West High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Torrance, CA)

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Guitar Society The Guitar Society is an informal gather- ing place for all kinds of musical styles and ideas. Students share ideas and techniques with each other. The Society is also a place for guitarists to perfect their skills and to play before an audience. Every level of skill is represented from just learning to ad- vanced classical guitar. GUITAR SOCIETY: Mr. Duckworth, Nancy Amos, Sheryl Purdum. Warren Vallerand, Wally Mollis, Rick Gralnik, Dan Kellman, and many others not pictured. Music book held by Ken Jones. Forensic Club The Forensics Club ana- lyzes methods of communi- cation in this complex so- ciety. Under the leadership of President Kayse Hoo- ver and the supervision of Sponsor Robert Pickard, they attend speech and de- bate tournaments through- out the South Bav area. FORENSICS CLUB: Row I - Tony Merideth, Geoff Gohl. Pia .Anderson, Yvonne Johnson, Sue Koel- ler. Wa ne Van Tassel, Row 2 - Robert Pickard. Beverly Bickel, Dan Dubrow. Jerry McKnight, John Sczewcvk. Ben Lytle, Glen Lynskey, Marc Moralis. Scott .Allen, Bruce Morrow, Kaysey Hoover, Olga Hajeck. John Galli, Glen Kaiser, Nikki Basil, Eric Fernald, Judy Sierra. Not Pictured - Dave Peltier, Keith Cramer. Don Sawdey. Fred Burch. Dave Lewis, Jake Herman. Greg Kritztein, Bob Levy. Mark Hudson.

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Student Exchange Club Ah, it tis a small world af- ter all, and this years Student Exchange Club helped to wel- come two exchange students to West, Nobuko Harata from Japan, and Lena Hansen from Sweden. Though the Club is largely devoted to exchanging students and finding them homes, they do many other activities as well. The goal of the club is to show the vari- ety of countries, but more im- portantly, to show the many more similarities between people and nations. STUDENT EXCHANGE CLUB: Row 1 - Lori Rasmussen, Irene Kumamoto, Craig Pres- ton, Reed Warren, Janet Wise, Gisele Garcia, Nobuko Harata, Arren Corrick, Roxalla Edmonds, Row 2 - Joe Brewster, Mrs. Harter, Alex Yu, Mike Wyler, Ana Silva, Ligia Mar- tin, Randy Bradley, Mrs. La Fleur, Not Pictured - Kelly Hayden, Beverly Bi ckel, Maria Meneghesso, Lena Hansen, Jill Pierson, Yoon Cho. ' ■1 . Drama Club To be or not to be, that is a question which the Drama Club probably hears quite often, as they produce two major pro- ductions each year and sponsor worthwhile field trips to the Music Center, and elsewhere, to see pro- fessional productions. Ah, but take note. Ye non- members, although the Drama Club members are more intensely involved in these and other drama- oriented happenings, all activities are open to any West Hiah student. DR.-XMA CLJJB: Row 1 - Chris Husmann, Aren O ' Conner, Jan Sheehey, John Newman, Debi Ayers, Yvonne Johnson, Denise hish. Row 2 - Mr. Scarlata, Richard Humphrey, Teresa Ahn. Linda Miller, Sharon Donning, Jenny Brook, Sue Livingston, Sharon Letz, Doug Todd, Tom Mosher, Diane Slick, Suzanne Marino. 1 10 Suidciu t-Acluinsie, Drama Club

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Chess Club The Chess Club is a meet- ing of patient and intellegent minds in a difficult and chal- lenging game of chess. Spon- sored by Mr. Harris, the Chess Club hosts their own tourna- ment at West High which is open to all West High stu- dents as well as taking part in other tournaments in the South Bay Area. CHESS CLUB: Clockwise - Mark Satrom, Rodney Rodriguez, John Szewczyk, John Per- rault, Keith Cramer, Janice Wergland, Wayne Van Tassel, Rick Powell, Mr. Harris, Doug Scott, Glen Kaiser. Eric Tsao, Robert Tsao. p -H -.bi: f ' 1 1 L- C.S.F.: Row 1 - Mrs. Colbaugh. David Liu. Irene Kuniamoto, Warner Adachi, Kathy Frasca, Shirley Sepulveda, Shirley Betz, Bridget Tsao, Elisa Braaden, Janette Gustofson. Row 2 - Jim Singstock. Susie Ingraham, Sharon Kell- man. David Browning. Kelly Hayden, Karen Frasca. Lori Rassmuson, Phyllis Burch, Jennifer Padnessa. Row 3 - V ' ally Mollis. Diane Johnson. Caroline Joann Nehrenberg. Bill Hinchberger, Tom Dobrenz, John Szewczyk, Frank Scapa. Steve Kuniniro. Sandy Luke. Diane Dobos. Mr. .Akins. C.S.F. The California Scho- lastic Federation consists of a group of West High Students who have ob- tained the necessary grade point average. Sponsored by Mrs. Colbaugh and Mr. Akins and under the lead- ership of President Jim Singstock, C.S.F. has provided a special tutoring program available to West High Students in various subjects. Members also receive merit passes which entitle them to special library privileges.