Carson High School - Carneta Yearbook (Carson City, NV)

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Thinkin Vccaticnal The vocational department consisted of wood shop, auto shop, metal shop, commercial art, photography, drafting, and car- pentry. The purpose of the vocational classes is job training, said Vice Principal, Mr. Scoggins. Vocational classes prepared students to go straight to trade school or straight into their field Troy Jorgeiiseii. John Ouhy, and Matt B - ers replace an upper A-lranie bushing. or profession. Vocational classes also provided an amount of ex- perience in the vocational field the student desired. What we would like is for every student to walk out of this high school with a saleable skill. We have a good group of teach- ers. The vocational department has been hurt because the grad- uation requirements have gone up, concluded Vice Principal, Mr. Scoggins. Sophomores RiitiJy Siirgeaftt, and Eric Fill- more make sure it ' s just right before they Junior D,iie MiCullen cuts metal on the cut their wood in Mr. Howard ' s fourth lathe during Mr. Brook ' s third hour metal hour wood shop class. shop class. tr .. 1 Marty Agui era makes a Jrurnstitk, dur- ing Mr. Brook ' s metal sh( p class. Involvement 179

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Senior Stiphiinie Estep rectivcs a car- nation for Vdltn line ' s Da diirini VICA fundraiser. ' iM U(CA The memberships in VICA has increased greatly over the last two years, said Senior Clendon Snipes, a member of VICA. What was VICA? VICA was the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America. VICA was for all vocational classes. This included wood shop, auto shop, metal shop, commercial art, photography, drafting, and carpentry. The members of VICA com- peted in a contest on a national level every year. In this contest they competed by showing their skills in whichever vo- cational field they were good in. On April 6, 7, and 8, VICA went to Las Vegas. They did fund raisers like selling carna- tions and M ' M ' s to raise money to go. During the sum- mer they planned to compete in Whittitah, Kansas. There were 17 members in VICA. Each student who was a part of VICA spent more time in each vocational class. These students only had to be in a vocational class to be part of VICA. 178

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C€TC: More Than Just a Class ROTC: What do you think when you hear this? Well, one thing was for sure. It was more than just a classroom full of students. Other than just having a class, there was also a drill team and a rifle team. The classroom itself was sepa- rated into the periods. The juniors and seniors were in the first hour class and the sophomores were in the second hour class. Commander Rhea was the main teacher and his assistant was Chief Kelley. Together they taught the history of Naval Science dating back to the Phoenicians, and they taught as much as possible about the Vietnam war. Some more of the many things taught are navigation, oceanography, geography, march- ing, health, and how to shoot a rifle. Some of the advantages of taking the ROTC class were that many stu- dents got $25,000 scholarships to many places in the United States, and also, if a person took NJROTC for three years and decided to go to the Navy, he could start by getting 2,500 dollars more a year than someone who didn ' t take it. And last, if a student took ROTC for three years, he didn ' t need to take Health in his senior year. The class took several field trips each year. They went to the Reno Air Races, San Francisco, San Die- go, where they went to a mini-boot camp that taught them what a real boot camp is really like and trained them for the future. Of course they also went to the schools in this area. Two of the schools they went to were Wooster High and Las Vegas, where they competed against sev- eral schools. The Color Guard took second place and Kristie Lawrence got best color guard. This year ' s class is really good. especially the group that came up from Eagle Valley Junior High, said Chief Kelley. The drill team, a group of girls whose ages ranged from freshmen to seniors, ended the season with LeaAnna Stevens in charge. They took second place in the Nevada Day Parade and fourth place in Las Vegas. They practiced every day almost, and even in the rain, snow, and wind, just to get better. They even began planning some events for next year. The ROTC drill team marched proudly down Carson Street during the Nevada day parade led by the commands of LeaAnna Stevens. They took second place. The officers in ROTC class march down Car- son Street in the Nevada Day Parade showing off their flags for the United States, the Navy, and Nevada. 1 Erica Bennett gets her assigned rifle from the cabinet for the rifle team practice as Dan Lowe waits. 180