Saratoga High School - Talisman Yearbook (Saratoga, CA)

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WENDY COSGROVE Foods 2 GERALD HANSEN Architecture, Technical Illustration, Drafting 1,2 TONI STONE Human relations, Sewing 1,2 ZANDER COLLIER Woodshop 1,2 Drafting program i aim- JILL MCFARLAN Needlecraft, Ski Wear, Foods 1 WAYNE STRONG Auto 1 s one of the best Saratoga's drafting program is considered to be one of the best in California by other drafting teachers both high school and college. The level of achievement by the students allows them to compete successfully with college students in the area of technical illustration. Saratoga High students from the drafting program are in demand for related jobs in industry. Some com- panies come to us and ask for our students because of their broad technical background and the craftsman- ship they possess. The students who go on to higher education are usu- ally given the option to take advanced courses in the drafting area. This allows them to take more advanced training and specialized courses sooner than normal. -Gerald Hansen We are failing to focus on the spiritual resources within us and our universe which were so much a part of the perspective of the founders of this great revolu- tionary process we call the U.S.A. To expect Saratoga High School to swim up stream and provide any kind of beacon light shining on the great ethical principles which can shape men's lives would probably be to ex- pect the impossible. Yet this impossible dream, this small ray of hope is what brings me back on Monday mornings. -William L. Newman Jr.

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The following are an approximate statement of my personalperspechve ofthe process we caH Saratoga Fhgh schooL At this point in time Saratoga High seems to be drift- ing DOWN STREAM in a larger national process. As a people we U.S. Americans are more and more electing to turn backs on the beautHuIchaHenge maced on our backs by the courageous vhhonanes of the penod in whkfiourcounhy wasfounded. We seem to be replacing the values of life, liberty and justice for all, with those of pleasure and convenience. We are failing to develop our awareness about the HIGH COST of supporting our pleasure and conven- ience. We are not really helping each other or our young peopm to devdop concern about how very ex- pensive our life style is in terms of misery and oppres- sion of our fellow human beings at home and abroad. We are not helping each other to develop an awareness and concern about ways we can begm to show our respectforthe deHcate bmance ofthe wheelofnature. We are not really building an understanding of the need for the love and conwpasmon of us hurnans for our earth and for all living creatures who travel with us through space. -BHlNewnmn Nature has a NORMAN WILD Astronomy, Biology, Biology X CRAIG CARLSON Science, Biology BRUNO PILONE Chemistry delicate balance LES KISHLER Organic Gardening, Ad vanced Biology, Biology CARL WIDMER Science, Biology BILL NEWMAN Physics, Science ELWYN DORMAN Chemistry, Chemistry CSOPIWJ

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Probably one of the best memorles anyone could have about school IS a good teacher someone who can make you learn wlthout grvlng you the feeling that you have to After two years with Spanlsh teacher Mrs Carolyn McKenna I realize that she fats Into thus catagory luke a glove Whlle Spanish IS described as a romantlc language let s face It dolng verb drllls all perlod every day IS not golng to keep anyone on the edge of hls or her seat Mrs McKenna however plans sklts done In Spanlsh creatlve wrltlng In Spanish and contests In Spanlsh We read plays In Spanlsh and even an abrldged version of DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA Perlodlcally stu dents ask her to explain certaln passages In the book that they dont understand and Senora McKenna acts the scene Impersonatlng the self righteous Don Quixote or hls corpulent bungllng frlend Sancho Panza It may look strange to walk Into the classroom to see her waving around a homemade wooden sword whlle doing an Impresslon of Don Quixote but Mrs McKenna puts communication before dlgnlty and los mg a llttle of that dlgnlty means nothlng to her as long as we understand what she IS trylng to say Whether she knew It or not Mrs McKenna conveyed another message to me besides the meaning of Span Ish words She llkes what she IS dolng she loves It In fact and anyone can see It as her whole face seems to llght up when she sees a student just catchlng on to an Idea or when she IS wavlng her wooden sword around or when she pretends to put an F In the gradebock durlng a mock argument with a student Ann Skldmore She loves It In fact ANN IRWIN Spanlsh I IX Il French III JOHN CAVERS LINDA MARTINEZ Department Chanrperson In I II III Spanlsh I II French IV CAROLYN McKENNA JERRY PROSEK HELEN SANDALLS Spamsh I ll III French I IX ll Ill German I II III IV 1 1 , . . , . . 1 ' 1 1 . . . . H . H . 1 1 ' , . I . . . . . . 1 . . , I 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' ' LI 11 ' ' 1 1 1 In 11 ' 1 l I 0 1 11 , Lat 1' 1, 11 1 1 1 1 1 '