CHAMINADE PREP STUDENT MOURNED AFTER FATAL CRASH.Byline: Mary F. Pols Daily News Staff Writer All they could talk about at Chaminade College Preparatory on Monday was her smile, how that incandescent smile made it almost impossible to take a bad picture of Shannon Simons. Innocent, open, she beams out of the pages of her yearbook with the rare delight of a teen-ager who not only knows where she fits in but likes where that is. She was a varsity cheerleader at the West Hills private school with a 3.2 grade-point average, the kind of girl who teachers said could single-handedly bring light and life into a classroom. On Friday, 15-year-old Shannon died in a car crash on the afternoon of the last day of her spring break. It was the kind of accident that makes parents cringe: four friends packed into a Toyota 4 Runner, heading up curvy Bell Canyon Boulevard on a happy errand - bound to see a newly born foal foal a junior horse from birth to one year. May be filly foal, colt foal. foal ataxia see enzootic equine incoordination. - when suddenly the driver lost control of the car and it rolled. Shannon died almost instantly. Her friend Alison McGill, 16, who was driving, fractured her knee. The two girls in the back seat, Shannon's best friend Jainey Dorton, 15, and Wendy Wilcox, 15, the owner of a 4-day-old horse they were going to see, were able to walk away from the crash. Detective Patrick Ramsey Patrick Jones Ramsey (born February 14, 1979 in Ruston, Louisiana) is an American football player in the NFL, who is currently a quarterback for the Denver Broncos. Born in Ruston, Louisiana, Patrick grew up in Simsboro, Louisiana. of the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Police Department's Valley Traffic Division said tire marks ``tend to indicate a speed greater than that posted,'' but said no cause has been determined yet for the crash. The vehicle drifted, he said, then went out of control when the driver tried to correct by turning the steering wheel to the right. Some friends said the girls were trying to avoid a rabbit on Verb 1. rabbit on - talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner jabber, mouth off, rant, rave, spout mouth, speak, talk, verbalise, verbalize, utter - express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize" the road. But the crash was not what Shannon's friends and family wanted to talk about Monday. They wanted to talk about her. ``I don't think going into what happened any more is going to make anybody feel better,'' said her sister, Courtney, 17, also a cheerleader at Chaminade. Instead, they wanted to laugh about how Shannon gabbed on the phone all the time, how she loved to devour chocolate and brie, how she liked photography and water skiing water skiing, sport of riding on skis along the water's surface while being towed by a motorboat. It probably originated on the French Riviera in the early 1920s, and was known in the United States by 1927. and snow skiing. How she and Courtney were known as the ``Simons sisters'' around school, the duo of slender girls who did the ``flying'' for the cheerleading The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. squad, letting themselves be tossed six feet in the air. The two sisters were all-American cheerleaders Notable cheerleaders
• • [ as champion cheerers. They were also best friends, who hugged and kissed every time they said goodbye to each other. They still had Easter egg An undocumented function hidden in software that may or may not be sanctioned by management. Easter Eggs are secret "goodies" found by word of mouth or accident. They are also used in video games, movies, TV commercials, DVDs, CDs, CD-ROMs and every so often in hardware. hunts together. ``She always joked that she wanted me to wait for a couple of years to go to college so we could go together,'' Courtney said. Sitting in a tight circle Monday, looking at recent photographs of Shannon, her friends remembered the freckles freckles Ephilides Brown macules, often exacerbated on sun-exposed zones of the skin surface, which disappear during the winter, and most commonly affecting the fair-skinned, especially of Celtic stock. See Macule. Cf Nevus. she hated and that they loved. ``She used to try and cover them up,'' Courtney said. ``Then she started telling people they were angel kisses. I think she was right. I think she was an angel.'' Most of the 1,100 students at the school wore twists of white ribbons pinned to their shirts in Shannon's honor. Many others were clad from head to toe in to stand or carry the feet in such a way that the toes of either foot incline toward the other. See also: Toe white. ``It's the sign of resurrection and everlasting life and hope,'' explained Principal Gary Murphy Gary Murphy (born October 15, 1972 in Kilkenny) is an Irish golfer. Career Murphy began golfing at age 11, after caddieing for his father Jim. He won the Irish Amateur Closed Championship in 1992 and would go on to turn pro in 1995. . Two impromptu memorials sprang up on the campus. One close friend, Beverley Mitchell Beverley Ann Mitchell (born January 221981) is an American actress and country music singer. She is perhaps best known for her role as Reverend Lucy Camden-Kinkirk on the television series 7th Heaven. , 16, took out the box Shannon stood on to cheer at games and placed it at the edge of the football field. By lunchtime it was covered with bouquets. In a nearby courtyard, teachers handed students boxes of chalk and told them to go ahead and express their feelings about losing one of the school's most popular students. ``Such beauty inside and out is too rare a quality in our world,'' one student sketched onto the cement. The predominate theme was sunshine. A vast orange sun took up most of one sidewalk, a student was busy drawing the yellow rays of another nearby. ``She was like everyone's light,'' said cheerleader Lisette Alvarez, 15. There is still another memorial to Shannon at the crash site. The telephone pole near where she lost her life is covered with tributes: a pair of pompons, sympathy cards, posters scrawled with messages from friends and photographs of Shannon with friends. A carpet of flowers wilts in the sun amid the glitter of pieces of shattered glass from the accident. But one of the most intimate reminders that Shannon is gone is an old teddy bear named Rosie, a treasure she took with her most everywhere even though she was 15 and old enough to have gotten her learner's permit Noun 1. learner's permit - a document authorizing the bearer to learn to drive an automobile license, permit, licence - a legal document giving official permission to do something to drive. Nobody else was allowed to touch Rosie because the bear's nose was in danger of falling off. Courtney has Rosie now. ``I promised her I would take care of him,'' she said, stroking Rosie's ears, ears that were once pink, turned gray by years of a little girl's love. CAPTION(S): 3 Photos PHOTO (1) Flowers and mementos were placed where Shannon Simons died. (2 -- color) A photograph of Shannon Simons was stapled to a telephone pole near the scene of her death on Bell Canyon Boulevard. Hans Gutknecht/Daily News (3) Chaminade College Preparatory students gather around a campus memorial to Shannon Simons, who was killed last week in a car crash. Tina Gerson/Daily News 
I live in Bellcayon, and now i attend Chaminade and am a cheerleader, and when i learned of what had happend, it broke my heart to think someone just like me died at such a young age :[
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