Upper Darby High School - Oak Yearbook (Upper Darby, PA)

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Ernesto Canales, Dept. Head Cisele Bathish Sara Buck Carolyn Felker Ann McConkey Michael Murphy Esperanza Nunez Gerald Roma Todd Wagner Margaret Young Foreign Language jU. . (rjhttjUa. • ' Ur r Mike Murphy contem- plates the good old days, when Latin classes were in abundance. Spanish is . . . Watching the clock, but the hands never move . . . Saying something dirty in Spanish and your Spanish teacher knows what it means .. Trying to say thank you to somebody when you are really saying you want to date his wife . . . Muy difficul . . Being able to speak it and not know what you are saying ... Learning to speak it well, then getting a job in France ... Sitting through the whole class and finding out that you just sat through a French class ... Coming into class and speak- ing gringo lingo'. Todd Wagner and Ernesto Canales discuss plans for the weekend. French is . . . Staring at the board but not getting anything out of it.

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Music And Art Chorus is . Loving to sing, but you can't! ... Learning to hold back laughter when some- one's voice cracks ... Singing bass when you're a soprano. Concert Choir is ... Going to Romania and finding the coun- try in a state of national emer- gency when you get there, but having a great time getting to know the people. Band is Finding out that you don't know your left foot from your right foot ... Like being in the Lawrence Welk Or- chestra . . . Being the only one marching straight ahead after everyone else has done an about face ... Marching, and freez- ing, and practicing, and still having fun. Art is . .. Finishing your clay pot after four weeks of work and dropping it before it gets grad- ed ... Letting others see your thoughts .. . Finding new ways of getting paste off of your fingers ... Getting ready to put the finishing touches on a poster and someone steps on it . .. When you think you've made a masterpiece, but you did the wrong assignment .. . Sit- ting on the chair you just spilled paint on ... Expressing your thoughts to the world ... Be- ing creative and messy, but hav- ing to clean up afterwards. It's like this dummies! The new director Diane Meyer wakes up the marching band. Alice dcKok shows Gary Zilko how to make a print. David Hall. Dept Diane Meyer Judson Snyder, Dept Alice deKok Virginia Greene Charles Reeder Head Head 24

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Home Economics Sewing is Making a dress and find- ing out it doesn't fit . .. Switching the foot peddles on your friend's machine and making her mess up. . Getting an A' on the dress your mother made. Child Development is . Having kids without ever becoming pregnant Playing 'Hide and Seek' and never be- ing found ... A preschooler teaching you to put a puzzle together Try- ing not to be out-smarted by a four-year- old . . . Some little angel putting paste on your chair. Cooking is Watching a delicious meal burn . Making a double batch of cookies when you are only supposed to make one ... Knowing that you will never make anybody a good wife . . Eating the apple pie you made with an Alka-Seltzer' beverage Know- ing you will get something to eat at least three times a week ... Getting a tossed salad tossed at you ... Finding out the flour you added was baking Who is Janet DiNorscia hiding in the closet? Sophomores sure are smaller this year. remarks Lynn Crawford. Lynn Craford, Dept Janet Di Norscia Audrey Lindcmuth Paulette Nannos Bette Vail Head 26