Logan High School - Aerial Yearbook (Logan, OH)

Page 7 text:

Upgrade Causes Alarm The first thing you heard on August 28 was your alarm clock buz- zing at 6:00 in the morning, but this wasn't the only alarming sound you'd hear on this day. You arrived at school and went to your first class, and the teacher announced that there was a new grading scale. This new scale meant that from 100 to 93 percent measured up to an A. from 92 to 85 percent earned you a B. from 84 to 77 percent equalled a C. from 76 to 69 percent gave you a D. and 68 percent and below meant failure. In the beginning, the new scale didn't seem to carry much weight with many students, but after the first test there was a different song in the air. Students who worked for an A realized that they were going to have to raise their score two percen- tage points to obtain that grade. On the other hand, students who barely got by last year with a 61 percent found out that they were going to have to work much harder just to pass. On the whole, this new grading scale had an effect on the entire school and touched the life of each student. For the majority of people, it meant hitting the books harder and longer. With the new grading scale, group study in the high school library became more evident Here. Candy Culbertson. Teresa Watson. Beth Frasure. and Ted Morrison get together to decipher the constitution in order to pass their government test, (mw) Candy Culbertson Opening 3

Page 9 text:

Time To Improve A new and exciting improvement here on the Hilltop this past year has been our awakening to computers. Although we've had several of them in the math department for a couple of years, the entire student body and faculty haven't had the op- portunity to use them as they have now. Before purchasing the computers, a committee for the computer educa- tion program was organized by the administration. This committee set up main goals for the school system to achieve, and then agreed on how many computers to bring into the district. Eleven Radio Shack computers were ordered with six going into the math department and one each in the science lab, vocational agriculture, and journalism room. School records were programmed in- to computers in the guidance and nurse’s office. Four Commodores were put in the business rooms to use for word processing, and a total of 45 Apple computers were distributed in the media, home economics and art departments and the surrounding elementary schools. Teachers in each room were responsible for teaching their students how to use them, as they received special training when the computers first arrived. Many pro- grams are teaching ideas faster to students and making them more in- teresting than textbooks ever could. The committee on computers feels that our school has been right on time to begin using them. In tak- ing time to improve, we have benefit- ted by gaining more knowledge so that new tools can be used more efficiently. Kaly Price Opening 5