Apollo High School - Olympus Yearbook (Glendale, AZ)

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ON TOP OF THE NEWS Newspaper Staff: Row 1; Chris Potts. Scott Reid. Mike Lanning. Glenn Rabinowitz. Row 2: Kristi Moss. Sharon Tanz. Cathy Heerdt. Lisa Olson. Gwen Perlman. Row 3: Jim Meyer. Dan Daly. Lisa Wood. Tom Lofton. Mike Easterly. Deann Ogden. Mark Lange. Randy Wood. The Utopian newspaper kept the students and commu- nity aware of happenings which affected the school year. This publication is put out by the Journalism 3-4 class, and received a first place rating from Columbia Scholastic Press Association last year. The Utopian also rated highest in the state in its categories. The staff was also proud of the traditional blood drive they held in April which resulted in the best turnout ever of 96 pints. Some of the staff's unusual activities this year centered around a series of cultural events, including a field trip to Arcosanti and also to the Phoenix Little Theater. Above: Lisa Olson talked with feature editor Gwen Perlman about one of the many assignments received by reporters during the course of the year. Below: Scott Reid. Cathy Heerdt. Mark Lange. Mike Easterly. Oeann Ogden. Dan Daly, and Randy Wood prepare newspapers to be sent out to individual schools. The Utopian exchanged papers with some sixty schools around the United States, from as far away as Hawaii and Miami, not to mention various other schools within Maricopa County. The staff published a total of fifteen newspapers this year. 200

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Special Olympics: Bottom Row: Bill Whalley. Jeff Carrillo. Wally Duarte. Ken Eyman. Ron Dedomenick. John Quesada.. Top Row: Victor Herzog. Mike Myers. Bob Leonard. Steve Aros. Nick Connelly. Chris Doyle. The Special Olympic team at Apollo for the last four years has won the State Basketball Tourney, and in 1978 they also won the State Volleyball and State Bowling Tourney. An- other team event the Special Olympic squad participated in was the 400-meter relay. Be- sides those, individual events included Track and Field. Gym- nastics. Swimming, and Fris- bee. Furthermore, five mem- bers of the team participated in the Winter Olympics in Flag- staff. 199 Special Olympics: Debbie Young. Ken Eyman. Billie New. Bill Whalley. Paula McWilliams. Vic Herzog. Fawn Hamilton. Mrs. Beery.

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LOOKING BACK ON 79 Yearbook Staff: Row 1; Cory Mitchell. Laura Hoag. Julie Almon. Sherlyn Stephens. Roslyn Simp- son. Row 2: Betsy Lieberman. Ann Parks. Scott Henderson. Dan Bergsten. Tracy Tisdale. Karen Pennington. Deana Lemonovich. Paris Street. Claire Arthur. The events of today are here to stay. The Apollo Olympus has captured the memories of the past school year. The Olympus staff, consisting of two seniors and fourteen underclassmen, has strived to portray the emo- tions of Apollo. Although the students move onward to reach their goals, their memo- ries and traditions will exist on the Apollo campus forever- more. 4 Roslyn Simpson and Claire Arthur were kept busy working toward their sophomore section deadline. E jjtor-in-chief Julie Almon. and Betsy Lieberman looked through their assignments for the first deadline of the year. 201