Alsea High School - Wolverine Yearbook (Alsea, OR)

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Business Probably the most interesting new feature in the business department was a class that simulated a business. Ten students marketed flea pickers for monkeys, monkey food, monkey perfumes and deoderants, and other similar items. They gained experience in inventory management banking, payroll, accounting, wholesaling, secretarial work, and supervising personnel. Jim Hagler's business lab was written up in a state education magazine, while Monkey Business was written up in the Gazette Times. Classes got a new electronic typewriter and a new computer which could be used togetherg funding came from a state grant. . iuzpffi in it ir.. Q unl 4 K.. -T Above: Jim Hagler helps David Phelps with bookkeeping. Below: Rachel Car- penter learns to use cash register. Lower left: Kevin Holt works on typing speed. Left: Tony Free runs a program on the new computer. :Hg 5 --s.ap,.,v

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.kt FQ Home Ec. Home ec. students started the year on food unitsg they prepared full course dinners, including a vegetarian meal, and learned various food preservation methods. They learned sewing skills in making a complete garment. Mike Wood and Teresa Whitehall each taught a class: Wood's class worked with kindergarten children for five weeks as part of a unit on child development. The kindergarteners often learn more easily from other students because they're more at ease with them than they might be with a teacher , said Wood about the success of the unit. M11 Above: Anthony Chance works on sweatsuit in home ec. Below: Ethan Temple dresses his salad. Left: Teresa Whitehall serves lasagne to home ec. students. Upper left: Wendie Riley helps pre- schoolers in child development unit.

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U 5 x . . Q5 3' QP, f iq- A xl 'Jr' Social Studies gtg Q.: wtfgffi Seventeen students from social studies classes participated h Y ' 4 in the annual YMCA Youth Legislature at the capitol building ,, in Salem. The students wrote and presented three mock billsg one that would require the presence of fog lines on paved roads, one that would require public notification of herbicide - 'M 5 Xu use, and one that would establish a sales tax in Oregon. Vince Drago, global studies teacher, advised the group. Jim Mullenix was the other social studies teacherg he taught U.S. history and modern problems. t' ,..4 . Left: Ginger Weist works as journalist at the Youth Legislature in Salem. Above: Kathy Campbell finds country on a map in global studies. Below: Melissa 5' and Cammie Dair discuss bill in committee at Salem. ,ai -' . Y D. - ' 44-nl 59