Rubidoux High School - Eyry Yearbook (Riverside, CA)

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Escalante, Terne With Big Mouths And Loud Voices I here ' s no doubt about it. Sopho- mores hove big mouths and loud voices. That ' s why we can outyell all the other classes at the pep assemblies. I sure get excited during these mo- mentous events. Everybody is yelling and screaming for our class. The gym sounds like a million people are in it. My ears can hardly take it! Even my throat muscles — usually so hardy in other sit- uations — are beginning to give out. I think the teachers planned this whole thing as a conspiracy so we won ' t be able to yell during class. But we ' re soph- omores and we have a reputation to up- hold. The only bad thing about pep rallies is that you can ' t get brunch or lunch and participate at the same time. You either get to stand in a short line, for a change, and eat, or you scream your head off at a pep rally. But then growling stomachs add to the noise. We not only see who can yell the loud- est, we also have contests. Like the one where some one squeezes toothpaste into the cup on the forehead of some: one else lying on the floor. And then there ' s the one where each class picks three people; one merely stands while the other two proceed to mummify him. It ' s a race to see which class can cover up their mummy the fastest. Yes, pep rallies have definitely inter- esting events. They cheer up my day and give me o chance to prove that sophomores are the BEST. - 1. Sfere Huerta carefully aims and squeezes tooth- paste into the cup. 2. Squinting with the pure hor- ror of cold toothpaste, Jerry Stinson waits tor an- other unmerciful squirt from above. 3. During the homecoming pep rally, sophomores wait for the results of the yelling contest. 152 We ' re the Kids of America

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Rings Symbolize Classic Tradition I T lom says they ' re completely unnecessary, Dad would rather buy me a new wardrobe, and my older sister is a senior and still begging for one: a class ring. A class ring is something I can cherish all my life (or so I say, trying to convince Mom). The sophomores have the dis- tinct honor of hosting the Josten ' s re- presentative who sells the rings. To- wards the end of the first semester, he visits our Driver ' s Education class, telling us everything that we could possibly ever want to know about class rings. There is a new twist to all of this. The representative shows a short film about one of Josten ' s best salesmen. The speaker is really more like a stand up comic, and he jokes about the teenage years in high school. He rattles on about the many school activities and traditions and about how getting a class ring is just one of numerous traditions. Class rings are a tradition all over the country, and have been since the time of my grandparents. I ' ll bet even Abe Lincoln had a class ring. Well, I guess I ' ll hove to start saving up all those odd pennies, nickels and dimes and maybe one day I ' ll have the one hundred dollars I ' ll need. Mom just doesn ' t seem to realize how much this ring means to me. It holds all kinds of memories and all that sentimental stuff. Well, maybe I can convince her yet. ' A ' 1. Bill Huekmaker, Josten ' s representative, pre- sents information about class rings to sophomores in a driver ' s education doss. 2. Kwynn Rentfro studies her booklet to decide upon her class ring. 3. Angel Aguilera and Octavio Aguirre listen at- tentively to the representative, who comes each yeor and visits Driver ' s Ed classes. f Tnp Dodgen, Daniel Doles, Deanno Donley, Downo Dnskell, Leah Drumol, Raymond Dupper, Kenneth Duthie, Michelle Soph 151

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