Alta High School - Accipitor Yearbook (Sandy, UT)

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top: Journalists, Debbie Riding and Beth Berner enjoy football action while getting first hand info for Hawkeye. center: Jana Christensen bottom left: Refresh ment booth at home games was sponsored by V1CA bottom right: Angel Figge adds a new flair to school band as first majorette. SCHOOL: the system, seven hours a day —five days a week—180 days a year, friend- ships, learning, the building. YOU: different roles — student, friend, teenager — adult, achiever, procrastinator. It’s 6:00 a.m. The alarm goes off. Got to get up —already have three tardies in first. Get ready! Catch the bus, jump in the car or start walking. First period — MADE IT! For the next seven hours, every 50 minutes, a bell rings and you move to a new subject. Some you understand; some you don’t. But remember — GRADES! “Already have three tardies in first.” Five minutes between classes to catch up on your social life. At midday, a quick 30 minute lunch; not enough time for McDonald’s, so it’s the machines or school lunch. A couple more classes; then school’s over. Stay at school: ro- deo club meeting, drama rehears- al, talking with friends. Go home: grab a snack, plan how long you can avoid your homework, got to be to work by 4:00 o’clock. Busy days; busy nights growing up, learning, surviving —a day in your life. 4 ■ Theme

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KNOCK! KNOCK! “Who’s there?” “We are.” “Well, who are you?” “We are the students, faculty, and staff of Alta High School.” “But, who's that?” Well, factwise, we are approxi- mately 2455 students, 110 faculty members and administrators, and 50 staff members who keep this 334,000 square foot facility operating 184 days a year. We are suburbia — metropolitan Salt Lake City, Utah. Growing, grow- ing — one of the fastest growing areas in the state of Utah — flooded “We have become the third largest high school in Utah” with people moving farther into the suburbs and with people coming to Utah from out of state to find jobs in our fairly stable economy. With an opening day studentbody of over 2400, and new students arriving al- most daily, we have become the third largest high school in Utah, with the first and second largest schools as our closest neighboring high schools. We are not located on the edge of the earth. When people hear our school is located at 11055 South there are often snickerings of “North Provo.” We are the southernmost high school in Salt Lake Valley, but with the great Western lifestyle of “auto-mobility,” we spend much of our time going into the city for enter- tainment, shopping, and the some- what totally cultural experience of dragging State. Besides, it isn’t really necessary to go all the way into the city now, because all of the elements of the city have moved to us in the form of shopping malls, theatres, res- taurants, discos, and entertainment centers. We are complex: over 2600 sto- ries. But like anyone you don’t know, we sometimes become known more by stereotypes than by realities. We become judged sometimes by reputa- tion than by facts. So get to know us — the people of Alta — before you form any impressions. KNOCK! KNOCK! “Who’s there?” “Alta” “Alta who? “Read on! That’s what we’d like to show you.” Introduction H 3

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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