Walnut High School - Cayuse Yearbook (Walnut, CA)

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t)t . u c I WITH SINUOUS GRACE, the dancers extend •■ themselves in the last moments of their Rou- tine. They often added a grand finale everything corne together = - I J ! ' i 0 ASTRUTTIW THEIR STUFF, Shannon Hosking and Julie Rackstraw perform one o( their rou- tines The dancers rehearsed long hours to make sure everything was just right IMITATING ANCIENT HIEROGLYPHICS, the quartet Walks Like an Egyptian. Members of Dance often did their routines to recent popular music. 30 Student Life Dance Production

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TYPES false facts? f you were an average student on a high school campus you would prob- ably be able to master- fully match the items to the right. Almost every known group was stereotyped in one way or another. Brains always had books, just as jocks were always sweaty. Some people assume that just because I have a high grade point average I ' m unsociable, said senior Wendy Leoffler. While stereotyping was usually considered unfair many people often found 1 . Jocks 2. Brain 3. Cheerleadg ' 4. Freshman 5. Nerd - themselves getting caught up in it. ■■| know it isn ' t rignt judg- ing people on what activities they belong to, said fresh- man Annisa Ayala, But sometime I can ' t help it. People who were involved A. ponytails B. broken glasses . smelly sweat socks D. squirrelykid E. lots of books in activities often found themselves frustrated. I have a lot of friends out- side of band, said senior Mike Rae, but a lot of peo- ple think that band members are my only friends. Groups often hung out in their own groups. On any day you could usually see a band member in the band room or a pepster sitting at the lunch tables. I like staying in the band room during lunch because it gives me a chance to prac- tice and spend time with my USING HER HANDS, Karen Skid- more gets her point across to her friends. They usually spent their weekends at underground clubs. friends, said Jason Miller. But hanging out in groups didn ' t always give off positive results. Sometimes if I don ' t like a couple of people who belong to a group, I won ' t like the rest of them, admitted one student. People tend to think that every cheerleader has her nose in the air, said pepster Julie Woolhouse. There are plenty of us who are really nice. So whether you liked or didn ' t like being stereotyped it was almost an everyday occurrance for some. The only thing you can really do about it, said sophomore Shelley Maxwell, is deal with it! Story by Chris La Coste and Shar- on Ludeking: layout by Dee Honda: photos by Allen Odermatt- f T WHILE HER FRIENDS LAUGH, at the lunch time activities Mischell Minehart gets distracted. The cheerleaders were often seen at the tables during lunch. Stereotypes Student Life 29

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DANCE nfi ' dj 10 Roekin ' ond reetin ' — musicaf fee fin ' Dance — a form of exercise or hobby in which you move to the beat of music. Eighteen groups of more than eighty dancers performed in the bi-annual Dance Production on January 14. For the members of the Production, dancing was more than just a hobby. 1 lil e music, said Kristen De Kleine, and dancing is a way to flow with the music. Various tastes in music were danced to, such as funk, pop, hard rocl , heavy metal, and anything else the dancers showed a liking to. A love for dance and music has been the beginning for many young individ- uals who planned a career involving dancing. like this yearns You Be IllitiV — Benny Harraway Dance advisor Linda Batchelor is one of these people who started out young. I love dance, said Batchelor, every aspect of it. I ' ve been dancing since I was a very little girl. Not only does she love dance for her- self, she enjoys ' passing it on ' to aspir- ing dancers. I like to see the students improve and get better each year, said Batchelor, the joy of dancing has really ' turned on ' a lot of my students to dance and a large percentage continue to dance either in college or try profes- sional careers when they graduate. Moving with a feel for the music and a love for dancing, the Dance Production was a way of showing off a potential of talent to all who could see it. story by Randy Abulon; layout by Kevin Thom- as: photos by Jodi Pugliese. 1 cA, A TAKING A FINAL BOW, Jennifer Zanebis com- pletes her routine. This is Jennifers second year in Dance. • LIP-SYNCING A TUNE, Carol Robinson paces the dance floor as Heather George. Cynthia Saba- din, and Tina Rayborne perform. Dancers usually performed in groups from two to four people. Dance Production Student Life 31