Alta High School - Accipitor Yearbook (Sandy, UT)

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top left: Russ Johnson quenches thirst on football sidelines top right: Dave Southam arrives in district limousine, a school bus. bottom left: What you'd see out the windows, if there were any (the towering Wasatch Mountains), bottom right: After-hours Alta: extracurricular ac- tivities. adult night school, and community functions. Theme ■ 5

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Many people who see our school for the first time often re- mark that it looks more like a shopping mall than a school. Be- cause of this first impression, many misconceptions have grown about the building and the people within. Probably the most obvious ste- reotype that has grown about us is that we are all rich. We spend ex- horbitent amounts of money on clothes and all drive expensive sports cars. Why, no one at Alta would be caught dead riding a bus to school! When the school was built a lot of publicity was given to the nice- “Swimming pools, elevators, buffet lunches ... what else for rich snobs?” ness of the facility. Rumors spread as to the extravagance of it. Some of us even expected a luxury liner instead of a school. Swimming pools, buffet lunches, personalized lockers, stereo music systems in the halls and elevator transporta- tion between floors were all to be parts of our rich environmental standards. What else for rich snobs! With rumors like these, it was easy to see why other schools and communities saw us as overin- dulged, somewhat spoiled people. Although Alta is a nice school, the rumors seldom hit the truth about the building or the people. People who only knew us by our public image were often critical, not about the real us, but about the fabricated us. Without actually getting to know Alta, little did they know Theme ■ 7