Palo Verde High School - Olympian Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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SPECTRA STAFF-FRONT ROW: Mina Gerall, Jamie Davidson, Sharon Mar- ham, Lisa Popovich. mon. BACK ROW: Marilyn Cheely, Miss Cynthia Schiesel, advisory Jean Bing- Fifty Page Spectra Released in March Bake sales, car washes and other ac- tivities provided funds for Spectra, Palo Verde's 50 page literary magazine. All literary and artistic contributions to Spectra were created by students. Four categories-short story, poetry, es- say and art-were established by the editors. Representatives, elected by each En- glish class, entered the class' literary works for judging. All names were omitted from the papers during iudging. Writing and artwork received a number of points from one to ten. Those papers which received the highest number of points were published in Spectra. An active staff of 12 members met every Tuesday night to organize the magazine. As no school funds, other than those acquired from the sole of the magazine, were alloted toward the pub- lication of Spectra, staff members were required to raise the necessary funds. A bake sale was held on January 24 at El Con Shopping Center. Several car washes were also held by the staff. Staff members, under the direction of Miss Cynthia Schiesel, began work on the magazine in September. Twelve active representatives edited and organized zine, which was scheduled to be released in March Spectra, a literary magazine. The fifty page maga- contained art, poetry, essays and short stories.

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Stage Band Competed in AU Jazz Festival Participants in stage band dedicated most of their time attempting to imitate the various techniques of the large swing bands of the i93O's. Several periods were spent listening to recordings of band groups which would acquaint stu- dents with the music performed during that era. ln order for students to be eligible tor enrollment in stage band they had to be more advanced in ability on their in- dividual instruments. Rhythmic reading and note reading along with other basics in music theory were taught two days out of every school week. The re- maining three days were devoted to de- veloping skills ot improvisation and in writing original musical compositions. Stage band took part in the Northern Arizona University Jazz Festival on February l. They competed against other high schools from Arizona in ci preliminary concert. lt was then de- cided which school band was the most outstanding and would appear in the final concert program performed later in the evening. bee Members of the stage band, Jack Weidler, John Torreion, Gary Gilbert and Bruce Stone, practiced songs to play at basketball games. They traveled to Northern Arizona University Jazz Festival Feb. 'l. 5 , A , X. Y' annex 5TAGE BAND-FRONT R0W1 Mike Klllm, PBYYY Push, Chl-'Ck Eser. Chris Sfflfff Bruce Stone, Carole Kleinhesselin, Gary Gilbert, Dave Cole, Kyle Peyton, Tim Ron King. SECOND ROW: Dan Duperre, John Torreion, Bruce Tost, Mike Matt- Sqnteyan, Kathy Chinnis. hews, Ken Jaeger, April Antonetti, Steve Nicholas. BACK ROW: Jack Weidler,

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M.. ..-hw N, -vom: , 'Wt my Y-sm into ., Teen reporters, Calvin Reynard, Star sports, Kurt Ballash, Citizen sports, and SENIOR FORUM COORDINATING COMMITTEE-Bruce Greenberg, Peggy Biggs Joy Johansen, Star correspondent, received professional newspaper experience. Randy Sammons, Errol Berk. Reporters, Forum Kept Students Informed Comparing Orwell's book, 1984, with the present, Senator Barry Goldwater spoke to seniors in Oct. Increasing the span of knowledge of students was the purpose of the Senior Forum Coordinating Committee. Senior Class President Sherman Miller chose the five members of the commit- tee on the basis of the amount of inter- est shown towards the committee. Or- ganized well before the start of the school year, the committee had enough time to schedule interesting speakers. Senator Barry Goldwater, former gov- ernor Sam Goddard, UA Student Body President Steve Malkin and Tucson High School Student Body President Bobby Morris, were a few of the speakers pre- sented at the Senior Forum. Under the direction of Miss Ida Mae Nowels, three forums were planned for each semester. Four members of the Post staff repre- sented Palo Verde in the Arizona Daily Star and Tucson Daily Citizen news- papers. Seniors Kerry Kettenback and Joy Johansen contributed outstanding news and feature stories to the Young Citizen and Youth pages of the city newspaper. Calvin Reynard and Kurt Ballash contributed sports statistics and stories to the daily. Student pay from the newspaper varied from 25d per inch of copy to a set rate of S20 per month. . ' 'rr V .,. K A ., . ,5-, fowl? K fi I' - - 5 Vvwfiis,.,-,Vuj-Mf.,,h.:,--Ur. ij 5 .W -sw Nw, 5 it Q . ,.., ... , ..,.,.-....s,.t,Q.,... , . A t Kurt Ballash, teen reporter for the Citizen, re- corded points and fouls at the.basketboII games