Villa Park High School - Odyssey Yearbook (Villa Park, CA)

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Chilli, wi mllllies '4 l f . fp I l l 'v Y, l Brenan German Takes a break from acTive duTy and relaxes on The com- mand paTrol vehicle. by Lydia Dunn by Andrea Baker Since moving To California, I hadn'T visiTed my home counTry, England, in five years. So, during The summer of '85, I wenT back To visiT friends and relaTives. While l was There l decided To Take advanTage of The siTuaTion and vis- iT ireland. l sTayed There for l7ve days wiTh my friend Moni- ca. ireland was differenT from whaT we expecTed. The peo- ple were very helpful. We spenT our firsT nighT aT Queens UniversiTy in BelfasT. The ciTy was nice where we sTayed, buT oTher parTs were Nlled wiTh graffiTi. The nexT day we hopped on a Train going souTh, and goT off in a liTTle sea- side Town. From There we wenT To a Tiny village called Glendalough. Glendalough was The mosT peauTiful village l've ever seen. AfTer sTaying The nlghT in a Bed 84 BreakfasT we lefT The nexT afTernoon To visif a waTerfall which supposedly was The biggesf in Soufhern ireland. The waTerfall was gorgeous and we poTh ThoughT iT was worTh The long walk. We were caughT in a massive Thunder sTorm. We Took cover under some Trees, buT They didn'T help much as we were soaked. While we were Trying To avoid The rain, soldiers drove pasT and laughed aT us. Several days laTer we Traveled To Dublin, sfayed for a nighT, and Then headed back To Eng- land. Page by Lydia Dunn 81 Kymber Kirnes by Valerie Dun Old glory flew proudly over VPHS X ,f Dy Lydia Dunn ' ' Andrea Dornan, Cheryl Ashby, LinelTe Dodd, and Jody Greenberg smile on Their way To a sock hop. 6 Spirit Do y

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P- :- History of th World In order To promofe school uni- Ty, SpiriT Week was condensed from Three days inTo one. The overall Theme was HisTory of The World. Each class Then voTed on and chose a parTicuIar era. The sophomores Qof The fifTies, The juniors decided on The roaring Twenfies, and The seniors de- clared Their Theme as W.W. ll - lVl.A.S.H. Alfhough on paper This seemed like a good idea, in pracfice iT Turned ouT differenfly. The sopho- mores didn'T have any class offi- cers and so Their Theme was cho- sen for Them. The juniors Transformed Them- selves info colorfully risaue flap- pers or mafia hiTmen complefe Privafe Shelly King shows off her army faTigues during inspecTion To Capfain Jack Samuels. Kip Ashlon and Sharon Hockman dis- cuss The BBQ. aT lunch. Combaf soldier Mike Verl finds a com- forfable place To wafch ouT for any possible enemies. Opening

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Spirir Unires Students wiTh Tommy guns. Even The seniors came ouT in less Than full force. Several TenTs were placed haphazardly on The grass, The breezway became a baTTlefield, and all The seniors were issued drafT cards. The RasTa TenT was The high- lighT of The decoraTions, laughed Andrea Fris. I almosT wanTed To go home because nobody was dressed up, com- plained Kelly Thomas. ParT of The problem was ThaT The nighT before, while everyone was Trying To decoraTe The cam- pus, iT rained, soaking all The signs. Some signs of life were shown earlier in The week when The ASB held class compeTiTions - a Tug-of-war, ski race, and big wheel races which added exciTe- menT To lunch. On spiriT day a professional D.J. played and a BBQ was held. Al- Though SpiriT Day was noT as in- volved or as spiriTed as in The pasT years, The SparTans of VPHS proved They sTill have school spir- iT Sophomores A.J. Sparks, David Wil- Iiamson, Tony Inga, and Chris Morrow srruggle vainly To win The Tug-of-war Big wheel racers were Beth Slewarl, Kip Ashlon Erin Myers and Mall Klein 9 by Lydia Dunn 'f W vi mf