Poudre High School - Impala Yearbook (Fort Collins, CO)

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R.A.P. R.A.P. provides Responsible Alter- native Parties so students can have fun without alcohol. Their name change from M.G. proved benefi- cial and got more people involved. Up to thirty people attended the meetings and over 150 people went to their first activity at Show Biz Pizza. They sponsored many other parties after football and basketball games, also coordinating dances and other activities at the Alterna- tive Youth Center. This group of sophomores juniors, and seniors also boosted Poudre spirit and suc cessfully promoted non alcoholic parties, including a New Year s Eve party a spring barbeque, and a street dance Mrs Speer was the sponsor of the group She had tre mendous enthusiasm and readily was was was was was lent her support The president june Steely Brenda Wheelock the vice president, Roy Cantu treasurer, Veronica Quarles secretary and Jennie Armour the parentfpublicity chairman Pep Club Pep Club successfully promoted school spirit and supported indi vidual and team sports They made locker tags for the players before games and tournaments, also publi cizmg the events with posters in the halls During football season, they were secret sisters, giving small gifts to each member of the team Then they revealed them selves at a dinner which honored the football players and their par ents They had similar activities for the other sports always encourag mg involvement from the entire student body In order to raise money pep club had several bake sales and sold sweats and corduroy baseball caps Their mam fun draiser was the Booster dance This was a dance ln which the girls took out the guys lt was quite successful with wide participation and lots of fun The officers of Pep club in clude jenny Wagner President, Liz Cox, Vice President Michele Lucero, Secretary and jenny Dean, Treasurer Front Row: Colleen Baker, Veronica Quarles, Oliver Herden, Mrs. Diane Speer. Top Row: Brenda Wheelock, june Steely, Shannon Richmond. Not Pictured: Roy Cantu, Chris Maestas, Iennie Armor, Scott Ellis. J fi! CO w 'U 'UI' Front Row Amy Sorrell Ann Livingston Shelley Widhalm Stacy Corners Ienny Dean Peggy Hawley Liz Cox Melanie Sawyer Michele Lucero Nancy Burkett Michell Lmderholm Back Row Lisa Harvey Sarah Stewart jennifer Brubaker jenny Wagner jennifer Stringer lull Kropp Shelli Helden Susan Harms Kim Gesick Wendy Holford Not Pictured Lynnette Barnet Shannon Bryner Kathy Schmidt Veronica Quarles

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ac row Sue Klldahl Pam Edwards Lupy Williams Shawn Devlin Front row Mrs Cathy Toplyn ott Gilbert Tiffany Stubbs Not pictured Ed Fuerte and Greg Smith VV QF' EV ERY DAY THINGS hz -su. we BA in picture back row: Mike Wunder Dave Tomlinson Bryan Ellis Jason Wingate Mrs. Pam delott. Front row: Mrs. Deanne Ludwin Colleen Baker Jenni Minear lerrilynn Lilyblade Leigh in Boyack Susan Decker. Inset: Susan Van Over Cindy Irwin Misty Romero jennifer Roberts. Not ,turedz Talitha Davis Eric Delehoy Shan Morgan Nicole Gallegos Kristina Thaemert Nanci chak Ken Koschnitzki Diane Keller. FHA FHA, or Future Homemakers of America is for all who are interest ed in Home Economics or related occupations It provides an atmo sphere for strengthening the fam ily, learning life skills and devel opmg youth leadership FHA s goals are to help students grow in areas such as personal growth fam ily life school preparations, and community involvement Their purposes are to promote greater un derstandmg between youth and adults to provide opportunities for decision making and take on re sponslbility It is also for self de velopment, preparation for family and community living, and for em ployment Kaleldoscope C fa e X 9 7 The Kaleidoscope is a student liter L fary publication Every spring the W L paper is published lt is created by students Short stories, essays, poet ry articles plays, and artwork are all included Kaleidoscope is a place for students to express their ideas through writing and art It is also to show the school community and the community of Fort Collins the creative students at Poudre Students who are interested should be good in English editing skills and interested in creative writing Each year there is a contest and students submit their work For first place the student will recieve S50 00 For second place the stu dent gets S25 00 All winning work plus a few others will be published loreqfmigfevoovzt .. i T 5

