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ADOPTION cont. from FRONT PAGE INAUGURATION cont. from FRONT PAGE

A NEW KIND OF FAMILY Ott and her aunt sit at the new home of the baby girl Zoey Liv Ott, born January 7 at 6:20 PM. This is the start of new life for al of them.

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and Butcher had to make some adjustments in order to deal with the pregnancy.

“I had to give up football,” said Butcher, “I knew it was something I had to do because I had to help with the pregnancy.”

Ott was forced to give up cheering and began to receive looks of disapproval as she went out in public.

“People would give us weird looks but we had to get over it, we still went out,” said Ott.

The couple had to deal with a lot of rudeness from some people but they also received support from people they hardly knew along with friends and teachers at Davis, especially Mrs. Bird and Mr. Kirk.

As the time came for the baby to be born Ott missed a few days of school before going into labor and in total three school days. On January 7 at 6:20 p.m. Zoey Liv Ott was born.

“My aunt was the one who named the baby,” said Ott.

Until they decide to tell the child that she is the birth mother she will just be known as cousin Rebecca to Zoey.

“When the baby is old enough to understand, we’ll tell her that we (she and Butcher) are the birth parents,” said

Ott.Ott’s aunt took the baby home from

the hospital and Ott still regularly visits the baby.

“I was relieved everything was over when my aunt took the baby, it was the perfect ending,” said Ott.

1963.“The Lincoln Memorial was one of

my favorites,” said Foreman. “It was very touching, and it’s a historical figure that symbolizes freedom.”

The students visited Washington for five days, beginning at Reagan National Airport. Two other schools were traveling with Davis, Valencia High and Mission San Jose High. When the schools arrived at D.C., they all had busy schedules for the whole day.

“The flight was good. Everyone slept the whole way there. You could tell everyone on the plane was headed to the same place, which was the Inauguration,” said Foreman.

They visited many sites all over Washington D.C. each day, but when the day of the inauguration came, each school had their own tour guides showing them around D.C.

Jostad and some of the students even attended the Youth Inauguration Ball along with several hundred students from around the country.

“There was about 200-300 students at the ball,” said Myers, one of the students that went. “There were all sorts of different varieties of snacks it was every little boys dream.”

“The security and supervisors were dancing along with us. They were having as much fun as the students were,” said Beach.

Tuesday 20 was the big day everybody had been waiting for. The students woke up at 4:00 a.m., got dressed and got on the bus at 5 a.m. Then they began to head towards the Memorial. Davis had to get off the bus and walk a mile to the Inauguration because of all the streets that were blocked off.

The day had started off at 15 degrees for the rest of the day. It even snowed 2 inches in the area of their hotel one day.

“It was ridiculously cold,” said Foreman, “My hand warmers were my best friends throughout the whole trip.”

There they all stood in a hall full of hundreds of people watching the inauguration with them. Everyone was shoulder to shoulder so nobody could move. They couldn’t see anything in up close in person but they had a huge TV monitor showing them everything that was happening up in the front. “For the African Americans this was more than an inauguration, it was as if it were a religious act for them,” said Jostad.

This year millions of people witnessed Barack Obama give his inaugural speech and the Inauguration ceremony lasted to about seven hours. The actual speaking of Barak Obama lasted about two hours.

“We were tired of standing for so long,” said Foreman, “You could tell many people around us wanted to sit down but unfortunately the grass was wet from the cold.”

After the ceremony ended the studentss went off on their free time and went off to lunch but they weren’t in the area of the parade.

They returned back to their buses and head towards dinner at Holiday Inn to finish off their day. They had only one more day in Washington.

After touring historical sites such as the WWI, WWII, Korean, Vietnam, Jefferson, FDR, Washington memorials along with Arlington cemetery and the Air and Space Museum and witnessing the historical inauguration, the trip came to an end as the group returned on the 22nd.

Get to know your campo: Lavina LockamyBy MICHAEL BARTON

Photo Editor

avina Lockamy’s dad wasn’t the dad that used violence to discipline his children. He used the look that burned into their minds for a lifetime.

She remembers showing up late to dinner one evening with her brothers and sisters. They walked in the house and her dad was standing there giving her the glare that she still remembers to this day.

“When he gave you that look, you knew he was disappointed in you,” said Lockamy.

Her dad’s strict discipline and her urge to help and be around students are the main reasons she became a campus supervisor.

“I wanted to help out students and the discipline and structure that my dad put me through pushed me and inspired me even farther to be a campus supervisor,” she said.

Lockamy grew up as a military child. She and her five siblings moved often. As a child, she lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, El Paso, Texas, and Neptune, New Jersey. Even though she moved a lot, she grew up in Neptune, New Jersey. After graduating from Neptune High School she moved to the Bay Area, specifically, San Jose. There she worked as a campus supervisor in the San Jose School

LDistrict, where she worked at Willow Glen High School and Lincoln High School.

Lockamy then moved from the Bay Area to Modesto. “When I first started working at Davis, the supervisors

were not required to wear uniforms,” she said. She saw that there were fewer students here than at San

Jose, but fighting was a bigger problem. “I saw how the number of students was less but the

number of fights was more. This would be a challenge for me considering there were rarely fights in San Jose,” said Lockamy.

Lockamy is the campus supervisor who has been here since 1990. While she has been here she has seen many changes occur. Some of those changes seen have been the fellow administration that she has worked with. It has changed around a lot. Lockamy notices the change in the students and the way they dress, the way they act around their friends, and the way they use foul language much more than earlier in her career.

“I remember early in my career, I would confiscate pagers from the students and now I am confiscating cell phones,” stated Lockamy.

“At times I will give the students the look that my father gave to me and the event that comes to my mind is when the students yell “push- it” at a basketball game,” said Lockamy.

Michael Barton/THE CORINTHIANMAKING THE ROUND ON CAMPUS Lavina talks to a student during the passing period. Lockamy has been roaming the halls of Davis since 1990.