Mercer County High School - Highlander Yearbook (Harrodsburg, KY)

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“T© Ce Or Net T© Ce” Top Left: With the help of Mr. Armstrong, Darrell Claunch works on a car engine Top right: Gary Arnold contributes his electrical knowledge toward the building of this house Above: Norma White learns the secretarial skills necessary to qualify her for a good job Right: Randy Grider learns how to wire a house Bottom middle: Each welding student protects himself with a special suit and mask. Far right: Mr. Wilcher gives carpentry instructions to Billy Yeager, Bobby Carter, and Leo Kelly. Bottom right: Health careers student Debbie Shuman cares for a patient in a nursing home 28

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in the last’s? Mrs. Fegenbush: I feel that there will be a big push for making sure that each student is required to master the basic subjects completely before he is allowed to move on and that requirements of promotion and graduation will be more rigid. Miss Sale: I expect high school gradua- tion '‘examinations” before certificates are awarded . fewer students going to col- lege . . . and teachers' pay ris- ing. Mr. Kays: Teachers . . . will be even bet- ter prepared than in the seven- ties . . . due to the continuing surplus of qualifying teachers. Mr. Phelps: I expect a push toward a national curriculum . . . many teachers to leave education because of low pay . . . and Back-to-Basics to become a much larger issue. Miss Downey: As our society changes, so must education. In the years since I graduated from high school, education has changed. But the basic needs, feelings, and emotions of teen- agers remain the same. The 80's will probably bring new ways of trying to meet these challenges. Mrs. Phelps: Unless we begin to expect more of students each year, instead of letting them do less and less, our objectives are going to become very elemen- tary. 27

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- I I SI W I I . “To Be Or Not To Be? That is the question. When students become juniors and seniors they are faced with the deci- sion of whether to go to col- lege or go to work. The Har- rodsburg Vocational Center helps many of these students make this decision. Vocational school gives students the opportunity to experience first hand what a certain type of work would be like. There are several different areas which are directed by principal Hughes Jones and some very qualified teachers instructors: Auto Mechanics (Mike Arm- strong), Business Education (Judy Sutter, Debbie Reed, Lawrence Hendren), Carpentry (Ron Wilcher), Electricity (Fred Knickerbocker), Health Careers (Georgette Sims), and Welding (William Weather- ford). The Vocational school clubs are becoming increas- ingly popular because they help make vocational school more interesting and give stu- dents something to strive for. Each year Vocational school helps students decide whether to be or not to be. 29