Irvine High School - Citadel Yearbook (Irvine, CA)

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EL VAQUERO: Bottom Row: Eric Camiling, Jonathan Lau, Ed Lee, Joe Bel Bruno, Stacy Sadler, Ad- THANKS FOR THE SOUND ADVICE: An inquisitive visor Tammie Montgomery, Liz Pettit; Top Row: Loc Phan, Steve Collins, Kristy Prechtl, Shane M ry Wang discusses ideas on the struchire of her story Brosnan, Andy Peclc, Mantana Churanakoses, Dan Smetanka, Mary Wang, Amy Chang, Sarah ' ' Advisor Tammie Montgomery minutes before lunch. Whittenberg. Not pictured: Grace Gardellini. Liz Pellit SEEN AT THE SCENE: Sarah Whittenberg, editor of The Scene, spends the little leisure time she has during Advanced Journalism to get involved in a newspaper article. LEADER OF THE PACK: Newspaper Advisor Tammie Montgomery instructs the enthusiastic Advanced Jour- nalism class about the upcoming issue of the El Vaquero two days after their last cfeadline. Activities El Vaquero 27

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HIGH FIVE: Juniors Mike Angus and Shane Brosnan find something to cheer about as they take rtme out from their agonizing advertising campaigns for newspaper ads. UNDIVIDED ATTENTION: After a deadline, Managing Editor and Senior Dan Smetanka discusses ideas for the upcoming paper with the editor-in-chief. r rganization and experience comprises press The motivated and diligent El Vaquero newspaper staff worked together in Advanced Journalism to produce a mon- thly newspaper geared toward informing students about the issues that took place on campus. According to Senior Manag- ing Editor Dan Smetanka, the class helped students learn about layout design and the framework of a professional publication. Newspaper Advisor Tam- mie Montgomery said about the atmosphere ' of the class, This class is highly motivated. Producing news is a highly complicated and stressful task, so we have our moments of tension, but we always work through them. The bottom line is that we all work together, and we ' re hav- ing fun. One of the staff ' s goals was to produce articles that would get more students interested in reading the work that so much effort was put into. Editorial Writer Mary Wang noted, I think the whole stu- dent body has been ap- preciating the newspaper more because the stories are. better and more relevant to not only the school, but the outside world. The newspaper is much more interesting in terms of layouts, graphics and stories. The staff had to deal with controversy on news articles. With the new Supreme Court ruling that publications could be censored, the newspaper was slightly limited in what it could and could not print. However, controversial articles such as Abortion and Student Rights did appear in early publications. Montgomery stated. Sometimes people don ' t like it when certain stories appear. The trick is to have stories that meet the journalistic stan- dards and ethics. Montgomery mentioned that Editor-in-Chief Joe Bel Bruno, in his fourth year on staff, was an asset to the paper ' s suc- cess in remodeling. He said, We ' ve revamped the paper. The difference in us is that we try not to shy away from controversy. We try to make people think. Bel Bruno expressed that the stories were of higher quality due to strengths in wnting, and that they were more in-depth oriented. He positively remarked about newspaper competition, I wouldn ' t be surprised if we won some awards this year -by Victor Lee LAUGHING IT UP: Viewpoint Editor Loc Phan enjoys a laugh as he discusses the new Supreme Court decision on censorship in class. 26 El Vaquero Activities

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CORRECTION CONNECTION; Clubs Editor Brett Vickers seeks advice from one of his editors for his story to see if it is acceptable during a November late night deadline in the typing room. CITADEL STAFF: Bottom Row: Mary Vu, Rekha Ravindra, Tracy Davio, David Kligman, Sean Lin, Chuck Mitchell; Second Row: Stephanie Stotelmeyer, Debbie Donahue, Andrea Ryals, Caroline Laband, Becky Brugger, Scott Solberg, Diane Tonkovich; Third Row: Mary Anne Pongco, Eunjoo Lee, Michelle Tan, Min Kim, Rosemarie Rigor, Pam Krebs, Christina Winterhalter; Fourth Row: Perlee Tobias, Grace Gardellini, Anna Kim, Molly De, Jasmin Naqvi, Soyeon Kim, Cindy Bechtold; Top Row: Victor Lee, Brett Vickers, John Demas, George Tung, Diana Preciado, Kelly Hayakawa; Not Pictured: Tami Lockley, Steven Tung. 9«an un 3 porting dedication Citadel organizes game pian Some laughed when the idea was presented that year- book was as strenuous, if not more, than a team sport. But those who made an allegation such as that realiz- ed that putting together the Citadel , the largest ever an- nual at Irvine High (360 pages), felt justified in saying such unthinkable words. It does (resemble a sport), said Jasmin Naqvi, staff writer and a member of the swimming team. It takes a lot of dedication to put out all that effort. But there were differences in the two, according to Naqvi. In swimming you just swim for two-and-a-half hours. Year- book is not just during fifth period. I have to talk to teachers during the day and get students ' quotes before I even get to class. They both monopolize your time. Months before the first September bell rang, year- book staff members were meeting, discussing theme ideas and organizing groups to go out to local community businesses to sell ads. By the time the first day of school had arrived, yearbook was already in full swing with numerous dif- ferences from the year before. Pagevision, a computer program was gradually used to incoporate layout designs and graphics along with copy onto computer screens. Another change installed were co-editors, instead of the nor- mal one editor-in-chief used in past years. In all, only five returning members were back from the previous year, a situa- tion that Advisor Chuck Mit- chell used to his advantage. The difference between this year and last year is that I had the opportunity to train and hand pick most of the staff, said Mitchell. It pro- vides for a consistent game plan and hopefully for a fairly equitable share of the work load. At the end of a deadline, though, after hours of hard work, the general consensus was that despite the time and effort it took, producing the Citadel was well worth it. Said Naqvi, 1 think it ' s real- ly exciting to be responsible for helping to put together a yearbook. — by David Kligman and Tracy Davio 28 CitadellActivitles