Diamond Bar High School - Taurus Yearbook (Diamond Bar, CA)

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132, Student w e f to Cope J D Help Student ONE WHO CARES - Senior Suzanne Tuifua does paperwork for Saferides. Tuifua was in- strumental in bringing the program to Dia- mond Bar. School student dis atches a car to pick up a drunken teen Sa erldes was in operation CALLING ALL CARS - a Walnut High from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. on weekends. A 40 Student Life! Saferides AN UNDERSTANDING FACE - Sabrina Grajeda practices her counselirllg techniques on Elliot Boston urin class. All eer counselors had to apply andy be reviewed before ecoming members of the class. 9. gym? I Y 'A ju-17' 4, ,X I W ,, 5' fit? :':

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. ' f . 7 1. 'O I , X, 1 Cars. It didn't sound very fancy, but they were really im ortant to the students at DBHS. Students took pride in their automobiles. They spent lots of money on them. I spent about 32,500 on- my BMW after I bought it, said junior Sean Trejo. A lot of students took up jobs, so they could pay off their cars or trucks. It took me two summers, with the help from my parents, to get m truck, said junior Bascom Mellon. When a student tried to get through school and have a job at the same time, insurance and gas money didn't come cheap. - I I j sf plpe pel,,pt 5 A t,pl 1 T J j j ap W.. 1 A , .. HOW LOW CAN YOU GO? - Mike Rache junior, Torgiy Perry! senior, and Tony Skrah junior ask stu ents w ile hiding in their Mazda mini trucks. These trucks went for about S8,000. A BLAST FROM THE PAST - Ieff Bosse senior, and senior Greg Melendez lnot shownj show off their old 49 truck and 57 Chevy. Old classy cars of olden times were popular with students. A TOUCH OF CLASS - Eve Peskin senior, and junior Brian Hendrick show their BMW's. BMW's Srghgther classy cars kept up the reputation of CAN YOU TOP THESE? - ask Sandy Osford and Sean Wallen, both juniors, as they stand in front of their convertible rabbits. These cars were great for those hot California summer days. 4X4 s are more exciting, and you can do a lot f t r u c k with the - help from I I my par- ents And in 1985 on my birth- day, I got my 4X4 I c o u l d I have got- ten a bet- ter car, A but they were all dull to me, and with my 4X4 none of my friends are left out without rides, said junior Bascom Mellon. 65 1 ' ' 0 p things with them. I worked two summers for my 1 M The big thing that took the students time and effort was the trouble with the parking lot. j The parking lot should have been bigger this year, it was disastrous to try to get out of here after school. said senior Tamika Vaufghn. It was accident prone, Vaughn a ded. Many students didn't feel safe leaving their cars on the street either. My parents wouldn't let me take my BMW to school, to leave it on the street unwatchedf' said junior Sean Trejo. There were a total of four cars stolen this past year alone. Styles were shown through the students' cars. Lowering cars and tinting the windows were most popular according to man other students. Everybody liked to look at a car that was shaped up, painted dif- ferent, loweredto the ground, or raised to the sky. There were many things you could do to your car and students found these things out. ' Cars ave students responsibilites, and let Siem take charge of their own lives. They gave the students the chance they had been looking for as jcunior Elaine Rowe put it, I do .not . now what I would do without my truck. Cars X Student Life 39

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Mfg? I A group of drunken friends climb into a car . . . they wind up a twisted mass of metal and flesh. Needless injuries and deaths could be avoided if students at Dia- mond Bar took advantage of the Saferides program. A nation-wide program, Saferides was a division of SADD fStudents Against Drunk Drivingj. Kristy Mur hy and Suzanne Tuifua started tffe chapter on campus. There have been so many deaths because of drunk drivers coming home from parties that we thought a Saferides program should be en- couraged here, commented Kristy Op Q..t1J',3 fD Om 410'-1. gp ES'g5Ug.t,,.gE.:,2gE.5Df,,5 'QU Om 1H'v-19 CI'-nfDmQ mv-1 aes S-waive Q-was SEHSEHSEEQQSEERH5 . - 4 C-' ' '2'gE '5d:3EfU cngrf-Ying--,gm EBU' mg.. UQCDCTQ- n'i Un:e'wg 141 no O'-' 1 '-1CLfD5- mw3: ',,, ,,,oOw: 5- QLEP,:1C-5:1'gEfT:g cfqiiiggrf w co14 Cn.-. Q-WDM O- f,,,.,.cn,,, Q O B000 ,,,2og :pale 5 :vig CD'.-Tim,-1-080'-12 g,E,:m.-+ on-Hfvo 55',..g an -H- O CO-:C Q- 'Dm 4 :vc :J W D' UHODPCD Der-1-DmD3'CD I O U1 'l 'fha-n D CL GD',:1v: i-1, 'UG' Og CDCDO 'D mot-'40 Vigif-r ,':'5'O O '-tgp-405 CDmCnf'3 v-gD :im DJ Prjgj E CDD O '-' HU cn O UQ r- Q mt-'Fi '11 CASA If 8 E-'E-lggifgg go Uda'-15-93 f-lIJ'c1..mo.m .:1 felcmofc fa ,630-as X 1 g ,, . ,HA Q..-warn-,.,. . . .ll..1i THREE OF A KIND - are junior Kim Grasshoff, senior Swapna Panat, and freshman T. G. McNeils. The students , were all enrolled' in the second semester , Peer Counseling class ' taught by Dorinda Hewit. :T u Q W... H to train counselors, and the class, taught by Dorinda Hewit, schooled the teenagers in dealing with other students. The counselors offered advice, or jpst listened to those who needed elp. After a crisis was resolved, the counselors described the situation to the class to be evaluated in order to improve their advisory skills. No real names were used, as the pro- gram was strictl confidential. ' I hope that ifll ever need help or have uestions, the counselors will be abtle to help me, said Tracy Eckert, senior. counselor because I really care about my f e l l o W students n d w o u 1 d like to get to know them bet ter I hope any per son with a problem will come to me so I I became a peer L,a. th e m because all about Carl Smith junior ' a I, X . that's what being a counselor is A MEETING OF MINDS - occurs between Tracy Clarke and Maritza DeLaCruz. The girls gave ad- vice to other students or just listened to their problems. Peer Counseling X Student Life 4