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

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1 l Girls' League Starting the school year with an all- girl assembly, Girls' League staged sev- eral skits giving ideas on how to dress appropriately tor school and school events. Friday, September 6, they sponsored Classical Gas, an all-school mixer. Music was provided by the Brass Ear. During a September Coke party, enter- tainment was provided by Phyllis Moore and Judie Scalise, who gave humorous readings trom Mad Magazine. Gui- tarist John Torreion entertained the girls with Flamenco music and songs. April brought Sweatheart Safari week with its many activities. A iungle theme was carried out in all activities as the girls hunted the boys. Girls' League sponsored the Viet Nam proiect where cookies and candy were collected for servicemen. They also helped the Yaqui Indians in the spring. All girls of Palo Verde were con- sidered members ot Girls' League, but only those that had attended three meet- ings were considered active members. Sponsored Sweetheart Safari GIRLS LEAGUE OFFICERS AND CGUNCIL-FRONT Cindy Tarbull Anna Nussbaum BACK ROW April ROW: Chris Santi, Susan Metzger, DeeDee Ligner Gorter Nan Campbell Betsy Fuchs Cindy Otte Mindi Ligner, presidentp Karen Kelch, vice-president Gina Davanzati Tammy Vukovich Cathie Hillock, treasurerp Sue Laughlin, secretary Best d9C0f0f9f! 'BOX' GI' the Girls' League father-daughter box supper was ere- Members of Girls' League wrapped gifts to send to U S soldiers in Vietnam 'lied bY Jennlfef KU19- Tlfle of her box was All Dine With The King- as a Christmas proiect Gifts were donated by students from Palo Verde

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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

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Red Cross Sponsored Blood Drive in May RED CROSS OFFICERS: Liz Wylley, vice-president, Pahi Duke, president, Suzy Sallzman, secretary, Mr. Elrod, advisor. RED CROSS REPRESENTATIVES-FRONT ROW: .lane Tackeh, Minelle Wirges, Linda Kopman. SECOND ROW: Jody Hoenninger, Elizabeth Emerson, Barbara Red Cross was organized To help poverTy-sTricken people. AT The VeTeran's Day Parade Red Cross members made a floaT, with The Theme l9l8-1968 Always There. IT was decoraTed wiTh a whiTe background and a red cross in The middle. During The ChrisTmas holiday The Red Cross Club, along wiTh FTA, held a parTy for underprivileged children aT Our Com- muniTy CenTer. PresenTs and a SanTa Claus helped make The pariy compleTe. AnoTher pariy was presenTed aT The AsThmaTic Fou'ndaTion during EasTer. An egg hunT was also planned by The Palo Verde STudenT Body. A special fund-raising membership drive was held in Sep- Tember. RepresenTaTives were elecTed from each homeroom To collecT money for The Red Cross ChapTer for a week. Each person ThaT gave money received a bookmark-ruler. ln May, The club sponsored a blood drive in The boys' gym. Homeroom Federafion, Honor Socieiy and many oTher clubs helped campaign for The drive. AT one meeTing a special speaker Talked on VieT Nam and showed a film about VieTnamese people. This film was shown To all inTeresTed viewers as well as Red Cross members. MeeTings were held every oTher Thursday and each monTh a ChapTer meeTing was held downiown for all Red Cross Clubs. Officers were PaTTi Duke, presidenT, Liz Wylley, vice-presidenT and Suzi SalTzman, secreTary. Miss Verna HarcourT and Mr. LockeT Elrod were advisors of The club. Red Cross sponsored a parly for underprivileged children, one of Their many humanitarian proiects. 4 M ,. . Mow. BACK ROW: Glen Glass, Gene Snyder, Jim Reyna.