Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies - Excalibur Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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SIXTH GRADE Everyone needs some body to have and hold Everyone needs someone to look up to. For girls, maybe they want to be just like Madonna or dream of someday standing at the alter with Rob Lowe. Some boys could only dream of surfing with Tom Curren or getting to kiss Heather Thomas. No matter who the idol is they give something for their fans to strive for as they are growing up. Oh no — The wind just won ' t stop blowing and Tamara Pond tries to save her posters of Chad Allen. Debbie Gib- son and Tiffany before they are blown away never to be seen again. Visions of sugar plums no longer dance in 6th graders heads. Now their dreams are filled with Hollywood stars and characters from books. Every- one has that one person in their lives or dreams that inspires them. From rock to sports stars the figures of success are always admired. Even characters in books can be idols. I go to sleep at night hoping that I will wake up looking the way I imagined Jessica, in playing with fire, a Sweet Valley high book. Gabriel Rossman Oscar Salas Karla Sanchez Kimberly Sanders Carlos Sandoval Roberto Sandoval Piper Severance Aviva Shallom Wendy Shelton Engina Silva Tiffany Snyder Brian Spoor Shana Starkand Laura Stein Carolyn Suh Stephanie Tanowitz Qiana Taylor Benjamin Tenn Chi Thach Chelsea Tippit Kathryn Tschumper Mandy Vado Marquise Vance La Kaiya Ward If you ' re a 12 year old boy chances are you won ' t care for Sweet Valley high books but would flip over a poster of a blonde laying on a Ferrari. With boys it doesn ' t stop being googoo-eyed over girls. Skaters and surfers like to cut out pic- tures of the people who compete in their sport. Hopefully some day I will have just as many people looking up to me as my favorite skater, Tony Hawk, said Tony Brimer 6th grader. To show how much they like their stars, they display the pic- tures of them in every possible spot, walls, lockers, notebooks, anywhere and everywhere. The walls in my room are cov- ered with pictures I have cut out of the Big Bopper and Teen magazine. I love being sur- rounded by the stars, Wendy Sheldon, 6th grader said. With any luck the goal of be- ing like that idol that is admired so much will not stop at the dream but become a reality. Who is your idol? I love the way Debbie Gibson dresses. I wish I had a wardrobe like hers. If I did, I would look bet- ter than any of my friends, said Wendy Shel- don 154 Sixth grade Faces

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What do you like the most about leadership activi- The most I like about eadership activities is be- cause you talk about the events and you play them to. and it ' s fun, Elector Michign. Like art contests the most, but the rest is okay to me, Fatima Marenco. I like the contests that they put on the center cir- cle, and some of the dances, and the holiday grams. Allison Wilson. Look like fun — to be in a leadership aclivily is a honor. Especially to be in a hilarious event like the thread a spoon and make your friends look ridiculous. Matthew Orkin Lindsay Orton Anita Painter Harry Park Lisa Patterson Katrina Paul Rebecca Peralta Armando Perez Claudia Perez Marien Perez Erica Peters Franko Piskulich Tamara Pond Joshua Pressman Ryan Pringle Rami Rabie Miguel Ramirez Jesus Reynoso Michael Ridgeway Van Delft Magi Robles Robert Rollins Jacqueli ne Rosales Bryan Rosenberg Sixth Grade Faces 153

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WiHSBBWP l The best is everywhere — Debbie Gib- son and Tiffany are the most popular with the girls. They all want to be like them and show it by putting their pic- tures everywhere they can think of. Donald Warner Luke Weaver Colleen Williams Allison Wilson Felisa Wright Aisha Young Jennifer Zacuto Carlos Zallo Sixth grade Faces 155