Camelback High School - Shield Yearbook (Phoenix, AZ)

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21,600 square feet of classroom and laboratory construction will be completed by the fall of 1965. The new north classroom building will contain seven general classrooms and six large business classrooms. A science wing addition will in- corporate two laboratories, one classroom and a complete nurse ' s facility. The library will be remodeled upon completion of the school year. Space will be doubled and includes an exterior patio. The total cost of the new construction is $352,500.00. Table of Contents Dedication 6 Photo Essay 8 Faculty and Academics 14 Activities 40 Qubs and Organizations 86 Sports 116 Personalities 160 Student Life and Qasses 178 Advertising 254 Indices ...267

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55- - ' - i The legend ♦♦♦ DOWN through the centuries, enduring many diverse cultures, the legend of the PHOENIX has fascinated many and even directed the lives of primitive peoples. The ritual and signif- icance placed on the PHOENIX by each civilization has en- riched the legend and caused its universality — Vaguely in the east, a white light was searching. On top of a palm tree, a large bird stirred. As it did, all the fragrances of the desert — myrrh, cassia, cinnamon, rose like an incense; the essence of the land itself, that constancy of life borne from the ground, came up. The bird shook his wings in the dryness of the cliff and faced the whiteness coming toward him. He was huge, and ele- gant with magnificently iridescent purple and gold plumage, the crown of a king, the profile of the eagle, a wingspread that could cover the largest tree in the world. For a few days and nights, he had stayed there in soli- tude in a mystical meditation which took him back to his long journey. He knew where he was going, for he had made that same trip time after time at regular intervals. He never stopped, except for a few dives to the ground to load his wings with the perfume of Nature, until he reached the top of a palm tree. The white light of the east had turned lemon. He faced it reverently, his feathers fanned and turned orange in t he near- ing light. He shivered in this mysterious second before the Sun god arose, filled with a last breath of the coolness of night. His song rose as the brilliancy climbed a similar scale over his coat of down. As his call reached unimaginable height, the horizon flamed — for the Sun god had appeared. As the shrill- ness of his song reached its apex, he shook his wings: and for an instant they seemed to have blended with the flaming trail rising high in the sky. This was truly so, for now his feathers were afire, and the top of the palm tree burst into flame. Smoke rose, sending a thousand perfumes into the air. Now there was nothing left of the bird but a still glow atop the charred tree. The glow took form and the color moved; sparks renewed, assumed into the shape of feathers, and the gentle desert breeze blended the sparks together into the new PHOE- NIX, tall, iridescent, magnificant. With revived power, he left the ashes and the sacred remains and flew south toward the Valley of the Sun. Then thousands of birds came out of the cacti, the low bushes and from the crevices of the rocks and swarmed over Heliopolis, City of the Sun, where the magical bird deposited the ashes of his father upon the Grand Pyre. At last he flew higher to reach the Paradise Valley — there he dwelled for hundreds of years until he would come back to die again on the top of the PHOENIX palm tree. At some time, into the lives of all farsighted, rational dis- cerning youths everywhere, there comes a change — a fleeting moment and yet an eternity, when he magically emerges as an adult. This attainment is but one of many changes to take place, however, for there is a constant renewal of ideals, faith and values. This self-examination and purification can be sym- bolically likened to the life of the PHOENIX.