Bonanza High School - Golden Visions Yearbook (Las Vegas, NV)

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Further Student Services Will you please be quiet or leave the library? This request, The library bought over 20,000 dollars worth of books this made by the new librarian, Richard Benoit, changed the atmos- year. This included a set of Phenomenon books containing 20 phere of the library, making it definitely quiet and clearly a volumes, and a set of Taylor's Encyclopedias of Government place to study and do research. Eva Poole, promoted to assist' Officials, with eight volumes. ant librarian, was helped by the two new part-time librarian Plants, placed in the library and seen through the hall win- aides, Jan Frazier and Bobbie Berry. Another addition to the dows, made the library and front hall cheerier. library was Mrs. Lehmann who taught English classes in the library conference room. ' r at aug i i lf TPQ, .' ,,,, r s . A , ,,,,fl5'f'a - ,t ., gsswf .- A Albert DiCerto, a fourth hour library aide, inserts cards for new books in the card tile. 4 Mr. Tom Khamis supervises James Urban while he types a report on planets. library 151

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Spencer's, Wendy's, and Cloth World, these were just a few of the places that offered jobs on the job board. Mr. Gordon said, This is the best way to do it. There are lots of kids that need jobs in Bonanza, because they don't know where to look or whether jobs are open or not. Also added to the counseling department was Alice Dallimore. She counseled the student body with last names beginning with M-P. Special Departments The special education program placed more students in reg- ular classes because of the new national law which came into effect. The law stated that everyone, including handicapped and emotionally disturbed, was to be enrolled in a regular class if they could perform properly in it. This meant that teacher's spent more time supervising their assigned students in a vari- ety of classes. H-on Seeger PLRCE ,mini pnssts nent A Jan Frazier, a part-time library assistant, con- firms a request from a teacher to use the library during classroom time. Z 5A Mr, Nicholson finished his speech to Rozanne t ' Smith on the reasons why she cannot transfer out of her class. ii ' i'ii p Mr. Gordon confers with Francis Teng about pos' sibilities for a scholarship. 150 counseling, special education

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Fundamentals continued to be stressed by the English classes. The English department expanded offerings of elec- tives for the 1978-79 school year. New units and classes included speed reading and comprehension under the direc- tion of Steve Bray, a developmental reading class taught by Joan Milanovic, and the advanced placement English course taught by Mary Lehmann. Advanced composition and the Extra English Electives research paper classes sharpened writing skills and helped prepare college-bound students forthe tough courses ahead. A free-style form of writing was used in Jim Muckle's creative writing class. Given an alloted amount of time, students wrote anything from poetry to short stories to plays. Breathing exercises, charades, and tongue twisters were some of the preparations the speech students in Betty Holi- A While discussing the novel, The Ox-Bow lnci- dent, in Mr. Frosini's English ll class, Cathy Tsacoy- eanes expresses her point of view. 1 Involved in a discussion about poetry displayed on the overhead projector, Mr. Muckle answers a question posed by Glenda Owens. 5 Teresa Kuchalik and Caren Cowan gleefully find Vicki Neubauer guilty of witchcraft during a simu- lated witch trial in Mrs. Barnson's Am. Lit. class. 152 english