Rubidoux High School - Eyry Yearbook (Riverside, CA)

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1 . The first game, Jack- pot, enticed people with dis- play posters showing pots overflowing with shimmer- ing gold. Many people played this first game mere- ly to acquire a souvenier ticket. 2. The Sky ' s The Limit, appealed to the ad- venturous with colorful hot- air balloons. By game two, the initial excitement of the lottery had already worn off. 3. December ' s game, 3 Of A Kind, advertised im- proved odds of better than one is six. Game three was truly a gambler ' s delight with it ' s resemblance to cards. 4. Classroom fund- ing was not yet affected. 5. Students felt the lottery was fun, although they couldn ' t play. c ?? . out ' ' WOO. jhW, ftfl! , p ,t..- ' iJjO 6 TO „■ » nt«» « AMI )!«•■ ,T« -rtfS r: fSt fip t» »t Tiou 1 0.3 rf - of 1 1 »2£S== ' m V

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Quenette Mross enjoys a irozen banana while taking a break irom working in the tennis booth. The Computer Club sold the chocolate covered banana dessert. Taking her turn at the tennis booth, Lisa Caro presents her cotton candy creation to a customer. Caro was a Varsity player on the team. Ill

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I JOS INGELf —■ jis Marks The Spot Our Schools Win, Too? F ■ luorescent Orange L s on lime-green squares appeared overnight. Huge ban- ners let you know that you could Get your Lottery Tickets here October 3rd. Gro- cery stores, movie theatres, gas stations — every place offered a chance to play the new California Lottery! Millions of winners, they claimed . . . better than one ticket in nine will win. Los Angeles had an official lottery radio station (KIIS) to announce the big winners, and an official lottery television channel (7) where you could watch the big spins on the show, Big Spin, airing Monday nights at 10:00. Somewhere on every flier, in every jingle, on every brochure, was the famous phrase and our schools win, too! During one of the greatest movements to improve public educa- tion, California voters approved the Lottery Act of 1984. The poten- tial existed to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for California, thirty-four percent of which was earmarked for public education. These lottery funds would be above and beyond normal state educa- tional funding. Immediately after Proposition 37 passed, several bills were intro- duced which would potentially restrict the allocation, usage, and control of lottery monies. Regardless of whether they had been for the lottery, or against it, teachers questioned whether they would ever actually see any lottery funds. Sharon Dimery, a second year teacher said, I don ' t think that the funds from the lottery will ever be felt at the classroom level. When asked about the lottery, one of Dimery ' s fellow science teachers, Charles Guzman, exclaimed, I like the lottery. As a matter of fact I am going to buy a couple of tickets today. It ' s the twelfth day of the twelfth month, so its gotta be lucky! Another science teacher, Pat Monaco had a wall in his classroom covered with tickets that he and his students brought in. When asked about why he had done that he commented, I had the lottery tickets in front of my room to show the students that there are many, many, many losers. Pulling a lottery ticket from his pocket he smiled and said, I bought a ticket to support all of the hard working teachers in California. Lottery 29