University City High School - Excelsus Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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Damon Werner Deborah West Kim Wheat William Wheeler Yolanda White Cherilyn Wicks Jr. Williams Maia Winters Jacqueline Wirtz Adam Wopschali UC ' s Ace Adding full power and pulling the plane off the runway is a high only those who have experienced it can imagine, com- mented Dave Adams when asked to sum- marize the feeling of flying a plane. I ' ve wanted to fly ever since I was little. The only toys I ever played with were planes. Dave Adams started turning his child- hood dream into reality in November. 1982 when he started ground school with the P.S.A. Flight Academy in Mira Mesa. Flight school wasn ' t as hard as I ex- pected. I had to do a lot of math and physics and I had to learn how to read weather charts. I didn ' t even see a plane for the first three months. explained Dave. After Dave completed his twelve hours of instructed flight time he was ready to start his solo flight time. The first time I soloed I felt an incredible feeling of free- dom. The cockpit was silent and the only thing that stood between me and the ground was thousands of feet of nothing and I alone glided across it like it was a giant pillow, reflected Dave. During the year Dave Adams flew with the Golden State Flying Club. Through the club David rented his airplanes and con- tinued his flight studies. There ' s nothing like flying up the coast, commented Dave when asked about his favorite flight route. For Dave Adams, fulfilling his childhood dream of becoming a pilot added a new dimension to his life. It not only fed his enduring hunger for flying but gave him his own private heaven. Seniors 183

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Torrey Vance §iMmM Michele Trombley Daniel Trout Michael Tuller Derek Underwood Allison Valencia Tom Vandenberg Vic Villalpando Howard Vitkus Monique Weaver 182 John Webb Joseph Weigand Antonina Vitrano David Weinbaum Kevin Wenzel

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Gary Wright Peter Wright Ross Yagoda Greg Yavorsky Seniors Not Pictured Dupree Adkins Hooman Asbaghi Adrian Banks Farhat Ban Jason Bierholm Anthony Bullard Robert Butte Mitchell Cavna Ricardo Diazcanedo John Eichhorn Minnette Fink Lana Fisher Reed Fry Suzanne Garrett Shelda Harris Tracy Heckler Paul Houston Donald Hunt Jeffery Hunter Josephate Jordan Jr. Meenu Kaku Ayad Kazzazi Edwin Lai Otis Lambert Trine Larsen Joe Lewis Ethan Loeb 184 Seniors