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

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Bronco fans were rewarded with an exciting ll-5 season and un- seasonally good weather to enjoy it in. eacher coach Mr. Marc Small keeps time in'an early season J.V. soccer game. w.,-ef a t . if af I n W-viii tearfully joyous freshman, Sabrina McDonald, is surrounded by friends during a D Jst- anny Jackson assembly interview for a television news crew. X -wx .f,f U 4, s Attendance clerk Mary Sadoris gets caught up in the Halloween huhbub around the office. Opening 3

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Q-fi? ei' '- Bo ogolonosoaotolgoo 5659 nfk 690 s Life. For some it dwindles, looses its shine, becomes less interesting with the passing of the years. But for Central and its students, the older the school became, the more excit- ing and enthusiastic Life became. Aurora Central has inhabitated the same corner lot for over 30 years, with only minor structural additions and alterations. Life, in 1985 and 1986, brought with it many changes for Central. Life was here. It was in the form of the sickly smelling fresh tar that was being put on the roof in early September and in the form of broken air conditioners and heaters that left students in alternating states of heat prostration and numbed with cold. And they were aware with each passing day that Cen- tral was being greatly improved, not greatly repaired. On Sunday, all these empty halls and rooms waited, strangely silent. The next QS o9W6 Q V ox vi W5 1 it odelll V S ei XQ 2 Opening X i GXXQQ QV 0 W o otllxw 0 will ii 9 :Kew K W 96 in O0 'L C e sativa O 'le' toe 6 1 S ' CK VX G X to O . ie G601' S . S O Sim -Xie 111 bs o Crie5Sq?is X vie ojfb Ngo A . OK XJXQG 135' Q Q ' 9 , to X, if' sw . 1. 0 ci xlyie' YD 4 I day, as if on cue, at exactly 8:21, during the first passing period of the year, the din of continuing summer construction was drowned out by the now familiar sounds of locker doors slamming and the raised voices of 1,969 students and 168 teachers and staff as they greeted one another. There was much to catch up on. For most, these two weeks had been filled with last minute vacations, extra hours on the summer job, earning much needed spending money, or with just deleriously lazy hours up at Cherry Creek Reservoir or in the backyard catching the rays. Really, at first it seemed that nothing was different than any previous year. But some- thing was different. Anyone walking down the halls could feel it. It was in the faces of the football players being cheered on to their 24-21 victory over Boulder in their opening game. It was all the way down the main hall full of jubiliant seniors, anticipating their final months of high school. It pounded the win- dows and doors of the gym during the Sep- tember 20 pep assembly and shined in the Linebacker Jeff White. a senior. looks on as Littleton closes the gap in a narrowly victorious 115-131 Trojan Homecoming game. lj J i lE. T ' ,.4ai 'i-1l1'nX'!.YI - m

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Q-fi? F.1.1'.e.y.d.e.b.u.t faces of students who shouted: CENTRAL, CENTRAL!!! DON'T BE SHY ... STAND AND GIVE YOUR BATTLE CRY!!! . . . It had arrived. This, the thirtieth year Central was to turn out a new crop of graduating seniors, was bubbling and brim- ming with Life. For quite some time, though, Life had been smoldering in the corners, but one by one each person was caught up in it and Life finally exploded. For the Girls' Volleyball Team, Life was bustin' out of its seams. They charged on to a record breaking 14-8 season, full of dynamic comebacks. For the boys on the Football team. who came up with their first winnin- gest season in four years, Life was reborn. Later in athletics, the Boys, Varsity Basket- ball team began its season ranked third and, with less than a handfull of losses to their name by midseason, provided spectators with a lot of lively hoop and hustle. . .,,r. V s. v Opening it Q Life pulsed through the corridors of the school by mid-September, and was nutured by the first Spirit Week from September 16- 20. On that Friday, the pep assembly was resurected. And Life was there. In the screaming voices of over 1,200 students who attended, in the blaring trumpets of the band, and in the whoops and hollers of the returning King of the Spirit Stick, Mr. Sam Hewson. In no other year had the Trojan pep as- sembly attracted so much outside attention. Students and administrators from other dis- trict schools came to see the special Life that was here and were followed by area news crews who wanted to cover the school so full of Life. For this winter, Life brought unseasonally sunny, warm weather, interrupted by only a few days of snow flurries and winds reaching 50 miles an hour. Students continued bask- ing and studying and playing and working during this year full and feisty with Life. Senior Billy Knox steals the ball from a surprised Heritage opponent. A frustrated Trojan team was unfortunately shut out 1-0 I th t d ater a ay. Frantically adjusting his cleat, iunior'Shawn Wilson, a middle linebacker, gets ready for play against Smoky Hill. Trojans narrowly defeated the Buffaloes. 'T ' . 'I-