El Dorado High School - El Dorado Yearbook (Placentia, CA)

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Gizmo, made by Susan Sweet, is bemg very careful to stay away from any water. Gizmo is from the popular movie Gremlins . Someone is expected to engage themselves in a candlelight meal at the expense of Paul Flately. Paul was the winner of the most original costume. Dressed as the Wicked Witch of the West. Mrs. Crays shows her school spirit. Originally, a contest was to be held for teachers as well as the students. Halloween 153 »»iMa a »r iS

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Ghosts, Goblins, And Gizmo 1 •N Ghosts, goblins, and witches were not un- usual to find roaming the campus on Octo- ber 31st. Many students participated in the annual Halloween dress-up day disguised as clowns, ' 50 ' s girls. Hippies, and Nerds. Dur- in g lunch, a contest was held for the Best Group, Scariest, and Most Original Cos- tumes. The Nerds won in the category of Best Group. A pumpkin full of candy was awarded to Tracey Borowski for the Scariest Costume. Paul Flatlcy won the Most Original Costume award with his table setting cos- tume. No nuclear WarsI Halloween hippies Jeanine Samsel. Brian Lee and Beth Green plead. Most of their sixties attire was purchased at The Goodwill or borrowed from parents. Pleased with their progress in dressing themselves, Brian Gal- vin. Todd Holt. Wes Porter, and Scott Fairfield smile during the dress-up parade. Many of the upper classmen dressed as nerds making it the most popular costume. What would be more appropriate on Halloween than a pumpkin costume thought senior Tammy Moore. Upon request Tammy kneels to the ground to fully demonstrate her costume. 152 Halloween

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National Velvet ( ' 44) The Yearling ( ' 46) Lili ( ' 53) Blackboard Jungle ( ' 55) Gidget ( ' 59) To Kill A Mockingbird i ' 62) Help! ( ' 65) The Graduate ( ' 67) Easy Rider ( ' 69) The Exorcist ( ' 73) Jaws ( ' 75) Star Wars ( ' 77) Saturday Night Fever ( ' 77) E.T. ( ' 82) Flashdance ( ' 83) I Changes Through Time Imagine the surprise and bewilderment a teenager from 1944 would feel if they stepped into a time machine and landed today. How would he feel about blacks and whites attending the same school, french-cut bikinis, a policewoman walking the beat, television with a set in almost every living room - to say nothing of personal computers? Each generation has its own goals and hopes, fashions and fads. 1984 is the generation of freedom, responsibility, and realism. Teens are no longer as innocent as they were In the ' 40 ' s and ' SCs, nor as disen- chanted as they were In the ' 60 ' s and ' 70 ' s. Today they have both ambition and knowledge. Things are no longer as easy as they used to be. Compared with those of the last two decades, teenagers today are more traditional, less experimental, more cautious, more home-orient- ed, and less rebellious. An appreciation of the business world is grow- ing again. Today, 20 percent of all new college freshmen say they are thinking about careers in business. That ' s twice as many as in 1964. The greatest advancement in 1984 is the fact that the generation gap is being bridged for the first time since 1944. The issues concerning teens are also upsetting parents. Both worry about the peril of nuclear war. Both generations want to make it easier for women to work out conflicts between career and family. Both worry about drug use, preg- nant unmarried teens, and teenage suicide. A change today ' s teen has made is that they ' ve learned how to leave their parents and also how to join them. But what the time traveler would find most impressive would be the independence of the 1984 teenager. Teens didn ' t win this indepen- dence overnight. The change occurred slowly, year after year. In the early SCs James Dean serves as a male sex-symbol, heart throb. The picture above, from the 1955 movie, Rebel Without A Cause , was released after Dean ' s death at the age of 24. Star of the popular T.V. show Magnum P.I., Tom Selleck serves 7 as a male sex-symbol. Magnum, P.I. is already on it ' s third