Air Academy High School - Vapor Trails Yearbook (USAF Academy, CO)

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Outside the confines of a classroom business course several students gained practical knowledge of the workings of a small business through Junior Achievement According to Jenny Harrel president of one local JA company People Feed ers first vice president of the regional conference and a delegate to the na tional conference JA students set up their own company name it and elect officers With that out of the way the company starts the production of what ever products they have chosen to make They learn all the steps of pro duction and figure out the flaws In the product While there is a large shop in where all products are begun the final touches are completed in the compan ies individual rooms Once the com pany has produced a product the stu dents or firm members learn a sales presentation and sell the product from door to door and at such public events as mall bazaars Elected officers help in the manufac turing record keeping and attendance and all firm members attend monthly meetings of the board of directors. JA involves about 21 companies per semester. There are two semesters in a JA year-September to December and February to May ln the end the firm liquidates the company by getting in all the products andfor sales closing the books and if the company has made a profit paying dividends to stockholders. Junior Achievement Make It All Worthwhile lt was a great learning exper :ence it taught me about business and its operations Kevin Wolfgang Vice Pres of Pro duction People should give it a try It was hard work not all fun and games and deserves rec ognition Pres of Finance It was an ex citing and reward ing experience for me l enjoyed par ticipatrng Debbie Rosa Saleswoman The people you meet both young and old are fun to be with they are what real- ly makes it all worthwhile Jenny Harrel Pres 124 O O Th P e eople You Meet 0 ll the Julnior Achievement building . It N u - illh 4

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r-'taxa , 118' Q Win-i' Long delayed and widely criticized, Columbia's sec- ond flight in November of 1981 finally put to rest any doubts that there will one day be regular commuter runs to the cosmos. From the instant of Columbia's touchdown, a mo- ment watched by tens of millions of people in the U.S. and millions more around the world, Americans seemed to go into orbit themselves. Senior Todd Praisner felt the excitement of Columbia also, and said, The whole concept of space is amaz- ing. Who knows what could be up there? l'm all for the space shuttlel Americans cheered as Ronald Reo- gon fulfilled a campaign promise by nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court. President Reagan described O'Con- nor, sworn in in the fall of 1981, as having unique qualities of tempera- ment, fairness, and intellectual capac- ity. All AP news photos courtesy of the Sun 1 23 Student Life

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lt really kept me busy l had the opportunity to meet lots of new people which was really a great advantage of belonging to JA Mark Lopez Vrce Pres of Marketing Junior Achievement rs a super learning exper Janet Rossrtto Vrce Pres of Production Junior Achievement gave many students the opportunity to learn a little about business Above students Janet Ros sttto Mark Lopez Paul Dumond Jenny Harrel and Debbie Rosa talk over plans for various projects ience. lt holds lots of rewarding moments. Susie Studer was the president of a 26- member company called Windchime Productions. We made windchimes, ob- viously, she said. ln the beginning our stock cost us 51.00, and we got back 54.46. Now that is pretty good. Wind- chime Productions was in the running for top sales company and company of the year. ar M... -f .ll- Being involved in Junior Achieve- ment took up a lot of your own time,' Susie reported. You needed to be will- ing to work. Sometimes we met on Sat- urdays to produce our product, and we also had to sell it in our own time. l think that JA is a fantastic opportunity for any- one, even for a person not planning to enter the business field. I 125 Student Life