Agoura High School - Quixotian Yearbook (Agoura Hills, CA)

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A band of Indians raid Agoura High on Western Day. Dorothy Brown, Christy Rapp, Suzy Bowman, Tricia Arledge, and Wendy Bennett showed their spirit in many ways, including sports, student council, and participating in class competitions. Mrs. Dobrowski and her ninth grade class gather under a tree to mourn, Everyone wore black cn mourning day to symbolize the defeat of Santa Clara's football team. Stripes and more stripes! This couple, Stephanie Erikson and Ieff Ritter, are not meant to be real twins. Staying together seemed good enough for them on twin day. i dobrowski ' gehart dobrowski Lesley Little and Megan Wat- son practice their hand-jive on twin day. Even freshmen had the fortitude to display their pride by dressing alike. Jodie Del Vecchio, Tara Peo- ples, Michelle Morton, and Roya Mohamedi discuss fu- ture plans for rounding up more cowboys at Agoura High School. This bunch of cowgirls expressed spirit and cheer at the video dance in the gym after the first football IZ game. V,,,,f,, ,, W ff, la,si,,i,.au. ' V 1 . dobrowski gehart Special Days 65

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tx-i FP We've got spirit, yes we do! We've got spirit, how about you? During the 1987-88 school year, Agoura students were able to show t eir spirit on many of the dress-up days set up by student council. These special days helped boost spirit and created pride for our school. Western day was the first dress-up day and was designed to promote spirit for the first home football game of the year. Agoura students, dressed as cowbo s and in- dians, expressed pride in their team as they roamed about the campus. There were class competitions and chili eating contests which further boosted the morale of the school. The finale of the day was a fun-filled dance in the gym. Other special days were held the '1 BANM 1 ' NH l k.,Hf-f' Y .3 ,, X, N! 'T p E S52 - .s,Vs. . This set of quintuplets takes twin day a step further. Deanna Damrow, Jennifer Vopika, Amy Lakotas, Ali Fish, and Stephanie Larson tie-dyed together for this special day. Stacy Boulwnre and Nancy Chrtstianson pattern themselves after each other. These spirited girls were involved not only in the spirit team but also in other school activities. PL itil Dax S I I I 0 I week before Homecoming. S irit Week included such days as college sweatshirt day, twin day, red, white, and blue day, and mourning day. Class competitions during lunch continued throughout the week. On college sweatshirt day, students wore sweatshirts from various col- leges. Among the most popular col- leges included UCLA, UC Berkely, Stanford, Harvard, and the military academies. While some students wore sweatshirts from their favorite collefges, others wore them simply to siglni y school spirit. When as ed w y a certain sweatshirt was worn, one student replied, Because my dad went there. Many students said that their major goal after college was to become a millionaire and to party. Twin day proved to be a day of look-a-likes, where students dressed in the same outfits as their twin for a day. Not only were there twins, but there were triplets, qua- druplets, and quintuplets An- other special da was red, white, and blue day. On this day, Agoura stu- dents expressed pride in their school as well as their country. Lastly was mourning day, designed to mourn for Santa Clara's football team who was to be defeated by the Agoura Chargers in the Homecoming foot- ball game. Everywhere students dressed in black as they awaited the 24-7 defeat of Santa C ara's Saints. Chargers exhibited their school spir- it and pride throughout the year, promoting the fact that Agoura cer- tainly is the top high school around! - Grace Asuncion Ai....,,, dobrowski dobrowski

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Before any- one knew it, the holiday season came and went. Hanuk- kah started on December 5 and was almost over by the time Christmas came around on December 25. Of course, all of the stores were mobbed before the holidays for last minute shopping and after for all of the sales. Christmas was celebrated as usual with stockings hung and Christmas trees illuminated with bright lights. Many Agoura students found unique ways to celebrate. Holly Bose, for ex- ample, stated, l know of someone who doesn't have a Santa, but her parents think up a particular theme for the year and that determines the kind of gifts received. For instance, they might have a Beauty Fairy and all of the gifts would have to do with Wayne Neale and Brad Finelrock make Agoura a winter wonderland. Students in art classes painted windows all over the campus to put everyone in a holi- day mood. 66 Holidays beauty - a hair brush, cosmetics, and so on. Beth and Brad Lyerla re- member their pets during the holi- day season: We give presents to our two cats, Thomas and Missy, said Beth. Emily Coates recalled Christmas celebrations abroad. ln Holland, . . . little kids wait for St. Nick to come by the foot of their beds and drop gifts in their clogs ishoesJ. The Greek Orthodox, on the other hand, celebrate Christmas on january 7 ev- ery year, Obviously, there are many different ways to celebrate Christ- mas. Hanukkah is also celebrated in dif- ferent ways. Normally, the candles are lit, prayers are recited, and pre- sents are opened. Sometimes all eight presents are opened on the same night, and sometimes they are spread out over the eight days of Hanukkah. Occasionally, a few meaningful gifts are given for only a few days. According to Pepper Sax, Some people use Hanukkah Harry as the gift-giver to put presents un- der a Hanukkah Bush. Some even go so far as to put up blue and white lights outside their houses, but these practices are very uncommon. Even though there aren't many ways to celebrate Hanukkah, special foods offer variety to the festivities. Potato pancakes called latkes are great with applesauce, jelly and syrup, ket- chup, or sour cream. Another yum- my treat is Hanukkah gelt tchoco- late moneyl. Even better, sometimes the gelt isn't chocolate money, but real. Christmas and Hanukkah were wide- ly and differently celebrated during 1987. Almost everyone got most of 'what they wanted. Happiness defi- nitely struck again! E' ,. , . W , N4 ,pw , r i'2f'f-1 'M' r , wg r W . - tn fo, V ,, ' wr gf C ' AQ I f 5 r 'ri' . 'Q . 4 , 'yn nu , , 1 , . darrah . lon Tattersal is caught red-handed with ' N the goods. Many Chargers brought ,- shopping bags to school on the last day L .' before winter vacation to hold all the n ' gifts they were giving and receiving. - 'X B' Q . gaviatt