Mount Eden High School - Scepter Yearbook (Hayward, CA)

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COpposiTe pagey The Close-Up group: Ann Seffens, Jeremy Miller, Lyzelle Cruz, Debbie Davis, ancl Cecilia Ville- gas. Cleflj Jeremy Miller relaxes before ain- ner in The holel. Cbelowp Cecilia Villegas hangs oul near The capilol. flower lefly Lyzelle Cruz goes sighlsee- ing in Ola Town, one hislorlc landmark. ClQoSe-Up awloweli wie to wleei wramlj View people Urrawr alll aaa . .. -Lgzeife Grillz ...f'aCioitaQQoUeJL aaaivr . . . -Jaewuj Milla Close-Up-35

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Close-Up A dvenfures Back East Going To The easT coasT for a whole week To learn and see The real workings of The goyernmenT was a dream come True for five lVlT. Eden sTudenTs as They parTici- paTed in The Close-Up program This pasT fall. A loT of money wenT inTo The Trip To VVashingTon D.C., and all The sTudenTs, Jeremy Miller, Debbie Davis, Ann Seffens, Lyzelle Cruz, and Cecilia Villegas, agreed ThaT iT was all worTh iT. Fundraising, such as selling candy bars for many monThs, helped The sTudenTs af- ford The Trip. Ms. Joan Hoskins was The sponsor of The Close-Up Trip This year. She commenTed ThaT The Trip ouT easT really helps The sTu- denTs undersTand goyernmenT and They all profiTed from parTici- paTing. Close-Up is a loT more Than jusT going easT and seeing all The fam- ous naTional siTes: sTudenTs geT To see and learn firsThand how The naTion works. They aTTended seminars discussing goyernmenT, classes ThaT Turned inTo ThoughT Talks which allowed Them To ex- press Their own opinions, and They wenT on Tours of The area around Them. They had liTTle Time for Themselves or To relax, buT ThaT didn'T seem To maTTer for They were Too busy meeTing new peo- ple and having fun To noTice. AT The end of The week, a loT of The sTudenTs found iT hard To leave Their new surroundings and, of course, Their new friends. BuT when They did leave, They all agreed ThaT They came back richer, boTh educaTionally and emoTionally. To me, l believe The Close-Up Trip will be one of The mosT memo- rable momenTs in my high school years. Alfhough l musT say l'm noT sure whaT l'll remember mosT: The good Times l had or how unorga nized l was, l could never remem ber whaT Time The Transfer buse lefT or whaT Time we had To be somewhere. Through The whole week, l probably had 'l5 hours C sleep ToTal because l was alway in The middle of a pillow fighT o wresTling maTch wiTh my room maTes, or on The phone wiT someone in anoTher room. We had roommaTes from Tennesse New Orleans, and parTs of Califo nia. I had Two roommaTes fron San Leandro and Oakland, ani one from Tennessee. We all be came real close and when i came Time To leave, saying good bye was real hard. l would recom mend This Trip To everyone. IT' more Than jusT learning, There's 4 loT of fun involved, Too, com menTed Jeremy Miller. By Laurie lvlachadi 34-Close-Up

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Qowdg rlgulllcgt Keeps l3OlSlQeTbOl0ll To cheer louder Than The cheer- leaders. To be more obnoxious Than one could possibly imagine. And, finally, To make all oTher bas- keTball Teams feel as uncomforf- able as possible when played The Monarchs for baskeTball. ThaT was The whole basis for The exisfence of The Rowdy Bunch, lVlE's own group of unruly sTudenTs who decided To Terrorize all oTher Teams The school played during iTs season. Rowdy Bunch had been around lasT year, buT This year iT really became a TradiTion ThaT will jusT have To be conTinued. lT was sTarTed mainly by The wild imagi- nafions of seniors Alex Medina, Jimmy Richardson, Louis Slaley, and Lori LaManlia. AnoTher sen- ior, Kevin Chow, added his arTisTic abiliTy To The wild posTers The Row- dy Bunch decorafed The bleach- ers wiTh. Though The Rowdy Bunch was Told ThaT They had To subdue Their acTions a liTTle biT afTer The cheers They yelled began To geT a biT lude, noThing seemed To bring Them down. They were definifely The loudesT, mosT brash group of fans ThaT The HAAL has ever come To known. How do you Tell a Team To pre- pare To face The Monarchs in a baskeTball game? asked Alex Medina, And how do you pre- pare Their Team members and cheerleaders and fans for The abuse They are going To receive aT The game? He smiles. You don'T prepare Them. You jusT leT Them come in and be shocked by The whole scene. Louis Slaley agrees wiTh Me- dina's ouTlook. 'lThe Rowdy Bunch harms no one. We're jusT a bunch of sTudenTs Trying To have a good Time aT The baskeTball games. We don'T mean To offend anyone by our cheers, we jusT do iT for fun.' The whole group provided fo greaT fun and enTerTainmenT aT a The games and was even sup- porTed by baskeTball coach Ror Benevides. ln facT, aT The annuc SpiriT Game, Coach Benevide: announced over The PA aT The be- ginning of The game Thank you Rowdy Bunch for making This sea- son The besT. And Thank you, Rowdy Bunci for giving The school The bes' cheering secTion iT has ever seen and probably The besT roofing secTion California has ever seen Here's To hoping ThaT The Rowdy Bunch conTinues on as a name- sake TradiTion filled wiTh loTs of fur and exciTemenT! By Laurie lvlachadc iigiig gigg 5 X