Orange Union High School - Orange and White Yearbook (Orange, CA)

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Hot cars signal start of ego trip From street racers with wavering tachometers to sputtering junkers with dragging mufflers, cars rumbled through the campus parking lot. Whether possessed or repossessed, these prized representations of stu- dent ego attracted girls, police, dirt, bugs and sometimes tow trucks. All year long, the student parking lot was jam packed with cars of all sorts. However, one car in particular caught the eyes of many students, especially car buffs who could relate to and oppreciate the long hours of hard work that went into such an in- vestment. When Roger Hamilton purchased his fast and flashy Ferrari-red 1965 Ford Mustang fastback, it was neither fast nor flashy. The body wasn ' t straight and with 136,000 miles on the engine, it ran like an empty beer can, said Hamilton. While some students exhausted oil their time laboring over a pile of junk that would someday turn into a lean, clean, racing machine, other students were content with slowly and not so surely odvancing down the rood in anything from o Herbie-type Volks- wagen to a sometimes unidentifiable hunk of scrap metal that careened up and down the highway on under-in- flated tires. — CS and WWW By arriving eorly to school, Brian Hill (left) is able to get a second row parking spot for his red 4-wheel drive Courier. Steve Stein (above) secures his convertible 1961 Ford Galoxie before leaving at lunch. Jeff White (above left) flashes his off campus pass for permission to leave the parking lot at lunch.

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Roger Hamilton ' s ' 65 Ford Mustang Fost- bock (above) stands out after numerous hours of intense lobor. At luncfi, Todd and Jeff Musik (right) get their lunches from their bug.

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Workers wage war on poverty Soliciting the popular fast food restaurants and fiangouts or good friends and relatives, teenagers hoped to find part-time jobs and meet their financial needs. Lori Hackett, who worked part- time at El Dorado Bonk, got her job through her mother who was the vice-president of the bank. Hackett mostly filed checks and occasionally did some port-time cashiering. I like my job because everyone else works at a fast food restaurant, said Hack- ett. With her wages of $4.25 an hour, Hackett was able to buy car insur- ance, gas and clothes. I love to buy clothes, she said. Another job obtained through rel- atives was Tracy dinger ' s job at a dental office answering service. Un- like Hackett whose job conflicted with school, dinger ' s job didn ' t in- terfere with school hours. Even so, it made it hard for her to do her home- work. Like Hackett, buying clothes, paying for gas, and car payments also took up the larger part of her $3.95 an hour wage. Regional Occupational Program (ROPI also provided students with port-time job opportunities. Patti Silva was hired at Cartoon Junction in the City after working for two months under the guidance of ROP. While in the ROP program, Silva earned two units of credit. I have o lot of fun working there because we ' re like a family. I also meet a lot of people, Silva said. Working only on weekends, Sil- va ' s homework did not suffer. It mostly depended on how heavy the week was, she said. — CS One of Chris Trace ' s responsibilifies at McDonald ' s (above right) is to empty the gar- bage from one ol the barrels. Alysia Stewart (right) serves a chocolare bar to o customer. 24