Alverno High School - Troubadour Yearbook (Sierra Madre, CA)

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'G' Tracey First Susie Fisher Coleen Fox Jane Fuller Araceli Galvan Liz Garcia Pam Gates Jean Gatti Amy Gavigan K Q At a meeting in Miss Barbara Brown's office, class officers Sharon Nloscaret, Teresa Cin- tron and Cheryl Lindsey discuss preparations for placing orders for graduation announcements. As class business began piling up as early as February, the seniors met in the library during home- room and break several times to make some final decisions on class matters. Seniors 53

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Officers Express Their Conc The Senior Cldss officers includ- ed Two new-comers ond Two veferdns. Presidenf Shciron Moscdref ond cioss Tredsurer Cheryl Lindsey broughf wiTh Them Their fresh ideos os This wos Their firsT experience GS cioss officers. Vice-presidenf Tereso Cinfron ond secreTdry Susie Fisher were former offi- cers who confinued GS o posi- Tive force. All The officers ogreed in d Troubadour sTdff inferview Thdf keeping The seniors uniTed wds d mojor gool of Theirs. Shoron sTdTed, The officers wonfed To express To The cioss Through everydoy evenTs Thdf honesfy wiTh Themselves ond oThers would help Them ochieve more, ond noT jusT in finishing Their ldsT yeor of high school. Developing feelings ond o good outlook on life were dlso godls we sfrove for. Terryl Dixon lviory Dolon Koren Emerson Mdry Ewold Jeoneffe Feeney Veronico Ferrdnfe 52 Seniors

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Margie Gear Laura Geraci Andrea Giessinger Claudine Harkness Gina Harris Deidre Hawkins To Be Or NoT To Be. .. i'WhaT are you going To be when you grow up? Our firsT conTacT wiTh This auesfion in grade school usually broughT a simple decision-a 'lmovie sTar or Suzy homemaker. Our second encounTer wiTh deci- sion making occurred by The end of junior year. BuT This Time The auesfioner was noT our parenTs, or our Teachers, buT a compuferized phenomenon called The ScholasTic ApTiTude TesT, beTTer known as The SAT. MosT commonly The SAT was Taken in The fall of senior year, buf many brave juniors pre- pared To meeT Their desTiny in June. As TesT scores reached sTudenTs, decisions concerning college had already sTarTed formulaTing. By Ocfober, Miss Marion PeTerson's counseling office in The library became The mosT popular spoT since HunTingTon Beach on a summer 54 Seniors afTernoon. WiTh lvliss'PeTerson's help, sTudenTs were able To ex- plore Their inTeresTs Through filmsTrips and caTaIogs, and were also given The chance To hear college represenTaTives. The monThs To follow broughT prayers for accepTance as seniors painsTakingly filled ouT applicaTions, muddled Through financial aid forms, and Tracked down Their favoriTe Teacher in a desperaTe search for a leTTer of recommenda- Tion. in addiTion To Those who wished To aTTend college im- mediaTely afTer high school, 25-3006 of seniors felT ThaT col- lege wasn'T for Them aT The momenf. Their reasons ranged from indecision abouT careers To a desire for more exper- ience in The real world before seTTling down To academiclr J A . f,g,,a..rU'P 1 . Q' ' r,.f 1 . ,1,' - 4 KaThy Riley schedules her appoinfmenf for college counselling. The Uschedule board wenT inTo use when yellow appoinTmenT slips jusf didh'T do The job.