Des Moines Technical High School - Engineer Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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Page 2 THE TECHNICIAN by Staff Members Vacation’s coming up, so we’ve packed up a few more TC’s for you this issue . . . Senior Nate Wiggin’s favorite breakfast is a stale tube of potato chips . . . Junior Tim Trumble was seen wearing his new white hat . . . Junior Gayle Houge is a waitress at Kings Food Host on S.E. 14th . . . January graduate Sandie Daniels is making her home in Den¬ ver, Colorado . . . Junior Lela Sheffield is from Arkansas . . . Patty Knight, ’68, married a deep sea diver. Junior Works For The Godfather Junior Dan Healhcoat thinks he’s a gangster with his new hat • . • Teacher Niva Knutson’s favorite song is “i Shot My Baby Down” . . . Senior Rick Milliken works at Pittsburg Steel . . . Ray Kadel, ’72, is working at Martin’s Washer . « . Senior Rkhard Keiby turns red when¬ ever he’s told how beautiful his big blue eyes are . . . Ait instructor George Jefchak gave Sophomore Sherry Shumaker a wet” arm . . . Seniors Sharon Eblen and Mark Swason are engaged. Where are the Eskimos at? Enconomics teacher, Mr. Gene Barlow says there aren’t any Eskimos in Alaska . . . Junior Patty Leveke asks who has been putting the notes on her locker . . . Senior Dave Leak thinks the school cafeteria apples are fluffy not stuffy . . . Junior Pat Walters thinks he is a professional poker player . . . Bob McCann, ’72, is planning an August wedding . . . Junior Jim Merical wants to buy a pink Eldorado. Vampire Lurks At Tech High Senior Sherry Klett thinks she’s a vampire . . . JunicH Howard Fong likes to do Kung Fu . . . Junior Chrisetta Helman is known as a tree and Junior Doris Caloway is one of her little bushes . . . Junior Mke Bell says he’ll trade in his hands for suction cups anyday . . . Sophomore Vicky Simbro is often called ' hothead” . . . Mary Knight, 70, married Tom Hardle, ’70, ... If Senior John Zuck would stay awake In first hour class, maybe he’d pass the course .. . Junior Nina Hutton spent the weekend in Hawaii . . . Junior Chris Carter is very excited about go¬ ing to the Model Umted Nations in Cedar Rapids . . . Junior Dick Bright -can you really glow in the dark? . . . Junior Debbie Gibson’s favorite saying is need a Man . . . Turn of the Tide . . . Junior Chris Lee lost her voice. Count ‘em—17! Junior Donna Sherman was amazed to find out that Bach had seven¬ teen children . . . Senior Debbie Graham does an impression of an eagle . . . Junior Dan Veach wants to be another Duane Ellett ... or was it Floppy? . . . Senior Kirk Winebrenncr has a favorite eating place, ‘The Shack” . . . Senior Anita Shelton really digs the Cookie Monster . . . Senior Pierre Blackwell says he has a chauffeur . . . Senior Desi Woods’ favorite saying is “Gimme Five.” Five what, Desi? . . . Well that’s our TC’s for issue 14—may be you’ll see your name next time! March of Dime Pledge Walk in April by Marsha Flaugh The March of Dimes is having a pledge walk Saturday April 7. Starting at Roosevelt, the twenty mile walk will raise funds for re¬ search. There will be check points and rest stops along the way. A party wil be held aherward for the walkers. Prizes will be a- warded. Each walker finds sponsors to sign his pledge sheet and collects the money afterwards to send into March of Dimes. Pledge sheets are available at the office. For more information con¬ tact a Student Union member. Comment: ' Hireat Gillespie Rip Off ' Comes To Tech FCjrzfj ' ou u ooLbfiT BsaSye MH ZHHd D »tfc 3-r- ?3 Part One by Gury Barrett It used to shock Tech students who would shuffle into the Vice Princi¬ pal’s office after committing some crime and find not the lovable Mr. Gillespie—but some stranger behinding the desk in his office. Well lately, those Tech students who make their pilgrimmage to this Mecca of discipline are getting used to finding some stranger in Mr. Gillespie’s place Tliat “stranger” lately has been either Mr. Dave Dirksen or Mr. Way¬ ne Webber, who periodically are given the of rtunity to play “Mr. Gillespie for-a-day, sk behind his desk and handle the everyday pro¬ blems of the male student body. However, it isn’t just any teacher that is allowed to stand in Mr. Gillespie’s stead. Applicants for this postion arc carefully screened by a committee of the Society for the Preservation of Vice-Principals, and those who withstand their close scrutiny arc advanced to the V.P. academy. In this institution, the potential “supply Vice Principal” is tutored in the basic art of patrolling the halls, polite conversation with students, proper filling out suspension forms and use of the intercom to get stu¬ dents in class. After graduating from the V.P. academy, these budding advisors are then given an assignment at Tech wfaicii is designed to test his patience and leadership ability. Most often, this assignment is the Student Union adviser, from which Mr. Dkksen and Mr. Webber have come off with flying colors. Now that they have become full-fledged substitutes, these two gentle¬ men arc frequently granted the opportunity to abandon the confines of classroom teaching and spend a quiet day chewiny out students. But arc these stand-ins living up to the reputation Mr. Gillespie has labored long and hard to establish? Comments Substitute Webber during one of his fill-in stints: “I told all the teachers—Don’t do today what you can put off until tomorrow.” 88

