Eldorado High School - El Aguila Yearbook (Albuquerque, NM)

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ll! Industrial Arts Os Below. from lefi to righh Pete Fitzpa- trick, Susan Carpenter and Tom Farrar. Above. from left lo right: Philip Frolin, Max Forrest, Danny Moon, Richard Haase, Wiley 'leel and Rob Mangold.

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From left to right: Ron Lipka, David Aslin, Stuart Fessinger, Wayne Thelander and George Nason. Mr. Lipka is Applauded The dedication and hard work of Mr. Lipka, one of Eldorado's band directors. payed off. The proof was receiving the Albuquerque Distinguished Teacher Award. i His students were pleased that he was awarded the Distinguished Teacher title and they think he's the best! He's married and has a daughter and a son. Mr. Lipka had been teaching at Eldorado for fourteen years out of his twenty six years of directing New Mexico High School musicians. He expected a lot from his students, but he was willing to put the time in for them, said Eldorado senior Jerome Gomez, president of the schooI's student body. He can play all band instruments, but his speciality is the trumpet. He likes jazz and said he would someday like to lead his own jazz band after he retires from teaching. As director of the five Eldorado bands, he has inspired greatness. For example, the Golden Eagle Marching Band was the best performer in the Pageant of the Bands, held in October. He puts a lot of long hours in his career, and this is vitally important. It is not unusual for him to put in a twenty-hour day. ' Eldorado applaudes Mr. Lipka on his well deserved award. Left: Lauren l.eder: Performing Arts Q Q ...I

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Hard ork Pays Gff For the last few years, the Eldorado Math Department has sponsored extensive and necessary fundraisers in hopes of acquiring enough money to update the computer room. This year their dream finally came true. With the money from candy sales, paper drives, can collecting and other miscelan- eous fundraising, the Math Department was able to purchase twelve new IBM PC computers for their use in Computer Science classes. Previously, the department had a card feeder and a total of two terminals. They, thus, had twice as many terminals than could be found in the rest of the APS high schools. The computers weren't exactly a dream come true. Now the Math Department has found itself troubled by lack of space. The computer room, today. contains about fourteen terminals and lecture seating for about thirty people. Unfortunately. the room provided lacks this space, and the students found themselves bottled in. There were several solutions for this space problem. but none seemed without compromise. Possibly. the most promising was waiting until the new high school opens in l986 Top Row from left to right: Glenden Casteel, Ed Bisetti. Sandra Matthews. Susan Marquez, .lim Griscom. Susan Herrera and Doris Bowen. Middle Row: Mike Sandry, Scout Veitch. Sandra Radigan, Sally Marquez. Neil McBeth and Susan Letzkus. Front Row: Frances Kapka. Harriet Barner and John Masoncup. Fore- ground: Roger Mikeal and Jim Kohr.' and expanding into the space created by a drop in enrollment. ln I 986. a computer course will be part of the re- quired curriculum. The Math Department will be di- vided, and a new Computer Department will be created. Then, computer courses will no longer grant math credit but will be a necessary and separate credit. This year, the Home Eco- nomics Department also purchased computers. They bought a total of thirty Ap- ple lles for use in a computer literacy program. This pro- gram is designed to teach students the basics of BASIC and other computer func- tions and will begin in l986. Richart Gruette Carol Koblinski 45. Mathematics