Capital High School - Talon Yearbook (Boise, ID)

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MEMBER OF THE PEP CLUB, Shari Bach offers basketball player Kirk Andrus a Cake for the team, THE STREAKERS SNEAK around ready to flash the unexpecting crowd. 1-ff li , C122 Q f' -1 j,,,s1'5 gr' , 1.20, ,l x , , ,yn-, b 4 l , wp-Q45 l K ,,-. 5- .qpf 'fx X 5 Q gh -.1:,. ,jr K' 'Q DURING THE CLASS competition, Michelle Hall receives help getting the spoon our of her dress. THE CHEERLEADERS TOWER over the school by building a human pyramid. liaiskutlxill Asscmlwly 15

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After the assembly, the students fly high with The Spirit of '86 The day had finally come. Tonight there was a basketball game against our biggest rival and today, a pep assembly during school, My fellow student body officers and I had worked hard organiz- ing this assembly. The bell for dismissal rang and everyone crowded into the hallway on the way to the gym. This assembly was put together like other basketball assemblies. The Pledge of Allegiance followed by the National Anthem would officially start it off. Cheerleaders would give a cheer to get everyone enthusiastic before the coaches thanked the students for their support and congratulated the teams on their ef- forts. The best parts of the assembly would be the skit put on by the student officers and the class competitions. Stu- dents always enjoyed seeing people from their own classes compete with other classes in a mock game made up by the officers of the school. Last would come the spirit war shouted between one side of the gym and the other until the cheerleaders threw candy in to the excited crowd. The gym was almost completely filled by this time with students waiting for the entertainment to begin. I hoped this bas- ketball assembly would go well. But why shouldn't it? L.. -'Us ,, . A is K at 413' am- 'le -' -s 5-vfti 1 Vi. 'r Q S5 au' X , ..- ONE OF Tlili liagle stteakers. Brian Ifidlcr. flashes the camera a smile, A'l THE HND OIT Tllli ASSIENIIEIX, cheerleaders throw candy to the Hpepped- up crowd, .'.' liaskut lull Assellllrlx'

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v' . 1.1 Trzzmpeter Gets onors The audience sat on the edge of their seats as the soloist started his recital. The last clear notes hung in the evening air as the crowd lept to their feet and applauded loudly for the Capital High School senior. jason Parra had once again daz- zled the listeners with another stunning perfor- mance. Parra, who has been playing the trumpet since only the ninth grade, has been given one of the greatest honors that a high school musician can entries to march in the McDonald's All-Ameri- can High School Band. He and 103 other stu- dents from all over the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands participated in ma- jor parades such as Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York and the Tournament of Roses Parade in California. Parra was involved in Pep Band, Band, Brass Choir, jazz Band, BSU jazz Band and was a musician for Capital Singers. i85 Memories The 11 ezmous Disease AIDS, the acronymn for Acquired Immune Defi- ciency Syndrom, has been around for a long time, but has just begun to surface. Most doctors, let alone the public. had never even heard of AIDS before. All ofa sudden there was a deadly disease that no one knew about. An epidemic of fear raced through the nation. Information and misinforma- tion about the disease were everywhere. The uncer- tainty about AIDS led to some major changes in society. New methods of technology have been invented to test blood for the AIDS virus. As fear increases, segregation of homosexuals increases. Advertising and protest marches try to dispel unrea- sonable fear and educate the public. There are those who talk about making AIDS obsolete and there are those who act. For example, Burt Bacharach, com- poser and musician, wrote a song sung by Dionne Warwick and Friends. All the proceeds went to the l receive. He has been chosen out of thousands of effort of finding a cure for AIDS. What Novembrma' I had just gone upstairs to hop into a nice warm shower when my mother called my name. Rachel, come here! she yelled. I yelledfback that I was going to start my shower. No, sorry! came the reply. We have to save the bushes! Unfortunately I knew what this meant so I put layers upon layers of clothing on my body and grabbed an old broom. Then I went out to save the bushes, which meant I had to knock five inches of heavy snow off of, what seemed 1ike,,50,000 bushes. Those an hourseof manual labor were a pungent reminder ofthe coldest Novern: ber in Boise history. . A 7 I I 'S Even though there was still a month and ahalf until winter, Mother Nature didn't hold back. Her impatience to start winter was displayed by giving Idaho's State Capital the coldest and snowiest fall that has ever been recorded since 1864. In November, alone, ten record-low temperatures were recorded and nine A records were set for lowest maximum temperature. The average temperature during November was 27.7 been recorded before November of '85 recorded three below zero tempera- tures. After the temperature plummeted below freezing on November 17, the temperature remained below freezing for the remainder of the month. Snowfall also set a new November record with a total of 18.6 inches, burying the previous record of 14 inches in 1896. And yet another record was broken: that of greatest snow depth at any one time. The old record, which was estimated at ten inches in 1896, was broken with the measure- ment of twelve inches this November. , As I cameiin from outside, sweating despite the freezing weather, my mother tried to console me by telling me what fun I'd have recollecting this experience to my grandchildren. As I peeled the wet layers of clothing off, I told her that I'd tell them. But I'm going to tell them in California. which broke the 1880-record of 31.5 degrees.Only one below zero temperature November date had 1-l Current Iivents . -A M