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

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Sizzle, Sizzle! Eighth graders, Jim Stacy, Greg Erickson and Bill Reau wait patiently for their ships of bacon to fry. These boys were in cooking during the second semester. l V Hot Stuff! Freshmen, Chris Jones and Heather Cousino quickly put their muffins on the coohng rack so that they can sit down and eat before everyone else. The girls were in cooking during the second semester Aloha! Eighth grader Ricky Firsdon makes some finishing touches on the Hawaiian shirt he made in Mrs. Szymanskihs 3rd hour sewing c ass. 36

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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.

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Pots and Pans, Needles and Thread Mmmm! Freshmen Christy Chesney and Rima Eid just canlt wait for their freshly baked blueberry muffins to cool so that they can chow down. These girls were in a lst hour cooking class. Swish, Swish. Freshmen Kirk Whaley waits patiently for the water to heat up so that he can wash up all of his dirty dishes. Kirk was in a lst hour cooking class during the second semester. Students test their abilities in sewing and cooking classes. Sewing and Cooking, what an experience! Eighth and ninth graders who were in this class got experience at mak- ing different things for when they have to sew or cook at home. Some of the new eighth graders who were in cooking! sewing classes enjoyed the new experience of using a sew- ing machine and oven. In sewing, the eighth graders were expected only to make one project during the half quarter, which they picked from a list given to them by their teacher, Mrs. Joyce Szymanski. Unlike the eighth grade, ninth graders had to complete two projects. This is because they were in class a whole semester instead of a half quarter. They were not given a list to choose from, so the students could make anything they wanted to, but there were some stipulations. Ninth graders chose these classes as one or two of their electives. Eighth grader Jim Stacy stated, ilThe thing I liked most was when we got to take the clothes home and wear themfl til thought that sewing was easier this year because we already knew how to set up the machines and cut out our patterns and materials to pin downfl commented Fresh- man Michele Walker. The eighth graders made easier things like brownies, eggs and puddings while ninth graders made harder things like coffee cakes, loaf breads, candies, and spaghetti. uIn cooking the best things that I liked was eating the food. Ilm really glad that I took foods in my freshman year because I think this will help me in my future years, ex- plained Kim Hintz. Making food and creating different styles of clothing will be remembered by all of the kids because they will prob- ably be using these skills throughout their lives. 37