Douglas County High School - Huskie Highlights Yearbook (Castle Rock, CO)

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s l Senior Mike Woods adds the finishing touches to his computer Junior Steve Smerjac perfects his skills in a diligent moment at the adding ma program. Drake Miguel, Senior. types his program into the Computer in his Computer students and had an enrollment of approximately l90 students per se class. The Computer Department offered a range of classes for interested fm the '85-'86 school year.

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Stagecraft offers flare to drama Taking away any theatre production's sets and lighting would eveal that though the actors are talented, the play loses its flare 'ithout those little extras which make a production the great erformance that it is. For students interested in this very impor- nt role, they were offered a class that could get them involved in e technical aspect of theatre. The class - Stagecraft, the eacher, of course, - Mr. Wally Larson, theatre teacher and ead producer of all DC productions. Emphasized Mr. Larson, one-half of everything we do is technicalg it is very important to lay productions. Mr. Larson went on further to express that the eal details of plays go into the technical aspect. According to Mr. Larson, the average class size for Stagecraft 'as 12 students. The class called for work in class and after hool when necessary in .order to prepare the sets and lighting stems for the productions. The class covered and studied all spects of theatre stagecraft. From the class, students not only gained skills they could put to se for the DC theatre productions, but a chance to be creative. Described Mr. Larson, It is a very creative situation. We . , SY get ' 1 Elia ' 2 Ava Curry Wally Larson .fe My Noah Brodbeck and Beth Malone brilliantly illustrate drama gestures while experimenting with a new role. Like all actors, high school dramatists must adapt to many different roles. f npggdtifva Riek, junior, practices his role for an upcoming DC play, A play must be read quite a few times in order to understand the emotions and actions of a W .se Marcia Noble replaces costumes on the clothes rack in the drama room. Marcia put forth extra time in sewing and ironing costumes, 25

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Computer dep't predicts change We want to meet the individual needs of computer udents, described Mr. Marty Bowen, computer teacher, of le computer department's objective. The computer classes offered at DC for the '85-'86 school Ear included Computer Literacy, BASIC Programming I and , and PASCAL. The Literacy class was a class with iiphasis on user knowledge, while the BASIC and PASCAL asses involved the thought process and the mechanics of mmputers. According to Mr. Bowen, the average enrollment for imputer classes was 190 students per semester. These figures, lr. Bowen believed, were going to rise in the next three to tur years. However, Mr. Bowen added that after the crease, most enrollments will once again decrease due to the iilding of the new juniorfsenior high school. As far as the Lpansion of the curriculum, Mr. Bowen felt that the only rection for curriculum additions was up, with advanced asses in various other computer languages. Mr. Bowen 'edicted this belief due to the already expanding curriculum 'the Junior High, as they expand, the only way is for us to Lpand as well, described Mr. Bowen. For the present, students were happy with the curriculum id looked forward to the expansion casually. Described one Iudent, they have everything I want and I really don't have rely on the expansion to get what I want from the zpartmentf' renda Mesa, junior, refines her typing skills in an advanced business class. derical accuracy is the objective for students who decide to extend their business ckgrounds through advanced classes. Sharon Bass Marty Bowen Laura Everitt Steve Folven 'Q' Larry Gearke Lynn Johnson Bonnie Rickel Revising as she types. junior Michelle Kartman verilies a word's spelling before proceeding with her final copy. 27