Gateway High School - Olympiad Yearbook (Aurora, CO)

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i 7 I Counter Cloclxwise from lefrf Srs. John Henderson ond Milse Dowse rnolae beourifol girls on Opposife Doy. Soph. Chris Hoyes is o flower girl of rhe oO's, Soph. Milse Ross proudly disploys his 5O's Dey look. Mr Berrger poses cosoolly hoping ro be sporred for rhe nexr cover of Lodies Home Journol. Srs. Jeff Kuehn ond Julie Colli don ploid shirrs ond jeons os they show rhelr spirir on Western Doy. Srs. Mike Roffino, Lindo Chimenro, ond Torn Yonushlso show rhe rrue ponl-2 imoge on Punk Psocl-2 Doy. ,si 4, Spirir Weels 10

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OLY PRIDE IS SI-ICJWING Spirit Week 1981 proved once ogoin thot the Olys were proud to show their true colors, This wos the first time during the new school yeor when Gotewoy students got o chonce to show their school spirit ond fierce sense of competition os they reodied them- selves for the Homecoming Gome. From doy One, everyone worked hord to de- fend their titlei they were tough, they were rowdy, they were Olympions. Keeping up with the times ond trends, punk rockers showed us their 'new wove of spirit this yeor, by conforming to the unwritten rules set by such bonds os Devo, Blondie, The Cots, dnd the Pretenders. Gotewoy punk rockers lose their inhibitions on Punk Rock Doy ds they come dressed in everything from gorboge bogs to skintight leother ponts. Although no one went so for ds to octuol- ly ride o horse to school, Western Doy wos full of cowboy tdlk, grub, ond chewin' toe bocco. The fomous Colorodo cowboy hot, Levi's jedns, ond ploid, Western shirts filled the holls, dlong with swinging skirts ond cowboy boots. Opposite Doy gove us oll o chonce to show the Mother side of ourselves. With the help of some moke-up ond girl's clothes, the mole student body become the femole 18 Spirit Week 'S student body. The girls come in the uniforms of ormy privotes, Boy Scouts, business men, ond of course, footboll ployers. Trdveling bock in time, students come to their closses in the clothes worn by their porents when they were our oge. 50's ond 60's Doy let us see whot life wds like for our moms ond dods in high school, Poodle skirts, ponytdils, ond sdddleshoes with bobbie socks were seen on compus. Also worn by the guys were white T-shirts ond gredsed block hoir. The oge of the flower child wos remembered os Gotewoy teenogers cdme clod in jedns, bore feet, beods, ond flowers. The fovorite ottire of the oncient Greek worriors wos the togo. ln celebrotion of the customs of our oncestors, the Olys hod Togo Doy. As Mr. Horrison put it, Togo Doy seemed to be the doy when the students were the most spirited, ln oddition to the usuol white togos, we sow gold, ordnge, striped, flowered, ond even Mickey Mouse togos thot doy. While getting the togo on, there weren't very mony problems. lt wos not without its complications, though. A few of the less fortunote ones hddn't mostered the ort of keeping the togo on the body. Spirit Week 1981 wos 0 time of closeness for everyone. We oll showed we were proud to be Olympions.

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Best Use of Theme wos the owotd the Juniors received, Jill Fisher's house wos used to build the floot, which cost seventy dollors to cover the costs of oll the yellow tissues ond oronge noplsins thot were bought from King Soopers, Sofewoy, ond Albertsons. The only mojor problem the Juniors ron into wos the foct thot hordly onyone showed up to worls on the floot except for obout 4 peo- ple. They were the only ones thot showed up every night for the two weelss thot the floot wos worlsed on. Considering it wos their first yeor, the Freshmen hod o greot floot ond come up winning the oword for 'lMost Creotivef' Potty Gollowoy wos brove enough to let her house be the worlssite for the floot, The Freshmen worlsed from 5130-9100 every night for two weelss to put together this floot, This closs wos very orgonized when it come to their floot work, but the only prob- lem wos thot they hod the wrong theme- Stoircose to l-leoven-which clinched their oword, olthough the theme wos Legends Alwoys ond Forever. But other thon thot this yeor's Freshmen floot wos im- 2O Floots proved by for over the post Freshmen ot- tempts. This yeor the Freshmen leorned obout the heovy Competition they will hove to foce in the yeors to come, Even though they didn't win on oword lost yeor, the closs of l'84 won the oword for the UMost Colorful Floor. Renee 5tocy's house wos torn oport for less thon o week, while on overoge of eleven people worlsed four ond o holf hours o night to build this floot. The Sophomores hod o little trouble getting orgonized this yeor ond then hod two mojor problems. The first problem wos not getting o flotbed soon enough 5 the sec- ond becouse they got the flotbed so lote they borely mode the deodline. Becouse they didn't finish, they piled people on the floot so it would cover up the unfinished bottom,