Highland High School - Iris Yearbook (Highland, IL)

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¥ + The sewing machine does its part, as Trudy Linenfelser completes a dress in Clothing I. + Helping to build scenery is only one of the projects done by Mr. West's classes. Shown here, assembling a spiral staircase are Mr. West and Steve Masters. ; Larry Council shows intense concentra- tion as he operates the metal lathe in his metals class.

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Machines Come of Age Sewing machine—whirring. Saw—buzzing. Typewriter—chattering. VTR—humming. Calculators— (silence). The machine and its sounds were the middlemen between a student’s ideas and a project. It was the year of the electronic calculator. The miniature marvels of the space age joined the other machines in the school and made the tedious job of arithmetic almost a game. They were super for chemistry and math and bookkeeping and for saving time. By using calculators and other machines, students were able to expand their abilities and explore new worlds. + HHS’s first Danish exchange student, Johannes Hansen gets involved in the work of the VTR class, along with Mr. Burke, Phil Sellers and Gordon Hayman. In the off-moments of math-related classes, students discovered that a calculator could serve as a toy to fill the idle time. +--+ Playing a vital role in school publici- ty, HHS printers, Brenda Okai and Mike Ratermann ink type for the printing machine.

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Looking Ahead to Future Occupations Two educational alternatives, Co-op and Area Vocational School, continued to be two of the most popular programs offered by HHS. Both offer the stu- dent who is looking ahead to employment after high school opportunities not available in the regular classroom. Students of AVHS must endure a daily bus ride to Collinsville for either one or two years, but once there they receive intensive training designed to give them a marketable skill after completing the program. Co-op students combine work with education. Their school day involves regular classes, a special class related to their job and time spent working.