Torrey Pines High School - Freeflight Yearbook (Del Mar, CA)

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s correctly awarded first place. well as being all-around vic- Q, the team amassed seven- 1 individual awards, claimed 'team awards, and featured highest scoring student over- vue to the support of numer- faculty and community vol- eers, the overall excellence te students, the inspiration of team's muse P.P., and the eine rushes from chocolate, team had a terrific year. 'M-'IW W? ,,,,. ,..,, ,u,, I H gcfffff lwa.-g,,,y-wg , - f fm.. f. WM-if :ff M , Q, V .. Back Row: Jason Harris, Coach Blaze Newman, Coach George Robinson, Eric Altshuler, Jason Dries-Daflner, David Nordquest. Front Ftow: Tor Gronborg, Matt Burkhard, Andy Charman, Sascha Dublin, Rob Graves. KN at Back Row: Matt Burkhard, Tor Gronborg, Marissa Maley, Jason Harris. Front Row: Andylcharman, Scott Wells, David Nordquest, Sascha Dublin, Coach Blaze Newman, Greg Weisman. 4 , 4 f Rolf Ebellng, Ftob S e I d e n w u r m . Richard Graves, Coach Will l-larvie, Andy Taton, Sridhar Venkatesh. Front Flow: Alan Kosakol1, Barbera Simmons, Heather Chung, Jenniler Grenler, Brian Sullivan. Not pictured: Kevin Dente, Hugh Send Back Flow: Coach Barbera Swovelin, Mia Chung:'Nathan Kummerle, Eb Anderson, Allan urlbeft, George Liebers, Eugene Chen, Front Row: Nithya Nagarajan. Brad SMOII, Mai! Rutter. Not pictured: Justin Brown. Jil! Grenier. ACADEMICS 97

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3 ll X L get --.tg .sf K5 .i ti If ,. g .V . E resent world problems and future goals were the main characteristics of this course. Originally started by former glish teacher Rose Sliegh, science fiction iw to be one ofthe most popular classes in school's curriculum. Kay Allgire, the class' instructor, believed class attracted students for two main isons. First, the class dealt with con- wporaiy issues and second, science fic- 1 appealed to kids because they saw it as iting and more enjoyable than older ature. Allgire also enjoyed the class because it s rich in ideas and dealt with con- wporary social problems. The class 'mally studied eleven novels which in- ded such authors as Ray Bradbury and hur C. Clark. Allgire also assigned three jor papers and seven essay exams. ig. l .5-Q Unfortunately, this was the last year for science fiction to be its own class. Due to the district's re-vamping of courses, classes that dealt with a specific literature were omitted. Allgire said she was disappointed that the new system would do away with specialty classes such as science fiction. The district's new plan calls for the re- establishment of regular English classes, but Allgire feared that the new system would go too far to a uniform curriculum and stray away from freedom. Allgire hopes that teachers would try to strengthen the system by using their creativity. She suggested that students could take a normal English class but that the teacher would stress such subjects as creative writing, poetry, or sci- ence fiction within the same course. - Chris Thomes K, W Waiting patiently, students look for possibilities of a space in Science fic-class, one of the most popular classes. j Lili! ll l W I l'h2ili