Alhambra High School - Fortress Yearbook (Phoenix, AZ)

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Connie Slaney, juniors editor is working on layouts and copy for a nearing deadline. Theresa Richey, academics editor, grins when she realizes the sneaky camera is around. f wig' ,t ,K L, , if' , X 1' .I 'V , ' 1 r lt I 4 Quinn .tl ' ,Q 'vm 4. Hard working Mark McManus tries to study what is involved with his sports section. yy! Us-, 'f' .l i ABOVE LEFT: juniors assistant, Mary Sahhar, interrupts her work to detect the quick cam- era. LEFT: Diana Liniger, academics assistant, explores possibilities she may use for copy. ABOVE: Phyllis Gelnett, sports assistant, concentrates on copy she has to write. ABOVE RIGHT: Tim Duenas, darkroom as- sistant, investigates some of the other de- mensions of the yearbook. RIGHT: Margie Selvey, darkroom assistant, reads about de- veloping film. was Brenda Poindexter, soph editor, uses her powers of concentration to overcome a page. Bevey Miner examines a picture she may use for her part of the sports section. 0. ,l, Laura Green, clubs assistant, listens intently to an explanation of how to write copy. 1- IFSQ: V A FORTRESS 23

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Head Fella, Mr. Cunningham, inspects a senior picture received from a studio. Carol Agnew, editor-in-chief, is discussing new designs with Mr, C. for the FORTRESS. Individual picture policy hinders FORTRESS staff The 1972-73 FORTRESS started off very slowly. For the first two or three weeks the staff had to get organized because of a new district wide system of taking individual student pictures. With most of last years staff being Seniors and graduating, there turned out to be only five experienced staffers this year. Once the new staff was initiated into the routine of things, it really began moving. Dead- lines were met with fairly good ease and everyone began to pull for the BELOW: After Cindy Kuntz slaved long hours on the clubs section, she still had room to smile. RIGHT: Photographer Ron Wolf is caught at a football game by another camera. -ee . cm, ffl Q 22 FORTRESS main purpose-finishing the book. It was decided to change the books usual routine of things. Reor- ganization of the clubs section in- cluded introducing the standardiza- tion of write-ups on the right hand side of each page. The cover was changed from the usual embossing to a new texture effect. This years theme, New Directions, was based on the fact that the school has changed and reorganized itself into a newly born high school. RIGHT ABOVE: In the process of writing copy for the seniors' section is Irene Tessensohn. RIGHT: Karen Mulvihill, frosh editor, toils over layouts to make the section intriguing. Assistant editor, Debbie Groenig, is reading an information sheet for her section, Honors. Head photographer, Larry Driver, does one of his chores-cleaning the camera lens. . 1 ,. ,.....,..s. T

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l First semester editor, ludy Gallimore, types the editorial forum which is in each issue. ' X as , A , .t Denise Crane, second semester editor, talks on the phone trying to get advertisements. Robin Chmelar is caught in her daily routine of being managing editor for the paper. 24 SCIMITAR Three Scimitar staffers receive top state awards The SCIMITAR staff had an out- standing year. Despite the debt they inherited from last year's staff they deserve every bit of credit they have brought to Alhambra. According to research conducted by the staff, no other newspaper staff in the dis- trict had received as many honors last year. ludy Gallimore received a first place honor for Editorial Writing. ludy's editorial was on the traffic problem placing the blame on the community, students and adminis- tration. A second place award went to Bob McCIay for sports writing, and honorable mention went to Ed Miller for a picture he entered. They standardized the paper to six pages, no more, no less. fkmw Mr. Martin Krey, SCIMITAR advisor, tedious- ly searches through a file drawer looking for Bob McClay, news editor, won second place state honors for his sports writing. information to use for a story in an upcoming issue. Andree Bouty is one of the many reporters who work on the SCIMITAR staff this year.