Meadowbrook High School - Sceptre Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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Today’s Tom Sawyer. Muy Hour Ky paints in carpentry. Adding a Little Style. Angela Griggs and Sandy Terrell put their hairdressing skills to use on models. Tech to or fe) WAGES F hat i is 5 Tech? aie don’t know. Someone just told me to write this oy a auto mehanics for three hours @ day.’’ (Sounds pretty Zen to me.) He con- tinues, “In my first year, | spent 75% of my tech time in the classroom behind a textbook and 25% working on cars. Last year it was a Cheerful Worker. Phalla Sin gleeful- ly dries some pans in Food Services. “You take my breath eway ...” A love of plants drives this Tech stu- dent to study horticulture. 46 Tech Center students work like the dickens — little more even, but class time still predominated.” Well, taking into consid- eration comentary like hat, mathe: Chesterfield High School must have very high standards on matter such as knowledge, © — ing, experience, and™ “the subsequent acauisition of confidence. In order words, theif slogan. “Learn to Earn’’ really means something, — “Learning to Earn” means course offerings in a variety of. fields such as auto mechanics, carpen- try, video production, Complete Inspection. Scott Near- ing and classmate examine a re- frigerator. electronics, and drafting. What a scope! Most of the Tech students felt sure that the time they spent at the ed them for ations. But only a little more than half » said ina survey that they would persue the line of work that deals with their ‘studies | at the Technical Center, Angel Simmons en- lightened me as to when all of this took place. She were bussed to e-cen r where they spent half a=day, every school day, preparing for future jobs. Many of the af- ternoon tech students felt bonds gained at : he ¢ ter as being more imp tants It must have been nice though, because while the students at MBK were sweltering in the big — green ho fternoon — Tech sie were enjoy- — ing air condoned CcOom- fort. It is otvions that the Tech students received marketable backrounds and skills which will prepare them for the work- -place. — Gosh.

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Continued 6.00 an hour. The total in- come approached $100,000, a sum that can’t be overlooked. Ra Hang was honored for his superi- or job performance, and Tracey Yancey . was named student of the » year. Tracey remarked, eit “let me know what ldidn’t want to’ do. ” She super- Inest Workson vised three and four year olds, and now she’s going to school fo be a regis- tered nurse. . 4. Mr. Harold Saunders and , gram was $129,244. Moses Epps was awarded for out- standing job performance, and Michelle Kimenhour was named student of the Ms. Donna Reamy had 92” “years Amelia Wallace had students.in their marketing” program. “They averaged 15 hours a Week, and aver- aged $4.00 per hour. The total income of the pro- superior job performance ‘for herjob at Wendy’s, and shé too, thought it was very helpful. She said, ‘I’m stil working at Wendy's, Joining the work force. Students of ICT review possible job opportuni- ties. Hi, May | Take Your Order? Steve Drake and Moses Epps greet cus- tomers at McDonald's. but when | start college, I'm going into word pro- cessing.” BEEP! HONK! Steve Meadows tunes up a car at Firestone. A winning smile. Tracy Yancey is caught on film after becoming stu- dent of the year for Industrial Coop- erative training program. Work Program 15

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Tune-up Time. In Auto Mechanics, Jeff Patton learns basic car maintenance. Tapping at the Terminal. James Monteria finds computers can be fun and educational. Brick Tricks. Tong Taing levels the beginnings of a wall in Masonry. Tech Center 17