Rancho High School - El Sol Yearbook (Las Vegas, NV)

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Chess team checkmates again Members of the Chess team and club are Front Row: Tom Shermer, Steve Withey. Second Row: Mario Franzone, Iose Solorio, Mark Stein Third Ioel Morris, Manuel Solorio, Emil Stein. 108 Chess Club Chess is very challenging and very stimulat- ing. It's great,. stated Iudy Aldrich, advisor of the Chess Team. This year there were many playersg so there was an eliminating tournament. The students who made varsity were Ioel Morris, Emil Stein, Manuel Solorio, Mark Stein and Mario Fran- zone. The junior varsity as Mike Hendrix, Craig Talley, Kale Brown, lose Solorio and Ken Erlan- ger. Tom Shermer was an alternate. Ioel Morris, who was returning from last year was again, the top-notch player. The varsity chess team had a very close game this year with Eldorado, in which they split the score 292 to 2112. The first match was with Clark, which they won 5-0, both varsity and I.V. The chess team practiced on Fridays and had matches on Mondays. The officers for the chess team and club were Emil Stein, President, Manual Solorio, Vice President, Mario Franzone, Secretary-treasurer, and Ioel Morris, Historian. www.. 1--wax., f .. VARSITY O

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Guest speaker at Trition Elite's initiation x l i was Professor Biegler. l if , Blood gi en b students Members of Trition Elite, our section of the National Honor Society have one of the fastest growing clubs on campus with a 30 member increase over last year. Trition Elite has an organization here for 20 years. Each year the members get involved in com- munity projects for Las Vegas. This year they had two blood drives, one in December the other in March, this was to increase the blood available to the public. Some of the members were also telephone operators for the National Arthritis Telethon. To be a member of Trition Elite a student must have a 3.5 grade average and also be a jun- ior or senior. f ,T - e I I y y Hilgar RaeAnn Hoson Chris Desilets Linda Peck Donna Millette R0w2 lay Connors Dave Curtis Greg Machads Eliza 1: Lori Ri hi, ill Brest, Terri Alexander, ackie Hanson, Kath Rhinehart, Debbie Mo er, Graciela Martucci, Lori Clover, W 3 9 Y ! ' ' ! ! Y - altman, Charles Knight, Tanya Ianos, Iudy Hogan, Connie Easterlina, Karen Eioher, Kristin Gubler, Mike Small, Mark Dean Church, Iohn Pieffer, Leah Hertzel, Cathy Scrivner, Rochelle Congar, Sally Gillitzer, Nada Krich, Doe Girling, Mike Dan Waite, Bryan Branby, Tom Parrett, Richard Spilsbury. Trition Elite 107

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Contemplatmg his next move is Ioel Ioel has been with the chess team for three years. N -Y YYYY -YYY Yv-V-f--, ,--A, ...- .... ., .-4..- .,.. ,.. JVC.- ..-,,.-..., ...V .-,,..,.,,,,. one player of the team, who has an overall record of 25-0, as he practices efore a match. l i IUNIOR V TEAM t , , qRancho +5RantCh0 Oli, 5fRa1ichoi: ente i Rancho 1 0, -lea I . , ,, , 'i Using his mental abilities, Varsity player, Mario Franzone, practices before the match against Bonanza. The Chess Team crushed the Bengals '10-O. Chess Club 109