Torrey Pines High School - Freeflight Yearbook (Del Mar, CA)

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Connie Johnson L .-.f F lswight Johnson ,J Y 'Uv' 5 f 5' fa ig Y j 'nil Orville Karge Coletia Kelly FEATU RE D ee Frank n Anglophile is she - Victorian in looks and tumishings, an avid traveler to England each year, r a Shakespeare and theater buff, opera lover, hammered dulcimer player, collector of English and irish folk music. and an international folk dance teacher. 1984 Teacher of the Year. selected by faculty and ASB. was English teacher, Dee Frank. Ms. Frank teaches English Lit, World Lil, and English Q, and has been at Torrey Pines High School since 1975. She is married to Michael Boyle, a Ph.D. candidate in Endocrinology at U.C.S.D,. whose waist length pony tail contributes to the couples 6O's Flower Children image. The couple shares a house in Mission Hills, San Diego, with Ms. Frank's antique and basket collections. ln the classroom, Dee is popular for her knowledge and historical anecdotes, for her faimess, and for her demanding college level assign- ments. Ms. Frank's enthusiastic shar- ing of cultural and activities, and organization of student trips to opera, theater and concerts demonstrate her enjoyment of both students and leaming, which is also obvious to the studen s in herclasses. She looks forward to an eventual move from teaching into a social service area such as counseling battered women or rape victims. Meanwhile, her time is spread between paper correcting and folk concerts, paper correcting and folk dancing, paper correcting and theaterfopera, paper correcting and reading, paper correcting and antique hunting, paper correcting and women's causes. D. Palmer ' f lr I E I X I LJ l E E A l I K l Jon Robertson A R l'! - l -1? ' on Robertson, tO hIS name isprintedlntheprogrameach -1 ,L - r , M f kf1OWl9dQef IS the Onlv year. He credits his father - an All - ' .lj f' Q Mr' footballlteam scholar- American player at U.S.C. and his r f - mg? SHIP VGSJIDISDT to fTJGlOf mom - an ardent reader- for his M , F' -1 35115 in English at San Diego amalgamation of interests. I ' it -ijfggjlf State, Robertson wasa He presently teaches American Dick Kure Bob Little ' -' defensive back whose Lit., TV and Media and English 9. S.D.S.U. records for kick off and punt Much ofthistime is spentatCable 37 returns still stand - and for which his and Southwestem 15 supenlisingw the V Torrey Pines comrnunityfsc ool 1, cable TV partnership. He is most gg V L' 5 - proud of setting up student in- ' TXT ternships for outstanding Falcon N ' 3 ' r students at each station. Jon also N l coaches golf and scouts for the -4' ' r- A Falcon football team after four - , V. . . it 4 ' X Joan Luber-Jacobs 213 Csririrlmrro smrr Dan Lyman previous years of coaching the sport. Skiing is a major love. Jon spent part of his junior year in high school attending Mammouth High School and skiing on the Mammoth Mtn. Ski Team. During college he spent a year as a s i bum' in Steamboat Jorings working in a restaurant, Jon oesn't ski as much presently, but spends his free time with his wife Nance ian aerobics instructorj and daughter Hayley, 3V2. Jon dreams of helicopter skiing in Caribou, Canadian Rockies, travel- ing to Europe and writing a short story and film, and presently has a film script in process. D. Palmer

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