Hudson Bay High School - Aquila Yearbook (Vancouver, WA)

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LEAPING THROUGH LITERATURE LiTerory ExploroTion Ac- counTdbiliTy ProjecT, dlso known ds LEAP, is The sTronge CCommunisT?Q ploT ThoT, edch semesTer, sends Honors English sTudenTs inTo o frenzy. lT dll sTdrTs ouT innocenTIy enough. AT The beginning of The yedr, English Teochers cd- suolly menTion LEAP. They usuolly commenT on iT in poss- ing, like iT's no big deol. Oh, by The woy, we're doing LEAP ogdin This yedr. lT'll be edsy. TrusT me. Sure. Then, in ldTe OcTober, iT's Time To choose LEAP books. STudenTs con choose from such lively works os Crime ond Punishmenf, The Foun- foinheod, ond The Sound and The Fury. When foced wiTh choices like This, sTudenTs' eyes gloss over, Their brdins go on duTo-piloT, ond They wind up nedrly comoTose. So, They choose o book ond hope iT hos fewer Thon 500 pdges. They ore Then Tricked inTo believing The worsT is over. Wrong! NexT comes The infdmous Redding Log. This is o rdTher deToiled, chopTer by chopTer occounT of The book's ploT ond chdrdcTers, os well os ony relevdnT quesTions ond of course, reoder response. Reoder response is supposed Juniors, dlreody dccusTomed To The LEAP riTuol, discuss Their book. Junior Lednne STephens dsks Miss HiTch obouT Wuthering Heighfs. Senior Tony Eich looks reolly en- Thused obouT his LEAP book. To be persondl reocTion To The book ond iT's chorocTers. lT's supposed To be filled wiTh insighT ond emoTion. lT's hord To be insighTful obouT some- Thing you don'T even under- sTond. BuT sTill, foiThful English sTudenTs plod on. AfTer The Redding Log is Turned in, There is d confer- ence To dTTend. In dn over- dge LEAP conference, focili- ToTors moke sure The sTudenTs undersTond dll The subTleTies They didn'T coTch on Their own, onswer ony quesTions, ond Try To give ideos for The LEAP poper, The LEAP poper hos To reldTe To some Theme from The book, ond is due d week ofTer The conference. And Then, finolly, LEAP is done. STudenTs hove eiTher survived This evil ploT, or They've foiled ond Their En- glish grode goes down one. The LEAP progrdm does hove iTs meriTs. lT exposes sTu- denTs To cldssic works noT TdughT in The English curricu- lum, ond iT con be beneficiol. However, if you've ever been one of Those sTudenTs sTuck wiTh d Thousond-poge novel ThoT loses you on poge one, Then you undersTond The piT- folls of LEAP.

