Santa Teresa High School - Compendium Yearbook (San Jose, CA)

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Candid Expressions Right: “Italian jokes bore me. Below: Leanne Edmonds — elite typist! Below right: Huey. Louie, and Dewie go to Santa Teresa.” Bottom left: “It came in the mail from Florida.” Bottom right: “If I give you a flower, will you walk to class with me? Seniors

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Ngoc-Trang Tran “I like helping people and communicating with them,” says Ngoc-Trang Tran, and she seems to have a special gift for doing just that. Trang is the president of the Vietnamese Club, as well as a member of the French and Spanish Clubs. She has helped many students from foreign countries get started at Santa Teresa by helping them learn English and assisting them with their studies. Not only is she a good student, but Trang works 30 hours every week after school. She is diligent and hard working, and when she finds free time she likes to paint and draw. She is also interested in sports, cooking and music, and plays the piano and the guitar. After high school, Trang hopes to go to UC Berkeley and major in language. She wants to get a degree in special education for the deaf and handicapped and someday use her abilities to help the underprivileged in foreign countries. “I want to put into life whatever I get out of it, and try to make the most of it.” John Blocher “Science and mathematics will get you where you’re going,” says John Blocher, “But they won’t fill your soul like music will.” John has certainly filled his soul at Santa Teresa. He came to us from Merced in the tenth grade, and has been in jazz band, concert band and marching band his sophomore, junior and senior years. He plays first chair clarinet in the marching band, and tenor saxophone in the jazz band. John is a member of the Santa Clara County Honor Band, as well as the California All-State Honor Band. He has made five record albums in band and has won two medals for outstanding musicianship in the All-State Honor Band. After he graduates from Santa Teresa, John wants to go to San Diego State and major in music; afterwards, he hopes to become a member of the San Francisco Symphony. “The key to music,” he notes, “is tipping the scales in your favor. Once you have done this, you will become an instrumental success.” Elizabeth Ezra Anyone who is familiar with Elizabeth Ezra knows that she has a passion for horrible puns and rarely fails to come up with an especially bad one at inopportune moments. Elizabeth is very involved in school activities and is a member of the Performing Arts Club, the French Club, C.S.F., and the National Honor Society. In addition to holding memberships in these clubs, she is the president of the Writers’ Club and the KSTS Broadcasting Club. In her junior year, Elizabeth was an editor and co-founder of the underground newspaper The Asylum. “I’m very proud of the creativity that went into publishing the Asylum, not to mention the typewriter ribbons and rubber cement. . .” She was also published three times in “Seventeen” magazine her junior year. Very active in drama, Elizabeth has had parts in Santa Teresa productions of Don’t Drink the Water, Play It Again Sam and Bye Bye Birdie, and last fall she played Abby Brewster in the drama departments Arsenic and Old Lace. After high school, she plans to attend University of California at Santa Cruz and become a writer. Elizabeth also happens to be the copy editor of the Compendium, and remarks that she was very uncooperative when she interviewed herself for Senior Spotlight. Seniors

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Above left: “Guess what chord I'm playing. Above: “Mike Brabo: medfly inspector.” Left: “Kill ’em before they multiply!” Below: “Me gullible? I don’t believe a word of it!” Bottomleft: What are we going to do with these photos of the senator’s wife?” Seniors