Meadowbrook High School - Sceptre Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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Let’s Shine! |.W.E. student Alfonso Trent is shinning a Bronco at Hot Springs Auto Wash. Negative Mania. Darrin Willis I.W.E. Superior Job Performance student takes his work seriously as he carefully examines the negatives. Tender Loving Care. Watering plants is a basic part of Patricia Minor’s job at Graham's House of Flowers. ORK ASH OEIGS (cont'd) Caudle. The coordinator for ICT (In- dustrial Cooperative Training was Ms. Gayle Babcock. The students had to work a mini- mum of 15 to 40 hours a week and received between $3.35 to $5.00. The 33 students in her program worked 25,481 hours and earned $99,992. The ICT Student-of-the-Year was given to Angie Bowles. The coordinators for DE (Marketing and Distributive Education) were Ms. Donna Wainscott and Mr. Harold Saunders. They had a total of 125 students in their programs. DE students worked a total of 15-40 hours a week and made $3.35 to $5.75. They totalled $151,000.00 for 17,000 hours of work. The Outstanding Marketing Award went to Eddie Hankins for Advanced Marketing Award; to Archie Spencer for Marketing II and to Peggy Bor- ron for Fundamentals of Mar- keting. Ms. Wainscott commented, “Every DE student did very well and I’m proud of them.” On May 30, the IWE, ICT and DE Employer-Employee Ban- quet was held at the Meadow- brook Country Club. The ban- quet honored both the employ- ers and the student employees. Awards for outstanding job per- formances were given at this event. In addressing those present at the banquet, Principal Kent Walker summed up, ‘‘The coop- erative effort between employer and employee brings the com- munity and the school closer to- gether. By working cooperative- ly, both employer and employ- ee gain. The employer has the opportunity to develop future competent workers while the student employee benefits from the job experience for future use.” Proud of it. Shane Early has time to proudly pose for a photo while working at Marco Machine. Pumping Iron! Working at Spa Lady, April Plummer has time to keep fit. Work Program 15

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Wheel it on. |.C.T. student John Ligon changes a tire for a customer at Serendi Tire and Auto. Fill’er up! Working at Spencers, Keith Morse pumps gas for customer's car. 14. Work Program Is it tight enough? |.W.E. II, Vocation- al-student of the year, Lisa Caudle ties a toddler’s shoe at Tender Care Day Nurs- ery.

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Squeaky Brakes! In Auto Mechanics, Richard Fields and Wesley Bucknam look on as Mark Birch works on the left, rear brakes. Tech-Knowledge. Julie Nevel loads her program while Bobbie Randall and Nancy Doustou look on. Wrap it Up. Vern Puller learns to lami- nate material in his graphics class at Tech. 16 Tech Center HIG We ll of the learning done by students was not done inside the walls of one school building. Some students travelled to the Chesterfield Technical Center to receive an- other type of education. At the Center, students were taught skills that will be useful in their lives after high school. They had the choice of many occupa- tional prepatory courses such as: cosmetology, auto mechan- ics, carpentry, photography, electronics, etc. Every school day, the stu- dents travelled by bus to the Center, which is located near Bird High School. They spent one half of a school day, either morning or afternoon, prepar- ing for future jobs. Survey results, of the stu- dents who attended the Tech Center, indicated that 50% were enrolled in cosmetology; 20% in data processing and the remain- ing students worked with food services, carpentry and com- mercial photography. Eighty percent of the Tech students felt that the time they spent at the center prepared them for their future occupa: tions. Sixty-five percent of the survey responses indicated that they would pursue the line of work that deals with what they studied at the Technical Center. Even though the afternoon Tech students felt left out of afternoon activities, they thought that they received more benefits from the training they got at the center. Marie Miller said, ‘The time at Tech was a special activity to me.” The students were equally di- vided as to their preference be- tween morning and afternoon Tech. The students that attend- ed in the morning liked this time because they did not miss aftei- noon activities. The afternoon Tech students liked the air con- ditioning at the center on hot days and ending the day on a more relaxed note. The Tech students had var- ious opinions about what could Students were trained for future occupations at (GANG, be done to improve the center. Suggestions included improv- ing the food and getting back the smoking area. They also said, ‘‘The center is just what you make it.” The students that attended the Technical Center spent a half of a day, every school day, learning skills that they will be able to use for the rest of their lives. They were taught to be mechanics, carpenters, hair dressers, photographers or any- thing else that they wished to be. The Chesterfield Technical Center was an important part of the education of every student who attended. There they were trained for jobs and prepared to face their futures. —