Esperanza High School - Quetzal Yearbook (Anaheim, CA)

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Inflation drives Steve Fusaro to a life of crime. Here Fusaro threatens students in a shop class with a power drill. Many students found themselves repairing their used cars because inflation made it virtually impossi- ble to afford a new car or to have a professional mechanic repair their present cars. Here auto shop teacher Stan Davolt offers advice to Todd Shaw about repairs on his Volkswagen. Senior Matt Ellsworth, like other students, found it necessary to hold down a part time job to make ends meet. Unemployment, the highest rate in years spi- ralled in the Southland after the closing of General Motors' South Gate plant. theme

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Inflation is affecting all walks of life Ten years ago a yearbook cost 55. Tick- ets to a dance would be had for 57. An ASB Card was only 55. A tank of gas for the average car was, at most, 511. Today, a yearbook costs upwards of 514 Tickets to Winter Formal are 520 per couple. ASB Cards are 510. A tank of gas could cost up to 530. The cost of housing is exorbitant. Many more transients can be seen on the coun try's roads. Inflation has hit everyone. Grade infla- tion is a complaint from the universities and colleges who have inflated their tu- itions to cover the higher cost of educa- tion. Wages have not increased in the same percentage as prices have risen, the dollar just doesn't go as far today as it did in 1973. Then the minimum wage was about 52.10. Today it is 53.35. But the money a worker receives today for working for one hour does not go as far as the mon- ey a 1973 worker had. Government fig- ures show that inflation is higher than any time period since the decade prior to the Great Depression. Grade inflation has obviously not hit Mike Sugar's consumer education class. Sugar, an honor's student, is appalled at the failing grade teacher Mike Smith has just given him. 5 , v Inflation seems to have hit everyone at all levels of f ' economic life. Prices for dances such as the one that 'ii Tom Leineberg and Julie Wagner attended have skyrocketed. 8 - theme Wu.

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QJHDW History teacher Fred Brown, who has taught here since 1974, found the jelly bean in a plate of whipped cream at the opening pep assembly. The joke was on Brown because the other participants, Nadine Elwood, Larry Qrtega and George Allen, had conspired not to dive face first into their plates of whipped cream. Senior Ron Frazelle donates blood at the Student Council Blood Drive. The Red Cross has come on campus 5 times since 1977, more blood, 96 pints were donated this year than ever before. theme l.