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

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Brad Bowers and Jeff Smith sit at the team's booth during the Health Fair. Officer Dick Lurz and Colleen Utter discuss the dangers of driving under the influence. Officer Lurz, Christy Abood, Teri Antley and Jill Roghair listen to Mrs. Utter intently. Aware Of Alcohol Drinking under the influence is a major problem with teenagers. ln fact, alcohol related car accidents that result in death is the number one killer of teenagers in the nation. These hard facts have prompted Jefferson county into beginning a pilot program to combat this problem. This new program consists of school peer groups which focus their attention on preventing drinking and driving. Green Mountain's group was sponcored by Colleen Utter, Home Economics teacher. This is the first year this program has been going, so the future of it depends on the programs success this year. Mrs. Utter feels that the members of the team have great intelligence and have good counseling qualities. Four team members and two police officers, as well as Mrs. Utter accompanied eleven other Jefferson county teams to the training session at Copper Mountain. At the training session, the members were taught how to approach a drug or drinking problem and were taught skills on how to develope and implement an intervention program. The teams were also taught good leadership skills. Mrs Utter commented, The training session not only taught the team how to handle a program, but it helped them feel great and helped them feel good about not having to use drugs and alchohol. We are trying to prevent the amount of alchohol related incidents of drinking while under the influence by at least 512. We are also try to prevent the number of suspensions due to drinking. Mrs. Utter stressed that the team is trying to attack these problems by educating young adults on the dangers of drinking and driving. We are trying to schedule assemblies. speakers and we have open meetings for anyone who wants to come in and listen. Mrs. Utter also commented, We always want new members for the team, l think they will feel good about the program, l know I do. S. S 2 - ..xx . QW!! N as Officer Dave Sletto, Mrs. Utter and the rest of the All Stars chuckle at a joke Andrew Kerr has just cracked. The All Stars included: BACK: JeffSmi1h, Omcer Dick Lurz, Andrew Kerr, Teri Antley, Officer Dave Sletto. FRONT: Christy Abood, .lill Roghair. Colleen Utter, Brad Bowers. NOT PICTURED: Matt Armbuster, Mickey Cronin and Guy Gunther. 110 - All-Stars if 5 9 w

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3 fi Mama Qtr M Ja A banana split party in 1980. Clause Bjerregaard from Denmark, Helena Johansson from Sweden and Chris Tesli from Norway. ml,-greg l... ...- Q. is N17-swmwvr nviting The Unknown This organization was started nine years ago by Mrs. Wessels, a math teacher here at Green Mountain. She commented, I honestly don't remember how it all got started. It just seemed to mushroom over the years, getting better and better over time? The main objective of this club is to plan and organize a four day week-end in April, when 60-70 foreign students are brought to Lakewood to be guests here at G.M. They stay with host families during the four days. The time the students spend here is filled with different activities, including a pot luck dinner, which involves about 300 people and a talent show. This is usually a highlight of the weekend. The talents range anywhere from a traditional wooden shoe dance from Holland, to a professional magic show from Mexico. In the past there's also been a karate demonstration by a student from Japan and many other native displays. There's also a game night where everyone plays get aquaintedu games. The guest students attend classes at G.M. and give lectures on their schools, food, family life and politics. To get the foreigners into the swing of an American custom, a professional caller is hired and a square dance is held. This evening ends with a big banana split party. The last day here, the students spend the day with their host families. Mrs. Wessels says, It's always neat to have past graduates come up to me and say how they've kept in close contact with the people they met during these four days. Some have even visited their foreign friend's homes. It's just a fun timeli' The exchange students look over applications for International Weedend with Ms. Jo Wessels. A bus trip in l980. Hiking in the mountains in 1979. i t ,, .ss Q g X, X .Q ..... .. .K 'PX , t Q is Swap W

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f ' W it ee. 2' . irii ' I f ' 'g ,',I V f , vkk, Mrs' Starkey makes ' ,V herself comfortable. 2 Q , 4, 5 X W 1 5 fr f 4 l it 5 wt i Q X ,g ai-:ff QM WF! X 1 f YW .2 ., , ,,,, 2 a is Creative Writing Club members put their heads together ww e ' A . .I We 1 avg .V J, I ,, 70 Q2 aa A as f f mtiferaagigfgw bt? it ff Brown-Bagging It. The Creative Writing Club's main purpose is to put together a book or magazine by the end of the year , stated three-year sponsor Mrs. Starkey. Each year we collect submissions from classes and develop a book. The title for this year's book was Kipple: The First Law. All ofthe brown paper bags hanging in the halls gave us a pretty good idea that Mrs. Starkey wanted people to submit to it. Each one had a cute little saying like: Kipple: The First Law is paying big bucks for your poetry. Ah-but true artists do it for free. Creative people can't follow a pattern is the reply l got from Mrs. Starkey when I asked how many people were in the club. We've had as many as forty-two and as little as ten people show up for our non' regular meetings , she said. Even though the Creative Writing Club was not always a regular committment for its members, they still succeeded in getting alot done in one measly year. During the Christmas Season Mrs. Starkey and the club members did choral readings. What in the world is choral reading you ask? Well after practicing on and off for three weeks, they picked a certain day right around Christmastime and went room-to-room chanting together the pages ofa Dr. Suess book, The club also prepared original poems on computer cards and sold them for twenty- live cents each at certain times during the year, Finally, after the submissions deadline on Valentines Day, they created, edited and printed the Kipple: books and sold them at the Cultural Arts Day which took place in May. lt just goes to show you that creative, unorthodox people like the Creative Writing Club's members, editor-, CPeter Rolla, April Lidinsky Whitney Seymore, Roger Spendlovej, and especially Mrs, Starkey can get a lot done when they set their zaney minds to it! April Lidinsky, Christine Hollop, and Mrs. Starkey all do motions to: A train, a train! One of the many brown paper bag signs hanging around the halls. Graffitti: a common problem among the creative writers, . T es K t-t. t 5 . . xii i , gg T K. .-f::.,,. X ,,.. P-' L