Estes Park High School - Whispering Pine Yearbook (Estes Park, CO)

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Banquet highlights successful year The publications season culminated with the annual banquet at the Holiday Inn on May 18. A long-standing publications tradition, the banquet included steak dinners for the newspaper and yearbook staff, the presentation of several serious awards, the traditional “pubbie” gingerbread cookie awards and a final round of the challenging dictionary game. Publications adviser, Bob Keith summed up the class’ achievements when he noted, “You and I know for a fact that this year’s publications are among the elite in the nation — not because we’re any smarter but because we’re better and because we work harder.” Some of the accomplishments he referred to include receiving the All-State Award for the Whispering Pine yearbook in Division I from the Colorado High School Press Association on Sept. 17, and winning Medalist and All-Columbian in March from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association for the Mountaineer. At the banquet, “pubbie” awards presented by Jonathon Firnhaber and Dan Gavell covered a variety of subjects related to publications work. These included the “Most Improved Publicator Award,” the “Werewolf Award,” the “Best Rested Award,” the best and worst “Deadline Maker and Breaker Awards,” the “Musical Appreciation Award,” and the “Trapper John Layout Surgeon Award.” The more serious side of the banquet was displayed when Mr. Keith thanked his staff for a good year and presented four awards for “meritorious achievement.” Recipients of these awards were Peter Crisi, Firnhaber, David James and Anne Kirk. Bound copies of the Mountaineer were to be presented later in the summer at a publications picnic. Among all the crazy traditions in publications, the “most important one is striving for excellence in everything that we do,” Mr. Keith finished in his end-of-the-year speech. With a good year behind him, Mr. Keith decided to take a one-year leave of absence. He plans to study camera repair to “prepare for the future.” In the final stages of preparing the Mountaineer newspaper. Dan Gavell (below) sets type on the “Mrs.” Friden typesetting machine. Peter Crisi (below left) proofreads his story copy and notes corrections, and Kelly Bell and Jonathon Firnhaber (left) touch up the negative of a page of the Mountaineer with opaquing pencils at the Trail-Gazette. Publications 23

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Reaching beyond usual bookwork Reaching beyond the usual book-work associated with classes such as social studies, English, government and foreign languages, teachers in the upper hallway incorporated various other activities to highlight their curricula. Classes taught in the upper hall of the high school included French, Spanish, government, psychology, speech, theater arts, various levels of English, social studies, and general studies classes. The French class, besides studying films, tapes, books and ditto sheets, furthered their learning experiences by involving themselves with school assemblies, the Aspenfest and a trip to Denver to see the play “Colette,” starring Diana Riggs. French instructor Nancy Oakes said during the year the class did “an awful lot of eating” and made “incredible progress” in learning the French language and culture. The Spanish classes, which combine course work with a club, like the French classes, highlighted their curriculum by involvement in the Aspenfest, the talent show and a trip to Denver to see a Flamenco dance exhibition. The classes also made the traditional pinatas at Christmas and sampled Mexican food. Besides studying various textbooks, psychology students performed experiments testing the reactions of the brain, eyes and tongue. The class, taught by Dave Martin, was visited by a psychic who exhibited her abilities to the class. Speech and theater arts classes also were popular attractions in the upper hallway. continued Face to face with an elk head adorning the MacGregor Ranch Museum, Kim Mowery (far left) browses. Danny Gavell and Shane Ring (middle left) thumb through magazines in the library. Laura Anderson (left) follows along while members of her fundamentals of English class read out loud. During their Spanish field trip, Marlene Burke and Robin Tallman (top) Indulge in Mexican food. Academics — upper hall 25