Galt High School - Highlights Yearbook (Galt, CA)

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New York During The monTh of De- cember, immediaTely afTer ChrisTmas, Trina Barr, Leslie Drake, Jeff Haddox, Doug Ja- cobsen, and Mr. and Mrs. Hen- ry Mellon descended upon The Big Apple. Their escapada lasTed unTil January 2. They Toured such landmarks as The Empire STaTe Building, Radio CiTy Music Hall, The Lincoln CenTer for Per- forming ArTs, and Greenwich Village. The group also picked up some culTure on The EasT CoasT by viewing such pro- ducTions as 42nd STreeT Amadeus , and Dream Girls , noT To menTion an off- off Broadway play enTiTled Twelve Dreams. A shorT side Trip To Radio CiTy Music Hall. Mr. Mellon and Trina Barr walk Through ST,PaTrick's caThedral. Drama sTudenTs, Doug Jacobsen, Jeff Haddox, Trina Barr, Leslie Drake, and friend pose back sTage wiTh Rila Mor- eno. xx 6 .ai

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GolT's ChrisTmds progrom wos full of The holidoy spiriT wiTh The jozz bond opening up The fesTiviTies. The choir, led by Mrs. Ndncy LoPerle, belTed ouT d few yuleTide fovoriTes dnd The GolT Elemen- Tdry School Bond, led by Mr. Nelson Zone, joined in wiTh Their musicol TolenTs. AfTer which, The Dromo DeporTmenT puT on Two skiTs To furTher enTerToin The dudi- ence. ArTwork creoTed by Mr. STeve Klein's orT sTudenTs wds disployed over Three wolls of The oudiTorium. The mogniflcenT works owed The viewers os They mor- veled over whdT The imogindTion ond pen, pencil, ond color pencil could oc- complish. Nelson Zone conducTs fuTure High School Bond members. The chorus belTs dnoTher one ouT. Tommy Choppell solos her woy inTo our hedrTs. CHRISTMAS PROGRAM 25

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On November 24, six GalT High enTranTs engaged in one of The mosT grueling conTesTs ever To happen in Their high school lives-a decaThlon. IT Took weeks of exhausTive Training To whip These compe- TiTions inTo shape. The faTeful day ap- proached. Morals were high. The six conTesTanTs had be- come superb represenTaTives of GalT High-Thanks To Their coaches, Don NoTToli, and RiTa Prichard, wiTh RoberT Kraude and Eugene Nunez as- sisTing. BuT waiT! These six people weren'T foolish enough To kill Themselves in such a Thing as a decaThlon, were They? Maybe noT a physical one. This was The Academic De- caThlon-a conTesT of brains, noT brawns. Our represenTaTives were divided inTo Three groups: Group A, which consisTed of Caroline Maccoun and KrisTi WinTerowd: Group B, which was Delores Mancebo and Troy Nelson: and Group C, which consisTed of Mike Ger- kin and KrisTi Grosshans. These six hardy souls com- peTed againsT TwenTy oTher ,. high schools and did very re- specTably. They were evaluaTed in Ten areas such as conversaTion skills, a wriTTen essay, and a formal speech, plus career educaTion, English liTeraTure, and maThemaTics, on which They had To Take wriTTen TesTs, noT To menTion a Super Quiz. Each TesT was worTh 400 poinTs, for a possible ToTal of 4000 poinTs. The firsT prize included a Trip To SouThern California's Dis- neyland and box seaTs aT The Rose Bowl in Pasadena. PicTured on This page are all Academic DecaThlon and MooT CourT parTicipanTs excepT KrisTi Grosshans and Mike Ger- ken. How would you like To pre- pare Two assigned cases, show facTs, answer quesTions, and presenT Those cases in fronT of a judge wiTh The ex- perTise of a criminal lawyer wiTh a Harvard law degree? QWell, maybe noT Havard-how abouT jusT GalT High School?5 ThaT's whaT Lisa Balukoff, Ken FriTz, KrisTi WinTerowd, Mi- chael WoolsTrum, and Terri STanley did wiTh The help of advisor, Mike MilleT. These ar- gumenTaTive seniors parTici- paTed in an evenT called MooT CourT , which Took place during The monTh of January. Their cases dealT wiTh The righT To close headshops, The FourTh AmendmenT, and The exclusionary law. WoolsTrum called iT a very challenging experience. FriTz believed, You geT To express your views on issues ThaT af- fecT people. OuT of These four high school lawyers, a PresidenT mighT be in The making. NEW YORK fACADEMIC DECATHLONfMOOT COURT