DeKalb High School - Saber Yearbook (Waterloo, IN)

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The wheelchair race ison... as Doug — An instructor carefully adjusts a ma- Camp and Craig Cobbs experience life chine so that the student can get a as disabled persons. read-out of her heart rate. Rex Rountree looks worried or at least concerned as his blood pressure is taken by one of the nurses. “Open wide,” Amy Dove is instructed by Dr. Derrow as he gives her a brief dental check up. Focus On Health

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FOCUS ON HEALTH — : Council Sponsors Helpful Program different dimension at DHS was Focus on Health, conducted by the Student Council in cooperation with a Fort Wayne television station. Held in the gym, it was open to all stu- dents. Focus on Health was a unique way to test students’ health. It included such things as heart rate and blood pressure, as well as registering their correct height and weight. There was a special dentistry section that most students kept away from in fear that a real appointment may be necessary for them in the near future. Various health-related organizations Focus On Health also had displays with information avail- able. Groups such as the American Red Cross took part in this. The most inter- esting of all of the displays was probably the chance for healthy, able students to experience exactly what it is like to be disabled. Traveling in a wheelchair, they encountered such things as closed doors needing to be opened and cords on their path that they needed to cross without tipping themselves out of the chair. In most cases, the students enjoyed themselves at Focus on Health while, at the same time, doing something that was actually “good for them.” oO . How do you deal with the everyday pressures of school? Mike Houser helps one student by — her blood pressure for Focus on Health. Do you know your vital statistics? Above, Mica Cole helps Kevin Geeting find out his height and weigh as Traci Schlosser and others wait their tur

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EXCHANGE STUDENTS — Foreign Guests Aid Understanding he Home of the Barons was home also to several students from out- side our borders — from both Eu- rope and Asia. South America was also represented by Ruby Navarro of Colum- bia, who left at the end of first semester and was featured in the 1987 SABER. Representing Germany were Dirk Hu- semann and Lars Schlichting. Dirk, from Bielfeld, stayed with Irvin and Carolyn Hart in Auburn, and Lars, from Goslar, stayed with the Melvin Deardorf family. Both were in the U.S. for eleven months. Dirk, who was in German Club and on the golf team, liked the school spirit but not the lunches at DHS. About his stay he said, 1 would like to thank my host family and DeKalb High School for giving me the opportunity to have a great year in the U.S. | also would like to thank all my Exchange Students friends here for helping to make this year as good as it was.” Lars Schlichting joined the French Club, in addition to being active in band and show choir. He found Americans to be more open and friendly but less inter- ested in politics than Germans. About his stay, Lars said, ‘I really had a good time here. People accepted me, were interest- ed in talking with me and | found a lot of friends. | learned a lot about this country and the Americans and | hope that some people learned something from me. Being an exchange student is a great experi- ence.” Thomas Kock, a talented artist, spent his ten month visit with the Rick James family. From a suburb of Copenhagen, Denmark, Thomas took part in the French Club, $ki Club, and tennis. He also was “not too fond” of the school lunches. ‘I would like to thank all my friends here at the high school for being so great and showing me how to have a good time the American way. It has been a memora- ble year and | will never forget it,” said Thomas. Hiroshima, Japan, is home to Yoko Na- kamoto, who spent eleven months in the U.S., staying with the Waterson family. — Yoko found American schools to be quite different from those in Japan. She found it fun to enjoy school and go to games and cheer. She belonged to SADD and played basketball here and learned to like pizza, M M Peanuts, hamburgers, cook- ies, and macaroni and cheese, but not the school lunches. An exchange student all the way from Hiroshima, . Japan, where she served as a guide in the Peace Park is Yoko Nakamoto, above.