Harbor High School - Mariner Yearbook (Ashtabula, OH)

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Taking tlme out o! hls daily schedule. Lhrls Wllms helps Jack Bossley debug 1115 computer program 5 Mn. Relchen shows her student what svrtinns sh? did wrong on her typing homework. Mrs Reichvrt taught Typing I. Typing II. and personal meg. Taklng time out from thelr computer work. Mark Bennen, Kim Kanmwn and Scott Patterson lalk over the day's events

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Career Oriented Classes prospects for the future hat's a good way to get a start on a business oriented career? Taking a business class at Harbor, for one. Harbor offered many business classes including comput- er science, typing, and accounting. If a student wanted to go into a secretarial field, he could take shorthand and typing or if he wanted to go into an accounting field the student could take accounting or business math. Most business classes offered a jump on the individual career. But business classes were not taken only by job oriented students. They were also taken by students who wished to get ready for college. ul took typing so that I would be able to type term papers next year in college. said Aaron DelPrince. Many other students took typing for the same reason. HI thought that it would be good for me to learn how to type before I entered college. said Missy Parker. There were manyvdifferent reasons why students took business classes, but whatever the reason, each student had a common goal: To get ahead in life. Now Is the time for all good men to come to the aid of thelr country . . . Amy Boles and Cindy Cufr work to improve their typing skills by typing adagese Bill Stadler works on his hnal project for compute er science. All students were requxred to write a program as part of their exam. 22 Academics

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Choosing A College a lifels decision nior or a senior about all the time that goes into filling one out. Freshman and sophomores usually don't under- stand the importance of filling these out, but by the time one gets to the middle of his junior year he must make a decision that will shape the rest of his life After one or several colleges is chosen, the student must send for an application: next comes such things as courses, grades, gpa, SAT and ACT scores, par- ent occupation and income, major and minor study, housing info, financial aid, illing out a college application may not sound very hard, but ask a ju. Content with what she has received. senior Marlena Johnson glances at her report card before running off to her next class With a serious look on his face, senior Andy Kiphart looks at his report card shortly after they were distributed. Good grades are a necessity for getting into the right colleges. 24 t Features and an essay about why you want to go to that particular college of study under that field must be completed and mailed back in with a fee. Any senior that has already mailed one in can say that waiting for either an ac- ceptance or a denial is the hardest part because sometimes you wait for months. By the second semester of the junior year, juniors are bombarded with all sorts of information regarding colleges. No one ever said that choosing a col- lege was easy, but in the end a successful career would be worth that six month wait for a'college to reply, wouldn't it?