Green Mountain High School - Ramblings Yearbook (Lakewood, CO)

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Vice-President-Carol Bonner, President-Chris Loop, SecretaryfTreasurer-Cammy Michel. Students break their concentration to smile for a picture. Front row Janette Manke, Carol Bonner, Cammy Michel. Second row Richard Schottler, Tony Ji- menez, Chris Loop, Eric Monson. Back row Bridgette Bonner, Ke- vin Green, Bill Griffin, Ed Knight. i MRO Are Board Games Back? Have you been wanting to join a club that is all fun and games? Well, this want can be fulfilled by a new club brought to our school. If you enjoy playing chess, backgammon, or any other board games this organization is for you. This is the first year of Chess and Back- gammon Club and is considered a success to the group. Chris Loop, junior, and Cammy Michel, ju- nior, are responsible for organizing the club. Michel, Loop and a group of other people enjoyed playing backgammon. It all started last year when these people got together dur- ing their free hour. Mr. Mehlbach, social stud- ies teacher, is the sponsor of the new club. Chess and Backgammon Club is not like other clubs in our school. Its only real main 116 - Chess And Backgammon Club purpose is to play board games. At this age, people don't normally play board games, so we decided to make a club for this purpose stated junior Janette Manke. They do not do public services, and they do not have any money. Though, they do have elected offi- cials. Chris Loop, president, Carol Bonner, vice-president, and Cammy Michel, secretary- ftreasurer. The club is an open group, people can join this club anytime. They do not only play chess and backgammon, but parcheesi as well. Mi- chel's commented, 'Someday we hope to have competition. That someday could be soon. lt has started at GMI-lS, which could lead to have other schools start playing.

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The Forensics Team takes pictures as well as they speak. FROM LEFT TO RIGHT Pat Singson, Scot Anderson, Karen Painter, Chris Loop, Melissa Peter- son, Richard Curtis, Bruce Cooper, Laurie Murphy. NOT PICTURED Jim Bailey, Norene Ritz, Gail Rober- son and Katie True. Competitors give their speeches before competition in order to get practice. Orators Show Skills The Forensics class this year was taught by Barbara Logan. In addition to a new teacher, the class participated in some excit- ing events. The team was active in competi- tive meets from all over. In December 1982, an Invitational was held in Colorado Springs, while in March 1983, another Invitational was held in Littleton. Similarly, the team participated in other activities as well. For instance, they would often have breakfast together before going to a meet. The members have even gone skiing. Logan stated, The class becomes very close, and social benefits are gained. Forensics also became involved in perfor- mances for the Language Arts quad during the spring. In addition, they held fund rais- ers, like many other groups, in order to help pay for registration fees. The type of speech the students were involved in included, extremental, original, Lincoln Douglas Debates, oral interpreta- tion, fwhich included poetryl, humor, drama, and duet acting, all in the scope of Forensics. The Forensics class had mainly Juniors in it, however, any Sophomore, Junior, or Sen- ior was allowed to participate in the class. Similarly, first year students were usually regarded as novices, while second and third year pupils were considered the varsity. ' I Forensics officers, Karen Painter, Bruce Cooper and Pat Singson. Chris Loop enunciates as all good Forencians do. Forensics - 115

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Brad Coburn watches flag ceremony in front of the lodge. Two sixth graders from Eiber Elementary use their senses in Geology. 4' 4.82 v-s Seeing The Other Side ' Once when l was in sixth grade, late in the year, the whole sixth grade went to lab school. lt was at Windy Peak. There were two, by the way, the second was Mt. Evans. The first was the newer one, but smaller. We arrived in the busses just in time for lunch. We lined up and sat quietly at the lunch tables until they were ready to serve lunch to us, family style. Then the rules started to flow. They told us all the things we could or could not do and what would happen. The director looked mean and strict so we didn't say a word. After lunch we had a little rest period, actually just to straighten out our dorms. Then we went to our first activity class. It happened to be art. And on it went with the fun, throughout the week it got better and better. l constantly dreamed about the years to come, when I could become a counselor. All of a sudden, I was in the eleventh grade and could go to Outdoor Educational Laboratory School. l was so excited, l was going with my homeschool, and my little sister. l got all the activities together, packed, and dragged everything to school that early Monday morn- ing. Kids were everywhere, the counselors got to at- tempt to load the busses. Then everything was loaded, and we all climbed into the busses, students, counselors and teachers. This time we were going to Mt. Evans. When we finally got there the procedures were the same, just that the counselors got first priorities to seating for lunch, lt was a hectic week and the counsel- ors had to keep on their toes at all times. By Wednes- day all of us were beat. The last couple days were spent on a less strict bases lby the counselorsl, and everything went well. r N .Nag xx Nik A student smiles during a lesson given by a high school leader. GMHS graduate, Dan Stephens, says 'goodbye' to Devinny Elementary School kids. Outdoor Lab School - 117