Springville High School - L Artiste Yearbook (Springville, UT)

Page 6 text:

SPEAK OF THE DEVIL! and see what appears. Some of the brightest, crazi- est, most spirited students anywhere appear when you speak of the Devils. They come from farms, typical” middle- class homes, apartments, and some rather expensive houses. Their backgrounds are as diverse as the students themselves. Many have lived in the Spring- ville-Mapleton area most of their lives, while others come more recently from areas all over the world. School spirit ran high this year as students banded together to make the year one in which the students searched for construc- tive fun. Not all of the students were filled with this spirit, though. Some thought it was neat to boo and hiss at the administration instead of work- ing with them. Like a typical high school, there were three classes into which students of every size, shape and temperament were sorted. Like most high schools there is also a class system above and beyond the more traditional Sophomore, Junior and Senior classification: the cliques. There are the cowboys with their silver belt buckles, the preppies with their Izod polo shirts, the jocks in their School spirit ran high this year as students banded together to make the year one in which the students searched for con- structive fun. lettermen jackets, the picture perfect cheerleaders, the to- metoting intellectuals, the strident activists, the valley” girls who wonder how to pay for their next shipment of cosme- tics. and the neo-new-wave- punkers with their chopped off hair and pierced ears. The geography of the Spring- ville-Mapleton area is anything but typical. Founded by Mormon settlers at the mouth of Hobble Creek Canyon in 1853, the community with the towering Wasatch Mountains at its back overlooks Utah Valley and its lake. Although Utah is consider- ed a desert, even after Septem- ber's forty days and nights of rain, the community itself is a verdant area. Valley residents enjoy the recreational excite- ment of all four seasons in a mountain setting with plenty of summer sun and tons of winter snow. The area also offers culture and class with a nation- ally acclaimed art museum in town and a major university, BYU, just ten miles to the north. 2 OPENING

Page 8 text:

SPEAK OF THE DEVIL! and see what appears. This year’s studentbody learning a new language and crowded existing desk space. functioning in an alien culture The Biology classes were as well as coping with all the packed beyond capacity. With regular homework assign- little room left to breathe, ments. teachers asked the coun- This year’s sophomore selors not to send more class was large, not in sta- students, but they kept ture, but in sheer number, coming. After several days of dazed The '82-‘83 studentbody wandering they began to also had a bumper crop of understand what high school Japanese and Scandinavian was. Fortunately, for tradi- foreign exchange students. tion’s sake, a few sophomores They faced the challenge of lived up to the meaning of the word. Sophomore” is a combination of the Greek word sophos” meaning wise and moros” meaning fool. The idea of a wise fool suggests one who knows enough to at least understand that he does not know anything — the beginning of true wisdom. Unfortunately, too many sophomores had too much “moms.” Juniors, on the other hand seemed to think they had 4 OPENING