Westwood High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Mesa, AZ)

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VALRY .K:ri 'fq ' it ,' mr'- a ts natural that every school wants to beat their opponent in sports, but every year Westwood not only wants to beat lVlt. View, they want to shut them out, demolish them, ,1 and trample the Toros. What exactly is it that makes lVlt. View our number one rival rather than Mesa High or Dobson? Why did we dedicate an entire week ot school to lVlt. View spirit week? Several students think it is lVlt. View's attitude that causes the big emphasis on the game, They are everyones rival, they think they are so much better than everyone else, said senior Beth Ann lVlcNary, ln everything not just football. Senior Rob Walker makes a spectacular catch while being closely defended by a lVlt. View detender. East Valley League leading rusher Terry Thornton outruns a Nlt, View delender to help put the Warriors in held goal position. Danny Calhoun, Tom Halverson, and Gus Ortiz show their school spirit by sporting Westwood vs, lVlt. View T-shirts at the pre-game tailgate party, - lVlt. View Rivalry Sophomore Richard Yoder said, They get everything they want and most of them are spoiled rotten, Because the two schools are located so close together it isn't unusual tor Westwood students to have a lot ot friends who go to lVlt, View. Senior Terry Thornton said, They wouldnt let us live it down it we lost because we went to school with a lot of them. A lot ot people here have triends at lVlt. View, said senior Heidi Bagley, and they want their school to be better, Their attitude makes us want to beat them even more. School history and tradition carries this rivalry and this year was no exception. Senior Larry Davis said, Westwood was always number one until Nlt. View was built, so now we're fighting to be the best. lunior Jamie Jones said, 'They were undefeated so we showed them we're better, even though they don't believe us. The Westwood vs. lVlt. View game on October 9 was definitel- ly an exciting event tor everyone invoived, lulie Larson, captain ot varsity cheer said, lt's the biggest game ot the year, we plan and look forward to it. The spirit week went well and the game went even better. Senior Pam Christotterson said, Their superior attitude towards anyone who isn't a Toro is what makes the game so big. We definitely showed llllt, View who was superior that night, By the way, it you werent one ot the 6,000 people at the game, the score was Westwood 9, lVlt, View 0. mBrie Pipes . ,

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CODBYE SUMMER HELLO SCHDCL round the second week of August a mind-gripping tear grabs students across the nation. Although different for each student, it always involves the first week of school. After it was all over, here's what some Westwood students had to say. The first week of school, l totally dreaded it, said Junior Stephanie Wright, partly because I hate carry- ing a pencil. Tyra Wintle, another junior, said she didn't want to carry those big American History books. Seniors don't seem to like school any better. Usu- ally by the time September rolls around l'm so bored of soap operas that l'm thrilled to go back to school again and see my old friends, said Jennifer Aker, but this summer l worked full-time and began the year already exhausted. Tim Prather, senior, said he had summer school this year. To me, the school year never really ended. Junior Tara Lewis said, The first week of school l was totally cool, and just glad l wasn't a sophomore. What about the sophomores? Gabriela Alvarez said her first day was really, really busy. I felt like I was going to get run over in the crowd. Even with maps in hand students roamed the halls trying to locate their rooms. Pablo Reynoso said, I got lost for an hour looking for Room 505. And Mike Chaudoin said, Finding the bathrooms wasn't too easy either. But everyone seemed to survive, and most people agreed with Bruce Powell, junior, that the tirst day of school came way too soon. J , ,... J ttf -- ,,,,,,,. 1 J J I., 1 rr' J Steve Colegrove, Jason Williams, and Chris Gump admire the prehistoric gift from the Class of '86 to the Class of '88. That night the dinosaur was stolen, but luckily, Principal Jack Joyce recovered it the next day. First Week Ot School

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