Alta High School - Accipitor Yearbook (Sandy, UT)

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Performing a new dance routine the Las Seelies show Alta something unique in a drill team LAS SCELLES: flow 1 Chris Oli- ver. Stephanie Jensen. Petra Kone. Stephanie Babmshack. Cara Davis. Alt Fama Row 2 Julie Walker. Erin Huish. Lana Deringer. Christy Rickms. Stephanie Keller. Tracey Hemmmgway. Allison Smith Row 3 Amy Ith. Cory Bott —secretary. Ange Hogan. Lynette Park. Jenmter Sotas—2nd v p . KnsTma Schmidt—1st v.p.. Deb- bie Hogan—president Las Seelies ■ 65

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Finishing a auccesaful drill, the Las Seelies end their performance in jump splits. Forgetting the long hours of practice, Las Seelies raise school spirit at a pep assembly. 64 ■ Las Seelies They're back and they’re good! Two years ago the team was discon- tinued. but once again Alta has a drill team. Without make-up and in curlers, the Las Seelies started prac- ticing early mornings during the sum- mer and continued their rehearsals before zero hour throughout the year, becoming known to each other as homely dishrags. With advisor Ka- ren Miller, a former Las Scelle. the team set out to learn routines that nobody knew. Their practices contin- ued through rain and mud. With splits and kicks on the soggy football field, summer practices turned into mud fights. While most Alta fans were wrapped in coats and blankets the Las Seelies stood at attention during the miserable state football weather. The hours of practice paid off. they placed second out of 27 teams in their first competition. They partici- pated in an out of state meet in Idaho and hosted another at Alta. Labori- Hut, Hut, Hut, Alta once again has a precision drill team. ous hours of preparation all went to- ward perfecting an interesting rou- tine that only lasted three minutes. The drill team performed both mili- tary routines and dance. One thing that made Alta’s drill team different from other schools was that the Las Seelies didn’t mix the two. This put the Las Seelies a step ahead of ev- eryone else, making them one of the best. You know the hours of prac- tice were worth it when you come off the floor and you know you’ve done a good job.” said KrisTina Schmidt. Between all the practices and competition the Las Seelies did other things together. They had fund rais- ers and social activities. One of the big events was the Christmas ban- quet. Because all the practices and activities the Las Seelies became very close friends.

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We Be Stupid 66 ■ Yearbook Staff We talked incessantly, usually try- ing to outdo each other, the radio and instructions from our advisors. Basi- cally. we were incoherent, loud, dirty- minded. and critical, but industrious when pressured. The first day, our in- fallible “Big Brother”. Mr. Alcorn told us “you can eat lunch in here, but not in this room.” We ignored his strange directions, except when we needed help plotting lines, tilting pictures or trying to make up funny articles. And we were always complaining. Layout staff’s assignment’s were always im- possible. copy staff never got their pictures back in time, orders didn’t make it to photographers, or there wasn’t room to print in the darkroom, everyone complained about the old food newspaper staff left around and Mary wasn't ever satisfied with any- thing. Arguments about music, jokes, religion and sex kept us content. Nev- er tiring of bad jokes we eagerly lis- tened to everything or used sick hu- mor to invent our own. Nobody ever liked anybody else’s music (it’s hard to satisfy 30 people) and pens, pen- cils. rulers, and candy were always disappearing mysteriously. Somehow, despite the confusion, wrong instructions and missed dead- lines we managed through somewhat unified effort and lots of threats to create our daring masterpiece “The Impressions of 1984.” Working as an efficient unit, the staff's spe- cialized skills kept work flowing smoothly Looking over layouts, Devin Dana. Martha Mattmson and Kevin Olmore make last min- ute changes Photo by Bart Bailey