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

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DECA Busy at Work, DECA. Distributive Education Clubs of America, was open to any junior or senior in either Marketing or Marketing II. DECA helped the student ' s knowl- edge of the business world. In DECA, students learned and also had fun. Bellevue West hosts DECA Districts. At DECA Districts, students competed in various career fields such as advertising, finance and credit, apparell and accessories, or an overall cate- gory such as general merchandising. In February. DECA sponsored Free Enterprise Week, to promote ideas for creating a business, using our democratic form of government. This proved very successful. In order to publicize the events, marquees displayed messages, local restaurants used paper pla- cemats. three local banks stuffed their monthly bill statements with information telling about Free Enter- prise Week. At times this year. DECA sold MS Ms. cheese and sausage, and sold donuts. milk and juice in the morn- ing in order to raise money for its various projects, including DECA Districts, the DECA competition in Lincoln, and the National DECA Convention in Kan- sas City. Al the right: Paul Hudson, will testify that M M ' s do make friends. Pictured from left to right, lop to bottom: Rene Meers. Jan Sopers. Dawn Star. Kari Oroth. Joyce Edwards. Brian Wallher, Kim Mullins. Lisa Hoover. Michele Durant. Kim Lynch. Tom Kokes, Larry Schwanke. Tony Scanlon. Krisia Carlson, Michele Peters. Kelly McVicker, Krisly Williams. Caria Dennis. Debbie Beiek, Michelle Oullick. Karen FilzGerald. Denise Zarn. Traci Barnes. Kevin Wheeler. Jenny Dennis. Michelle Wayletl, Teresa Jones. Jarron Bradley. Kevin Earle. Renee Matthews. Linda Lueders. Traci Johnson. Laura Ontiveros. Mike Hockett. Lynette Hansen. Nicole Cox. Yvonne Lilly, Sumalia Williams. Cheryl Fullwood. Al Wenstrand. Chuck lurcher. Debbie Ralston. eco Massey. Paul Hudson. Terry Reynolds. Darrel Maklin. Jodi Mehser. Not pictured: Lisa Durant. Melissa Dodenhof. Donna Nemeth and Lara Snow. i

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Raffle Lifts VICA, 60 in Magazine The Vocational Industrial Clubs of America (VICA) encouraged industrial arts students at bi-monthly meet- ings. The club held a raffle in March to raise money for state competitions in auto mechanics, welding, metals, woods, and drawing. The prizes awarded in the raffle consisted of a first place patio seta bench and a chair, which was made in by the Auto Mechanics II class. Second prize was a Bellevue West Thunderbird clock, third prize was a weather station, and fourth prize was a Nebraska clock all of which were made by students. Innervisions is the creative writing magazine to which students contributed poetry, short stories, essays, and artwork. This year ' s Innervisions staff sponsored con- tests to promote art. poetry, and prose contributions. The winners of these contests received a monetary award, recognition at honors night, and publication of their work in the Innervisions annual magazine, pub- lished in May. There were over 200 entries and of these. 60 were actually published in the magazine. VICA members (front row-left to right) Jim Hettinger. Joe Roubinek. Jerry Smith. Mark Barber. John kelley. Scott Pay, Bud Bitlenbender (second row) Tony Ellas. Tim Hettinger. John Groenjes. Steve Schimonitz. Jim Autry. Steve Lieber. Tom Juhl. Jeff Moe. Charlie Kramer, (back row) Don Paskach. Joe Hubenka. Charles Gartin. V alt Perris. Todd Kellen. Mike Gilreath. Todd Erikson. Rob Pappas. Ben Koziel. Mr Pale Vanderford. (not pictured) Joe Koziel. Pominic Mendolia. Jay McMahon. Testing currents in electronics class. Pon Paskach and Steve Lieber think, what a charge we get out of life! The bridge building contest brought many VICA members together. Bud Bitlenbender. Joe Hubenka. Jerry Smith, and Steve Lieber all stare in awe at the amazing amount of weight this particular bridge is suspending. Mr Terry checks stresses. 135

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mssj UTURE USINESS EADERS MERICA Getting Involved The 1984 FBLA theme was Getting In- volved , and that ' s what the Bellevue West FBLA members did. Among many other activities, they participat- ed in the Fall Leadership Conference in Colora- do Springs, where they attended seminars per- taining to decision making, physical fitness, wardrobe, and others dealing with the better- ment of an individual interested in a business career. The main project for FBLA was Careers Week. They held activities such as a dress-up day, faculty student breakfast and a careers night, where schools from the Omaha area were invit- ed for a pot-luck dinner and entertainment pro- vided by West Connection. This years FBLA was a large group. Those members of the club that got involved, grew both in leadership and cooperation. according to sponsor Mrs. Lori Grant. Pictured from left to right, lop to bottom. Holly Hobhs. Nancy Ellerbroek. Greg Thompson. Dung Scott, Donna Breilenfeld. Dean- na Black. Charemon Morgan. Michelle Shelton. Kerri Poll. Barry Black. Jocelynn Javier. Anita Otwell. Sheila Mitchell. Karma Geh- rig. Margaret Cunningham. Tammy Robertshaw. Lisa Wilson. Mike Pilda. Rob Massingill. Theresa Oauthier. Mrs. Grant. Bruce Holmes. Kris Green. Yvette Diaz. Kim Johns. Jennifer Curtin. Liza Rodiguez. Caria Dennis. Gina Adolf. Larry Segebarth. Laura Mill. Chris Slites. Patty Wines. Valerie Ramos. Tracy Otlerstedl. Becky Serefko. Jean- ette King. Dave Meyers. Pictured in the middle of the page is Sheila Mitchell, clowning around as only she can. Left. Jocelynn Javier teaches Mrs. Grant the use of sign language. 137