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SUIYIIYIEIR IYIAGAZINEI When you thought of summer, the first thing thot come to mind wos thot it wos o breok: o breok from the hectic poce of the school holls, o breok from getting up eorly to go to school, o breok from oll those tests ond quizzes thot we stoyed up holf the night to study for. Of course mony of us did hove to work, but most everyone found the time to enjoy themselves. One populor ploce to go during the sum- mer wos Cherry Creek Reservoir. Creek, os it wos known, offered us o chonce to relox ond get out in the sun. It provided on oceonlike otmosphere in the middle of the Rocky Mountoins, ond chonces were thot you could find o kegger or just o bunch of friends during the course of the doy. As Sr. Kelli Smith stored, I liked Cherry Creek be- couse I like to woter-ski ond swim ond just goof oround, Thot's the reoson thot most of us went. Another port of our summer wos con- certs, ond the fovorite site for these wos Red Rocks Pork neor Morrison, CO. Red Rocks combined its noturol outdoors beouty ond its greot ocoustics to moke it on ideol ploce for o Hconcert under the storsf' The greot thing obout Red Rocks, soid Sr, Kris English, is thot you con toke some food ond stuff ond go with o bunch of friends ond just spend the whole doy in the sun ond then see o greot concert ot night. With such feotured performers os the Moody Blues, the Beoch Boys, ond Pot Benotor, Red Rocks once ogoin proved to be the ploce to go for concerts. A different, yet still entertoining, port of summer were the comps. It seemed thot when we weren't in school, we were pre- poring for it. The yeorbook stoff members went to Colorodo Store University to plon the yeorbook, while the Vorsity cheer- Ieoders ond Pom-Pons were olso there por- ticiporing in o troining comp, There, the Vor- sity squod took o Superior oword ond the Poms got on Outstonding, The othletes got in on the fun, too, os both the footboll ond bosketboll ployers troined for the upcoming seosons. At Regis College, kicker Bill Bell, defensive bock Bernie Wolker, wide receiv- er Jeff Ruyboll, defensive linemon Rob Zo- lonko, ond running bock Joson Johnson were oll nomed os the best ployers ot their respective positions. The hoopsters olso worked hord ond received voluoble exper- ience ot their comp in Loromie, Wyoming, Perhops the most interesting comp wos ot- tended by Sr. Mike Murphy, who we-nt TO New London, Connecticut, where the Coost Guord Acodemy is Iocoted. The purpose there wos to ocquoint prospective young men ond women who ore interested in somedoy ottending the Acodemy ond the octions of the Coost Guord, Murphy wos 14 Summer Mogozine one of only twelve Colorodoons ond op- proximotely 150 high school students from oll over the United Stores to be selected to ottend this mini boot comp. It involved o week of getting up eorly, rigorous exercise, ond hord studying. Murphy summed up the entire week by soying, 'lit wos o lot of hord work, but I hod fun. I mode some friends there ond bosicolly hod o good time. Probobly the port of summer thot most of us looked forword to is going on vocotion. If we even got to go, it wos usuolly to the mountoins, or Yellowstone Notionol Pork, or the Grond Conyon. Wow! The luckier ones got to go to Florido, or moybe even I-Iowoii. There were o few exceptions to the Voce-I tion BIues, however. Students from Gore- woy got to go to Mexico with Mrs. Mory Joseph, o Sponish teocher, Among those who went were Sr. KeIIi Smith, Sr. Liso How- ord, Sr. Melonie Edson, ond Jr. Doug Wil- Iioms. Their first stop wos Mozorlon, where mosr of the group ogreed thot the best time wos hod, Next wos Mexico City, where the students were shown historic Mexico by some tour guides. They stoyed there for three doys ond then ,went on to Pueblo, where they stoyed with their fomiIIes. This stoy losted obout two weeks, ond while they were there, they did o voriety of things. Sometimes they went to porties, or they went to movies, or got out ond ployed soccer, or just stoyed home ond tolked with their brothers ond sisters. All in oII, soid Doug Willioms, I hod o greot time meeting oll the people ond being with my fomily ond doing oll the different things. It wos reolly o greot vocotion. Another person who hod on interesting vocotion wos Sr. Deboroh Echols. She ond o group of 20 students went to Europe this summer through o progrom mode ovoiloble by o group coiled Phoenix lnternotionol Closs- rooms. She went for four weeks ond while she wos there covered some of the best known spots in Europe, While in Fronce, she sow the fomous pointing, The Mono Liso. She olso sow the Eiffel Tower, ond when she wos in Rome sow the Coliseum ond the remoins of the fomous Romon' Empire. Deb- bie olso went to Switzerlond ond Austrio ond sow the Alps, which she climbed. With oII these greot ploces thot she sow, which one wos her fovorite? YugosIovio, replied Echols. After seeing oII those monuments, I guess it wos o chonge of poce. We got to cross the Adriotic Seo, ond it wos exciting being on o boot. We were reolly scored ot first, going to o Communist country, but when we got there, we were reolly sur- prised, The people were so innocent ond trusting, ond very friendly, it wos peoceful ond o chonge of poce ofter doing oll the sightseeing .