Santa Teresa High School - Compendium Yearbook (San Jose, CA)

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Not stopping for a bit® to oat. Darin Walker. Aaron Francis, and Heather Conley chow down close to a deadline. “Yearbook is difficult to lit it in with a part- time job. said Darin. Photo by Suzanne Nel- son. Tho Compendium staff. Front row: Terri Lyn, Kalinda Ukanwa, Erin Powell, Marie Bialomcki, Cheryl Ma- son. Second row: Mike McMahon. Valene Orsolini. Christine Wang, Tanya Pine, Su- zanne Nelson, Heather Conley, Lance Par- due. Andrea Hillis. Third row: Tom Fulton. Mike West. Ralph Drendel, Aaron Francis. Billy Oliver. Sean Grace. Darin Walker. Shelly Woods. Jan Kopczynski, Laura Goer. Photo by Mike DeVito. It's been a long days night. Andrea Hillts begins to put things away after a long night session near the second deadline. Andrea is the Compen- dium editor and finds herself at many of the overtime sessions; not only getting her things done, but making sure everyone else does. Because I'm also ASB President, its hard to find time for everything but I'm glad I took the job of edi'or. Photo by Heather Conley. Trying to blend in with the crowd. Laura Geer gets candids at break in tho quad. Laura is a first-year member of Com- pendium staff and also captain of the Varsity Volleyball team. “When 1 first signed up for this class, I thought it was going to be 'bone head' but it has turned out to be a lot of work. Photo by Lance Pardue. Organizations 110 ■■

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Esprit staff. Front row: Katrina Kalman. Joyce Reece. Michele Sheehy, Viet Nguyen. Shipra Shukla. Rachel Wettergreen. Carmen Gi- rnenez. Travis Cat v! Second row: Kathy Disbro. Cindy Voltierra. Lisa Greene, Nova Marks. Lety Vasquez. Lisa Baer. Alison King. Jon Skoglund. Rickio-Ann Kegley. Jennifer Yee, Adviser Karyn Neujahr. Shawn Con- roy. Third row: Katherine Farrow, June Honma. Julie Rowon, Jennie Chen. Rich Bra vo. Jason Bennert. Shim Patel, Sal Pizzaro. Fourth row: Jay Pate. LaShawn Rivers. Aaron Danzer. Rob Grocock, Mike Hyde. Photo by Darin Walker. AWARENESS If it happened, the Esprit covered it, and not a single story was ... Passed Up ho fills you in on the lat- est thing before its old news? The Esprit. Any- thing that interests you. the journalism crew is there to cover it. But it doesn't stop there. Before work is begun on a new issue, brain- storming is done and ideas are intro- duced. Page editors are assigned and change every issue to give each an opportunity to experience the re- sponsibility. After the pictures are taken and interviews done, stories must be written and edited. Photos are chosen and cropped, and then it comes; the dreaded paste-up. During the final days of prepara- tion long hours are spent during and after school piecing the paper to- gether for printing. Page editors re- duce or add to stories, move photos, and do anything else necessary to fit the myriads of information in the limited eight pages of space. When the finished copies are passed out, the rewards are endless. Michele Sheehy explained, So much work and pride goes into the paper you feel great when its complete.” Once the papers are passed out, the staff can sit back, relax for an entire min- ute, and then begin work on the next issue. The Esprit staff consists of two jour- nalism classes taught during first and second period by adviser Karyn Neujahr. The first class is for students with one or more years experience in journalism and the second class is for first year journalists. While first peri- od is primarily responsible for the production of the Esprit, second pe- riod contributes substantially. Many individuals do a great deal for the paper but it takes the whole team to produce such a quality paper. By Aaron Francis. Piece by piece. Gerry McIntyre busrly types his story into the computer trying to meet the deadline. Fin- ishing the story brings the paper one step closer to completion. It's real important that everyone does their part because every little bit oounts. explained Gerry. Photo by Western School Portraits. Esprit l09

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COMMITMENT Yearbook staff is dedication, hard work, creativity; it’s ... More than Snapshots here are several misconcep- tions about the responsibil- ities of the Compendiium staff. Most people believe that all we have to do is take pictures, but in fact we have so many people counting on our work that the class is more like a job than a class. As the editor Andrea Hillis said, It's more than a job. it's an adventure.” Tom Fulton and the current staff select who will be accepted at the beginning of the next school year. The new members are trained by Mr. Fulton and the veteran class mem- bers so they will have the necessary skills for the class. Each student is as- signed six or seven layouts, having a deadline by which it must be com- pleted. Six layouts may not sound like a lot, but when you look at what goes into one layout, you'll find it's quite a task. For each layout they are responsi- ble for pictures, captions, a headline, and article, and a layout design. Then a layout must be drawn up on a spreadsheet with two carbon copies beneath it. Laura Geer says, The hardest thing about the layouts is that if you mess up, you mess up three times, and each copy has to be cor- rected.” Then pictures must be cropped to fit the spaces on the lay- out along with the captions, head- line. and article. All parts of the book must be done by the beginning of April so, when you consider the first month and a half of the school year is spent on training and coming up with a theme for the book, it seems amazing that all the work gets done.. In the past two years the Compen- dium has received All American Honors 1986-87 from the National Scholastic Press Association, Medal- ist rating 1986-87 from the Colum- bian Scholastic Press Association, then the Gold Crown Award which is the highest award a yearbook can receive, second place in the Santa Clara County Youth Expo, and third place in the Journalism Educational Association Expo. The 1987-88 Compendium staff is certain that the 87-88 edition will be even better. By Heather Conley. Consulting with tho oxport. Ian Kopczynski talks to Mr. Fulton about his lay- out designs for the academics section. Ian is the academics section editor and it ts hts responsibil- ity to design the layouts for his section and as- sign them to the people with the pages in it. ; Yearbook is a good experience, not to men- tion that it looks good on a college transcript. Pholo by Heather Conley. Compendium 111