Esperanza High School - Quetzal Yearbook (Anaheim, CA)

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Winnifred M icfraua' Robert M ikkelsen Lee Miller Steve Mittelsdorf ,zu N. Stag Mglpd john Morrison Challenging classes fill As underclassmen, seniors dreamed of the ease, the freedom, the relaxation that awaited them as seniors. They would be free from the confines of the campus, free to take five or even four classes if they wished and if they weren't short credits. For few, when they reached that point, this was the reality. For most, it was still a dream, unattainable. Seniors found that harder academic classes would put them in a better standing with colleges when they were weeding down their entrance lists. Classes like calculus, trigonom- etry, physics and chemistry seemed to carry more weight with the Ivy League schools than twenty units of Work Experience. Classes such as Sociology, Honors English and Spanish III seemed to carry more weight than Office Aide and ROP courses. Those courses were adequate for many, but students striving for entrance into the very competitive universities like UCLA, Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, Yale, and Cal Tech found that the better they excelled in more challenging academic classes, the better the chances for acceptance. Ed Seela's Calculus class enrollment increased by twelve. Three trigonometry classes and two physics classes were filled as were five chemistry classes. I believe that the future will be most definitely technologically inclined, said math teacher Tom Miller while explaining the unexpected surge into these classes. Seniors who did not take academic classes will be at a disadvantagef, he added. Senior Ron Frazelle, like others in his class, began the period by doing SIR', or Silent Independent Reading. Most English classes adopted f'SIR as part of the daily curriculum when it was learned that the average high school student does not read anything for enjoyment that is not specifically required and that he will be tested on. -.. .4 . it Q -- Stacey Moberg Monique Morand Senior Elizabeth Prescott reminisces with graduate Russ Marla Muccillo Sondra Murphy Alterman at the CIF Final game against Los Altos. Many graduates returned to watch the Aztec gridders attempt to win the CIF championship for the second time in three years, as in 1980 they were defeated in the final game at Anaheimys Big Aw, seniors - 245

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If it's Bell . . . it's swell. Well, it may not be swell, but it most certainly will be way above average. Senior Elisa Bell used the Bell Potato Chip slogan as her campaign slogan when she successfully ran for the position of Senior Class Vice-President. Bell, in addition to serving as class vice- president is also the editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, an honor student, the Inter Club Council Representative for the National Honor Society, a member of the National Honor Society, a member of the Elisa Bell exerts her power on the rest of the aztlan staff. Being aztlan's editor-in-chief was just one of Bell's many activities and offices. 246 - seniors If it's Bell . . . it's creativi California Scholarship Federation, a die hard Angels fan and a professional model. She participated in the social science moclc trial competition and competed in the re- gional journalism Education Association's Write-Off Competition. The high point of her senior year, to hear her tell it, was the day she was able to meet her idol, California Angel Doug DiCenzes in the flesh. She rattled on about that for days in newspaper class. She had her fa- ther talce photos and showed them to just about everyone, said aztlan adviser Mary Ellen Cummings. She only stopped tal ing about him long enough to entertaf the class with her imitation of current c. food commercials. She is a truly extr ordinary person, one of the sharpest ar most creative people I have run across Cummings said. Bell plans to capitalize on her creative vel by majoring in screen writing at eith UCLA or USC. She would eventual like to move from writing to producin Her experience in modeling, which she h done professionally since age six, will star her in good stead. K by it Kathy Nixon Tricia Nolan Robert Norrix Myra Nunez if ,sg-x j Kyle Olson Brian O,Malley Gwynne Osborne Laura Osterling Daniel Otter Greg Oviedo Virginia Oviedo Mickey Palladino