L ~ ( ( H Y C I Believe In Santa Happy Ho/iJays! Vol. 25, Issue No.3 Arcadia High School, Phoenix, Arizona old friend: Dr . Pratt We at the ARCADIAN wanted to see how one of our favorite retired ad - ministrators, Dr. Fred Pratt, is doing. We asked him what he has done over the summer. He said he left the Valley in midMay to report to the Grand Teton Lodge Company in Moran, Wyoming, where he and his wife were employed at Jenny Lake Store. He said that he left reluctantly because he missed graduation at Arcadia. He was due to begin work on May 20th iii a grocery store while his wife worked in a gift shop. Part of their decision to work there was because they were furnished a trailer space at a Park Employee Campground in the mountains. They did a lot of hiking and general sightseeing and fortunately they met several Arcadia grads visiting the park and others who were also working for the Lodge Company. Mr . and Mrs. Penfield, Mr. and Mrs. LeSatz and Suzanne, as well as Mr . Schifino and his daughter and son visited during the course of the summer. Thus the Pratts were able to keep close contact with Arcadia. last couple of weeks he has been acting as assistant principal at Chaparral High. He also replied humorously that they were still trying to clean out the attic and the garage! What are his future plans? He is going to organize all of the notes, clippings, and other odds and ends that he has gathered over the years. He hopes to write something from all of that if only for the edification or amusement of his family and a few close friends . Plus, there are many boxes of old books, old magazines, old newspapers, and old junk of all kinds to be sorted. What does Dr . Pratt miss most about Arcadia? He said that ju st saying Arcadia brings to mind the pep assemblies and the greatest fight song in the country. I t really should go without saying that he thinks of Arcadia and Arcadians every day - several t imes a day ! His Arcadia experince was -and is - one of his favorite as an educator. Early in his career as a teacher an older colleague told him that one of the real benefits of the profession was that one retained a youthful and vigorous outlook because of the daily association with students. He misses th e interaction with th e students, just as he misses the friends on the staff and faculty. He misses working with the Arcadia parents who have supported Arcadia and the School District so well through the years. In all of the time he has dealt with the parents of the Aracadia area, they have given unselfish service and leadership to the district and the communities it serves. What w e do for money! b y Robin I s rae l Selling items on the school campus has become a favorite pastime for Arcadians. In the past we have seen things from carved soap gram s to salami sales invading our campus for money . The minute you set foot in the school , yo u subject yourself to a hotbed of amateur salespeople. ' You can 't walk acros s the campus a single day out of the year and not be approached by some student trying to unload his box of M&Ms on you . In grade school you buy things from friends for the heck of it. By middle school it becomes a habit. As a high school student you are already addicted. Addicted to bagels, M&Ms, Sugar Daddies, and pretzels. Your teachers are junkies, too. You may think that your English teacher looks hilarious lecturing with a bagel hanging out of his mouth. This really isn't funny. You should talk to your friends and your teachers to get them to admit that they are bagel addicts, and encourage them to join Bagels An - nonymous. On the other side are the pushers. Right when you need your pretzel the most, your pusher smiles proudly: 'Sorry, I'm all out. You'll have to wait until tomorrow!' You beg for a pretzel. You're willing to pay twice , three times as much as it costs. The pusher just looks at you triumphantly and shrugs. He probably looks so triumphant because he has gone through many incid ents just to get rid of all of his pretzels. For instance, let's look at Jonny Normal . . . Poor Jonny has been outdoing himself all day to get SOMEONE to buy the zit creme he's selling for Future Arcadian Garbagemen of America Associated for Teens (FAGAAT). I t is already fourth hour and Jonny has only sold three tubes. All of a sudden, there are seventeen desperate people around him, hungering for Jonny's zit creme. They think it's sometning to eat. They are fran ti cally waving their money . They have no change , he has no change, and they 'r e grabbing tubes of zit creme from h i s box right and left even before they pay. By the end of fifth hour, Jonny Normal is being checked into a sanitarium because he is deathl y afra id of zit creme . And that's not the worst of it. Picture this scene: Joe Arcadian is strolling across the circle with his 3.0 grade point average and a box of 'Arcadia Opens the Doors' socks. Out of nowhere, Joe Derelict dashes past him grabbing a pair of the