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

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Preparing for his physics lab, Aiki Atkinson sets up his pendulum experiment. Physics was an important college-prep class. After finishing her advanced math test, Amy Hao sits back to relax, while Amita Sharma works on. Many seniors were enrolled in college-prep classes. Allen Simmons Mgr. Baseball, Baseball Abe Singer Soccer, Swim Team, Honor Guard, CSF, Drama Janine Skonberg Angela Smith Tammie Smith Steven Snow Julie Solorio Michael Spinks Soccer college prep 101

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College Looms Ahead My senior year means relaxation! To Kris Baker her senior year was a time to kick back. But for many, it was not a time to relax, but a time to prepare for their college years. Enrollment into a University or JC required many preparations before admission was granted. One example was the College Board Tests. After three hours of filling in bubbles for the ACT, students walked out of the testing centers feeling like zombies. It wasn ' t that the test was hard, but your brain really felt drained afterwards, recalled Laurie Inaba. Seniors filled their schedules with classes like advanced English and math. These classes weren ' t really considered fun, but they looked good on the transcripts. The homework from these classes kept seniors busy for many hours in the evenings. The most time-consuming task was fill- ing out application forms. These ranged from college application with questions like If you could go back in time to meet some famous person, who would you like to meet? to scholarship forms that wanted to know how much a stu- dent ' s father had made from June to September of the previous year. Some of those questions didn ' t even pertain to going to college, commented Karen Christianson. A problem faced by many students was financing college. Aid from parents helped, but most parents couldn ' t af- ford the full amount. Good grades helped many seniors to get scholarships and grants, but those who weren ' t for- tunate enough to fit into these categories were forced to get part-time jobs. Being a senior can be a pain, but it ' s a once in a life time experience and it is worth every obstacle the adults can dig up, declared Amy Hao. Lorrie Schmidt Angie C. Scholta Mgr. Baseball, Mgr., Girls Basketball Pamela Seebach Stephanie Seibert FFA, Swim Team, Mgr. Waterpolo James M. Senft Wrestling Andrea M. Sentelle Amita Sharma Tennis, CSF, Fr. Class Tres., Soph. Dir. of Publicity, Jr. Dir. of Publicity, French Club Paula Ann Sheltry Choir, Key Club 100 seniors

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Roger Stay Tamra Stone Andrea Strano Softball, Band Rebecca Summers Deborah Symms Swim Team, Drama, Band Dean Tanner Baseball, Band Alma Tapia Laura Taylor Drama, Soph. Social-chairperson James Thompson Football, Wrestling Charles Torres Brenda Ufonda Christopher Uribe Epidemic Strikes Senior Class H ome work is not a part of my vocabulary, declared Andy Martinez. Martinez was one of the many seniors affected by a strange disease , which claimed almost the entire senior class. This disease, senioritis plagued many students in many ways. One of the most common effects was missed homework assignments and fall- ing tests ' grades. My grades really went down second quarter, complained Angela Rector. The frustration of these things left students feeling irritated with school life. I would like to drop out next week, moaned Diana Dewey the last week of first semester. An interesting type of senioritis struck when students tried to make their year memorable. Stunts like big signs at the pep assemblies found a few seniors sit- ting in Mr. Wolfs offices awaiting disciplinary actions. This was what the administration worried about most. Fearing an epidemic, they called the senior class together in January to re- mind the class that their thirteen years of school weren ' t over yet. Although all seniors were affected to some degree, most of them made it to graduation day. For some students, it| took a reprimand from parents; for others it took the administration to get the senior back on the right track. Most seniors overcame this disease, but for a few it turned out to be fatal. 102 seniors