whether the memories of an all-night essay writing marathon or clamming in the Delaware Riv- er flash across the mind, all these students can remember the sum- mer of 1985 with a smile. - Sonya Sconiers Jerry Kohlbeck, senior, shows that man is very insignificant compared tothe Big Apple. He is ten feet high on a modern art display at the Twin Towers, in New York. Senior Pat Manson falls after clearing the bar at 16'3 . This was at the Junior Olympic Nationals at Iowa City, iowa.

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Zhrough the noise, cyesarzs, and bows an thc ufalL We Hdufgd Clink, Clank, rrrummble, CRASH! One might think those are strange sounds to hear in an English or math class, but for many students those were just a few of the daily interruptions heard in class. Ordinarily the sounds of jack- hammers and tractors are kept to construction sites, 1985-86 was not different. Plans for a new gymnasium, art wing, and music- drama room and renovation to the auditorium had been ap- proved by the school board late in the 1984-85 school year. With the approval, construction crews began digging at five separate sites around the school following the completion of the 1984-85 school year. Phase 1 consisted of the re- placement of the school's two old boilers with a new, more effi- cient one, the removal of all as- bestos from beneath the school, and the reinsulation of old pipes. Phase 1 had been scheduled to be completed by mid to late No- vember, but due to unexpected heavy snows and cold tempera- tures, it wasn't finished until late December. While Phase 1 was being com- pleted, Phase 2, the removal of asbestos above ground, was still far from done by Christmas A worker from Clearwater Construc- tion works on getting underground outside of the office. He is getting ready to start repairs on the school's three boil- ers. Construction break. Students with lockers on the gym side of the cafateria hall were notified that they would not have access to their lockers from December 20th to January 6th. Needless to say, reactions were mixed, l couldn't care less, said junior Steve Brelsford l'm not even going to be in school anyway, why would I need to get into my locker? The last major asbestos re- moval project was planned for the auditorium and wasn't sched- uled to be finished until late Feb- ruary or early March. Unfortu- nately this hindered practice for the spring musical and even threatened to postpone the show it not completed on time. I don't mind that they're removing the asbestos, I just don't like how they planned it so that it inter- feres with the production of West Side Story, said junior Christine Zalesky. Despite the minor inconven- iences like eviction notices and noisy interruption in class, the school, its students and teachers alike, survived. After all, The noise and piles of dirt and asbes- tos meters in the halls were all worth it for a whole new section of the school, said history teacher Mrs. Foster. - By Chris Gallegos