John Wesley North High School - Aurora Yearbook (Riverside, CA)

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School activities are one of the most important facets of high school life. Becoming involved with the school and the people in it can be both fun and hard work. To arrange an activity you must have a certain amount of responsibility, since many things are involved in putting on an activity. First, an activity must be OK'd and put on the master calender by lVlrs. Hughes and then it must be 0K'd by the USL. Once this is done, the group sponsoring the activity must begin publicizing the event, and it tickets are to be sold, they must be made up and distributed. One of the big activities that the USL sponsored this year was Homecoming week. A difterent event took place each day at lunchtime. Some of these activities were a Paper Airplane Flying Contest, a Tug of War, and wheelbarrow and three-legged races. Also, during Homecoming week one day was declared lVlix-Nlatch Day tyou were supposed to wear the strangest clothes you could come up with.l Other Homecoming Activities sponsored by the USL were the Assembly to introduce the Queen Candidates, the parade down 7th Street to the Public Library, and the half-time activities. But the one activity that proved to me that students at North can do something if they really want to, was raising money for FFF at the traditional . Hreworks display during half-time at the Homecoming game. We needed to raise 5300.00 in two weeks. The USL sponsored a carwash which made 5lS50.00, clubs and organizations donated 5110.00 which left 5140.00 to be raised by the students. The House of Advisory delegates collected money from their classrooms, cans were placed in the Library for donations and entry fees were charged to participate in the lunchtime activities. All this work paid off because we had a check ready to mailto the hreworks company the day of Homecoming. The class that raised the most money was the SENIORS and the clubs that raised the most money were the PEP SQUAD and the POLITICAL SIMULATION Club. Other activities this year were Spring Homecoming and an Ice Cream Eating Contest for the Queen candidates, A Christmas Canned Food Drive- won by lVlr. Ross's class, Action Clean-up Week and one of the most important activities, the nominating Convention in lVlay. The activities for the school year 1976-1977 were fun and lots of work. But I'm glad we had the opportunity to put them on and to participate in them. USL Director of Activities Julie Rogers 24

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Nothing Was Ever achieved without enthusiasm