Coronado High School - Legend Yearbook (El Paso, TX)

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' MIDDLE, LEFT TO RIGHT: Alex Naoum prepares a display at the school store. DECA I Officers arc Historian Sharon Palmicri, President Julie Shinglcdeckcr, Vice- President Steve Leslie, Sec- retary Kerri Thomas, and Photographer Eric Cavincss. Jeff Roth gives a report in Marketing Education class. TOP. LEFT TO RIGHT: Mike Hendricks and David Alvarez type re- search into the computer. Kim Mapula takes inventory on sweatshirts at the school store. DECA I Sweetheart Claudia is caught on the job at Chilly, a popular clothing store. BOTTOM, LEFT TO RIGHT: Troy Sabin works on an assignment for DECA. Joann Escandon and Lor- raine Armendariz discuss an upcoming DECA project. bPECA I

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ETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS Fashion shows, merchan- dise sales, school store, lead- ership conferences and competition, attending Mar- keting Education class daily and working at least fifteen hours a week kept DECA I students bust all year long. The DECA (Distributive Education Clubs of America) experience consists of three parts: having a job, earning points for being active in DECA club activities, and at- tending Marketing Educa- tion class for an hour each day. These factors contribute to the grades the students receive. If the students par- ticipate in all three parts of DECA, they will earn one and a half credits per semester for that one class. One aspect of the club's activities is fund raising to send students to competition. The most memorable fund raiser this year was “Bold Impressions”, a fashion show presented by DECA I, DECA II. CVAE, and VOE. The students took on the respon- sibilities of technical work, publicity, and modeling. Local stores who provided the fashions were Chilly, Zanly’s, Margaret’s, Express, Clothes Out, and Today’s Man. The students were pleased with the turnout. “It really felt great to hear people call- ing out my name when I went out there,” said DECA 1 photographer Eric Cavincss, who modeled in the show. With making extra money and learning responsibility through class and club ac- tivities, DECA members lived up to the 1987-88 slogan: “Free Enterprise...Building Your Future.” T. Sabin and S. Palmicri DECA 1 Front row: Gabc Ontiveros, Dianne Cornejo, Liliana Cobos, Kim Mapula, Kevin Robbins,Vicc-Prcsidcr Steve Leslie, Beth Thurman, Craig Coats, Alex Naoum, Mrs. Sandy Telles. Second row: President Julie Shingh decker, Joann Escandon, Mike Cooper, Lorraine Armendariz, Ann Lopez, Historian Sharon Palmicri, Grctcl Clapp, Troy Sabin, Joe Cutler, D.J. Ridenour. Third Row: Debra Huiseli, Mike Moore, Mike Crougcr, Jeff Roth, Photographer Erie Cavincss, Paul Cordova, Jaime Trujillo, Fred Navarette, Mark Ball, Rami Dayoub.

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TRIVING FOR TOMORROW One may ask, “What is DECA?” It is Distributive Education Clubs of America. One would think it would stop there, yet there is much more to this club than meets the eye. DECA is an organization that prepares students for the future. “We want to make the students employable, self-sufficient, whether they have a degree or not, said sponsor Islla Rivera. One of the students added , “It helped me decide what I want to do with my life when I get out of col- lege,” Lee Whitus. DECA II was involved in many projects, this year. One of these was the student involvement in DECA II First Row: Lee Love, Norma Hernandez, Elysc Tvorik, Blanca Martinez, Chad Moore. Second Row: Eric Dc Bruyn, Gus Smith, Ida Bustamante, Sari Montoya, Colleen Patton, Tony Ellinngton, Larizza Morales, Beth Nidow, Cliff Stevens. Third Row: Carlos Romo Candi Gil, fundraising. Various things were sold such as stuffed animals, and food items. This showed to be quite successful. Another project of DECA II was the joint sponsorship along with DECA I, CVAE, and VOE. The fasion show proved that vo- cational education is striving for tomorrows success for today,” commented Joseph Bridges. This was very different and held many surprises to the stu- dents of DECA II. For instance, this years sponsorship in the Arca I DECA Career Dcvclopcmcnt Con- ference that was held in El Paso. Elyse Tvorik replied, “DECA can be a lot of fun, but it also requires a Joscpn Nunez, Donald Burden, Ter- esa Kcrley, Marcia Byrd, Brett Jus lice. Sponsor Isela Rivera. Fourth Row: Ross Valor, Lcla Whitus Cameron Hovious. Fifth Row: Danny Sapada, Brian Chozick, Chris Daniels, Oscar Sanchez, Richard Neal, Andy Wilson. lot of hard work. Not only in the classroom, but at our jobs as well.” This was the first time since the 1970’s that this event had taken place in El Paso. The conference was held February 5th and 6th of this year. In addition to the exciting events that DECA II has been a part of, there was the take over of the school store. Among the things sold were t-shirts, school supplies, and novelty items. Though DECA II is a seperate club from DECA, Mrs. Rivera quotes, “We arc getting our students involved together.” P. Curtis and T. Linguist Lcla Whitus and Jason Ware take part in the joint fashion show.