Blue Springs Junior High School - Wildcats Yearbook (Blue Springs, MO)

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QD Z I- VI I ...J During industrial arts, Mr. Maupin checks over a car made by Joe Servi. ln the library, Dwayne Townleu finds the book he 's been looking for. Brad Melton IMPRESSION G au Z O Mr. Gross, a special education teacher at BSJH, participates in a veru unusual activitu for 6 to 8 weeks each summer. He is a staff sergeant in the National Guard. The National Guard is armu or air force units that are based in everu state of the union. Theu can be called up bu the President in times of war. This is Mr. Gross's twentieth uear in the National Guard. He at- tends either Camp Clark in Nevada, Missouri, or Fort Crouder in Noesho, Missouri. These camps last for two weeks. He goes all summer long. Each session is based on learning Q combat skills. He has been trained as an l TB which is infantru, and also 13B which is for artillaru. Some of the skills he teaches are sending radio mes- sages, reading militaru maps, firing rifles, grenade launchers, machine guns, etc. f-llso survival techniques underfire, chemical, or biological at- tacks, and also survival if separated from unit and first aid. His main purpose is to be able to provide protection for himself and others in case of war. Hellu Huecker lUOS Q

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w Z O - LD Z I- V1 CE .J IMPRESSION lllith all of the teachers at BSJH not many of us notices when a new teacher happens to appear. This year BSJH has added three new . teachers to it's staff. j Mr. Hosick teaches 9th grade . physical science. Mr. Hosick went to i college at the University of Missouri- Q Columbia. He has taught school for l four years and has taught grades . from kindergarten and up. He has I I also taught physical education and health. Other districts he has taught 2 in are Rolla for 2 years and in the St. I Louis area for I year. lllhile in Mr. Ho- I sick's class if there is one thing he j would like to get across to his stu- ! dents it would be learning is an ob- I vious experience. Ms. Mayes teaches German I 2 and French l. She teaches both 8th 5 and 9th grade. She went to college I E. and howto set the tableicorrectly. I I l-lome living is trying to improve the qualiity of life by teaching basic Ilfe skills. stated Mrs. Rains. I Home living iis a class to help stu- dents prepare for life in the future. Tonya Bonkus I INDUSTRIFII. RRTS ' Mr. Rashid Makhdoom, Chair . If a student wanted- to be in- volved in technology in the future. the class he could have taken was industrial arts. There he learned the basic steps of technology and how to use them. It showed him respon- sibility and brought out his basic at Central Missouri State University in UJarrensburg, Missouri. There she re- ceived her bachelor of science in edu- cation. She has studied French for eight years and German for four years. She has also taught English. Ms. Mayes has taught for 8M years. For six and a half years she taught at Flaymore-Peculiar in Missouri. She also taught for one year at Bucklin, Missouri. I wanted to moveto a big- ger district and I also wanted to move to this part of town. Fis her years continue to grow, she also learns as she is teaching. I would like my stu- dents to learn acceptance and toler- ance of others even though they may come from a different culture and speak a different language. Our third teacher teaches eighth and ninth grade Spanish I. Mrs. Land attended the University of Missouri, Columbia. She attended this college for four years. There she received Skills, , . ' , I In those classes we learned some I skills that we could use for a life-I time. There were four teachersjusti ' waiting to help us. Mr. Makhdoom taught drafting, Mr. Maupin taught metals, Mr. Pumphrey taught wood- shop and Mr. Goldsmith taught electricity. In some of those classes they had projects to complete. Fi few of the projects may have been rather simple, while others were very hard. There were some teach- ers who had been out in the field and then went back to college to get a teaching certificate so they could teach: others had never been Nu-I her degree in Spanish. Mrs. Land also taught in the Os- S awatme School District. Mrs. Land en- joys working with kids and always en- joys something new to teach. The most important thing that Mrs. Land believes that she would want her kids to learn would be for my stu- 1 dents to be open minded to other , cultures, languages, and their ways i of thinking. Q Flmy Coffman 2 I 1 tofappeal to a lot body. I I I The shop realize that in your own. Most ofthe did were started ended up as masterpieces lllhittney lllillis IN-scHooL suspeNsioN.,, C'955??

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,, is fr Mr. Brantley makes a clean sweep of the day 's assignments. ln 8th grade math, Mrs. Quaclrenbush assists Flebecca Durham with her assignment. C S J' I Q 1, I r ., . H Q 4 , ' f gl source for information. T HII librarians agreed life in the li- brary was always at such a fast. pace they never knew what would happen next. So, whether it was ca- sual reading or a report, the library was the place to be in 1988. Him Lonsbury, Jonathon Maness MGTHEMRTICS Mrs. Carol Quackenbush, and Mr. les filpers, Co-chair The math department at BSJH got off to a great start this year. Pre-algebra was a new course offered. It had a different book from the 7th grade pre-algebra class and course. Hll of the math cl new textbooks this year The computer lab received some new software, too. The computer lab's main focus this year was to use thecomputer as a tool in math ematical instruction, rather thanjust teaching computer instruction through math classes ln math classes the students learned new concepts and how to incorporate them into real life situa- tions, reviewed old concepts, pre- pared for the MMFIT and BEST tests and prepare for other contests. There teachers followed basic -Q-,,.,.- ei.X,1,,-.Xqv.Q1...--t . . -.-- Barbara Searcy and Flnne Ca vanaugh come to the library to work quietly together. of their ninth grade extremely ing math either right or wrong There are not grey areas in math. Quackenbush, the eighth gradeide- partment head and a pre-algebra! algebra teacher. Mr. 'Pilpers sold,,l love it when I can see thelightbulb come on in the student's head when they understand. y , Classes , r l