Dobson High School - Equus Yearbook (Mesa, AZ)

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PEOPLE FARM? Not criminal. just innocent sopho- mores discussing the latest look, 'stnpes.' and the book report due next week on Animal Farm. JUST THE TWO OF US One of the benefits of having one area of lockers for sophomores only is that they meet more people and more relationships are formed. YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS??? This is a brain drainer, you know what it's do-ng0 Starving. Two soph- omores exchange an old joke be- fore class. Sophomore 289

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James John Ken W Derek W lams | Mchoel f. Steve Wi :• ,c-i Andy VJh r Brian Wilson] Rick Julie Martin Danny xstei Eddie Wurgess Barb wl ocki Phip vSow Mke Yelc.vno- Sophe ou W ■ ; Zamot ingbiood Gretc Amy Amy Zimmerman | merman Shcsn Zuo : 0PH0M0RE DAZE UP FRONT At first, everything seemed so big: the campus, the seniors. Mr. Walsh ... But now my friends and I have learned to stand apart from tho crowd we're grouped with. Jennifer Alley, sophomoro Between the first hour of sophomore year to the grduation ceremonies, there were 1000 days facing each new class. Al- though only 540 days would be spent in school, school seemed to be the focus of ev- eryday thoughts for three years. Mondays. 156 of them, (to be exact) were faced by thinking of 156 Fridays and weekends, (to get the number of assemblies, double 156) 3 proms, 13 fire drills and 300 p.e. laps awaited the unini- tiated. Somewhere in there would be a first date, a drivers license, and a job. (to pay for the first two) They still had to find the student center; laugh at the senior lawn, and learn to steer away from the stucco, but the sophomore class survived- one day at a time. YOU'VE GOT THE LOOK . ■. Now get those books ... Of course the hat needs to be perfect, tho backpack ‘properly' filed, and the jack- et needs to be casual. 288 eople

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 I won't forgot tho Munchkln parlies after deadlines were over. -Melis- sa Celaya I can't believe I made It through without pulling my hair outI - Kovin Zamigh The best part of being on the staff was looking for- ward to seeing it all come togeth- er. -Janell Drosfe GETTING IT IN THERE FROM CHAOS. A YEARBOOK. The idea had been to get as many previously unknown names and faces into the book as possible. Reading that goal caused endless hours of dig- ging for quotes, searching for lost photos, and identifying strange faces. The 1988 Equus staff had indeed found itself up to its chin in yearbook chaos. Writing captions, cropping pictures, and fitting copy made up only a small amount of the total work involved. Fea- ture stories were written, re- vised, and rewritten in what seemed to be a never-ending process of perfection. What couldn't be completed in the noisy classroom was usually fin- ished up in the wee hours of the night. Sleep wasn't all that the average yearbook staffer gave up in the pressure of completing an assignment. As deadline week neared, lunches were sacrificed in favor of typing up final drafts of copy material. Many episodes of prime time T.V. were missed in order to attend demanding work-nights that often went past 9 p.m. The stress in- creased exponentially until it culminated at the fateful hour of moling which found many a student pulling out hair during last-minute revision. For most, the sweat and sac- rifices was more than made up for when, at the end of May. the cover of the final product was cracked open for the first time. It was with a swelling pride that the Equus staff took the recognition for what was hoped to be the best book produced yet. Indeed, the stress and struggles of getting it ALL In There was well worth it in the end. Design by Kim Ellis. Photos byJeffDarbut and Missy Smith. ALL SMILES. Fellow photographers Jason Flegel and Anne Lane take five n the staff office after searching for what seemed H e hours through stacks and stacks of contact sheets ri order to find that per- fect shot.