Blue Ridge High School - Cresta Azul Yearbook (Lakeside, AZ)

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Page 54. 1. Pop Choir members pause between numbers in the band room. 2. Diane Bickerton, Rush Boynton, and Patti Marble sing at the Pop Choir's Spring Concert. 3. Pop Choir members perform at the same concert. Page 55. 1. Band members prepare to learn some new music. 2. Loretta Jaramillo and Jorli McLain yield to creative instincts in Ms. HiII's art class. 3. Coach Moro battles Gilbert Pacheco in a dem- onstration of hand-to-hand combat in P.E. 4. Peggy White and Cory Edwards get into i shape in Ms. Fliley's P.E. class. XMZV HW . , I 1 ? 1 Af' 72.12. ks Q f 4 MUSIC, P.E., ART 55

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Goodstein suggests ci little bit of crciziness by Belinda McCarter Ms. Anita Brown taught Pop Choir and Concert Choir to 61 students. She believed that music helps students to develop aesthetically. She com- mented that her courses taught stu- dents Hhow to read music, how to sing the music they read, and how to inter- pret the music they sing. Ms. Brown wanted to see advanced chorus, class voice, and piano added to the curricu- Ium. Mr. Rick Goodstein began teaching band and guitar at BR three years ago. He reported that the best teach- ing method he knew of was lots of energy with a little bit of craziness along with discipline and fun. When asked what he liked about living here, he replied, I like to ski, the weather, skiing, the people, skiing, the stu- dents, skiing, the general support of music in the school and I don't like to leave out that I like to ski sometimes. Ms. Beth Hill considered an infor- mal classroom situation the most effective teaching method, with inde- pendent study for advanced stu- dents. She also said, ln the make-up of a well-balanced education, students should be exposed to the historical, social, and cultural importance of all the arts as well as the academic sub- jects. Ms. Hill began teaching here in January of 1977. Mr. Tom Marsing said that he felt that P.E. was important because of all the free time people have. They need basic skills in activity. He would have liked to have seen swimming, tennis, golf, and archery at Blue Ridge. Mr. Marsing has been teaching at BR for four years. Mr. Paul Moro taught P.E. to 120 students. He wanted to see bicycling, bowling, golf, tennis, archery, rac- quetball, swimming, and backpacking added to the curriculum. He told reporters, Without some physical development in a human's younger years, the human being develops poor health traits for the rest of his life. Coach Moro taught in Yucca Valley, California before coming here. Basic skills of soccer, football, softball, archery, golf, basketball, bad- minton, volleyball, gymnastics, and rules. That's what Ms. Mary Riley thought P.E. taught BR students. She also said, Although most of our activ- ity is team sports, individual instruc- tion is given when needed. Ms. Riley wanted tennis, handball, and bowling at BR in the future. 1 2 3 54 MUSIC, P.E., ART

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Students test out ot clciss tor tirst time by Pat Hagan For the first time in BR history, a Free Enterprise test was offered so that students could meet the state requirement and not have to take the class. Mr. Bishop and Mr. Roush taught Free Enterprise. The students should know their own economic system, said Mr. Bishop. He had taught at Blue Ridge for eight years. Free Enterprise taught the students about America's eco- nomics in comparison with other country's economies, according to Mr. Bishop. World Cultures was offered again after a year's rest. The reason the class was not offered in 77-78 was that Ms. Stidham, the World Cultures teacher, was needed for a 4th Ameri- can History class. Ms. Stidham was again both World Cultures and Ameri- can History teacher. Both courses help the students develop a sense of their own identi- ties, said Ms. Stidham. World Cul- tures is an elective at BR, while Ameri- can History and Civics are Arizona state requirements. Civics is a 2 year program that is very flexible and allows for a variety of materials and methods for in depth treatment of selected areas, said Mr. Roush. Civics was a state requirement class for all seniors while American History was required of all Juniors. Page 56. 1. Mr. Roush lectures to his 4th hour Civics class. 2. Students do a Free-Enterprise assignment in Mr. Bishop's 5th hour class. 3. Serge talks to Mr. Roush's class about life in the Soviet Union. Page 57. 1. Terri Bittorf and Brad Brown take notes in Civics. 2. Mary Beckett, Terri Bennett, Sue Deerr and Robyn Donaldson pass American history assignments up the row. 3. American history students go over assign- ments in 4th period. 4. Holly Klitus, Victor Applegate, Clayton Lord and Brad Brown work on a Civics assignment. 56 HISTORY A v- 3