Alta High School - Accipitor Yearbook (Sandy, UT)

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top: campaigning efforts pay off for Mindy Melville, middle: Sequinned Las Seelies proudly display accuracy and precision at first home game, bot- tom left: Enthusiastic team members cheer fellow players on bottom right: Salt Lake City night scene; Hello Utah! twTTvJf, ■ - «22 ✓ . 2 f : 8 ■ Theme

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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

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top: On the first leg of the home course, the hawks pull out in front of Brighton, bottom: Paua Brainich. Jill Thorpe and Theresa Melendez take a break from cheering for a good laugh together. After attending Alta, most of us gain a genuine pride in our school because it is such a nice facility; yet we realize that it isn’t perfect. There are nice carpeted floors in the hallways and classrooms, but where walls should be between rooms, there are only partitions. We have a very accessible media center, but as can be expected, books and materials are some- times stolen. We show our school pride by the small amount of prop- erty vandalism occuring each year, but we sometimes find it impossi- ble to walk to a garbage can with a candy wrapper. Like most other schools, when it’s cold outside, the cooler seems to work, and when it’s hot outside, the heater works. Friends were split up when our two lunches be- came three, but it was nice to easi- ly get a seat in the commons with- out taking the “Is this seat taken?” survey. By the way, what are windows? Classrooms are well equipped with new fixtures and are painted in bright, lively colors. And our famous lights, that when they flick- er, take five minutes to come back on even they help save energy by providing 30% of the class- room heating. We are a school like most oth- ers, not perfect, but we are proud of Alta. We, on the inside, some- times find fault, but we, even more, show pride. And when oth- ers from the outside criticize us, we tell them: Alta—DON’T KNOCK IT ’TIL YOU’VE TRIED IT. Theme H 9