Woodruff Christian School - Yearbook (Bellflower, CA)

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Who remembers when Woodruff Avenue Christian School looked like this? - KINDERGARTEN GRADUATION, 1985 xbovei Vikki Taylor, 385 Kindgergarten raduate. SPEECH MEET WINNERS, 1985 Jodruff had many Speech Meet winners last year. ading onto the bus to go to the finals. tBeIowi Patrick aiyawaytar and Kimberly Medeiros received a Superior ting on their poems last year. ' -.. 'A Bryan Sloan reciting at the spring musical, Backwards Bill. The third through fifth grade performance of Down By the Creek Bank, May, 1985. I Showing how to help is Jeff Miller's draw- ing, Grade 4. DIVORCE - What It Really Means When people get married, they commit themselves to being loyal and trustworthy to each other. As years go by, people sometimes begin taking each other for granted. They start getting married at the wrong time for the wrong reasons. After several years, the couples often realize that they are two totally different people. They fight and argue over the silliest things that really don't seem to be important. When most people think of their immediate family, they think of their dads, moms, sisters andlor brothers. I grew up taking the family for granted. At least I did until one day my mom sat me down, and began telling me things that I did not want to hear .. like Your dad and I are not happy living with one another anymore. I told Mom that I didn't like living with my sister, but I had to because she was family. Mom said her situation was different. She said that she and my dad had made the decision to live apart. My world crumbled, I was only six! What was I going to do? Dad moved out ofthe house. I missed him all the time. He saw me on the weekends but it just wasn't the same. As time passed, I discovered that Mom and Dad both loved me, and I had to admit that they seemed happier apart. I guess things were working out. . . Mom, who loves music, introduced me to the piano, which I now love to play. On top of that, Dad got me interested in sports which I also really enjoy. Actually, I began thinking I could be happy this way. When I was nine years old, my mom introduced me to a friend of hers named Andy. At first, I didn't know how to react because my first thought was, Two dads? But I started liking Andy and he was kind. He helped me with so many things. Three years later, Mom and Andy decided to get married, so on one Thansgiving holiday, they were married and I was my mom's maid of honor. Their happiness is what I wish my mom and real dad could have felt. Now I have a stepdad and although it isn't my immediate family, it truly' comes close to feeling like it. Ali of this has taught me to wait until I am ready to make the commitment of marriage - just as a true Christian would desire. 39

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M MORIES OF SPECI L TIMES CINQUAIN Friends Nice, wise Playing, singing, loving They play with me. Children By Summer Soto A LAST FLIGHT Seven happy astronauts train for Challenger's mission. The first teacher in space prepares tor her lessons. They all get ready and go into the shuttle, but the flight is delayed. They wait for a while. lcicles melt off the shuttle as the temperature rises to thirty-two degrees. lt's time for another go. Everyone waits anxiously. Five, four, three, two, one, lift-off of Challenger! People watch with excitement, The smiles of the relatives and friends of the astronauts suddenly turn to grief as the shuttle explodes. The control tower is still talking, not knowing what has happened, but soon the talking has stopped. Bits and pieces of the shuttle fly everywhere. Immediately ships and helicopters look for debris and hopefully bodies, Newscasters stayed on the air for hours. They would not go off the air until they had heard from NASA. Some say it was the ice, some say it was the rocket boosters. The rocket boosters are the main suspect in the space shuttle tragedy. Meanwhile, searchers were in water, on the beaches looking everywhere for pieces. A lot ot pieces were found on the ocean floating. Some were found on the ocean floor. Memorials were being held all over America. Sorrow filled the world. One service was held at Houston Space Center. The President and his wife were there. They comforted every one of the family members that were present. People around the nation had a moment of silence while people said prayers for the families. Meetings were held to try to find the cause. A lot of magazines had pictures of the tragedy and the astronauts. Investigators looked at the pictures for hours. Other countries showed the tragedy and sent condolences to the President and the families. We were sending things up there. lt was so common, we were starting to get careless, but from now on we will keep a closer eye on the next shuttle flights. By Todd Sheets 38 VKXIRUFF QRHIIAN BEU-FUYIIER NRS WILLIAMS GRADE K 79 M Do you recognize any one-time kindergarteners? SUMMERTIME Neil catches a fish at the Day Care Camp Canyon Meadows, 1985 We're Summer Camp, 1985. Singing DFHISGS! Sean Moore and Philip Noh - ready to start Kindergarten in 1982. Summer, 1982, Jason Young and Jason Blackwell.

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LOTS OF WAYS T0 STAY IN SHAPE kep Play A and ties. Our P.E. coach, Mr. Bobk k THANKS, MR. B. y D d b Sw , Phy-Ed