Astoria High School - Zephyrus Yearbook (Astoria, OR)

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4IKE ESCOBAR USES THE MANY RESOURCES IN THE LIBRARY TO DO AN PORTANT ASSIGNMENT FOR ENGLISH. 1AKING HER BEST EFFORT TO STAY AWAY FROM THE CAMERA IEATHER BAKER TAKES A SECOND FROM HER STUDIES TO RELAX ILLING IN FOR A MISSING LIBRARIAN IS MRS. JERMAIN WHO IS GIVING iOOD ADVICE TO BEWILDERED JESSE DAY. 10NDAY MORNING MESS. MR. FOSTER EXPRESSES HIS DELIGHT IN THE IEWSPAPER SURPRISE THAT WAS WAITING FOR HIM IN THE RESOURCE OOM WHEN HE CHECKED IN BEFORE SCHOOL. A CLEVER JOKE BY SOME ERY SLY SENIORS. LIBRAR Y 27

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FALL EVENTS BACK TO SCHOOL I SEPTEMBER 4, 1985 — THE DATE WE ALL DREADED. THE AY WE HAD TO COME BACK TO SCHOOL. IT STARTED OFF , TH MR ANDERSON SPEAKING IN AN ASSEMBLY TO RE- IIND US OF THE RULES, BUT ALSO TO HAVE FUN. AFTER HE ASSEMBLY WE FILED OUT OF THE AUDITORIUM TO ET OUR SCHEDULES, AND THEN OFF TO CLASS. EVERY- NE WAS BUSY TRYING TO FIND OLD FRIENDS, AND TO FIT jTO A ROUTINE ONCE AGAIN. NOT ONLY WAS IT HARD TO ET UP IN THE MORNING AND HAVE TO BE SOMEWHERE Y 8 00 A.M., BUT ALSO TO KEEP YOUR MIND ON THE , ORK INSTEAD OF THE LONG CAREFREE DAYS OF SUM- ier some of the teachers actually gave HOME¬ WORK ON THE FIRST DAY — CAN YOU BELIEVE THE ERVE BLOOD DRIVE THE FALL BLOOD DRIVE, SPONSORED BY THE AMERI¬ CAN RED CROSS, WAS HELD IN THE GYMNASIUM ON OC- (lOBER 14. THIS SUCCESSFUL EVENT, RAISED 42 PINTS OF I ' .OOD ALL-AMERICAN BLOOD. THE NURSES WHO WERE FORKING THE DRIVE HAD NOTHING BUT GOOD COM¬ MENTS ABOUT THE STUDENTS THAT GAVE BLOOD AND HE STUDENTS THAT VOLUNTEERED TO HELP WITH THE (ORK. TO QUALIFY FOR GIVING BLOOD, A PERSON MUST HAVE TEN 17 YEARS OLD AND WEIGH AT LEAST 110 POUNDS. ANY PEOPLE TRIED TO GIVE BUT WERE REFUSED BE- mjse OF VARIOUS REASONS. NOBODY REPORTED TO HAVE FAINTED OR COLLAPSED BECAUSE OF BLOOD iSIHORTAGES. Vi “ ONE OF THE OBJECTIVES OF THE DRIVE WAS TO IM¬ PROVE AND INVOLVE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH MEED OR MANY DONORS TO KEEP UP WITH THE DEMAND : : F BLOOD. JUDGING BY THE ENTHUSIASM AND THE PAR- ICIPATION, THE DRIVE WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL AND AN¬ THER HAS BEEN PLANNED FOR THE SPRING TERM. HOMECOMING TUNE WAS PLAYED FOR QUEEN MICHELLE JOHNSON AND HER COURT ABOUT HALFWAY THROUGH THE EVENING. THE MUSIC, LIGHTS AND DECORATIONS WERE WELL DONE AND IN ADDITION, THERE WAS A VIDEO SCREEN TO WATCH WHILE YOU DANCED. WHEN THE LAST SONG END¬ ED AT 11:30 P.M. EVERYONE LEFT WITH TIRED FEET AND HAPPY MEMORIES OF THEIR 1985 HOMECOMING. FOOTBALL: SPORTS ASTORIA’S FOOTBALL TEAM STRUGGLED THIS YEAR BOTH IN PRESEASON AND LEAGUE PLAY. INJURIES PROVED TO BE VERY COSTLY ALONG WITH THE LACK OF EXPERIENCE ON MOST OF THE PLAYERS. THIS WAS VERY REWARDABLE IN MANY WAYS AND A FEW PLAYERS MAN¬ AGED TO STAND OUT. SENIOR BRIAN OBERG WAS THE WINNER OF THE CHRIS POHL MEMORIAL AWARD. SHANE DOCKTER WAS THE BACK OF THE YEAR, AND JAMIE MON¬ ROE WAS THE LINEMAN OF THE YEAR. COACH BILL PAR¬ RISH COULD HAVE BEEN MORE HAPPY WITH A RECORD OF 1-8 AFTER HIS FIRST YEAR BACK IN FIVE YEARS, BUT HE HOPES EVERYTHING WILL COME TOGETHER NEXT YEAR. CROSS COUNTRY: ASTORIA HAD STRONG PERFORMANCES FROM