Ukiah High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Ukiah, CA)

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The Students Our school, so quiet and solemn on this brisk Sunday afternoon. Walking along the hallways, usually full of laughter and screams, one realizes how different it is here today without students. During the week people gather, talking and sharing secrets, walking around just to pass the time, or standing by the cafetorium trying to gulp enough food to last them through the day. Today they are gone. The wall where the row of cowboys usually sits is now occupied by a flock of birds. It looks lonely. The area between the pool and the vending machines, the old smoking area, is devoid of cigarette butts. Where smoke once lingered in the air and provoked the school board and student-parent groups to hold many discussions, there is now . . . well, cleanliness. The Tri looks like the heart of the school. The place where students gather to eat, talk and lough is now just an empty pit in the middle of campus. Without the students the school is quiet and undisturbed. The students, with all of their energy, shake the gym during rallies and make the school come olive with their joy and pain. The huge white buildings with orange doors was built for students. Without them the buildings are just that: buildings. School will come olive again on Mon- day, and emotion will once more fill these empty, lifeless buildings. The students

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8 • The Students

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THE ROYAL COUPLE. Mary Zama and Sfeve Gehring proudly accept their title of Homecoming Queen and King WE WIN! In triumph for the second year in a row, Doug Drennan raises the Spirit Bell. Moments later other members of the class of ' 86 poured out of the stands to mob him in wild celebration 10 • The Ceremony — iJL