Rainier High School - Emeraude Yearbook (Rainier, OR)

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(Mm Actu titeA Susan Nelson, Amanda Hilsenhoff. Jeri LeSollen, and Robin Raudsep share a few minutes before heading to an after-school workout for cross country. Relaxing and chatting with friends in the commons before school, between classes and after school was one of the other activities students found enjoyable — particularly when the snack bar was open after school. Lizzie Price. Shawna Hadlock. Tiffani Mason, and Shawna Anderson use the back stairway as a place to bask in the afternoon sun. This was one of the other activities engaged in by many students on sunny fall and spring days during the tour through the year. Kirt Johnson and Bill Roberts participated in trap shooting outside of school. Both are members of the U.S. Junior Olympic Team and competed at the international level. Kirt earned a gold medal in Mexico this year, and Bill captured a bronze medal in Russia. The fall and winter salmon runs attracked many students to the beachs near Dibbly Point. Roy Keene spends a Saturday morning trying his luck.

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Oha mm fjeat of E ngiulo rhis was the last year that stu- dents could graduate with only 3 credits of English. Beginning next year, Rainier's English depart- ment will require 4 years of English to graduate. This was also the first year that col- lege prep English programs were of- fered for both juniors and seniors. These were in addition to the regular and remedial English classes. The C. P. classes stressed reading of classics and writing expository style while the regular classes dealt with entertain- ment level reading and practical writing skills. There are other classes outside the standard English that students are in- volved in such as Drama. Journalism, Speech and Yearbook. Drama classes are offered to any student willing to put out an effort to act. In these classes students studied several different tech- niques of acting and spent a lot of time outside of the classroom working on plays and better ways of acting. Jour- nalism, on the other hand, is a class to teach students how to put a newspa- per together. This is the second suc- cessful year that Rainier has put out a paper, after not having a paper for two years. Another class in the English department was competitive speech. In this class students wrote and pre- sented a variety of speechs in competi- tion. Vicki Horn and Wendy Johnson defended thier title and repeated as state champions in debate while they led the speech team to a second place finish in state competition. Yearbook was another alternative to English for some of the students. This class had the responsibility of produc- ing a record of the school year in the Emeraude. Andy Nelson talks with English student teacher Mrs. Shelia Wills, while Sandy Blankenship tries to listen in and Stacey Bolden sneaks into the picture Brian Edmison. a freshman, sits comfortably reading in Mark Schmidt's English class. Beth Hunnicult's advanced freshmen English class quietly reads Twelve Angry Men. 16