BOTH BOYS AND GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY TEAMS THIS YEAR. THE BOYS ENDED UP WITH 5 WINS AND 1 LOSS, WHILE THE GIRLS WON ALL 6 OF THEIR LEAGUE MEETS. AT THE DIS¬ TRICT MEET, ' THE BOYS TOOK THIRD PLACE WHILE THE GIRLS TOOK FOURTH PLACE. PHIL THOMPSON AND PAT KADAS WERE ALL LEAGUE RUNNERS FOR THE BOYS, AND JENNIFER OLSON, KRIS BRUGH, AND DEBBIE BECKEN WERE ALL-LEAGUE RUNNERS FOR THE GIRLS TEAM. THE FIRST TRADITIONAL EVENT HELD WAS THE POW¬ DER-PUFF FOOTBALL GAME. THE SOPHOMORES WALKED i LL OVER THE FRESHMEN WITH A SCORE OF 18-0. THE SIGHT SENIORS, WHO WENT UNDEFEATED THROUGHOUT THEIR HIGH SCHOOL CAREER, RAN TRUE TO FORM BY SEATING THE JUNIORS 12-0. ■THERE WAS A NEW TWIST TO THE ANNUAL HOMECOM- I G ACTIVITIES THIS YEAR. IT WAS THE ADDITION OF A -OCKER DECORATING CONTEST ON WEDNESDAY OF -.OMECOMING WEEK. IT RECEIVED LESS RESPONSE THAN EXPECTED BUT WAS STILL A FUN IDEA. THE FIRST PRIZE F $20 WAS AWARDED TO JUNIOR, CELESTE RICHARD- iON. THE $10 SECOND PRIZE WAS GIVEN TO SENIOR, MIKE .MOBLEY. THE THIRD PRIZE OF $5 WAS RECEIVED BY SEN¬ IOR, LYNN PARKS. THURSDAY, AN OLD TRADITION WAS BROUGHT BACK. FDR THE FIRST TIME IN FIVE YEARS A BONFIRE WAS HELD. SOME SAY IT WAS SUCCESSFUL. OTHERS SAY IT FAILED BECAUSE OF THE STEADY DRIZZLE THAT KEPT UP. I ALWAYS AN EXCITING TRADITION ARE THE CLASS CLYMPICS. THERE WAS MORE PARTICIPATION THAN CHAIRPERSON, JULIE PETERSEN EXPECTED. THE FINAL STANDINGS WERE; JUNIORS IN FIRST WITH 64 POINTS, E£NIORS NEXT WITH A SCORE OF 41; SOPHOMORES WITH POINTS: AND LAST, FRESHMEN WITH A SCORE OF 32. f ' SADLY, OUR FIGHTING FISHERMEN TEAM DID NOT WIN •He homecoming game over THE rainier colum- | E ANS, BUT THEY PLAYED WELL AS WAS THE CASE ALL THE SATURDAY NIGHT DANCE BEGAN AT 8:30. IT ' WAS A JCCESS. THE THEME WAS “HOME SWEET HOME . mis VOLLEYBALL: OVERALL THIS YEARS VOLLEYBALL TEAM DID QUITE GOOD AFTER GETTING OFF TO A SLOW START, THE GIRLS WON 4 OUT OF THEIR LAST 5 MATCHES. THE TEAM FIN¬ ISHED WITH A 5 WIN-7 LOSS RECORD FOR LEAGUE AND 9 WINS 11 LOSSES OVERALL. THE MOST VALUABLE PLAYER WAS CATHY RE INEBACH AND THE THREE MOST INSPIRA¬ TIONAL PLAYERS WERE LYNDA SATTERLEE, JULIE PETER¬ SEN AND SHARI FAY. NEXT YEAR THERE WON’T BE ALOT OF RETURNING EXPERIENCE, BUT COACH BONDIETTI HOPE THINGS WILL COME TOGETHER. SADIE HAWKINS THE ANNUAL SADIE HAWKINS’ DANCE WAS HELD ON NOVEMBER 23, AT ASTORIA MIDDLE SCHOOL. THE DANCE WAS WELL-DECORATED WITH BALLOONS AND PURPLE AND GOLD STREAMERS. THIS YEAR MARRIN’ SAM WAS MR LANDWEHR. HE UNLAWFULLY WEDDED MANY HAPPY COUPLES MUSIC FOR THE DANCE WAS PROVIDED BY A BAND CALLED “DREAMER” FROM LONGVIEW. THEY PI AYED SONGS FROM MANY DIFFERENT ERAS OF MUSIC. MANY PEOPLE LEFT THE DANCE WITH ALOT OF MEMORIES OF THE 1985 SADIE HAWKINS’ DANCE. MILWAUKEE EXCHANGE . . 111 —r »il-rM -rue CCKI- i ' • I A nnMPQTir FXCHANGE PROGRAM BETWEEN THE SEN- 2 h E SCHOOLS OF SOUTH MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, A°Mn A?VnR?A WAS AN EVENT THAT BROUGHT EIGHTEEN crnnENTS TO ASTORIA THE PARTY ARRIVED ON SUNDAY. OCTOBEF? 20° ANDV ISITED OUR CITY UNTIL SUNDAY, OC- T 0BER27. STAY, THE MILWAUKEE STUDENTS F °?wc? L wruiqE ASTOR S COLUMN, MARITIME MUSEUM, nnvP RWT THEY ALL HAD A GREAT TIME AND MOST i°P°RESsiD S AN INTEREST IN COMING BACK.