Millikan High School - Aries Yearbook (Long Beach, CA)

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BELOW: MASCOTS — Demise Thomp- son and Julie Flynn. Cheer Rhymes and Paints I did three things this year, said Head Cheer- leader Beth Ann LeFebvre, Go to school, work at McDonald ' s, and make cheer posters. Oh yeah, I squeezed in sleep between three and four in the morning! Poster making was a large and daily behind- the-scenes activity for the fifteen-person squad. It took a week to paint the forty-five-yard poster for the Lakewood football game, and it took a rhym- ing dictionary to come up with such gems as — Lakewood ain ' t cool When Rams are in the pool, Or Wilson will scram When mighty Rams jam. ' ' Three men joined the women to break up the all-female squad of last year. Two of them, Chris Brown and Kurtis Eifert had to desert the mega- phone for the playing field during football season, however. Practice was worked in at odd hours since twelve of the fifteen worked part time. FAR ABOVE RIGHT: WAY TO GO RAMS — Nancy Kahn lets the crowd know it ' s time to get RAD after the third touchdown in the 22-zip wipe-out of Jordon. ABOVE: AWW YOU DID ' T — Paige Werner, Judy Sherlock, and Lisa Jurkatis warn enemy that Now you ' re onna get ifi after a Compton TD in Ram Stadium ABOVE MIDDLE: AT LASTI - Jeff Hooker flashes his identity as he sheds Robbie costume at the Homecoming rally. Robbie is incognito through much of the football season ABOVE RIGHT: ERA CHEERS — Brandi Christensen and Judy Sherlock demand equal rights as they support Chris Brown during the Poly football rally. 28 Activities Cheer and Mascots S lhPMorT ' il h A n ' ' p K ' ' M ' : ' l ' ' ' ' y McDonald, Kelly Evans, Linda Moore, Tami Taylor NancvSn RIGHT ' .WP«M ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' here Gingher, Julie Hasquet m! =H rVi I M I .. « BELIEVE IN YOU — Taking her cue from a list of cheers taped to the microphone Head Cheerleader Beth Ann LeFebvre exhorts the crowd when Ram defenses waiver against Wilson

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Lucky Thirteen We had a long debate over it ... we were pretty upset . . . the administration wouldn ' t let us keep them. These were some of the comments of Head Flag Girl Kathy Evans about the viewers ladders the pepsters used to have. The ladders have been a traditional part of the pepsters at games, but new rules required them to be replaced by wooden boxes. During pre-sea- son, they had nothing and were forced to settle for the curb. Head song girl Ginny Thompson explained, It ' s awfully hard to cheer during a game when you can ' t see what ' s going on. The thirteen member squad, under the. supervi- sion of Mr. Forrest Zimmerman, underwent a series of changes and new ideas. They acquired plastic pom-poms instead of crepe paper ones, and brighter flags to accent yellow night uniforms. A majorette was added to the pepster squad. Tracy Trampush twirled with the band at half- time, but laid aside her baton during the game and performed cheers with the others. For the first time since they started going to cheer camp, the song girls took third place in a competition involving over five-hundred groups. UPPER LEFT ROCKING IN THE FIFTIES — Kathy Bau and Chu Hong perform a routine to Rock-Around-the-Clock at the afternoon rally for the Edison game, FAR LEFT KEEP ON TWIRLING — Technical errors of the music turning on and off does not stop Dorothy D|ol ic from performing the flag girl ' s routine to Fantasy at the Newport Harbor afternoon rally. LEFT GIRLUWANT — Heather Hux gleams in her Wilson Pep Assembly routine in the auditorium where the song girls performed to three spliced songs by Devo ABOVE: SERI- OUSLY, ROBBIE — Julie Testa and Robbie carry on a heavy discussion on the outcome of the Wilson game which was a disappointing loss for Millikan, 27

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