Dana Hills High School - Mast Yearbook (Dana Point, CA)

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CTf v - 1 B i GUSH Teachers Were Teen-agers Too High school is the best time of your life ; so say many teachers. Why else would they choose to spend the rest of their lives there? The Mast found the teaching staff eager to reminisce about their own high school years. According to most of the teachers interviewed, teenagers haven ' t changed much, but the way they spend their time has. Friday afternoons were spent listening to the juke box at the malt shop, and on a good weekend night there was a sock hop to go to. Ms. Spagoolini spent her free time in San Francisco (where she went to high school) modeling Christian Dior clothes, while Mr. Rouse was trying to sneak into drive-ins in the trunk of a friend ' s car. Indeed, drive-ins were the most popular pastime in the ' 50 ' s and ' 60 ' s, but Mr. Butler and Ms. Irwin admitted to such juvenile pranks as toilet papering people ' s houses, and Mr. Buterji and Mr. Quirk could be found playing poker (penny ante, of course). One of the best ways to learn about an era is to listen to its slang; the teaching staff recalled some really strange words. If you said skag , george , boss , groovy , raunchy , keen , frostie , far-out , butterry , hairy , or ace , you were talking about something good. On the other hand, rank , uncouth , chop , ■ or dippy were just the opposite. It ' s snowing down south was a polite way J to tgll a girl that her slip was showing, | hubba hubba was a way to :ribe boogie phoopies and ; winkie pherples (a great looking guy ; or girl). So a typical sentence might be, Hey! Didya hear about that boss BiBce? Everything was really frostie, : everyone was groovy until some itick came and started actin ' really Outh; but SO- -SO pounded him. It ; really rank. — You figure it out. 1. Dashing Mike Gaskins, seen here at his prom, ■■- invented a board game with some friends whik- |.wasn ' i busy being MVP of (he swimming s of ' 57 at Torrance High .School, IJitn Smith, had some really wild times j freshmen into the Senior Pond and greased pigs around a flooded football ,ubert. voted Friendliest and Most Ail-Around by his peers, graduated in 1963 from North High School. J spot Donna DiLoreto in this picture of the Ambridge High School cheerlcading squad? ■ . Running the 200 and 400 on San Cicmente ' s track team helped Tim Butler (o win the Athlete of the Year Award in with his mother as hi.s sophomore English teacher. Buchheim managed to survive high school.

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Teachers the Ropes Five new faces appeared on the faculty in September. They came from different backgrounds yet shared several common bonds, notably an Orange County education. Steve Crapo, an alumnus of this school, graduated in ' 77 as a Wall of Famer. Coming back to his home town, he felt the students ' styles and languages had changed, but the general atmosphere stayed the same. Mr. Crapo ' s homecoming was inspired by an affinity for history, the subject he began teaching in the fall. Along with coaching girls ' basketball, Crapo also used his athletic experience by serving as a sprint coach for the track team. Another new addition, Leigh Ann Baker, was a graduate of San Clemente High School. It took time for her to adapt to the laid-back yet closed-in ambience of the Dana Hills campus. Ms. Baker ' s only real problem in fitting in was her young appearance which had all the science department wondering why there was a student at Ms. Baker ' s desk. Working as a tutor in her fourth year of college inspired her to apply for her teaching credential and major in science. Along with Ms. Baker, Lisa Stephens also joined the science department, because of her love for school. If she . were not teaching, she said, she would still be enrolled and learning even more. The English department also welcomed two new faces; Teresa Falcone and Debbie Hatheway. After her first day, Ms. Falcone felt satisfaction with the audience that could not get up and leave. Her graduation from U.C.I. enabled her to become first a student teacher, then a regular at Dana Hills. Debbie Hatheway ' s main reason for her involvement in teaching was her longing i for change. She enjoyed people and things which are not static and feels that adolescents are just that. 1. Mr. Crapo ' s youth and sense of humor make him a favorite with his students. When I teach and answer questions, I learn as much as the students, comments Ms. Stephens after helping a confused Debbie Daly. 3. Ms. Baker discovers the bane of all teachers: grading papers. 4. Being a speech teacher, Ms. Hatheway is at home speaking in front of a crowd. A 4 Learning