FLASHBACK to El Cid 10/31/80: featuring • a ‘rookie’ principal • marines on campus • Dons Band • a revitalized El Cid • off-campus lunch • and …’The Aqua Dons’??

May 2, 2012 • Ricky Albanese, Staff Writer  
Filed under Old El Cids - Past Print Papers, Top Stories

In the fall of 1980, El Cid was 19 years into its, now,  51-year publication. Mr. Dan Wilson had resigned as Moderator in the spring of 1978, leaving no real successor to the position. The paper was in a transitional phase and in desperate need of a new moderator. In the two-year span since Mr. Wilson’s... Read more »

Random Scans from past El Cids

February 22, 2012  
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Members of the ’11-’12 staff perused old copies of El Cid, looking for quaint ads, cartoons, collages, pictures, and articles.  Here are some of their chosen bits of Dons history. Try to find the 1988 story on an aspiring golfer, Dons senior Phil Mickelson. Just click a link: FEATURES STYLES DANCES COMIX    Read More →

Dons in transition – October 22, 1999

February 22, 2012 • Megan Badilla (Intro), News Editor  
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On October 22, 1999, El Cid reported on the inevitable move from University of San Diego High School to Cathedral Catholic High School. This issue addresses the reaction of students and teacher alike on the big change, most of which are not too thrilled. It also reports on changes being done at Uni such... Read more »

Blast from the past – 11/25/1998 El Cid

February 12, 2012  
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On November 25, 1998, El Cid served a campus that hadn't yet heard the word "subsume."  This issue reports a drinking-fountain problem that was soon improved, the possibility of student drug testing, and the imminent start of the Dons' first website. Features on 'Mr. A', Coaches Montali and Grazier,... Read more »

Vintage El Cid: Cameron Crowe Interview

February 10, 2011  
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At the Linda Vista campus in 2003, El Cid reporter Olivia Hanning wrote this feature story largely drawn from  an exclusive interview with recent Academy Award winning alum Cameron Crowe. PLEASE PRESS THIS LINK: Exclusive El Cid – Cameron Crowe  Read More →