East High School - Angelus Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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COMPANY G, PLATOON 1. Foreground: John Metzler, platoon leader, Richard Nay- lor, Front row, left to right: Frank Olsen, Dick Holmes, Jack Palmar, Rudolf Ma- chata, Marvin Hersh, Tom Levi, Weld Fickel. Second row: Evans Nash, Zoltan Popovits, Ted Bowen, Dan Petersen, Bob Hodges, Bob Myre, Stanley Irwin, Gary Goelz. COMPANY G, PLATOON 2. Foreground: James M. Cramer, platoon leader, Colin D. Adams, company commander, Bill Stevens, executive. Front row, left to right: Richard Schmidt, Robert Lewis, Leo Snodgrass, Mike Phillips, John Smith, Rodney Drake, Tom Mosher. Second row: Ronnie Sellers, Pur- nell Steen, Robert Teeple, Foster Cline, Gary Blackwell, Si Sanders, Chuck Selkirk. COMPANY H, PLATOON 1. Foreground: Rick Barr, platoon leader, Louis Gibson. Front row, left to right: Jerry Hines, Aub- rey Smith, Jay Dunn, Ed Megill, Paul Garman, Jim Nees, Bruce Spangler, Carl Salstrand, Bob Vance. Second row: Jim Kier, Gardner Corliss, Dick Heiling, Robert Friesen, Mike Lohman, Kenneth Oberg, Bob Demaree, John McDonald. COMPANY H, PLATOON 2. Foreground: Bob Lundquist, Ed Reilly, Chris Jones, Ed Drehle, platoon leader. Front row, left to right: Richard Thompson, Tyler Clay, John Stradley, James Lamb, Tracy Waller, Gary Swanson, Dennis Derieg, Joe Virgil, Dennis Hamlin. Second row: Mike Miller, Al- l-lamelin, George Smeltzer, Don Hecken- lively, Bill Wilson, Craig Chicon, Walter Landen, Douglas Barnett, Jim Schatz. 45

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+ . School is perhaps the most important in- fluence in the life of an adolescent, for it is to his school that most of his energies are directed, either in attending classes and pre- paring assignments, or in participating in extra-curricular activities. These activities were created for the bene- fit of the adolescent, to help him become a better person and to assist him in the difficult process of becoming an adult. From partici- pating in activities, the adolescent learns to work and get along with both his sponsors and his contemporaries. The adolescent who is new to school activities is at first forced by the activity to face certain responsibilities delegated to him, but as he becomes a real part of the group and gains a feeling of ac- complishment and self-respect from his own efforts, he grows more willing to assume re- sponsibility, thus taking an important step towards maturity. However, the activity program may have its disadvantages. The importance of activi- ties may grow too large in the eyes of youth, so that the adolescent joins and participates in them for the sake of prestige and glory rather than for the sake of interest and enjoyment. Too few people may dominate too many activ- ities, excluding other would-be members. These people have too many things to do and do justice to none of them. This over-partici- pation defeats the whole purpose of the activ- ity program in that activities become tools to satisfy adolescent vanity rather than to pro- mote adolescent growth. However, the advantages for the adoles- cent in the activity program greatly outweigh the disadvantages. The many adolescents who will not let themselves be swayed by false standards of glory and prestige participate in activities to a moderate degree, and benefit from them to a great degree. ctiuctceo 'ill'