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LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTICDN! Medio Technology is d closs designed To Teoch sTu- denTs The fundomenTols of Television broddcdsTing. Es- senTiolly being Hudson's Bdy's oudiofvisudl deporTmenT, sTudenTs noT only do service for The school in ThoT respecT, buT dlso in mony oTher differ- enT woys. The cldss is o mem- ber of The VocoTionol lndus- Triol Clubs of Americo QVICAJ, o club ThdT sTresses ledder- ship ond prepdroTion for The world of work. This yedr, The closs pro- duced d video yedrbook: o weekly coble Television show, 'lKnow Your Schools o look inside The Voncouver School DisTricT5 weekly school newscdsTs, which were shown in The cofeTerio on Fri- doys: os well os numerous oTher projecTs for sTudenTs ond Teochers. They olso Tdped sporTing evenTs for cooches, os well os concerTs for The music Teochers ond drdmo presenToTions. Angelo Wilson, d 5fo , wos o regionol, os well os sToTe, represenToTive in The VICA orgonizoTion. She ond lvlichoel lvlockey, olso o rep- resenToTive, dTTended nu- merous workshops dround The sToTe, Troining Them ond oTher represenToTives in VICA. ln lvlorch, some sTudenTs Took porT in The regionol leddership conTesTs. lvldckey Took firsT pldce in The sofeTy compeTiTion There os well ds TourTh in exTempordneous spedking. Trdvis Longer ploced fifTh in exTempordne- ous speoking. STeve Reomes Took Three meddls This yeor: ci bronze in creed, ond golds in boTh prepdred speech ond job skill demonsTroTion. A mojor seTbock To The progrom wds The deoTh of Mike Mockey in mid-Morch. He wos killed in on ouTo occi- denT. Hdving been one of The mosT occomplished ond well- liked sTudenTs in The progrom, his dbsence wos gredTly felT V I CA, by his fomily, friends, closs- mdTes, ond Tedchers. ln April, Longer, Redmes, ond Wilson Trdveled To Pos- co, VVoshingTon where The sTdTe VICA Skill ond Leoder- ship Olympics Took pldce. Angie, The sTdTe reporTer, helped To conducT The gen- erol dssembly for more Thdn 600 porTiciponTs. Angie, STeve ond Trdvis presenTed The Club SdfeTy NoTebook, ond even Though no gold medol wds given for ThoT conTesT oT sTdTe This yeor, The noTebook Took Top honors wiTh The silver medol insTeod. STeve won d gold meddl in The Job Skills DemonsTroTion ond compeTed dT The no- Tionol convenTion in VVichiTo, Kdnsds in June. The firsT yedr closses were TdughT by Andrew Berhow ond The second ond Third yeor cldsses were ToughT by lvlorge Johnson. Jeff Young looks puzzled ds he moves The cdmero. A sTudenT Tedcher gives odvice: Heres whdT we'll do nexT Time. lvldTT Zoller doesn'T dlwdys Toll dsleep on The job. 1-M ph.,

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DECA CDN THE GCD Tanning on The beaches of Hawaii may noT be The firsT ThoughT ThaT comes To mind when Thinking abouT DECA CDisTribuTive EducaTion Clubs of Americay, buT here aT Hud- son's Bay members have had The opporTuniTy To experi- ence many new Things in- cluding The misTiaue of The Hawaiian Islands. Focusing on many aspecTs of free enTer- prise, business eThics, public relaTions, and leadership, DECA is uniaue in ThaT iT ex- Tends beyond The classroom by Training sTudenTs Through realisTic meThods which are boTh enjoyable and fun. For example, in OcTober 4987, several DECA members aT- Tended The Officers Training Conference held in Spokane. Following This was The Area A Leadership DevelopmenT Top row, lefT To righT: Tony Myers, STephanie STewarT, P.J. Thursfon, Becky STanks, Mike Chercasen. Fourfh row: David Caralho, James Boyd, Ron Zuzio, Mike Perry, Lean- nens Sfephens, Pam Ulappa . Third row: Mr. Price, Erin Hurley, Tricia McCallisTer, Chandra Langer, James Donaldson. Second row: TalberT Wil- liams, Ray Chin Jamie Hoffman. BOT- Tom row: Gene Whife, Cindy Eriksen. Top row, lefT To righf: Kenny Peder- son, Molly Dewane, Todd Gandy, Ju- lie PoThlerr, BerTa Hymas, Jon HunT, Tiffany Thomas, Dylan Welch. Third row: Casey Pine, Jeremy Anfhony, Lucinda Nielson. Second row: Mr. Price, Andrew Dunkle, Jung Yu, Jay- nelle Arbour, Kim Hansen, Eric Enz . BoTTom row: Diana Boisselle, Amy HarringTon, Schnea Cook, David Clark, Jenny Nelson. Conference aT JanTzen Beach, where individuals compefed in many business orienTed evenTs. Hudson's Bay, won several awards and parTicipanTs had much fun shopping, meeTing people, and of course dis- playing Their knowledge. The highlighf of The year was The WesTern Regional Leader- ship Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii. While sTaying in The Hil- Ton Hawaiin Village on The shores of beauTiful Waikiki, sTu- denTs were involved wiTh snork- ling, surfing, shopping, and visiT- ing Pearl Harbor. MeeTings were also aTTended. ln addiTion, DECA has been acTive wiThin school as well as in The communiTy. Jill Quimby, Henry Edgmond, and Jenny Kinder say ALOHA! 36 DECA