Chaparral High School - Golden Embers Yearbook (Scottsdale, AZ)

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2 Wil Haas iuaoitatcaiitag in UQ QQCQ 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. . .BLAST 0FF!l!! What was that? 't0h, iustanother one of Mr. Knutsons rockets. Rockets? Yeah, the kids built and launched their own rockets. One landed in some lady's pool. Aside from trying to conquer outer space, Mr. Paul Knutson's physics classes had halloween parties and even played with slinkies to learn about weight propagation. While the others were playing with slinkies, lVlr. David Pile's biology classes went on a field trip to the U of A extension farm, where they took a tour, and heard researchers speak on how agriculture applies to every day living. Another field trip was to the cotton research farm where scientists spoke on how and where they work. Biology classes also had labs in which they did experiments such as disecting frogs and burning walnuts to find out about energy calories in them. Films, too, helped the students learn more about the biological world. Peter Saufferer, one of Mr. Doug Waldrop's students, said, We saw a fantastic movie on worms. Chemistry gave Donna Casey a bit of a scare when sodium and water blew up in her face after a test tubeful dropped. This frightening episode passed quickly and the experiment continued. While not'everyone got such a bang out of science, most were at least appreciative. After all, according to Stacy Ekrom, lt kept me off the streets.

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N 6 18 Science 1. left Mongon, Dale Francis, and Todd Curtis burn walnuts in biology class to learn about energy calories in them. 2. Chuck Davis, Tim Freese, Gregg Hedger, Marc Krakow, and Mr. Paul Knutson experiment with a telsa coil in his physics class. 3. Vicki Twietmeyer writes down data about a lab done in biology. 4. Lynn Holbrook watches the Van de Graaf generator as eventually her hair will stand on end. 5. lay Roberts finds a design on an occilloscope for physics. 6. Mr. Paul Knutson checks to make sure all is in working order before a launch of his physics classes' rockets. 7. left Brown focuses his microscope in biology as he studies cells. 8. Mark Schaffer tugs the end of a slinkie as he gives an example of weight propagation. -5,353 -ro 1

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20 Golden Embers Plight of the gearbooh staffers time, patience, empty weekends Yearbook adviser Mrs. Margaret Stevens had her hands full with more than M of the '76 Golden Embers staff new. The Z3-member staff took a week out of their summer vacation to learn to write copy, make layouts, and sell ads. Ads were slow, so in order to make more money, the staff had a sock hop to hand out supplements. While profits were made, up to S50 had to be paid to students to replace lost shoes. Because Chaparral jumped from 1300 to 1600 kids, the Golden Embers staff found it more difficult to make sure all school activities were covered and deadlines met. Saturdays seemed longer than 24 hours when photographers went in the darkroom at 9 and didn't emerge 'til 5. Deadlines were especially hard to meet when Mrs. Stevens had the wrong date as she did for the first one. Another deadly deadline was December 12-the last day to buy a yearbook. No one seemed to remember to buy one, so to spark memories the staff wore firehats for 3 weeks to promote the Golden Embers. Yearbook production was mare than the staff had bargined for, but through rain or snow or sleet or hail the '76 staff never failed for hardly every Q p,f,,,,,, Q