Gateway High School - Olympiad Yearbook (Aurora, CO)

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226 Seniors S. Closs Officers of 1982: Eric Whipple, Suzi Rusho, Terri Von Spreybroecls, ond Debby Moore. We oll come to school os lsindergorteners, every one of us bright- eyed ond scored. But it wos when we begon school thot we storted to molse friends, friends thot would be with us throughout our school lives. Grode school wos the fun time for most of us. Homeworls wos unl-:nown to us yet. All our doys consisted of wos going to school ond just coming home to go outside ond ploy, lt wos o time when the girls were with the girls ond the boys were with the boys on the ployground. We even thought thot eoch other hod contocted o diseose we coiled lsooties. Lunch ond recess were the most popu- lor suqects, ond we even hod two times to ploy, We were young, innocent ond hoppy. Middle School begon for us ond we were thrown together with other kids from different grode schools. lt wos in Middle School thot we begon to form our little groups of friends. Girls would coll eoch other up on the telephone the night before weoring o dress just to molxe sure thot they hod o crusode of friends behind them. The boys weren't oble to live through o doy without ploying smeor the queer on the ployground. Middle school wos o time for growing up. With the chonges, we begon to tolse on interest in the opposite sex. We no longer hod to pretend thot'we didn't core for gitlsfboys. School become o little bit horder os we were introduced to homef worls. We were growing ond chonging to young odults. As ninth groders, we oll come to Gotewoy bewildered. Everything wos so bigz the sizes of our closses, the size of the building ond the size of of the Seniors! We were the youngest ond people sure piclsed on us! Being the littlest did come olong with it's priviledges though, On the most port, our closses were o breeze, ond we could get owoy with octing immoture ond molsing mistolses just becouse we were freshmen, We ottended our first pep ossemblies ond sporting events ond goined o sense of belonging ond spirit, It wos during our fresh- mon yeor thot we elected Morls Pursley to serve us os our closs president ond thot we chose Jeff Gruenwold ond Michelle Mitchell os our Homecoming Count ond Countess. By the time thot we were sophomores, the thing thot we were hoppiest obout wos not being freshmen onymore, We felt proud ond goined confidence in the foct thot we were no longer the youngest closs. Our sophomore yeor seemed to be o time of true belonging. We joined clubs ond went out for sports -- most of us for the first time. We were proud of our school ond closs ond proud to be o port of them. lt wos during our sophomore yeor thot the USA. Hocl-xey Teom beot the Russions. It wos on Olympic, election, ond o leop yeor. lt wos in 1980 thot Ronold Reogon wos elected to be president of the United Stotes. It wos o yeor for feeling good ond for feeling proud, By the time thot our junior yeor rolled oround, we begon to lilse school better. We hod the honor of sitting in between the bond ond the seniors ot pep ossemblies ond being coiled upper clossmen. Our footboll teom finolly hod o winning seoson ond some of us ottended our first Prom put on by our own closs. Our junior yeor wos olso o time for drug busts os undercover cops invoded the school. Ourjunior yeor wos olso o time to become preppie os lzods goined populor- ity. ln essence, our junior yeor wos o time to stort thinlsing obout roising our GPA's ond tolsing ACT's ond SAT's in preporotion for the future. We hod become seniors ond we hod mode it together! Mony of us hod cought the dreoded diseose senioritis, We lenew just how mony doys were left till groduotion ond begon to count them down eorly in the yeor. During our senior yeor we were the best! We won our first homecoming footboll gome, the closs floot competition, ond the spirit sticls ot olmost every pep ossembly. There wos no doubt thot we hod spirit, we were proud of ourselves ond our school. We hod mode it through credit checks, college opplicotions, ordering cops, gowns, ond onnouncements, ond exchonging telephone num' bers ond senior pictures oll on the woy to groduotion. We hod mode our friends olong the woy ond now groduotion meont o porting for some of these friendships, we didn't lsnow whether to be hoppy or sod. We lived, loved, ond loughed together, We will never forget our experiences here ot Gotewoy High School. Gotewoy will never forget the closs of 1982! The Class 0f 1982