James Madison High School - Prospectus Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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Sky Show ’87 The Blue Angels were born In an era of aviation goggles, leather helmets, and prop l:-6F Hellcats. Their first season was in 1946. This year, flying specially modified F A-18 Hornets, the Blue Angels visited the Miramar Naval Base on the 8th and 9th of August. And, like every year, they thrilled millions of spectators with their precision flying. Today's Blue Angels painted the skies blue and gold as they performed airobatic maneuvers which, to many, still seem impossible. The precision maneuvers demonstrated by the 1987 Blue Angels were coordinated tactical techniques developed with practice and in actual combat by navy and marine corps pilots. The basic themes of the Blue Angels' demon- stration were loops, rolls, and formation flying. The tight Diamond formation was recognized as the squadron's trademark throughout the world. In the course of their complete show season, the Blue Angels flew more than 140,000 miles. At top speed, they flew anywhere from treetop level to 60,000 feet above the ground. In 1971, while celebrating their 25th anniversary, the Blue Angels team wound up the season with a six-week de- ployment to the Far East. The team performed flight dem- onstrations in Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Guam, and the Philip- pines. Two years later they flew a four-week tour of Eur- ope, performing fourteen shows in six countries. This raised the total spectator count to 114,529,800 in 1,744 air shows. As Ambassadors of Good Will, the Blue Angels take naval aviation as a demonstration of the quality of U.S. Naval personnel and equipment. While visiting airshow sites the Blue Angeles also visited hospitals and youth organizations, spoke to civic clubs, and attended school functions in order to provide positive community rela- tions. By becoming totally involved in the communities where they performed, the Blue Angels acheived their objectives as ambassadors of good will, as well as comple- teing their assigned missions. Lani Scott Inga Severson David Sheldon Christine Serritella Priscilla Shaw Donald Shepard Jami Showley Scott Silber 224 Seniors

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Alexander Samaniego Paul Sanchez Anthony Scales Angela Schultz Making The Grade Good news for the Advanced and Advanced Placement students — The San Diego Unified School Board had ap- proved a weighted grade point scale, from this year on, that would enable Advanced and Advanced Placement students the opportunity to earn extra points for their accellerated study. Remember when an 'A' was only worth 4 credits, a 'B' was worth 3 credits and so on? Well no more! From now on it will be 5 credits for an 'A', 4 credits for a 'B'. However colleges' would only be looking at the student's 11th and 12th grade report. This new weighted grade scale system will be taken into consideration for the honors level of each subject areas such as: all of the Advanced and Advanced Placement English classes, Advanced Math classes that begin at Ad- vanced Math 3-4 to Advanced Math 7-8 and Topics in Discrete Math 1-2. In the Science department, all of the Advanced and Advanced Placement Science courses, which included Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Physiol- ogy were weighted. In Fine Arts, Advanced Placement Studio Art 1-2 qualified. Seniors who took World Affairs 1-2 were considered to be in this new grading system as well. Finally, the last course to be considered in this sys- tem was Advanced Placement Computer Science 1-2. students in advanced classes earn the opportunity to get more credit for all the work they have done compared to regular classes. It's something that they deserved the most, was Emily Hooper's opinion about the new grading system. Many students were glad that this system finally came along for them. With all Advanced and Advanced Placement classes being promoted to a higher weighted grade point scale, a ques- tion was raised: How are they going to select a Valedicto- rian? Seniors 223

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lichele Sobieski ica Strickland Billy Smith Lyle Solberg Jeffrey Stebben Kenneth-J. Smith Lori Smith David Spangler Robert Spencer Billy Stewart Clinton Stokes Diana Strong Jennifer Strong Christopher Stuckey Seniors 225