Crescenta Valley High School - Yearbook (La Crescenta, CA)

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ay I have this dance? Even without the opposite sex, Dena Bayles and Lainy Dickson showed that they could have fun dancing to the quad music. new dadlade 776 ell, the old girl jqnally got a face lift! Being an old school, CV strove to keep up appearances hoth physically and academically. With the money that the California lottery hrought in, the quad and the parking lots were repaved and the tennis courts were resurfaced. Not only that, hut in an attempt to heautzfy the school, flowers were planted around the tree wells. To keep the heautzfca- tion program going, the school had a lottery of its own. All students who were willing to put in three hours of work cleaning up the school got their names put in the lottery. The main prize? A parking space for a month. Big deal P! In a school without a park- ing lot and with had the school driving, many students were willing to get their hands dirty. You learn to appreciate the school more when you have to write down the details of what firms a school, said junior Sun Kim. Whatpnrms a school? That's what teachers, administrators, stajjf and stu- dents had to fgure out. These diligent, hard-work- ing people had to spend lunches and time after school to analyze the school like a scientist would analyze a mitochondria - it was time for the accreditation process that evaluated the school. Although CV was one of the few area schools with a declining enrollment, the academic stan- dards of the remaining 1806 students continued to soar. SAT scores in the last year rose from an average of 908 points to 935 points. In addition, this year CV had five NMSQT scholarship semi-j9nalists - seniors Marc Eagle, Kimherley Grover, Bruce Holler, Grace Hong, and Shane Sauhy. As the Instructional Vice-Principal Chakih Samhar stated, Our consistently good per- formance is what sets us apart. We do hetter than schools around us. That's what makes us a very outstanding school. hy Tina Rhee and Travis Neale That's what makes us a very outstanding school. - Mr. Chakib Sarnbar Changes

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,g aaeaeae .-,,.rm.,,.. ,fY. .vfzueazfa-4....fgM,.L:.-x.7---Mi- v- -+A-L..s.L-Q-,L1-:A---A-A---r-r 'mf-U -fe -fekfrvd P 66 on if you still don't understand the essence of it all - guess you had to be here. Excitement don 't helieve it! Wow! No way! You're kid- ding! They are all familiar exclamations that im- ply excitement. Things always happened to spice up l rye, to hreah: the monotony that seemed to creep up into a school even as versatile as CV. Spirit and academ- ics are not the only things that make CV interesting. Aper all, it is the little things that make the diver- ence. The school year started off with a hang, literally. Well, mayhe more ofa rumhle. On Octoher I, 1987, a 6.1 earthquake hit that was fel t throughout Southern California. Many students were already at school and were ahle to help each other during a time of crisis. My friends were really supportive hut we didn 't talk ahout it hecause we were afraid the 'Big One' would hit, commented junior Leanna Stephan. Also, the new quad was the setting for an old pastime - streaking. Actually, it was only one streaher and he did it on a het, hut he stirred up a considerahle amount of excitement throughout the school. For the next two days the event was the topic of many gossip conversations. Once again, CV students spent a year full offun, laughter, and tears. However, if you still don 't un- derstand the essence of it all - guess you had to he here. hy Tina Rhee and Travis Neale if' . 55 ig out! After stuffing her face full of marsh- mallows, sophomore Jill Kattelman tries to talk into the microphone.