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

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Almost 85070 of Green Mountain High School students order the yearbook. But, only an estimated 5070 of the student po- plulation realized how much time and ef- fort goes into putting out a yearbook on time every year. The yearbook staff has to put up with lost stories, bad develop- ing, equipment, chemicals, defective film, missed film assignments, and various oth- er problems. But yearbook is a lot of fun despite these problems. The process of putting together the yearbook is fairly complicated. It starts when a page is assigned, the copy or the story has to be written and typed into the computer. Then the layout has to be done, which is basically showing the year- book company where we want the story, Pat Silvey, a very imaginative dresser. Shawna Carlton and Liz Smith really get into the yearbook. Dana Spittler, the Friday before skiing. Molly Campbell and Ann Orton finish a page. 214 Ramblings Rambling On the pictures, the captions, the pictures, and the background shades. If the pic- tures haven't been taken yet, that is the next step. After the pictures have been developed and printed in the school dark- room, the cutlines, or captions for pic- tures, have to be written describing the pictures. Next the pictures have to be cropped or fitted into the available space. After this step, the pictures and stories are Iabled to indicate their placement on the page. Then finally, we take the lay- out, the computer disk with copy, the pictures, and the cutline sheet into the page envelope and send it to the year- book company to be printed into your yearbook. So enjoy it!!

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V Priminister of India, 'Ghandi', was killed in the early fall. This filled the air with fear and rage in India. What were the two most popular runaway fads of 1984? ..... If you guessed Cabbage Patch Kids and Trivial Pursuit you were right! Cabbage Patch Kids are still the number one best selling doll in the nation and stores just can't keep them in stock. It's the same story for the Trivial Pursuit game. They both started out out- rageously over-priced, around 350, but now they,ve gone down to about 320. This game has branched in different games such as Bible Trivia, Junior Trivia etc. Trivial Pursuit has been one of the fastest selling games in the nation. Over 60 million copies were sold in the U.S. alone. In 1984 Pope John Paul Il traveled to various places around the world. In May he went to South Korea, Thailand, Pa- pua, New Guinea, and the Solomon ls- lands, In June he visited Switzerland. In September he was in Canada and in the month of October he finished his tour in Spain, the Dominican Republic and Puer- to Rico. One nice thing about 1984 which many teens who started driving this year were aware of was the price of gasoline. Al- most all school year the price of gas was under a dollartregularl. lt even went as low as 82 cents in some places. The book titled L'1984 was a very popular book. It was written by George Orwell. This book included many predic- tions for 1984. Some of these predictions consisted of 'Big Brother' taking over, and everyone being watched through their television sets. Fortunately for us as we can see those predictions weren't even close. Sfiiirit. as l Y Hal ' ii Giving eace a Chance P Q-My ti f' , Current Events 213 9956

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Dear Reader, This year there were some real helpful tools used in putting together the year- book. The biggest had to have been the computer. It made it so much easier to just type a story on the computer and send it off. lt made corrections all the more easier. The staff this year was definitely a good one. Almost everyone seemed to be so willing to work when it came right down to it. lt was that extra effort put in by everyone that made it all possible. Although most of the staff was new, we did have a few who knew the ropes . Sherry Oliver, a new student from Ne- braska, was one big help. She came here as a new senior from Mitchell. She left the staff at semester to graduate early. We wish her the best, as she will be married in May. Scott Zeitz, also a senior, left the staff at semester, as well. He came here as a transfer student in the second semes- ter of his junior year. His photographic abilities definitely were a great asset to the staff. Two more people added quite a bit to our staff this year. One was Tina Taylor, a sophomore this year. She came into the class as a rookie and helped out so much. She moved to Greeley and was missed a lot after her move. Another great part of the team was Molly Camp- bell who joined right in and helped so much. Unfortunately she moved to Lou- isiana with her family. So many people who became so vital had to leave the staff early and were missed a lot. But the rest of us stuck together and pulled it off. It was a great experience to be a part of putting together the yearbook. Being a senior made it extra special because it seemed as if this would be my final chance to support Green Mountain and the graduating class of 1985. It is my hope that this yearbook will create a spe- cial sense of pride and leave everyone with lasting memories of this 1984-1985 school year. Sincerely yours, Liz Smith