socks. Joe Arcadian naturally chases after him. He chases Joe Derelict up the ramp, down the ramp, past the auditorium and snack bar, through the football field and finally catches him on the top of the bleachers. Juc:: A l l , ; ~ l \ l l " l 1 demands money, but Joe Derelict refuses to pay, claiming he has a good reason for stealing them: "My Irish setter has always wanted a pair of 'Arcadia Opens the Doors' socks." Joe Arcadian, being an intelligent guy, doesn't believe this and snatches his sock s back. Joe Arcadian is no fool. He's not going to be stuck paying the fifty cents for the socks! So Joe struts back to the circle feeling really good he's five minutes late for class and it's the tardy tha t get s him kicked out of trigonometry. For none of these reasons have sales become a favorite pasttime at Arcadia. In fact, the only reason we sell things at school is to raise money. The things we do for money! December 21, 1984 Christmas Poem The holidays are here again, it's Christmas t ime, An d if you're not good, Santa's not kind . So all of Arcadia, innocent as it seems , Are praying hard for a pair of Guess jeans! In each little mind of Arcadia we look, What do they want in Santa's big book? In Q Senior stud's mind what do we see, Five polos, a car stereo, and the Playboy channel on tv. In a graduating girl's head, what do we view? All she wants for Chistmas is acceptance to SMU. What can we find in every Junior boy's mind? A Christy Brinkly poster and a girl of that kind. Junior girl's, what do they want? New clothes, a new car, and a real man to flaunt. Sophomore guys, what do they seek, An assortment of hair dyes and a bigger physique! A Sophomore girl all flourescently dressed, Hopes for a Senior guy to be thoroughly impressed! A Freshman guy, what is his dream? A stocking stuffed with the homecoming queen . A Freshman girl's wish is not breaking the law . All that she wants is her first training bra . An d why are the teachers all wearing a smile? They're glad to be away from the kids for awhile! We asked Dr. Pratt what he was doing now and he replied that this fall and winter, he and his wife were both substitute teaching. His wife is developing computer programs relating to library indexing, plus supplying her own "Compufun" computer crossword puzzle each week to the McCormick Rancher. The He says that he is really lucky to have had the chance to work at Arcadia - he comes back and walks around the circle and the walk of olives as often as possible . The students still smile and say hello. That makes life worth living for many more years. Christmas can cause the blues Although Dr. Pratt has a busy schedule he still has time for Arcadia, and Arcadia students still have time for him. Be smart about alcohol Alcohol is a drug. A drug which is legal to persons who are over the age of 19. Along with the sue of any drug, comes responsibilities. These responsibilities are not usually lived up to by the average teenagers in America. One responsibility we all have is the well being of sibility to stop ourselves and our friends from drinking and driving. Another responsibility we have is to know what the effects o f alcohol are before we drink. It gives us a false sense of confidence, which sometimes leaves us hurt or making total fools o f ourselves. Why take the by Denice Howard Well, the holidays are here again, and it's time to get into that holiday spirit. Christmas is coming and not only is the goose getting fat but so are you!!! All that turkey and ham!! You were all prepared to go on a diet after Thanksgiving and right around the corner Christmas pops up! Thanksgiving lef tovers make their appearance at the table along with the traditional Christmas cookies, cakes, pudding and pie! Plan on spending the rest of your vacation desparately finding a way to shed those few extra pounds. costume, it time to enter the hectic world of shopping! It seems to happen every year, just when you've found the perfect gift someone always seems to nab it right out of your hands! Or, how about when you've found a gift for everyone except your sister, and you finally find the right thing . Then after waiting in line for 20 minutes realizing that the lady in front of you was the last one to be checked out before the store closed!!! Oh, and what a bout the Salva tion Army bell??? Do you ever feel so sympathetic for the Salvation Army bell-ringer that you end up giving all your out on weekends past 6:30 P.M.? And, how about all your wierd cousins that you have to spend the entire vacation with instead of skiing with your friends? Not only do you spend every night on the couch, but you can't even complain when your grandma tweaks your cheeks and tells A couple of days is fine, but after 4 days it gets unbearable! Then there's the cartoons that are on every night for 6 weeks. Frosty, Rudolph, Snoopy and all the others. How many times have you seen Frosty melt? Aren't you beginning to doubt if he's real
