Glen Wilson High School - Prowler Yearbook (Hacienda Heights, CA)

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The Academic Decathlon team receives a second place team trophy in super quiz. Photo by Mr Kopecky {jinny Kipers who won First Place Speech Award spends her break time to get herself better prepared for the super quiz competition. Photo by Mrs Tebbs Eric Chow ckecks his bronze Third Place Fine Arts and Silver Second Place Essay medals showing that all of his hard work was worth it. Photo by Mrs Tebbs The Wilson High School Academic Decathlon team finished second- place overall in the 72-school Los Angeles County Competi- tion, best in the school ' s his- tory. Previously Wilson High School had always placed in the top ten in the competition with the exception of this year. Wilson was awarded a second place trophy in super quiz, ac- ademic decathlon, geographi- cal area trophy, second place team trophy, and individual sil- ver medal awards. Coaches, James Kelly and Carol Tebbs, began training for the team at the end of the 87-88 school year. The Academic De- cathlon team was made up of twelve members chosen based upon their PSAT scores. The team members were: Robin Dennis, Ginny Kipers, David Chen, and Po-Wen Shaw at honors, Tony Medrano, Bobby Reddy, Danny Reins, and Matt Clementz at scholastic, and Ka- ren Lindley, J.R. Samslng, Eric Chow, and Marina Dundjerskl at varsity. Out of these mem- bers six of them are regular competitors and the other six are alternates. The Academic Decathlon competed in 10 areas of testing; Math, science, social science, economics, speech, fine arts, essay, inter- view, language and literature, and super quiz. The members of the Academic Decathlon team worked very hard to rep- resent Wilson. With dedication and hard work, the members showed the other competing schools that Wilson is the best, by Grady Han Acadmit VettD SbH 129

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Sv idson Siuobtfs Suieep HISTORY DAY AWARDS i f istory Day was a tremen- qnJ dous success even though t - l very hard rains changed many plans of the day. This did not stop the Wilson students from entering their projects. As a matter of fact when the awards were being giv- en out Wilson swept the awards. Some of the categories that Wil- son students won in included group oral performance, group and individual drama perfor- mances and historical papers. Christine You who along with others won in the category of group oral performance said, It was a lot of hard work and a lot of preparation but it was worth it. The winners now move to a county competition where they can then win and compete in state competition and if they win there they advance to the nationals in Washington, D.C. by Kim King nnuLnvi-un . ENGINEER, VISIONARY ▲▲ Jay Chobdee, Joshua Dobies, Adrian Chin who won the top three awards in the individual A Emmy Hall receives her award for single oral performtb project Category, photo by Carlos Lecanda photo by Carlos Lecanda ▲ Jim Mu and Fred Wehrey received the first place award for group project, photo by Carlos Lecanda 128 Nisto iy Day

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Robin Dennis, Karen Lindley, and J.R. Samsing smile happily because their hard work has been rewarded. Photo Mr - Kell y explains to Dr. Rieckewald that winning second place marks an upward trend by by Mrs. Tebbs Decathlon team that made school history. Po- Wen Shaw and David Chen talk about their test subjects, while Eric Chow tries to stay awake. Photo by Mrs. Tebbs Tony Medrano and Matt Clementz cheer on thei competing teammate. Photo by Mrs. Tebbs Aoadmt DecatMon