Lutheran High School - Paw Prints Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Most of the kids had already been seriously thinking about college and had definite ideas about the shapes they wanted their futures to take. The way the world is set up now you almost have to go to college to get a job that will let you lead a so-called normal life. You can ' t get ahead anymore without a college education es- pecially for something exciting and worthwhile in your life. You don ' t want to work in a gas station all your life. I think everyone should go to college— if you have a job you can get that kind of experience anytime, but if you go to college that ' s an experience you can never have again . live while you can. It seems like you have to go to college just to be average If you want to know in your own self that you ' re better than another person in knowledge you have to go to college. It ' s very important if you want a high position that ' s just what you have to do. Personally I ' d like to be a truck driver ... but I don ' t think they let women. That ' s the way it is or is it? ti M Chris Malone Martha Mueller Randy Ptlueger Sheila Pharns Becky Reynolds Joanne Scannell Cynthia Rhodes KathySchlaht If you noticed a tall, lean figure darting about campus this year holding his head at odd angles and flashing cameras in your eyes, you ' ve been watching our chemistry teacher, Mr. Don Schulteis. These pictures were used for films to give next year ' s freshmen an idea of Lutheran High life. Also included in his activities are. Record Club, Bowling Club, Key Club, EXPO ' 72, chaperoning for dances, the Instructional Media Committee, and Eighth grade Open House. In his off-hours, he becomes a closed circuit TV cameraman and technician. When he is presented with a problem that seems to be impossible to solve, Mr. Schulteis feels he can be most creative and imaginative. Creativity helps keep me fresh it prevents boredom. In teaching, he tries to nudge along the pro- cess of discovery which is vital in the study of science and life to develop creative think- ing which in turn will stimulate further creative thinking. I see more creativity this year in activitiesl that students initiate— especially when they are ' carried out. He feels there isn ' t enough time for Vj teachers to know and talk to students outside 1 of class. Of the Junior class this year he says, They ' rev great!

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The most familiar face in the library is undoubtedly Mr. Ed Wittmer. He serves as library card inspector, book-sorter and finder, bouncer, and head of the Industrial Arts Department. When he is able to solve a problem which will benefit many people, he feels God most powerfully in him ' only He who creates, can create in me and through me. I alone am powerless to create unless God graciously gives me this blessing. He considers creativity in his life a major part of living. He says, It ' s the whole ball of wax in a Christian life and the only way mankind will see a need for God. In class, Mr. Wittmer witnesses the changed lives of individual students through their developing skills. I feel drafting builds an attitude toward creating and teaches the skills to achieve it. He feels Christians fail themselves when they are too lazy to use the gift of creation which God gave them. He would like to spend a sabbatical year drafting in industry.

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I ' m proud of my class When the word ' spirit ' was mentioned, several of the kids gave disgusted looks . . . nevertheless they thought this way about their class . . . During Homecoming our class had no spirit unless we were win- ning, which wasn ' t a lot but when we were losing we would just as soon not kill ourselves. I think our class has no spirit. Nobody dressed up— nobody did anything. I ' m proud of my class for the most part. We may not be number one, but I think we ' re just as good. I think that we ' re maybe not the best at playing all those games, but I think we have people who are some of the smartest, and most talented. I think probably the only thing our class is lacking is spirit. But our class is so small what can we do? I think we do pretty good in sports and grades for our size. I don ' t think anyone can say we have no spirit ... we did pretty good in the ' Be a Friend ' thing . . and we came in second in Home- coming we have a lotta spirit, but as a whole we don ' t have much. It ' s got to be every one not just a few, or we just won ' t make it. Despite some negative answers the Juniors were found to be a loyal and hard-working bunch with just as much spirit as anyone else around. ©9 Linda Sylwester John Tennell Chris Wahla Tim Warneke £ ©fl As department chairman of Social Studies. Mr. Alfred Vordastrasse is also the sponsor of chess club, the National Honor Society, and is in charge of award assemblies. In his classes he hopefully tries to create deas, insights, and attitudes in his stu- dents. I personally feel most creative when I encounter ideas opposed to my own. In class, he feels that a student should learn to accept responsibility for what he is and what he will be. along with whatever the offers, to develop the reflex to prefer good over Mr, Vordastrasse feels the most common mistake of man is worshipping the creation Janice Scoggins Lyle Smith AdnenneStepanian Elizabeth Strickland Sheri Thomas Richard Tillis Peggy Weidler MelanieWenger Leo Wills Georgette Wilson i My advice to the nervous and neurotic is a quiet game of chess. For eighteen years he has sponsored the chess club and his only complaint is, I never get to eat my lunch. Another of his hobbies is collecting Bach tatas . . so far he has accumulated one undred-and-one. I just go home, sit back nd let Bach take away my headache.