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Top Row Troy Thompson Dave Gubson Chrus Sums Colleen Baker Deana Thompson Muddle Row Bret Reynolds Shelly Harrus June Steely Paul Reynolds Tuffany Phullups Front Meu Po Chun W Melanue Mannung Peer Counselung Peer Counselung us a class composed of senuors who help others by lus tenung to theur problems They do not judge people nor tell them Mrs Karen Blanco Ruch Schneuder and Tuna Koob T N T an explosuve7 In some cases yes but at Poudre ut s a group of Teens Needung Teens These people are speakung at Poudre Rocky Mountaun and Fort Colluns Hugh Schools Socu ology of The Famuly Classes and to nunth graders at Luncoln junuor Hugh just what are these teens doung7 They are sharung problems that they have dealt wuth, wuth other teens. Some of these problems unclude suucude, drugs, alcohol, rape, uncest, duvorce, gay par ent ussues, teen pregnancy, famuly iw-is vuolence and many more After the teens have talked about theur problems and how theur luves have een effected they guve a solutuon that can benefut others that are un a sumular sutuatuon How dud these teens get started? They started by takung So cuology of The Fam uly classes These classes talk about a wude varuety of topucs whuch wull lead to duscussuons on a teen panel The Teen Panel Program was started by Mrs Karen Blanco at PHS then expanded to un clude Rocky and Fort Colluns All three teachers agreed that teens talk ung to teens would reach more stu dents. Thus proved rught The mam concept of TNT us that many students have deep problems either stemmung from the past or the present that they have never felt safe to talk about to anyone. Theur feelungs are held wuth what to do By offerung students optuons they can help them grow They want to reach out to the en ture student body and make those unvusuble kuds vusuble Several actuvutues the peer counselors host unclude open houses wuth cookues and punch dunners for the forengn exchange students traunung for the elementary students on how to say no and talkung wuth 9th graders at the end of the year to make theur adjustment to Poudre easuer The furst quarter of the class us spent un traunung They learn communuca tuon and counselung skulls as well as unformatuon about alcoholusm abuse pregnancy eatung dusorders etc The class helps students to be better lusteners and shows them how to deal wuth all sutuatuons and relatuonshups TNT un and are eventually acted out un a harm ful way such as suucude or drug and alcohol abuse Then when the student meets up wuth the TNT member on a teen panel the subject us blown wude open and the student can get help Two students workung very closely wuth TNT Ruch Schneuder and Tuna Koob had concerns for the junuor hughs As ut turned out the two of them met wuth Mr Ruce and got ut okayed to try Luncoln lunuor Hugh as an experumental school At furst they had theur doubts but the overwhelmung good responses has made ut possuble for them to get TNT unto the other junuor hughs start mg second semester Ruch Schneuder saud T N T has helped me as well as I may have helped other kuds It s been very therapeutuc and ut s helped me on some of the ussues I have talked about I am very thankful for the thungs I have been able to do through Teens Needung Teens. I 5 1 l 1 l l , , . ' : ' ' - f 1 1 , ' ' . : ' ' , . . . . I . . 1 si If use S 'I . . ' ' , fl I , If ff? V ' ' , ' as 1 - 4 I , H... K s ' XXV' I ,gn A 11- - ' ll ' 11 - ' ll ' - VV I ' 1 . . 1 ,V I . : . . 7 , ' ' . 'N ' ' X Q I . A t ' , 'tt . . HU' 0 0 I 0 fi' u Q Q ar , . - at . . ' . . x - , K, 1 ' V .-M., . . I 1 I 1 N . L 5 , I ' . . . J' 0 0 W . Q 0 C I - , ' 1 6 'NZM l J O l I I bf b ' ' . . '-qw' ' , ' . . ' . ' 1 0 U 1 1 ' ' 0 l I 0 ' I 1 ' . ' l l I . . ' . l - - , I , C . n ' ' I ' 1 . ' , - 1 . . . . . f I ' 11 ll . . . U ' . ' , . . - 1 - ' , ' ' ' ' '- ' - n - ll - I 1 . , . ' Q I - ' azqfevzvgnvvazs 9 9