Estancia High School - Flight Yearbook (Costa Mesa, CA)

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Honors For rhe second year, rhere was on honors progrom in rhe hisrory deporrmenr The junior honors hisro- ry doss faced exrrennely difficulr os- signmenrs. One was rhe rerm paper rhey were reguired ro wnre or rhe end of rhe firsr guorrer, which oc- counred for one-rhird ro one-guorrer of rhe srudenrs ' grade. The subjecr wos rhe couses of rhe Civil War, end rhe second half of rhe guorrer wos spenr preparing for ir by reading a series of orricles abour rhe War, se- lecring a poinr of view, and wnring abour ir. The reason for rhe paper was ro familiarize rhe srudenrs wirh rhe skills rhey would need ro hove or any universiry or college rhey mighr ar- rend. The classes were roughr by Mr. Lowhorn, Mr. Cutler, and Mrs. Kent, rhree periods a day Brett Dorboro, Lance Ely, ond orhers gorher for group discussiorii in Mr. Lowhorn ' s junior Inonors hisrory closs Friends Jenny Daley ond Suzie Garcia relax while rhey wair for rheir hisrory class ro begin 46 Academic: ' .

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Painting IVIurals In tine Band Pit Making IVIusic A Visual Art The AP orr doss decorored the Bond Pir firsr semesrer, Barbara Har- grove , bond member, went inro on eloborore descriprion -of rhe murals and ended by saying, Ir ' s really rod, Mony other bond members also Qppreciored rhe orr. Ir ' s unique and rorolly rrue because music is orr, commenred Amy Vail The bond irself hod planned on poinring rhe courr losr yeor, bur rhey received rhe wrong kind of poinr, so rhe poinr srorred peeling off rhe wolls Q few months ofrerwards. The AP orr class also srorred our wirh rhe wrong kind of poinr, bur correcred rheir misroke early on in rhe process of poinring. The bond members requesred darker colors or rhis rime rhon rhe posrels rhe orr class hod srorred wirh on rhe backgrounds for rhe doors. The murols consisr of rhe flure parr of Esroncio ' s Alma Morer coming our of Q saxophone, Dovid Pitt direcring some choir members, and rhe words Music Is Arr on rhe rhree doors.

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George Ehora, Kelly Cowon, ond Paul Sollenbach hong our in rhe hisrory court. Kellie Wylie answers some of Christie Schwartz ' s quesnons in Mr. Moody ' s consrifunon No Matter What, History Never Changes. For some people or Esroncio, histo- ry was rheir worst subject end for o few, it wos rheir best. Some srudents complained rhor rhe lecrures were dull, while orhers poinred our rhor ir wQs whor was being soid rhor mode rhem Jnreresrmg Brett Dorboro, who was in Mr. Lowhorn ' s US Hisrory doss, rhoughr rhor Hisrory wos boring , bur od- mirred rhor ir wos on imporronr sub- jecr and said rhor from ir I learned whor nor ro do if I ever become a polincion. Andy Heidory hod a senior hisro- ry doss, and he enjoyed hisrory a lor. He even hoped rhor one doy he would become a hisrorion. He said hisrory was his besr subjecr, ond rhor he liked his hisrory dosses or Esroncio, and hod looked forward ro rhem every doy. He explained rhor rhe reason he liked hisrory wos because, whor you ' re roughr never chonges, it olwoys sroys rhe some, no morrer whor, He also said rhor rhrough hisrory, we con learn from our posr misrokes whor nor ro do in rhe furure, because rhe posr repeors irself. For wharever reason, hisrory was o required subjecr for rhree years, ond rhe srudenrs usually beneflrred from tr Sociol Srudies 47