Esperanza High School - Quetzal Yearbook (Anaheim, CA)

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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.

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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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We Veterans set all important school rituals Tradition is more important to an estab- lishment It is the people who frequent an estab- lishment who set its traditions. Al- though this school has only been in exis- tence for a short ten years, some traditions are as ingrained and as unbrea- kable as they would be had they been set Principal Al Hawkins, who has been on this cam- pus since the school was still a vacant lot, talks with students at break. Hawkins was an assistant princi- pal prior to his 1981 appointment as principal. contest. age in Mexico. 1 oo years ago. Mike Smith's tradition of collecting more canned food for the Christmas Drive has never been broken, or even se- riously challenged. The playing of col- lege fight songs over the P.A. system on game days is another ritual that has per- petuated itself. The method of selection for the Homecoming Court is yet an- other tradition. All of these traditions have been set by people, people who have been here from the start and who have perpetuated these important rituals. 26 of the original faculty and staff mem- bers remain. Blindfolded senior football players Brian Campbell and Jeff Taylor participate in a pep assembly activ- ity. Campbell and Taylor won the ice cream eating Mike Smith, who has taught and coached here since 1972, challenges his classes to beat all other classes in the canned food drive. Smith set his own tradition years ago and has been increasing the number of canned goods he can turn over to members of senior Veronica Castillo's family, who take it to an orphan- theme - II