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

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Key Club Polaris Changes Help Clubs ffer several years of inactivity, L 1986 heralded the comeback of Key Club. I was surprised how fun and interesting Key Club could be, stated Julie Stewwart. Taking on such challenges as food drives and SADD (Students Against Drunk Driving), the Key Club be- came an important facet of life at North. In December, Key Club sponsored a food drive, supplying the needy with canned goods. Using a classroom comp etition to gain more student response. Key Club netted over two thousand cans of food. The most extensive project that Key Club started was SADD. Working in direct correlation with MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), it helped educate the students about the consequences of driving drunk. SADD members also supplied rides to those students who had had a few to many. SADD is probably the largest project that Key Club has operated, said My Phuong Tran. Besides posters and newsletters. North students also produced a com- mercial for cable television. Due to increased public dent i proved to be a service to both school and the community. The one characteristic that makes the human race unique is man ' s abil- ity to express himself through art, to capture his emotions through his work. Using this statement as a guideline, Polaris , the literary magazine, gave the students North an outlet for their creativJ B Working after school or during any, other free time, the Polaris staff JM an extra-curricular project. 1 having a class period hindered , slightly, said Catherine Block, p duction editor, but we still finisi with flying colors. ] Poems, short stories, and artw€ submitted by individual stude-j and English classes were voted orkj a board of panelists. This was use| for Polaris received more entries tl year than ever before. The systi worked really well, much better tH if one person had played god, staf Lynne Forsythe. I Despite strange work hours, chanj in the voting system, and the hii dreds of entries received, the Pol staff created a very unique publil , It, ■ INO, It s not your loc in their food drive, across cimpus. With iime thousands of cans of food were gathered for the needy. 4 organizations Six, it It

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who arc these strangers? Rebecca Pearson, tilecn Ares, and Deborah Halverson admire each others cos- tumes. Partiers were required to come in costume in order to be admitted to the party. Finertz French Club finertz, French club 17

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Supervising Ihc food drive, Mrs. Mooney, Key Club advisor, gives directions to the students con- cerning the handling of food. Canned goods were donated for the needy by the student body. Sifting through potential Polaris entries, Julie Stewart reads a submitted poem. Hundreds of pa- pers were submitted to the magazine staff during the course of the year. Key Club Polaris KEY CLUB, FROJMT ROW: C Cowan. S t lendez, C. ( iller. J Hjrns. T. Lisaler. K Sisncro . E. Tones, E DcConinck, K. Kenne- dy. L Rjo, ROW 2; M Liles. C Hao. S Was. D Halvorsen. C Garzj. U Rjo. ROW 3: D I ASIe. J Livermorc, L. Murphy. L. Martinez, S Rice, S. Robbins, M. Moy, L. Torres. T Holman. ROW 4: L ClarL. S McCrjrh. S Sanemalsu. L. Healh. R Miller, B Lopez, C Pcgis. S Bunyaic. B Rhinehart, L Forsythe. S Negus. M, Mooney. ROW 5; J DeWoUc. D, Brickel. C. Bufalino, J, Patterson, P, Havs- gaard, S Patsa, D Brock. D Lee. K Scott, M Shoaf, J. Stewart. K. McCarty, D Kronenfeld, C, Weeks, D Moberly POLARIS, FRONT ROW; S Wons, J Mares, M P Tran, S Rice, B Lopez, J, Stew- art, T Lasater, R Millet. K Sisneros, ROW 2; J Barcsich. j. Fringer, M Williams, L Mur- phy. M Barber, E Strzelewicz, ROW 3: G .■Vra on. M Rueda. S Ne us. P La y. E Elders. C Block, L Forsylhe, L. Rao. C Beal- ty; ROW 4: M Manchanda. D. Kronenfeld. L Scovillc. S Robbins. H Dhouti. D Lee L Barnett. J. Cordon, C. Pegis.