Blue Ridge High School - Cresta Azul Yearbook (Lakeside, AZ)

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Students test out ot clciss tor tirst time by Pat Hagan For the first time in BR history, a Free Enterprise test was offered so that students could meet the state requirement and not have to take the class. Mr. Bishop and Mr. Roush taught Free Enterprise. The students should know their own economic system, said Mr. Bishop. He had taught at Blue Ridge for eight years. Free Enterprise taught the students about America's eco- nomics in comparison with other country's economies, according to Mr. Bishop. World Cultures was offered again after a year's rest. The reason the class was not offered in 77-78 was that Ms. Stidham, the World Cultures teacher, was needed for a 4th Ameri- can History class. Ms. Stidham was again both World Cultures and Ameri- can History teacher. Both courses help the students develop a sense of their own identi- ties, said Ms. Stidham. World Cul- tures is an elective at BR, while Ameri- can History and Civics are Arizona state requirements. Civics is a 2 year program that is very flexible and allows for a variety of materials and methods for in depth treatment of selected areas, said Mr. Roush. Civics was a state requirement class for all seniors while American History was required of all Juniors. Page 56. 1. Mr. Roush lectures to his 4th hour Civics class. 2. Students do a Free-Enterprise assignment in Mr. Bishop's 5th hour class. 3. Serge talks to Mr. Roush's class about life in the Soviet Union. Page 57. 1. Terri Bittorf and Brad Brown take notes in Civics. 2. Mary Beckett, Terri Bennett, Sue Deerr and Robyn Donaldson pass American history assignments up the row. 3. American history students go over assign- ments in 4th period. 4. Holly Klitus, Victor Applegate, Clayton Lord and Brad Brown work on a Civics assignment. 56 HISTORY A v- 3

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PMT process ch by Pat Hagan A new PMT process for reducing the type size of the school paper was one of the changes in the Yellow Jacket. Other changes included floating head- lines such as Viewpoint and BR Sports , and also doing more stories that required investigations, accord- ing to Jim Lemon, co-editor. Ms. Esther Sullivan was the newspa- per advisor and also taught library sci- ence. Library science taught students how to use the library resources and also how to keep a record of all the books. On the newspaper staff Jim Lemon and Darren Webb were co-edi- tors and Holly Klitus was assistant edi- tor. Ms. Nancy Stidham was the year- book advisor. She took a maternity leave of absence during the third nine weeks. Jim Lemon was the editorial advisor and Laura James was the edi- tor-in-chief for Cresta Azul '79. lt was a confusing 9 weeks while Ms. Stidham was away and as a result we ended up doing about QOWJ of the cinges Yellow Jacket style book during the last nine weeks of school. However, I think the staff did an excellent job on their pages, Laura said. The newspaper, yearbook and graphic arts students went to Flagstaff on March 15 to visit NAU, Northland Press, and the Arizona Daily Sun. The field trip was the highlight of the year for the journalism students. ,Nw 58 JOURNAUSM 3