Redondo Union High School - Pilot Yearbook (Redondo Beach, CA)

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Launching a joint venture Beginning the school year students were general- ly thought of as either Redondo or Aviation stu- dents. As the year progressed so did the students' classi- fications. Soon the students referred to themselves as Redondo students or former Aviation students. Understandably, the readjustment for the many new students was sometimes emotionally tryin . Early on, RUHS students made many concerted ef- forts to make the Aviation students feel accepted, but for a long while, many remained disheartened. Through inte ration in clubs, classes and athlet- ics, the new stutfents began to feel comfortable with the reality that they were destined to complete their high school years at an unfamiliar campus. Many of the new students' ill feelings of anticipa- tion were extinguished early when they found stu- dents who were willing to take their feelings of remorse into consideration. In athletics, students put aside the fact that they had once been rivals to form many of RUHS' strongest teams in many years. Participation in athletics was greatly increased in the 1983 school year. With the addition of many talented athletes from Aviation, RUHS could not help but improve their already excellent athletic program. Students also en'oyed a wide variety of interest- ing classes from which they could choose. Students were brought together in classes such as the new uitar class and the already-established classes of- fered by the highly rated English department. From the moment of the school board's fateful decision concerning school closure, Aviation stu- dents were resigned to conform to the long set tradi- tions of RUHS. Nobody ever expected or wanted the new stu- dents to completely forget Aviation and the memo- ries they felt for it. The peo le associated with RUHS just hoped the new students from Aviation would make efforts to blend in with Redondo in this joint venture. Q l 1 4 joint venture 9' 1 r i - Y 1

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Past Times at Redondo High Party? Who us, Party? What's a party? We're good, motivated students who strive for academic excellence! That's not totally believable. Why? Because when the weekend comes, Redondo students hurl the books into the corner of the bedroom and look for something exciting to do. That's not saying they don't strive for academic excellence, but at Redon- do, scenes of partying not unlike the seenes in the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High are fairly common. So what do these wild, carousing, Redondo stu- dents do for excitement besides party? The answer- -anything that has one of the main ingredients, immediate satisfaction, an abundance of thrill or a source of merriment. That could be a number of things, namel an indoor activity enhanced in the movie, hint, hint, but we won't elaborate on that. One activity many students enjoy is dancing. The style of dancing changes from generation to genera- tion, even from month to month, and this year is no exception. Dancin isn't the only activity that grabs stu- dents b Sie heels. Movie-going is still, and prob- ably will always, be practiced, yet the drive-in the- ater isn't quite as popular as expected of teens. Concerts also strike an interest in Redondo teens. Some of the concerts students may have visited include the US Festival, a three-day long music jam featuring various music from new wave to country, the Who! Clash concert held one Friday which coin- cidentally a few students chose to attend instead of school, and Judas Priest. The more trite activities such as cruising, stum- bling through the pipe in Palos Verdes or visiting Vanderlips, a supposedly haunted house also in P.V. are still sou ht. There's no doubt RUHS students are attracted to excitement whether on the dance floor or at a foot- ball gamep yet they don't make it the number one priority like Ridgemont High. 6 fast times ll