Los Alamitos High School - Cottonwood Yearbook (Los Alamitos, CA)

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On their woy tothe Hippie Doy lunchtime octivity, freshmen, Suzanne Turrentine, Lori Moulhordt, Colleen Moy ond Denise Siegel, pouse ro spreod the word of peoce to their mony friends. They will root for their teom ot the onnuol bug push. One trodition during Spirit Week is for the guys to show off their brown by pushing o Volkswogon oround the trock. Freshmen os well os upperclossmen get involved with the Homecoming octivities. Festivities 15

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POM PONS, CONFETTI, FIRE WORKS . ADD SPARKLE TO FESTIVITIES Foll is the seoson for footboll ond with footboll comes Homecoming ond Spirit Week, o time for school pride ond celebroting. The trodition oround compus hos been to dress up on the doys preceding the big gome. In October, our school wos filled with nerds, beoch bums, hippies, ond goolies of mony forms. On homecoming, the whole compus wos filled with the colors red, blue ond gold to show spirit ond confidence in the victory to come. Severol octivities were plonned throughout the week to moke sure oll the energy from the ex- citement of the week wos not wosted. There wos o beouty contest for the most outstonding nerd, o bug push for the guys who wonted to show off their muscles, ond there wos even o Mr, Mom obstocle course for the competetive people on compus. Spirit Week is o speciol time of the yeor to show en- thusiom ond hove fun. -.e,,..T Fa 33' it Kim McNQmer celebrates Beech x Doy. Spirit Week is o time for celebrotlon ond preporotion for the homecoming gome oheod, During the gome, Los Alomitos students dress in the school colors red, blue ond gold, ond cheer the Griffins onto victory. Members of the L.A. Soph-Tees t-shirt club help cotch the excitement of the evening. X i On Nerd Doy during Spirit Week, mony students like Paulo ka ' Wosikowski. Lori Jock ond Jason Zommick follow Pee Wee Her- f ,, .,,r, f . r H, . mon's exomple of the perfect nerd. g 417 B P - Spreoding the messoge of peoce ond love, Sherri Long ond Danielle Burick quietly meditote obout life while showing their school spirit by dressing up. 14 Festivities

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Q GRIFFINS EARN SIXTH VICTORY AS HOMECOMING GALA BEGINS lt wos o wonderful night thot will be difficult to forget - Homecoming night ogoinst Esperonzo. Cooch Bornes ond his teom of Griffins begon the gome. The Griffins hod never defected the Esperonzo Aztecs in their historyp they were out to chonge the score. The queen nominees were introduced ond chouffered in convertible Mercedes. The ouxiliory units performed their competition routine while the footboll teom got their motivotion in the locker room. Christine Dennis' nome lit up the sky os she received the title of the 1985-86 Homecoming Queen. Comero floshes went off like firecrockers. Chris Ehler hod been nomed Mr. Irresistible eorlier thot doy ot the Homecom- ing pep ossembly. Fired up ond reody for ploy, the two footboll teoms begon the second-holf ploy. Tockles were broken ond the defense of Esperonzo wos reod - the Griffin's ploy wos excellent. With the score chonging moment by moment, ponic gripped both schools. The crowd cheered ond wotched os the Griffins never gove up. ln the lo'st second of ploy, J.T. Snow threw the winning touchdown poss to Robbie Katzctroff com pleting their sixth consecutive victory. 16 Festivities Crowned Homecoming Queen 1985 Christine Dennis occcepts I M wk ' if congrotulotions from her court I Q I I i i 'Ii , . -s Iii? t Pon o during it etto A hondsome, irresistoble mon is occomponied by two lodies, Stacie Hawthorne, Chyig Ei-,ten ond Welter enjoy on evening full of suspense ond suprises. Homecoming involves the crowning of M which is based on mony ottributes -- Chris Ehler is Mr. lrresistoble, 1985.