Winchester High School - Aberjona Yearbook (Winchester, MA)

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Freshmen F reshmen. A group of open-hearted, fast talk¬ ing party animals, inebriated with the new¬ found freedom of high school. They spend time out in the halls talking with friends, enjoying the life in the big league. They love the luxury of high school, compared to the ancient strictness of junior high. Their enthusiasm for high school is evident through class activities. There were lots of freshmen events, and participation was high. They were a group of students who were enjoy¬ ing the life of being free and not having a lot to worry about. But this easy going partylife does not last for every. As the time goes on they will ex¬ perience pressure and confusion like nothing they have ever felt before. They will receive more and more assignments and take more and more tests and write more and more reports and so and so forth. With the added load, though, comes added freedom and added fun. Advice to fresh¬ men: enjoy what you ' ve got, but look to the future. It gets harder, but it even gets better. — by Christopher Lee FRESHMAN Class Officers; Top: President—Jennifer Angeles Bottom: Vice-President — Tamara Jeffrey, Secretary — Monica Slater, and Treasurer — Matt Benton. Freshmen 29

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Foreign Language F oreign language is a major part of many students academic schedule, however, many students don ' t real¬ ize how much teaching a foreign language has changed. Many years ago, a foreign language was taught through basic drill. Strict memoriza¬ tion was the Key. The language itself was not spoken often. Students were taught the written language, rather than the spoken. There were little, sometimes no, visual aids. Many changes were made within the system. Today, the foreign language department is very different. Students are encouraged to speak as much as possible. Our language department is also lucky to feature a lab, where both speaking and listening skills are exercised. Also included in the pro¬ gram is a study of culture, where customs, idioms, and slang are studied. Such are the differences of the foreign language depart¬ ments of yesterday and today. — by John Segota PARLEZ vous Francais? asks Micheal Queenan to Michelle Tados through the head phones of the much used and helpful language lab. Mr. Phillip Day Foreign Language Coorinator Ms. Lourdes M. Alvarez Spanish Club Adviser Ms. Susan Austin German Club Adviser Resource Teacher for Reading and Writing Across the Secondary Curriculum Mrs. Elvira Borsari Sophomore Class Adviser Mr. Alfred Duhamei Ms. Nancy Gelowtsky Mrs. Katrina A. Griffin Ms. Eleanor Hardin French Club Adviser Mrs. Leslie Hastings Mrs. Roseann Innes Italian Club Adviser Coach Girls Tennis Team Miss Victoria Loeb Student Union Adviser Mrs. Gloria Pantazis Mrs. Marta Sartori Mrs. Rina Shiller

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New Ones I t is early in the morning of that dreaded day and they stand in front of the school ' s main en¬ trance. They are here early be¬ cause they don ' t want to be late. They can ' t be late, today of all days. They stand slightly apart from each other trying to look cool; their new clothes are pain¬ fully in and neat. Vainly, they try to think of something intelli¬ gent to say to each other; there has to be something other than how was YOUR summer? . But their minds swirl with questions: Will the teachers like me? Will I get lost or, worse, will someone give me wrong directions? Will I fit in or will everyone laugh at me? Their sense of confusion and fear are almost tangible on this sacred morn; they are the new ones, the Freshmen. This year ' s freshman class, the class of 1991, will mark the en¬ trance into a whole new genera¬ tion. They are a special class, but, just as the classes before them has undergone the same first day trauma, they too must earn their place in these hallowed halls. The school always seems to grow to a colossal size during these first days, at least in the eyes of the be¬ wildered freshman. Since the school is laid out in a way that makes it easy, at first, to the mix up the floors, freshmen always seem to end up in the wrong rooms. An¬ other common problem among the freshman is the locker situ¬ ation. They find the size of their new home for four years a big shock. The lockers are much smaller than those at McCall so they worry that their books will not fit. They soon learn that a homemade wooden shelf quickly fixes this problem. Another fear is that, in ONLY four minutes, they would not have time to get to their lockers and then to class. After all, they have to find their lockers first! But as the days turn to weeks and finally into months, the freshman class starts to relax in their new school. It doesn ' t seem so large anymore and they can ' t believe they ever had trouble finding their way around in the first place. Even in the four minute pauses between classes that they said was impos¬ sible at first, they have realized now that those scant four minutes are an eternity. All of a sudden, they have time to chat before class begins. — by Karen Bauman tT ' S amazing what one hears in a freshman class. Heather Germaine leads a discus¬ sion with her peers on the pros and cons of being a freshman. I I Jose Acevedo Laura Addezio Michael Aleo Hesham Ali Sotiris Angelakis Jennifer Angeles Elysa Aswad Pauline Barclay Paul Beauchamp Lisa Benincasa Matthew Benton Amy E Berry Michael Bett M ichael Bosco Brittanny Boulanger Elliott Brever Joshua Briggs Michael Britt Allen Brown Rebecca Browning Stephen Burke Shirley A Cail Kelley Campbell Kevin Carroll Nick Celiberti Yu-Harn Chen Stephanie Ciano Jennifer Clement Darin Clemente Amy Coakley Ricky Cofield Erik Conyers Emily S Cook Nathaniel Cooper Brian Corkery Diana Coughlin Stephen Crowley John Cucinatti Carter Dahm Kimberley Davis 30 Freshmen