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

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2 1 l , -1Growing Up li it rFaster It started many years ago , Back int our early youth K We crossed the path of learning4 B The constant search for truth Now the Shuttle was on lift -off Air Controllers were on strike a As economics became Reaganomics With a huge cash-spending hike Fx Walkman tape-recorders f A That puzzling Rubik's Cube The endless video madness And Soaps', were on the tube y With alligator and polo shirts ' And topsiders on our feet 1 By listening to the Go-Go's We fallj got the beat In a year of many happenings And lessons hard to master We search for new horizons As welre Growing Up Faster Randy Loughlin '82 2 Opening Growing Up Faster jfffyif-QMS ibfflfC:z,Q,1 dlfxfftrfc QUT CUP owmdatd dv ,T iff' Y FAR ABOVE: ELECTRONIC EXCITE- MENT- Computer whiz Russell Remple runs a program designed to generate random color pat- terns on the Media Center's new Apple-Plus ll computer. ABOVE: COLOR MY WORLD- With his backyard pool as a backdrop, Greg Sutton paints a still-life on a cool December afternoon, FAR RIGHT: SORCERER'S AP' PRENTICE- Wielding an oxy-acetylene torch Ted Strain welds a name plate in an ROP class a Long Beach City College's Pacific Coast Cam pus. ROP courses enable many students to ge jobs right out of high school.

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Students Shed Illusions As the country entered a new age of conserva- tism and earnestness, the nationis youth joined it. Students, once grandiose ideals of the '60's and '70's have changed to a more realistic outlook. This outlook was especially evident in the area of education. Students showed much more concern about their SAT and Achievement scores as the competition for college acceptances became fierce. Teen-agers took part time jobs to save for the spiraling cost of a college education Cwhich was approaching 512,000 at some institutionsj and to stay comfortable in a still bleak economy. A soaring divorce rate also had a great effect on students as more than twenty percent of 14 to 19- year-olds lived with only one parent compared with fourteen percent a decade ago. This high divorce rate combined with working parents forced stu- dents to share adult repsonsibilities. If I want to succeed. . .I have to do it myself Nobody will do it for me. These difficult economic and social conditions left students with a more pragmatic attitude. Stu- dents took greater interest in the future. This mature attitude resulted in an increased interest in classes such as Effective Living, job skills classes, and in increased awareness of current affairs which could affect them. These conditions also forced teenagers to be- come independent, and according to some sociolo- gists, more self-centered. Senior Tom Hodges stat- ed, If I want to succeed at anything, high school, college, money, or even my social life, I have to do it myself. Nobody will do it for me. It was all a sign of growing up faster. CENTER LEFT: SELL AT 30- Senior Jennifer Ler- man keeps up with the latest prices of the stock market. Most students found themselves becoming more aware of economics and politics as the stock market fluctuated wildly in response to Reagonomics. RIGHT: DO YOU HAVE TO COOK, TOO? - Kasie Kaminski and John Bartos compare similar life styles. Both Kasie and John live with only one parent-John with his father John Sr. and Kasie with her mother Claudia. 4 Opening Growing Up Faster RIGHT: HELLO MR. HAMILTON- Junior Tina Ling counts her savings for college Tuition costs have risen to Sl2,000 at some schools. BELOW: THE MOMENT Ol TRUTH- Senior Jeff Berke deciphers his SAT results. It was thought that reading thi score reports was more difficult than the test itself. CENTER RIGHT: POET IS Ti ECLOGUE AS. . .- Nine year old Jodi Ostrow tries to get a head start in preparing fo the SAT by puzzling over her brother Ken's SAT practice book. W. S f