Newbury Park High School - Pawprint Yearbook (Newbury Park, CA)

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We've come a long way in these first ten years at Newbury Park High School. The school's enrollment has increased from 890 to an approximated 2900 students. The students' spirit and enthusiasm has grown greatly. Assemblies, Homecoming activities, Football games, and dances are just a few of the memories and good times that will always be shared by many. In 1969, the senior class was the first to graduate at N.P.H.S. and also the first to institute the senior patio and the Senior Ball. Then 7970 and '71 came along with the first campus newspaper called The Prowler and many other new things such as being the first to experience Homecoming activities, and a new principal, Mr. Deriot Smith. At this time, the dress code at N.P.H.S. had been revised and girls were able to wear pants, instead of just on rainy and windy days. The fashion also changed for most of the teachers as well. No more knee length skirts and high collared shirts with ties. Hooray! The years 1972 and '73 showed the closing and last year for Slave Day , league winners in football and baseball, and a gas leakage which left the school with freezing classrooms. In '74, when freshmen then are seniors now, we the students experienced the first try at registration of classes. Where they had the choice of selecting their own teachers, periods, and lunches. Also the first of Hick Days, Hush Days, Clash Days, and actual fire breathing trash cans. This year was when the '5O's Day and dance were first introduced. The band Mag Wheels and Lug Nuts played songs from the far out '50's era, along with students dressed in bobby socks, saddle shoes, and slicked back hairdos. Happy Days! 1975 was the year the school bond was passed and the campus was full of students wearing the not so common School Bond T-shirts . With the school bond passed, we began to notice even bigger and better changes on campus. One having to do with the new construction of classrooms and P.E. Activity rooms, and another, the building of our new marquee. Finally, 1976, the Bicentennial Year came along and we celebrated it by just liking to be with each other. This was the year that we students and faculty started to propose a new theatre on campus, along with getting a new football stadium and lights. Now, our senior year, '77, the year we all have waited for. Smiling faces. . .laughing. . . jokes. . . games. . .Homecoming. . .sharing in conversation. This is the year we the students of NPHS were happy to welcome a new principal, Mr. DeFrates. We hope his stay here will be as memorable as ours. We'll miss the friends, the good times, the bad times, the school spirit, and all the fun things out of our lives, but these things will never be forgotten or taken out of our memories. Old days, we'll remember and fun days filled with simple pleasures. Always know that friends are the ones who will always be there. Take care. jackie Burke Editor-in-chief '77