Eldorado High School - Sunburst Yearbook (Las Vegas, NV)

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MRS JEAN BECKSTEAD IN DEDICATION T0

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Most Conceited: Teddy Ranshaw 8: April Mungary Most Bizzare: Sean Foerst 8: Angel Borchardt Prettiest Hair: Doug Morris 8: Rhonda Stroh SENIORS 39

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Each person who teaches school should be a drscrple of Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson though he drslrked collectrve socrety Socrety everywhere rs rn consprracy agarnst the manhood of every one of rts members had rnfrnrte respect for the rndrvrdual Man rs hrs own star A teacher must have thrs same outlook He must be able to see past the horde rn the hall undulatrng slowly and norsly past the wrgglrng mass rn the classroom talkrng rncessently and shrrlly past the frckle mob at a ball game shrrekrng unceasrngly and raucously to the rndrvrdual to the one And Iookrng at the one the teacher must be able to drscern the potentral hrdrng behrnd rndrfference and be wrllrng to prod that potentral untrl it begrns to strr He must be able to probe past all the posrng and procrastrnatron and help each student choose the dradems and not the fagots that each day presents He must see as Emerson drd that part of God that rs rn each puprl A man rs the facade ofa temple wherern all wisdom and all good abrde To paraphrase the gentle poet and phrlosopher A teacher knows not what argument Hrs lrfe to hrs students creed has lent Both are needed by each one Neither rs farr or good alone Wlth such a creed a teacher can be happy J Beckstead Recently I was aked the questron How does the yearbook staff decrde to whom the yearbook will be dedrcated7 As many hundreds of people come and go through thrs school rt would seem to be a tough decrsron and it rs When a person dedrcates hrs lrfe to educatron rt automatrcally means that rn exchange for many years of personal educatron and sacrrfrce he wrll never recerve enough recognrtron apprecratron salary respect or courtesy to make the Job worthwhrle Therefore rn my estrmatron anyone who decrdes to be a teacher deserves recognrtron Thrs makes the decrsron even tougher So how do we narrow rt down? In decrdrng who rs the greatest of the great the crrterron rs who grves above and beyond the call of duty? When one isn t berng pard enough for the trme that he rs assrgned to devote grvrng beyond that rs clearly a mark of true dedrcatron Thrs year we are dedrcatrng the Sunburst yearbook to Jean Beckstead Jean rs one of these specral people who grves unselfrshly of her trme Durrng the frrst year that Eldorado was open Mrs Beckstead was the advrsor for the Sunburst yearbook and also advrsed The Advocate school newspaper After turnrng the newspaper over to another staff member she contrnued to advrse the school yearbook for several years She suffered through the labor parns of creatrng a yearbook for thrs school for several years She created a tradrtron of excellence for the advrsors who have followed her Today she strll spends many after school hours supervrsrng the Tall Flags We the staff edrtors and advrsor of the Sunburst yearbook wrsh to thank Jean Beckstead for her vrsion of excellence her selfless grft of trme for Eldorado s students and her unwaverrng commrttment to berng a teacher first last and always Jean we grve you our thanks our respect and our love JL Pomeroy Advrsor Sunburst Yearbook . 1 . . n . . . . . . 11 , 1 1 1 . . . . u . 1 11 . , . . 1 , 1 , . 1 , . . . . n . 11 u 11 . . . . n 1 . 1 1 - 1 . 11 1 u . . . 1 1 1 . . 11 , . . n . 1 1 . 11 . . . . . 1 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 . - 1 . 1 1 u 1 11 1 . 1 . 1 . . 1 - 1 . 1 1 - . 1 1 1 . . 1 . . . 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 DEDICATION 41