El Dorado High School - El Dorado Yearbook (Placentia, CA)

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Working For The Future VICA, Vocational Industrial Clubs of America, is a class where all of tfie class time is devoted to working in tfie shop according to senior Russ Hughes. Students are required to make a pro ject. but other than that they have no written work VICA includes the workshop, metalshop. auto shop, electricity shop, and me- chanical drawing All of these classes prepared students for an occupation after completion of high school. I took the class to get myself ready to be a mochinist after I graduate stated Steve Beard. The 1984-85 VICA members Using great precision, Henry Ortega cuts fiis board to a perfect fit. Being careful to moke sure his drawing is as accurate as possible, Aaron Cargile lines up his terr In the newly-rebuilt auto shop, Chris Hockett and Steve Baristi go right to the source oi the pic 128 VICA

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Giving A Hoot p 1 flHi HblP ' H HRr 411 kiMMMMilillHIBp! ' . n Kot H Hfe t ' ' ' H r - % [ ■1 ffe 9IIB 1 - S?S i ' ' K -. . t T- W .- Shoveling dirt. The Ecology Club has much more to it than that. The Club mixes landscaping with other nature re- lated activities. Horse bock riding, whale watching, picnicking, hiking and biking are some of the activities, The Ecology Club offers a lot of involvement and ac- tivities, said President Wayne Su. This is all done by raising money by collecting papers, Our major goal is to clean up the na- ture center and then to branch out over the school, said Jack Su, who has been a member for four years. They have been working on the nature cen- ter and planting around the science building. The Club also donated the Christmas tree found in the science building. Is getting into the Ecology Club worth it? Charity Quimpo said, Absolutely! Jenny Lo tires of rolling out the barrel. She fills the barrel with twigs from the Nature Center, No job is too small for the Ecology Club, Roxanne Wong rakes leaves out of dirt in the Nature Center Even the leader of the Ecology Club, Mr. Pence pitches in on the cleaning up. Derik DeVecchio cracks a smile. Who said repair work isn ' t fun? B Ecology Club 127

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style Of Their Own Illegible; rewrite is one mark not hoped for on assignments. Having your handwriting compared to chicken-scratch isn ' t ego build- ing either. To work on penmenship, a Calligrophy Club was formed. I ' ve been interested since sixth grade and this was an opportunity for me to express my skill and interest, said Bobby Co- hen President of the Club. The Club teaches how to write in Calligraphy. We made name place cards for the student council, said Secretary of Correspondence Laurie Green. The Calligraphy Club would write ' or anyone who asked. We also had contests for best lettering. said Karen Weaver. ' It ' s one of the easiest clubs to join; all you need is a pen and paper, said Bobby Co- hen. river Ip ' bcuL , 1 cr ' Hu)ciu-v« Top row Ms. Payne, H. Nguyen, J. Lo, T. Gulzow, J. Overland, B. Stwertnik. Bottom row L. Green, B. Cohen, K. Weaver. A little role reversal Bobby Cohen supervises Ms. Payne while she writes The Calligraphy Clubs work is displayed by the name cards they made for Student Council Jenny Lo and Laurie Green pay full attention to learning how to write letters in calligraphy Calligraphy Club 129