San Dimas High School - El Santo Yearbook (San Dimas, CA)

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1 John Cash puts the finishing touches on the freshman orientation. A fast yet creative n akeup job is done by Liz Swyter and Mike Suchanek on Mary Van Tatenhove and Kevin Kel- ley. During the Sadie Hawkins Rally, couples from the court compete with licorice, but this rally was remembered as the last because of firecrackers that went off in the stands. Chris Keil offers a helping hand to Ron Lenhart, senior class president who resigns himself to his fate. Rally members look on as Mike Suchanek and Robert Gonzalez try to enjoy a sundae blindfolded. Kevin Hood, mummified in toilet paper shows his school spirit as Mike Suchanek carries him across a quad rally. That ' s Disgusting 17

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That ' s Disgusting! Food fights! Yeah! Yuck! Wahoo! There ' s a competition at each rally but the ones that get students most involved center around food. The first rally we had this year turned into a giant food fight, said songleader Heather Long. That was un- expected but people-like some of the football players- love to do it. That first one began as a tug-of-war between class presidents. It was senior and junior Ron Lenhart and John Cash against sophomore and freshman Carmen Fields and Linda Morgan, with a pool of jello in the middle. It was in- tended to be initiation for Linda who was supposed to fall in the jello. When she didn ' t fall in, the boys got her with whipped cream — there for the upcoming ice cream eating contest — until some them- the in others took it upon selves to throw Ron jello. We try to have things where students can get in- volved. Food competitions seem to get the most re- sponse, said songleader Tri- cia Sun. Guys like to eat. People don ' t get into other competi- tions as much, said cheer- leader Roxanne Suela. Gross things attrack peo- ple ' s attention. They like to see people make a fool and a mess of themselves, said flag leader Sonya Schreuders. If people like it it ' s worth it. It gets people enthusiastic when there ' s excitement, said pep commissioner Kim Paine. Rally wasn ' t the only sponsor of such competi- tions. ASB had an egg toss, root beer guzzling, marsh- mellow stuffing along with the more traditional trike race and obstacle course dur- ing club week. It ' s funny to watch but you don ' t want to be the one getting it, said two juniors. 16 That ' s Disgusting

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Playing For Time The first play of the year was the comedy hit, Heaven Can Wait. In our version, Sam Robinson and Stewart Snelson took over the lead roles of Joe Pendleton and Mr. Jor- dan, played in the movie by War- ren Beatty and James Mason. Despite the fact that the play in- cluded a lot of new people which might have made it difficult to pull the play together, the cast did a good job performing before the audiences — but accidents do happen. In one of the performances Sam (Joe Pendleton) forgot his sax- aphone, which was an important prop in the play. Sam also acciden- tally dropped and bent the sax. Some of the performers were praised for their particularly good performances: Jon Goldstein as Max Levine, Joe Pendleton ' s man- ager and Stewart Snelson as Mr. Jordan — but Darlene Wiegmann summed it up the best, We really couldn ' t have done it without each other. Generally, the performers felt that students on campus didn ' t support the drama club enough. As Tracie Kistler said, A vast major- ity don ' t even know about the plays. The people who did come to see the plays enjoyed them and that ' s what made the performers happy. The plays were selected by Mr. King who selects according to the knowledge he had of the abilities of the students he knew would try out for the plays. He knew what they can do, what they can learn to do, and what the people on campus would like to see. Many skills could be learned by being in one of the plays. Mica Coach, Tracie Kistler, Darlene Wiegmann, and Sam Robinson has learned stage directions, to control their emotions, to communicate with people, and to feel more free about performing in front of an au- dience. 18 Drama