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

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MiMMi mm mm arey Hubert (Special Educa- on}: collects sports memorabil- ; has taught here since 1975; 1 ill enjoy coming to school most lomings. Steve Imbllli (Foreign Language): regrets not singing with the Sex Pis- tols; feels that everyone with a 2.0 GPA should be valedictorian; has taught here for eight years. Marianne Irwin (English): collects music boxes; regrets not becoming a trial attorney; wishes that today ' s youth would put more emphasis on a strong family background. Art Jenkins (Social Science): has been teaching school for sixteen years; favorite things include vaca- tioning in Southern Mexico, playing tennis, or just kicking back ; feels that Dana Hills students should be excited about learning and cherish the friendships they make here. mMkt 59

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l ia! MrSfe This year Dana Hills hired five new teachers: Ms. Blake of the Special Educa- tion department; Mr. Chapman, an American history teacher and baseball coach; Mr. Sulli- van, a science teacher and water polo coach; Ms. Warman, an English teach- er, speech and debate teacher and pageantry corps advisor; and Ms. Fowler, an ESL teacher. Ms. Blake found her responsibilities as a special ed. teacher overwhelming, but not insurmountable. She taught school in Long Beach and Redlands prior to coming to Dana Hills. Mr. Chapman, rookie history teacher, voiced his philosophy of teaching: If I can make kids want to come to class because it ' s fun, I can teach them any- thing. 1 believe in being a leader in- stead of a manager. Mr. Chapman coached J.V. baseball. A face appeared this year that made many ' 81 teachers quail. After a mere eight years, Mike Sullivan returned. only this time as a science teacher. He also served as a water polo coach and senior class advisor. Ms. Warman is not new to the teaching profession, having taught for over ten years. She arrived at Dana Hills sec- ond semester and taught freshman and sophomore English, speech and de- bate, and pageantry corps. Happiest when she is in the classroom situa- tion, she professed to be excited with being at Dana Hills. When Ms. Fowler first arrived on cam- pus, she was shocked by the class sizes and the inability of the school district to help, She advises her ESL students to read, and she accepts them for their similarities rather than their differences, Ms. Fowler also lived in Brazil for three years, -s.b. 1. Mr. Sullivan carefully lets Julius Squeezer wrap around his body. 2. Jose Pina ' s essay brings a smile to the face of Ms. Fowler. 3. Ms, Warman engages in friendly conversa- tion with Dawn Warnock on the way to class. 4. Stacy McCarver gets help from Mr. Chap- man on a Civil War assignment. 5. Ms, Blake and Herb Langfeld enjoy the A,SU luncheon. «M«MMM MMMMft mmm0m IMiMMM MM md Debbie Hatheway (English): would love to be a rich Victorian lady; wish- es that teenagers would try to be less narrow-minded; One is always haunted by the impact of one ' s deeds. Robert Heylmun (English): would like to be a university professor; is happy being a teacher; I make changes, I hope, every day in today ' s youth, Chuck Hoover (Social Science): hopes to climb Mt, Everest (if his leg injuries permit); once built a snow slide down the steps of the U,S, Capi- tol Building; would like to see less emphasis on money in choosing a profession. Virginia Houts (Math): wants to be reincarnated as a dragon rider of Peru; drove down Lombard Street in San Francisco in a car without brakes; If you ' re not part of the solution, then you ' re part of the problem. 58 m6mi0

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Chrlsta Jurgenson (Foreign Language): has traveled around the world twice; would like to see more curiosity and more learn- ing for the sake of learning in today ' s youth. Diane Kams (English): eats chocolate when under stress; remembers this embarrasing moment: Once a fly flew into my mouth while I was singing in a performance and I had to swallow it! John Klink (Physical Education): enjoys fly- fishing; coaches football and track; has been in construction; If something can go wrong, it will! Dee Landreth (English): hates the motel 6 orange paint in some of the classrooms; used to play school as a child and gave tons of homework to the 5-year-old kids. 60 ojinimk On the cutting edge of educational technol- ogy, Dana Hills made severed strides forward this year. For the first time in Dana Hills ' history, the spring newspapers and the year- book supplement were produced via desk- top publishing, a method which enabled stu- dents to do their own typesetting in the classroom. Mr. Prestridge busied himself by expeuiding the composition com puter lab in his classroom. His students were thus able to utilize the available word processors during their English class. After receiving funds from the ROP program and the school district, Dana Hills established the new Content Computer Lab. Twenty new IBM computers were opened to all departments. Additional software was bought by lottery funding. In the science department, Mr. Cunningham developed an apara- tus which enables him and his students to successfully predict the weather. After receiving a $4,000 grant from the state, Mr. Dunn and Mr. Smith established a high-tech laser disc system. With high caliber pictures, this machine shows students in detail a diverse range of scientific phenomena, including cell division and DNA replication, -k.g. » ' , ' Hi ' ,