Coquille High School - Laurel Yearbook (Coquille, OR)

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Dan Maeyaert has his blood pressure and temperature checked. Brian Barklow enjoys himselt as a volunteer nurse tapes an intravenous tube to his arm. Jim Johnson daydreams while donating his blood. Bloodmobile ii Brian Barklow and Eric Violette joke around while a volunteer prepares to hook them up.

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Seniors brave pain to donate -their blood The senior class participated in the blood donating program sponsored by the Red Cross. The Red Cross Bloodmobile came to Coquille March 22 and at one o'clock seniors were right in with the rest of the town. The first step of the donating process consisted of the donor receiving a number and a few pamphlets which contained vital information and a basic description of the donating process. After the individuals read the material they were called by number to a volunteer with a typewriter who asked a few simple questions for their records. A questionaire was then given to the donor to fill out while waiting his turn to have his blood typed and checked for iron deficiency, his temperature and blood pressure taken, and his questionaire reveiwed for accuracy. Once the donor completed these steps of the process, he was then asked to drink a cup of juice to replenish the body fluids he was soon to lose. At this point a blood bag was assigned to the donor. Then an escort took them to a special cot where the actual blood letting took place. Once resting comfortably, a friendly nurse asked a few questions to help relax the patient while she cleansed his arm, took his blood pressure, and located a vein suitable for perforating with an intravenous needle. I thought it would hurt but it didn't hurt at all, Exclaimed Dani Scoville. When the needle was properly seated, the tube that led to the collection bag was taped securely to the donor's arm. Now it was only a matter of minutes until the process ended. After his experience, Eric Violette admitted, “I was glad I took the time to do it. It made me feel like I was helping someone in need. The comments given by the students showed that they were worried about the pain but after it was over, first-time donor Brian Barklow said he found the process interesting and added, I honestly enjoyed the experience and plan on doing it again. I had a good time even though I nearly went into shock from blood loss. The brave seniors who donated blood on March 22 were Dani Scoville, Eric Violette, Brian Barklow, Dan Maeyaert, Jim Johnson, Jeff Lavey, and Don Kay. This page sponsored by: The Reinman Family Jim Johnson enjoys a complementary doughnut while he relaxes. Don Kay gets his blood checked for iron deficiency by a volunteer nurse. Eric Violette answers a few vital questions for his Red Cross donor's record. 1 O Bloodmobile

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Choir shines with talent Kelly Greene, Kin Mitchell, Gary Sholter, and Jose Lope2 concentrate on their part. in many di-f-ferent ways The Coquille choir consisted of 42 students. The officers of the choir were president Nancy Ellis and secretary Dolores Miller. The choir usually had fund raisers such as selling different things at basketball games. It wasn't possible for the choir to get any fund raisers during the year. The money that is usually raised for choir was used for new music and dinner money when they went to festivals that were far away. The festival that the choir attended took place in Brookings on April 3. Many different schools traveled from around the area to compete and be Judged for a grade. Coquille did well. They received an A which was very good. There were only three concerts and one festival. The first concert was the Christmas concert which took place with the band. The second concert was the pop concert and the songs were various popular tunes. The third concert was the spring concert which featured all all kinds of music. Mr. Dorsett had a few talented girls in the choir and they play the piano for the concerts, they are Sarah Kreick, Diane Hedeen, Valerie Short, Shelley Reyna, and Kathy Finnegan. Shelley Reyna said, We had fun with many songs, the favorite one was Africa by Toto, and You Are by Lionell Richie because they were hit songs. Mr. Dorsett used a recorder for the first time so there would be a band in the songs they sang. Mr. Dorsett and the students were very pleased with this because there was a variety of instrumental sounds and the parents seemed to enjoy it also. One humerous highlight during the pop concert was some problems getting the newly-introduced records to work. It worked fine after a breif delay that was punctuated with some ear-popping screeches from the malfunctioning recorder. The choir was smaller by about 20 students because the class was scheduled in seventh period instead of in the morning. These pages sponsored by: Part of the alto section are Kerrie Phillips, Kim BrooK, Tonya Ferre, Dina Chambers (partially hidden) Leah Uilson, Tracey Kennedy, and Janet Cotner. Dennis and Ramona Brook Corky and Jenny Daniels Donald Fleming Choir concer-ts