Bedford Junior High School - Transition Yearbook (Temperance, MI)

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I Can Do This! Freshman Kristin Smenner types a complicated paragraph out of her textbook. Three to four exercises out of this book were completed each day by the students. Think! Julie Gase strains her brain to remember how to fill out a newly revised tax form while taking a test in first hour general business class. HtMHH?N??E?????Mrnur : htunnnsnnwmgg Taxes!? Trying to figure out a particular step on an oversized tax form, is Doug Steinman. During his first hour general business class, students also filled out smaller tax forms similar to this one. On trial t Law and Society students Julie Holman, Ryan Hawk and Jeff Rudd do research in the library to prepare for a mock trial. 34

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Nothing on this page! Journalists, Chad Swan and Andy Cooney look through a past yearbook to find ways to improve their copy. First Hour Jounalism: Front Row: Editor in-chief: Jody Owczarzak, Assistant Editor: Kirsti Adams, Assistant Editor Debbie Miller, Assistant Editor: Heather Reed, Assistant Editor: Jenny Barron, Row 2: Meg Cook, Tammy Odom, Leslie Cole, Kiersten Seiber, Mendi Epperhart, Kristie Orth. Row 3: Wendy Poorman, Jessica Nusbaum, Tina Lowe, Sara King, Theresa Blaser, Heather Tanner. Back Row: Chn's Plummer, Steve Han, Ryan Maier, John Light, Lynn Alcock. What a shot! Kristie Orth captures a great moment on film during an 8th grade girYs basketball game. Yll use that one! During her SB homeroom, Kristi Adams looks at negatives in search of the best picture for her yearbook layout. 33

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00 5! Another Mistake! During first hour typing class, Niki Pauch an Dee Dee Wysoszinski practice hand positioning on the keyboard, These beginners will soon learn how to type without looking at the keys. Freshman Electives Offer Career Choices Future Secretaries, Lawyers, and Accountants Prepare Themselves The tap . . . tap of constantly clicking keys, the ilclash! of a wooden handled gavel, and the scratch . . . scratch of pencils busily filling out tax forms, were heard throughout the year in the freshman elective classes; typ- ing, law and society, and general business. During the holidays, the students typed pictures of Santa Claus, Cupid, and Easter Bunnies. They also competed with other classes to see who could type the most words per minute, and typed the alphabet front- wards and backwards. Freshman Melissa Helm commented, ill enjoyed typing because it developed skills of speed and accuracy with my fingers? uBefore I took typing I couldnit even type one word per minute with out looking for every letter! stated Christine Lykowski, liNow I can type around forty words a minute without looking at the typewriter at allfl Law and society classes were taken mostly by people such as Dianne Smith, who were interested in going into a career concerning law. The study of the United States law as it applies in criminal and civil law suits is what Mr. Theron Brownls Law and Society class covered. The students were required to do research and oral presentations about famous supreme court cases and the meaning behind them. When available, special speakers came in and talked to the students about something they had recently covered. As a result of the passed millage, new textbooks were purchased. If someone wanted to learn how to balance a checking account, fill out tax forms correctly, set up a budget, or possibly try to decipher the complicated stock market, General Business was the class to take. Writing checks on the first day of school helped Mrs. Murphy find out exactly where each person was, before they started the unit on writing checks and balancing an account. At the end of each semester, the class did a travel unit where each person picked a place anywhere in the world that they would like to visit. Among other things, they had to make all the travel arrangements plus buy luggage and rent a car. They paid for their vacation with the money in their checking accounts which was accumulated by homework and test scores.