Carson High School - Carneta Yearbook (Carson City, NV)

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SPEECH AND DEBATE: Front Row: Kendra Walsun, Katie Arevalo, An- drea LaNave, Robin Arevalo. Back Row: Dee Elliott, Quintin Rowley, Sean Roach, josef Merrill, Karen Collins. Getting the Point speech and debate team consisted of thirteen students. They met on Tuesdays and Thursdays after school from 2:30 to 3:30 and on Saturdays prior to a tournament from 8 to noon. At every tournament there were usually ten to twenty other schools competing. During the year, the Speech and Debate team hosted a fund raiser tournament. The theme was the drug problem . It gave many students a chance to have a say in the controversial matter. Many parents and teachers don ' t listen to our students. This debate gave them a chance to voice their thoughts about drugs while authori- ty figures listened, said Mr. McGranaghan. The judges for the tournament consisted of policemen, detectives and other law enforcers. 176

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Aclassi Ape case ■«8B I resent being called an ape! Kelly Goodwin gaped as she peered at the heading on her first AP English assign- ment sheet. Now, a year later, Mrs. Cooper ' s classes are used to being referred to as A.P.E.s, standing for advanced place- ment English. Occasionally her third period class had been known to behave like apes, in between classic novels and relative clauses, of course. Showing a streak of originality and perhaps a hint of boredom, third period took to drawing on the transparencies Mrs. Cooper was so fond of. It wasn ' t hard to recognize an A. P. English student. They were the ones with bright yellow Punctuation Pockets clutched in their hands, mumbling about why Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights hates dogs. Mrs. Cooper, wondering how sup- posedly intellectual students could be so rowdy, quoted Leon Bloy, a French novelist When you ask Cod to send you trials, you may be sure your prayers will be granted. by Betty Taylor Michelle Struthers discusses the meaning of an essay with Julie Rooker and Peter Fischer during thria period A. P. English. lason King intently reads The Heart o( Darkness , a required book ior all A. P. English classes. Third Period

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II 1 Hitting the right note Miss Smithwick ' s choir was a small class, but what they lacked in size was made up for by their sound. Some of the choir ' s activities included singing a Christmas concert and a spring concert, and selling chocolate bars to pay for new uniforms. the two students who qualified to hold the two honor choir positions were Suzie Cott- schalk and Melissa Supera. I have to sing harder, but it does sound better than regular choir, said junior Suzie Gottschalk. Vicki Guess said, I get satisfaction out of singing a song and getting it right. The advan- tages are that you learn how to sing the right way. Anybody could sign up. Vicki said, They have to want to sing and they have to try. Miss Smithwick is willing to help anybody who wants to sing, but if they just want it for an easy grade, aon ' t bother taking it! It ' s really work. CHOIR: Front Row: Melissa Supera, Suzie Gottschalk, Second Row: Rosalie HInton, Gloria Wungnema, Heather Williams. Third Row: Laska Wallace, Crystal Chandler, Robin Arevalo, Miss Smithwick. Back Row: Alex Schiarrotta, Shelly Corkey, Alberta Orlando, Gary Rider, Ralph Hicks. Miss Smithwick leads the resonant voices of Kelly Dodge, Ralph Hicks, and Gary Rider in song while below Shelly Corkey, Alberta Orlando, Gloria Wungnema and Rosalie Hinton join in harmony. Choir Speech and Debate J;