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THETECHNICIAN PuhlufieJ anJ SP inUJ A Hoinet £7«rA iSluJenU October 28. 1977 Price ten cents Det Moines. (Iowa) Tech High School Volume 34 Issue 3 McKinley ve ELLIOT BEECHCRAFT RADAR STATION R RKING AREA AIRPORT NEW AVIATION LAB N W-s E . Drawn by Lyle CHburnr Map tkowinf location ol naw lab New Aviation Lab being built hif Robert Vawler Thr new Tech High Aviation Iji b in now under construction at the .Municipal Airport after 11 years of problems and de¬ lays The building will be 120 feel long and 120 feet wide, this gives it a floor space of around I..iOti s(|uare feet. The cost is I.5IH.MI and a toUl figure of aliout TiMi.ono after all the new e iuipment is bought. The site is a 2.. ' 4 acre near Klliot Beechcraft. A parking area ernfring .7 of an acre is also includerl near .McKinley Avenue. It is being built by F lview foils!ruction Company; Cener- a I ( ' ont factor with sub-con¬ tracts going to Des .Moines Lighting Company and Halsey Roberts .Mechanical Construe lion Inc. The building was de¬ signed by Woodbiirn - O’neil Arehitert.s here in Dos Moines. . viatiun teacher Russ Wiles- worked with the architects on the d-sign needs of the new lab while Harold Lossner, an¬ other aviation teacher, worked with the Federal Aviation Ad¬ ministration (FFA) on the new curriculum miuireinents to get and keep FF.X approval as an approved training school. .Mr. Clair llart er. who went through Tech Aviation and has had a son alwi complete the couiTM . said, Tech has needed this for many y:;ar8. It should help enrollment since the at- mospheiv out at the air| ort will -.nhance any .studies that are going on. It has been a long banl pull, and I am really look- forward to seeing it, and am ex¬ tremely happy to get it done.” Ml. Kugene Clark, Director of Pl.mt nnd Transp irtation for th lies .Moines School sys leni, says “It has been a long lime i-oming.” mark ALUtN SHOWS US THK KILLER Does Tech still have to worry about being moved? by D«nis McNseUy Last year a Citizen Commit¬ tee was set up to present recommendations to the Des Moines Board of Education as to the future use of school buildings because of the de¬ clining enrollment. The committee ' s recommen¬ dation was to move Tech to North because of North ' s de¬ clining enroUmenL Since North ' s building is not .suited for Tech’s heavy equipment there was also the recom¬ mendation for a $3,000,000 addition to North. Tech ' s Student Union sent a letter to each member of the committee pointing out that Tech does not have declining enrollment, and if the students wanted a parking lot they would have gone to their neighborhood schooL Also they asked What is wrong with Tech ' s image? , since the move was to improve Tech ' s image. Now. the question still re¬ mains; Does Tech still have to worry about being moved? Mr. Don Blackman, principal, said that he is certain with de¬ clining enrollment, this will be discussed again. The school board is also coming up with sonae other proposals. One idee is to take the freshman classes out of the junior highs and put them in the high schools. This would affect ell high schools except Lincoln, because Lincoln is already overcrowded. If this is done Mr Blackman com¬ mented. ' 1 think Tech will . . . Photo By MmrvimNotte have a large 9th grade student body. Another proposal is to close Tech and have the students at¬ tend all the other high schools and then be bused to Tech for three hours a day for their core areas. To this proposal Mr Blackman gave his opinion that he thinks, ' it will hurt the educational programs be¬ cause it won ' t have the depth or .strength and the areas won’t be as important to the students ” Why was Tech move suggested ? Move Tech to the North Building? Rumor? Fact? Recommend¬ ation? Here are the facts, according to Mr. Don Blackman. Tech ' s Principal. Because of declining enroll¬ ment in the Des Moines Public Schools a atizen Committee was set up to present recom- menoations to the Des Moines Board of Education as to the hiture use of school buildings. A recommendation of a Sub¬ committee to the over-all com- MOi EXCH?. ' ? Here’s the House That Tech Will Build mitte was to move Tech to North because of North’s de¬ clining enroUnoent. Since North ' s building is not mited to Techs heavy equipment, the committee also reconunended a $3,000,000 addition to North. During the building of the ad¬ dition, Tech students would be bused back and forth for core areas stiil at the Tech building The comnuttee stated their reasoning behind this move would improve Tech’s image, move a high school out of the downtown area, gi « ' Tech (at North) a parking lot, and would hll up the North building with students. Mr Blackman is opposed to The move. He feels that there is nothing wrong with the Tech image. Tech’s enrollment is mcreasing, so Tech is not the problem of decreasing enroll¬ ment.” said Mr. Blackman. Mr. Blackman feels that when the school ' s vocational and academic classes are not to¬ gether. it means the downfall of the entire educational pro¬ gram of a comprehensive high schot like Tech. He believes Tech should stay in a central location so stu¬ dents from all over Des Moines will come to Tech due to more direct transportation. Tech’s Student Union has written a letter to each mem¬ ber of the comnuttee pomting out that Tech does not have a declining enrollment, and if students wanted a parking lot, they would have gone to their neighborhood school Also the question is ask, What is wrong with Tech’s image?” The letter also points out that Tech is omtrally located and that Tech students do not want to move to another loca tico. ...InformatkM collected by Les Talley

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