Green Mountain High School - Ramblings Yearbook (Lakewood, CO)

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Officer Dick Lerz, one of All-Stars sponsors. If You Drink, Don't Spill A The name of this program seems to describe the people involved with it. The All-Stars is a fairly new program at GM., but they seem to be gaining recog- nition quickly. Their main focus is on drunk driving. The object is to reduce drunk driving as much as possible by creating an awareness of the results of drunk driving. The community sponsors are Officer Dave Sletto, and Officer Dick Lerz. At the beginning of the year Colleen Utter was the school sponsor, and at the half year, Mr. Garland assumed the in-school spon- sorship. It is a country-wide program incorporating 12 high schools and a number of Jr. High feeder schools, utilizing well over 200 people. When asked why he joined All-Stars, Chairman Matt Armbruster replied, It is a major problem that has to be addressed and taken care of. lt's something I feel very strongly about. ln the past, the All-Stars have brought in a trainer team for 9th graders from San Antonio that trains teachers and students on the national level. They also had a Student-Parent meeting at Dunstan Jr. High which covered what the program is. Last year, All-Stars was generally trying to create an aware- Drop. ness. This year their attitude was to hopefully make our big move and get some hard-core preven- tion done. The club has no officers. They do, however, have a chairperson which rotates at semester break, and task and maintenance people. The role of the chair- person is to facilitate and organize the meetings. The task and maintenance people keep the meet- ings running smoothly and running on track, They also keep the club on the topic of the agenda. All-Stars planned many activities this year. One of these was for the Christmas and New Year sea- son. They made a Contract For Life which was both the student and the parent. The contract was an agreement stating that neither person would try to drive while intoxicated. They also planned a non- alcoholic after-prom party. The people in All-Stars seem to be trying to make people aware of an issue that affects almost every- one, Although what they are doing will not com- pletely stop drinking and driving, they are trying to help lessen the problem. And for this, I feel, each member deserved a special congratulations . All-Stars members Chum for a picture. Matt Armbruster and Lissa Meyers, All-Stars 2 110 All Stars chairpersons.

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Mountain Performers Do you love a Broadway quality show? A good comedy? A great musical? lf you can't afford to fly to the Big Apple every time, go see the Mountain Performers. This highly talented group of actors puts on a terriofic show every year! Whether it is the fall play- Arsenic and Old Lacen, or the spring musicals No-No Nanettem, it sparkles! The spring musical cast put in a lot of work this year, they spent countless hours, working late into the night to make everything perfect. And it shows! Teresa Lenway, Flora in UNO, No Nanetteu after another standing MORE! musical. best, What drives them? What motivates these students to give up so much of their time, to put in so much work? Is it the grades? Money? Girls? It's fun! It gives us a chance to be- come actors and actresses on a small scale. Stacy Skillern told us between re- hearsals. This is really good experience if I ever decide to go into acting , added Mary Beth Armbruster. We wish you all the luck! And to all the actors at GMHS BREAK A LEG! lt starts when we 're kids, A show-off at school, Making faces at friends, You ,re a clown and a fool. Doing crackles, and birdcalls and bad imitations, ignoring your homework 'cause' that's dedication And working the mirror T You're getting standing ovations You 're burning with hope i , You 're building up steam!!! What was once juvenilish is now grown-up and stilish You 're close to your dream!!! And somebody out there loves you, stands up and shouts for more , Stacey you don't need to drink diet! Katrina Smith sheds some light on the spring Jamie Isaac and Andy Kerr, juniors, doing their Mountain Performers 109

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Teaching Each The GMHS Student-to-Student group, in association with the Lung Association of America, started their season in Sep- tember with training and getting exper- ience. They started presentations in feb- ruary for the area of Jefferson county public schools. This Student-to-Student groups main purpose is to visit schools and present the message of the hazards and effects of smoking on the body. These presentations consisted of stating the facts of smoking hazards, chewing, snuffing, drugs, and inhaling second hand smoke. Two types of lungs are used simu- lated lungs which display normal, cancer- ous, and enphysemic lungs also real hu- man beings, which have been donated by dead people, are used. After Student-to- Student has visited a school, some stu- dents write letters to the group members. The response is very good explained Su- san Efting, GMHS nurse and Student-to- Student sponsor. Mrs. Pat Allen poses as co-sponsor and helps in the organization of the group. The groups training pro- Other gram consists of twenty sessions, which the students are required to work togeth- er with their groups on their own time to prepare their programs. Approximately 2100 students have heard the program which is given 65 times during a season, The students range from 5th grade to 12th grade. In addition to regular pro- grams, the group has done special pro- grams for the Hero Convention, the 9 news health fair and a special program atthe adolescent psych unit at Fort Lo- gan. In order to qualify for the group an individual must fill out an application and get recommendations from two teachers and counselor. The student is not allowed to smoke, chew, or use drugs during par- ticipations in the group. For the past two years the members have received a se- mester credit for their participation in the group. However some students do not participate for credit and just do it for the sheer pleasure of knowing they are doing something worth while. Amy answers questions in small groups. Amy Young, Ann Orton and Steve Brosivich tell about the long term affects of smoking. Karen helps with a smoking related problem. Amiee Rienhart show the affect of chewing to 5th graders. Student To Student 111