Hauser Junior Senior High School - Jetstream Yearbook (Hope, IN)

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18 Blue River into two ports, automotive training and front end alignment, which are each one semester of the junior year. Then our senior year we go into one of those categories to specialize. It's a good learning experience for someone who wants to do this as a career,” stated Rob Archer. Eighty percent of the Blue River students entered the job market after graduating and Blue River helped them find a job in their field. Thanks to Blue River I have a job at the Shelbyville newspaper as a word processor and a typesetter, ended Karen Kirby. What It's All About You've got to learn to set priorities because up there it's treated like a regular job. You clock in and you're expected to do professional work, stated Karen Kirby about her studies at Blue River Vocational School. Blue River, located in Shelbyville, was a challenge which 42 Hauser students took on last year. Students spent a half day each day at Blue River. Their thirty minute bus ride left Hauser at 8:20 and returned around noon for a 40 minute lunch break. At Blue River each student took one class which was three hours long with one ten minute break. We can't be one second late from our break or it takes three percent off our grade, commented first year student, Diane Frady. Out of the 16 classes offered at Blue River, Hauser had students in all except two. The class that seems to be the most popular and has more Hauser students in it is Auto Mechanics, remarked Mr. Jack Huff, guidance director. Auto Mechanics is divided up Junior Richard Lobdell faces off the end of a piece of metal to make a punch on the metal lathe in Machine Shop.

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Georgey Butler and Sunny Hull prepare to transplant marigolds from one flat to another in seventh period Horticulture. Randy Thompson supplies water to marigolds, strawberry begonias and petunias for selling this spring. The Horticulture class took a trip to Kings Island with the profits from the sales. Mike Anderson jacks up the front of his truck before taking out the engine. Mike replaced the engine as a project in Agricultural Mechanics. Jordan Shoaf transplants tomatoes to sell in the spring for FFA's trip to Kansas City in November. 17

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In less than 15 minutes, Scott Coombs sharpens a millcutter on the sharpening machine in Machine Shop at Blue River. Senior Diane Frady works on filling out orders for Madison Ave. Flower Shop in her three-week Intensive Office Lab class at Blue River. Junior Tim Beeker applies a coat of primer to a 1972 Oldsmobile using a Binks Model 7 primer gun in auto body class at Blue River. Senior Duane Steeval cleans the roof of a 1973 Gremlin with 38-12 cleaning solvent in auto body class at Blue River. After thorough cleaning, Duane painted a coat of metallic blue on the car. 19