Chaparral High School - Golden Embers Yearbook (Scottsdale, AZ)

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Much more than red and gold Red and Gold. To some iT meanT noThing buT The colors of The sun, buT To The maioriTy of OHS. sTudenTs iT meanT spiriT, ThaT inTangeable someThing ThaT made Them a parT of a special season. A season ThaT could never be forgoTTen or du- plicaTed because iT was This year. This special year. games, TesTs, half-Times, and good Times. There were Times, Too, ThaT school was The lasT place we wanTed To be, buT we bounced back and worked iT ouT. Working iT ouT. ThaT phrase seemed To seT The Tone for so many Things. New adminisTraTion BuT The nine monThs we spenT TogeTher were more Than iusT spiriT: There were dances, and new OTTlTuCleS SwepT The school like winds of change, and The breeze was refreshing. I i 3 Vx I aders prepare a banner adverTising one of Their many spiriT encounTers of The Firebird kind Marc G-arTner and Mike Nelsen build The frame for The senior Home- coming floaT which will sporT o Las Vegas Theme. Page 5: Cheering on The home Team are Randy GusTaf- son, Melanie MacDonald and Ken QuorTermain - all dressed up in SpiriT Week regalia. Being sllghTly wounded in The line of duTy doesn'T seem To John Olson's spiriTs. SpiriTf5

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Page 6: The counTryside bordering The Mogollon Rim near Payson, Arizona is parTicularly beauTiful in The fall, The sTreams are brisk and clear, The blue skies are blessed wiTh billowy whiTe clouds, and The leaves are changing color, warning ThaT winTer is near. Page 7: 'lThere is noThing like an Arizona sun- seT, many deserT dwellers have been heard To say. The sun, silhoueTTing The lonely Saguaro, is slowly sinking inTo The WesT. Viewing The Grand Canyon, one of The world's naTuraI wonders, is al- ways an awesome experience, Arizona Highwaysf7