Los Gatos High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Los Gatos, CA)

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English Spells lt Cut INN ' , Lon McCullough is the cover boy. fag, lk, A ' QA .Li A -wwf 'N u f' A i T2 I if 4 f af-il 5 gi ,.,,, if , f K :H . 1 ri ' I ' 4 , A I . Paul Bostwick, Dept, Head Wildcat for Zi years Classes: band, personal typing, work expe- rience coordinator Interests: crosswords, Trivial Pursuit Carole Mateer Wildcat for 3 years Classes: English 9 Interests: gardening , - ,HW - Diana Pleasant Wildcat for 3 years Classes: world history, jazz choir, con- cert choir Interests: golf, bridge 'thc :'v.. w ff! La., Daniel Hood Wildcat for I8 years Classes: English 10,1 I, lit Interests: key club A Doug Schmidek, lohn Cerrito and Mark Bresneker look up from their reading. Music Marches to the Beat 52 I Faculty Nancy Wickett Wildcat for 5 years Classes: En lish Il,I2, journalism Interests: EFCato, skiing, cooking, music lflute, voice, piano, guitari The marching band did well in competition against other schools at the Saratoga Parade, the Big Band lamboree, the Los Gatos Christmas Parade, and the Cuper- tino Parade. In addition, during the halftime show at the football games, trumpet soloists Brian Bor- gia, Cassandra Kachulis and Matt Sergeson dazzled the audience with Pictures and Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue, while the band backed them up and marched in symmetric patterns. The jazz choir sang a wide varsity of songs ranging from the blues to Christmas selections at the Foot- hill lazz Festival and the Spring and Christmas Concerts.

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'ffl' Language Says lt ll Q l ,A s, i 1. nf' fM ' f ' Florence Bell, Dept. head Lazaro Garza Becky Walleen Wildcat for 24 years Wildcat for 24 years Wildcat for 3 years Classes: Italian 1,2,3,4, Spanish 1,3 Classes: Spanish 2,4,5 Classes: Spanish 1,2 Interests: Italian club, travel Interests: International Salad club, pho- tography, travel E fi Zah dee Minnick Wilclcat for I year Classes: Spanish 1,2 Interests: swimming, reading ,fs 5 s , :l , -,y 1 : -zyr - F Gerard A. Lallemand Wildcat for 18 years Classes: French l,2,3 Interests: girls soccer coach, philately LEFT: Rita Sauvage Wildcat for 1 year Classes: English compllitg French 1 Interests: watch soccer, read, travel RIGHT: Nancy Greenfield Wildcat for 21 years Classes: Latin lg En Iish 10X Interests: natural history, gardening, reading, travel Interests: tennis, exercising X Santos Alvarez Wildcat for 29 years Classes: Spanish 1,3, French 2 Interests: Spanish club, music KI is '-,f' 5? C . Q 5' fi ' fi s:. 2.55 ta 1 -'Ig-sh? Louis Gregory Wildcat for 19 years Classes: German 1,2,3,4I5g computer Interests: German club, photography, travel, gardening 'TI Fred Keplinger Wildcat for .24 years Classes: French 2,4,5, computer Interests: C S F, French club, photography, music, skiing The foreign language department, which taught Spanish, French, German, Latin and Italian, saw an increase in student enrollment. The students had some extra help from the computers and parent volunteers in the lab. The Univer- sity of California required two years of a foreign language, so these courses were a must for many students planning their fu- ture. Faculty I 53