Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies - Excalibur Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Have the changed? kids I think the kids have improved. I think they like the school better. They are better behaved, there are more activities. Everyone is happier, said Valerie Parker. Helen Scbnider — Math. Cooking sewing Doris Scott — Exp for Lang.. French 1-4 Boonie Sima — U.S. History. World History, A. P. U.S. Government Donnah Snaer — Intro. Lab Science. Science Health. Study Skills Scott Sperber — Life and PhysicalScience Maureen Stem — English. Expos. Comp. Elsa Thatcher — LAPE. Aerobics Edwin Weathersby — Drivers Ed.. PE Marlt Wimberly — Math. .4P Calculus, Trigonometry Pamela Woodlief — Computers, Art Music Pete Woodroof — PE. Body Dynam., Driver Ed. Linda Wormell — Algebra 1-2, Math Janet Yasuda — Math, Algebra 1, Leadership Ann Young — Dance, Volleyball. PE Oeo Zanutto — Cook Sew, Reading, Inter. Foods, JH. Foods Faculty 1 7 1 Faces 1 i

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FACULTY In the beginning . . . Since this school started, many teachers have come and gone. The ones who stayed have seen this school grow, and change in personality. Mrs. Nissen and Mrs. Lee started at SOCES at the begin- ning of the school in 1978 at Sherman Oaks Elementary. They have not seen the school change, but have changed their names. Mrs. Lee began as Miss Huey and was married in 1980. Mrs. Nissen changed her name when she married last summer. Both teachers have seen the school grow from a few hundred students to seven times as many. They have seen a change Gloria Mekjian — Lands People. U.S. History Geography Robert Moore — Social Studies, Agriculture Richard Morris — Winds. Keyboard. Orchestra Cathy Nachum — Bio. ( Physical Science. Oceanography Elke Navarro — Geometry, Math Cathy Nissen — English Roni Parker — LAPE Valerie Parker — Spanish 1-4 Marion Pasternack — Math-Basic Algebra Judy Plouff — English Bruce Pugh — LAPE Laurie Ranch — Math, English Shirley Richter — Computer-Orientation Graphics, Reading George Sazani — Physical Science, Intro. Lab Science Ray Schaefer — American Lit., English, Stagecraft, Speech in student attitudes in the last ten years. The kids have gone through a change. The students seem to be less willing to do work. They also don ' t want to do home- work. There is also a negative feeling in them too, said Mrs. Nissen. I feel that the kids used to be more anxious and enthusiastic about school than they are now, and they worked harder, said Mrs. Lee. Mrs. Lee has always taught elementary and lower grades high math. She has a set pattern for all her classes. After teaching for a while, I developed a program for each grade, and I have stuck with it, said Mrs. Lee. Mrs. Nissen has taught all grades of English and typing. Mrs. Nissen has gone through many changes as have the teaching of English from holis- tic grading to read arounds and core literature. By Chris Giroux What did you say? — Mrs. Nissen, teaching one of her English classes has just received a very strange answer. Talking about old times — Mrs. Nissen and Mrs. Lee. the two teachers who have been at this school from the start. 170 Faculty Faces

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SUPPORT STAFF Our support staff: helping those in trouble Little do we know it but the support staff is a vital part of our school faculty. Without them who would take records of student attendance each day, clean our campus and keep it free of trash, and feed us every breakfast and lunch time with food to keep us alert and awake for class. The support staff does their job right and they back up our faculty 110 percent. The busiest office in the school can probably be the at- tendance office run by Mrs. 01- sen and Mrs. McChesney. Each day students rush in the office with absent excuses signed by their parents in order to get their PRC slip. Also late bus- es arrive with hundreds of stu- dents needing tardy slips. Sometimes the line from that office stretches for miles! The hardest part of the job is getting up in the morning and getting my feet on the floor at 6 o ' clock. But other than that it ' s really just a piece of cake, said Mrs. Catherine Olsen, atten- dance office manager. But getting things removed and put up in the school bou- tique (pointing at the ' lost and found ' area piled with lost arti- cles of clothing) is the most dif- ficult part of my job! said Mrs. McChesney, attendance office worker, in response. Most students know about or have seen Mr. Linet whizzing by in his little orange electric truck. Mr. Linet, of course, is our plant manager whose jobs and errands each day are in the dozens. But it sure beats walk- ing when you have a speedy ve- hicle to move around campus in. The truck is fantastic. It really helps a lot with the job and it makes it a lot easier for me to do things around the school, said Mr. Linet. Without food for the stu- dents, there would be chaos. Thank the cafeteria workers for doing a great job of preparing meals each day. By Loyd Calo- may. Do you have a minute? — Mr. Booker, one of the school bus drivers, helps out a student with a problem during nutrition. m Support staff Faces