Dana Hills High School - Mast Yearbook (Dana Point, CA)

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ROP Reveals Career Options Every student at Dana Hills has thought at some time or another about his career plans. Some aspire to be lawyers, others to be detectives, many to manage a business, and a few to be orthodontists. Whatever the case, students at Dana Hills are provided with the means to experiment with these career goals for school credit, and without the pressures of the real world. The Regional Occupation Program (R.O.P.) offers classes designed to provide intense job skill training, and students apply their learned skills through internships at actual work locations. R.O.P. covers a wide array of challenging fields, ranging from office occupations, jewelry, and fashion merchandising, to child care, dentistry, graphics, landscaping, and auto repair. According to Ms. Deckert of the Career Center, ROP has something for everyone. ; This year marked an increase in the success of R.O.P. Several classes were added to the curriculum: snack bar operations, ceramics, banking, small business management, and landscape construction. In addition, a slight increase in enrollment resulted, as students became more familiar with the program. The ROP-sponsored Career Fair, career nights, and guest speakers also enhanced awareness of this valuable program. The students involved enjoyed the service and recognized its value. Enthusiastic Vanessa Williams, who was involved in T.V. Film Production, commented, It ' s interesting. I have fun filming the nectar guys at Tressels. • Emily Warren, who interned at her father ' s animal clinic, said, I have a new perspective on what it would really be like to become a veterinarian. I.Jeremiah Taylor shows off his flower arranging skills, which he learned at the bi-weekly nighi ROP course. 2. Lance Lyons learned valuable banking skills which will increase his ability to get a great job. 3. ROP small business maoagement offers Eric Laul and Carolyn Elwis a chance to develop business skills that may be useful in the future. 4. Brandy Gard applies emergency medical care to Cleveland Bramwell. 5. Belle Henderson, student by day, secretary by night, answers the phone in the Career Center. Learning .ps

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Staff Serves With Style Survival at Dana Hills would have been impossible without the efforts of the secretarial staff, guidance technicians, grounds proctors, librarians, career center, instructional aides, cafeteria staff, maintenance crew, and equipment managers. In the words of Laura Nyhuis, We are the backbone of this school; we keep the process going. Whenever a telephone needed to be answered, teachers and coaches to be paid, or report cards to be distributed, the secretarial staff was ready to prevent hostile parents, instructors, and students from destroying the school. They worked in conjunction with the principal and other administrators to make Dana Hills a great school . . . (with) something for everyone who wants to be involved and have a super time in high school, according to Nyhuis. The guidance technicians were responsible for advising students as to classes available in the Dana Hills curriculum and for ma king certain that graduation led. Their role ' t for seni 5 Learning , out of college applications, -CJal aid forms, and scholarship eSj The grounds proctors made idents were aware that they Tuth period on Friday without checking out of school, and as a result, y maintained a first name basis with these ladies. tinued on following pages.)