Mazama High School - Valhalla Yearbook (Klamath Falls, OR)

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Todd Hamblin dishes up some of the fine food that he and Chad Steen made. The students always seemed to enjoy eating the food that they had prepared. Trying out the food that she pre- pared is Daniele Martins. One of the great things about foods was that you could eat what you had prepared. Trade Ballew concentrates on making a clean cut in the fabric. Measuring and cutting fabric was an very important part of sewing. Home economics - 15

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CR.ELAT E. Y ?LR 6PE.CIAL Creating something your own way and on your own can be a rewarding experience. 'Creating food can be reward- ing because you can see it take shape right before your eyes. You don't have to wait a long time for a great looking product ' explained foods teacher Jennifer Magera. Stu- dents also seem to enjoy foods class because they can eat what they prepare. Miss Magera teaches foods, sewing, and clothing. The stu- dents who take sewing are usually females. Miss Magera feels that more females take sewing because boys just aren't as interested in fashion and clothing as females. The students who do take sewing are usually devoted to sewing and do well in the class. They make aprons, pot holders, and the advanced classes make shirts and dresses. Altough foods seems to be more popular, both foods and sewing provide valuable ex- periences for the student's fu- ture. Meredith Bellet prepares to make some tortillas. The foods class had a week of preparing Mexican food. Jennifer Tillery works on a shirt in sewing class. Making shirts was a very popular project over the year. Concentrating on threading the needle, Kirsty Layne prepares her machine for sewing. Preparing the machine seemed to be the frustrating part of sewing this year. 14 • home economics

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ELXPE.RJQ.NkX Tit v£?rlp Why do I have to take a for- eign language? Many students ask themselves this question every year. Well, your Curricu- lum Guide tells you that you have to take a Fine or Applied Art. One of which is a foreign language. Besides, many col- leges require one and some two years of foreign language for entrance. Your counselor will strongly advise you to take one and maybe your par- ents will insist on it. Anyway, many students take a pick be- tween Spanish, French, and German. Many are surprised and have a good time learning something totally new. For others it is worse than a night- mare; all the vocabulary memorization and the sen- tence structure rules make life miserable. Your decision may also be affected by your heritage. May- be you want to learn more about your ancestors' native language, or you want to be able to talk to a grandparent in that other language. Some students are preparing for a foreign exchange program while others just want to travel outside the United States. It is important and beneficial to leam Spanish or any foreign language in that new worlds and experiences open up to you and you needn't be afraid to travel beyond your own backyard' ' states Mazama's Spanish teacher Diane Wells. Besides just learning the language, you leam a lot about the cultures, too, such as what foods they eat, their educational systems, what they generally do from day to day, and many other things. By learning about foreign lan- guages and cultures, we can learn more about the world. And help make graduating possible too! To leam for- eign language requires dedi- cation and perseverance but the end result is personal en- richment and an openness to new ideas and new ways of perceiving your own world and life style,'' explained Wells. 16 - Foreign Languages