Bellevue West High School - Thunderbird Yearbook (Bellevue, NE)

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imiLL. I. . Phys, Ed Adds Health Unit Physical Education encompassed 25 activities which included lifetime sports, team games, car- diovascular fitness and aquatics. New this year was a health unit which gave information about dis- eases, drugs, smoking, personal hygiene, physical fitness and first-aid. Two credits in P.E. was re- quired in order to graduate unless credit was earned through JROTC. ROTC is a way of life and had a total of 92 students enrolled, says sophomore Heidi Keesee. It teaches you discipline and is a good step on the way to a career in the military. While the teachers took care of the intellectual side of the students, the nurse. Blanche Weber, took care of the physical needs. The library does not consist solely of books any more. Bill Mankhe. librarian, took care of maga- zines, video tapes. T. V. s and some study hall stu- dents. He had considerably more to do with stu- dents than most people thought as he helped stu- dents find books for papers, and he held orienta- tion classes for sophomores and juniors. The resource program was designed to help stu- dents who had difficulty reaching their full poten- tal. Students in this program were not among those considered to be slow-learning, but had average learning abilities. It helped the students with such classes as language, math, history and typing. It was a federally founded program and part of the special service program in the district counseled by Mary Ingwerson. Top: For Paul BuschKemper and Mike Blass tite fieadache called finals is a problem Blanche Weber, the school nurse, can Jo nothing about. The commons is a more convenient place to study than the library, thinks Missy Myers and Carolyn Olsen. Bottom: Joan Meckel. Roy Jones, Chuck knight, Paula Little, Gary Scheet and Maureen Williams. Inset: Blanch Weber and Bill Mahnke, 99

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Art Classes Showed Decline in Enrollment Even though communicative, creative and indus- trial arts, music and home economics were not required classes many students elected to study in these areas. The industrial art department was the most popular area with 250 students enrolled. Communicative arts and home economics tied at about 1 10 students, while creative arts had nearly 75 students enrolled. About 60 students enrolled in vocal music and 100 in instrumental. Classes offered in industrial arts included me- chanical and architectural drawing, metals, woods, electricity, electronics and auto mechanics. Com- municative arts offered communications, verbal- non verbal communications, verbal communica- tions radio and TV. forensics. debate, drama and journalism. Home Ec. offered sewing, clothing, foods, housing and interior design, child develop- ment and adult living. Creative arts classes includ- ed two dimensional art. three dimensional art, pot- tery, drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture. Senior art thesis was available to about 10 stu- dents. Music offered chorus. West Connection, music theory, solo voice, band and individual in- strumental instruction. All these classes developed skills, but the enroll- ment was slightly down this year as students tend- ed to take more science and language classes this year. Al the lop Jay Warden shows his appreciation for being photographed. From left to right are Larry Anker. Mancy Cardisco . Merlin Olson. Lorraine Ranney. Don Reimer. Rod Schmidt. Cindy Schram. John Terry. Dale Vanderford. Chuck Welch and Jay Worden 98

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Stitches That Held the Day Together The seven secretaries assisted the principals in areas such as athletics and activities, student transcripts, at- tendance and budget. There was also a receptionist, a counseling receptionist and a secretary handling the principals ' correspondence, scheduling of substitute teachers and the activity accounts. Eight aides worked in the different resource rooms and helped teachers in the business, computer resource room. math, vocal music accompanist. English, science, home ec. arts resourse. social studies, foreign language, reading and the library. Three of the eleven cafeteria workers came early in the morning to start cooking lunch. The rest came in later and helped prepare the lunches, and with serving and cleaning. On a regular day. 400-425 students bought full lunches: while on pizza-days, 550 student bought full lunches. Cheeseburgers were also popular. Several stu- dents bought just french fries, cookies, shakes or other single items. The eighteen custodians did far more than just clean- ing the cafeteria and the commons. Some of them, in fact, worked on the building when it was built and stayed as custodians. All the snow this winter caused problems for those trying to move the snow. Lee Pettin- gill was the head custodian and directed the seventeen member crew. The nightcrew cleaned the classrooms, and a daycrew cleaned the downstairs facilities-, such as. the commons and the cafeteria. One custodian handled most minor electrical and door lock problems. Top: The day-custodians left to right-. Lee Peltingill. Melvin Griel. Donna Schhcker. Phyllis Ritenour, Rose Ashbridge. Bottom: The aides left to right: Russell Bacon. Lynn Bacon. Bea Shefte. Mariann Kallemeyn. Sylvia Martin. Mary Hughey. Judy Myers, kathy Sprolt. Opposite page, top left: The secretaries: Delores Eller. Gayle Carmine. Pam Laughlin. Rose Marie Holmes. Linda Plambeck, Delores Barber. Ginny Binder- Top right: Delores Eller enjoys her lunch. Bottom: The kitchen workers left to right, front row: Marlene Hansen. Kathy Sal- cedo. Jody Graham. Back row: Henriette Spicer. Joy Polak. Bev Riha. Millie Stewart. Ruth Haddox, Vi Schneider. Georgette Crews. Paulette Irwin. The remaining cus- todians not shown are Charles Redden. Charles Jackson, Walt Wyckoff. Sieve Abts. William Clark. Hary Harry Holmes. Gary Howard. Dan Noden. Jerry Rusch. Estella Skorniak, Joe Wisniewski. Henry Ybay. 100