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

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Sc6o d Out 0£ Sc ioot $ Z c ene U ' Kbut 0£ Education Although the dismissal bell was not exactly harmonious, it was music to the ears of all students. But because there was more to life than just reading, writing, and arithmetic, many students attended classes outside of school to broaden their horizons. After long hours in the classroom, students interested in the fine arts transformed themselves from typical students dressed in Corona T- shirts. Guess jeans, and Reeboks into aspiring performers as they donned leotards and ballet or tap shoes. Sophomore Sonya Elam went to gymnastics, and sophomore Helen Liu went to ballet lessons at Mt. SAC for two hours a week. Piano lessons were also favored by many of our students. Junior Amanda White said she took them because it is something to do and it is fun. The clarinet, which had been practiced an hour a day for the past four years by sophomore Ricardo Miagany, was another mucical diversion. To enhance their voices, Melissa Warkentin and Alicia Morga, both sophomores, took vocal lessons weekly. If there were missed credits to be made up or a class not offered here, night school was the answer. Classes at Chaparral started around 3:00 p.m. and lasted until 9:00 p.m. Mt. SAC and Citrus community colleges also accepted some high school students. Those of us lucky enough not to be tagged by a cop while speeding back from lunch or to and from school didn ' t know the worries of getting a ticket. Most pleaded innocent, but eventually got the ticket anyway. To get it off their records and keep the insurance companies fooled, students went to traffic school. The two to four hour (and sometimes more) classes included everything from lectures and roll-play situations, to watching disgusting movies like Red Asphalt. If the classes were long enough and parents consented to it, kids took the day off from high school to go to traffic school. To learn more about their heritage, junior Lauri Matsukiyo and sophomore Megumi Oda attended, as they had for the last twelve years, Japanese school every Saturday. While there, they learned to write. speak, and read the Japanese language. At 6:00 a.m., when most of us were still asleep and not even thinking about school, a group of Mormon students went to seminary classes. There they studied the Bible, learned about their church, and received inspirational instruction. C.C.D. and Sunday school, which resembled seminary but only required attendance once a week, was another outside area for further education. C.C.D. was held on Wednesday and, you guessed it, Sunday school on Sunday. Just when you thought it was safe to leave school school began. Before daybreak, Peter Brown. Jason Coleman. Tara (Jllah, and Kristen Brown sleepily yet cheerfully stumble into their 6:00 a.m. seminary class. At a Saturday session of Janpanese school, junior Lauri Matsukiyo writes out her vocabulary definitions on the board. Anxious for the music to start, junior Amy Hinton awaits the outcome of weeks of practice at a dance contest. ScA ot Gut »j Se6o«t ?2S

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American Government students Debi Gorrel. Eric Perry, Ossa Sun. and Manfred Pereda pull their desks together to converse about the Constitution. In second period Relationships class senior Jon Thomas, looks over his worksheet on marriage while Mrs. Ralls gives a lecture on the subject. f26 ;4c ide tUc4 For group discussion questions on the Civil War in Mrs. Bierbaum ' s 4th period, the class breaks into 5 groups. Aaron Alcala. Ginger lively, and Mel. inic Montoya ' s g ' oup talk about how to present their answer.