Mexico High School - Mascot Yearbook (Mexico, MO)

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COE: KBOTTOM ROW! Ray Boley, joe Francois, Randy Adkisson, Mike Kilcoyne, Tommy McCormack, jack Allen, Eddie Wilson, fROW TWO! Larry Powell, Larry Baitinger, Roy Crabtree, Gary Little, Van Kessler, Richard Berrey, Mike Nichols, David Stock, john Ogden, Stan Hays, Alvin Freeman, Stan Norton. KROW THREE! Gary Pilger, john Wagner, Charles Minney, Alan Polacek, Loyd Berry, Larry Fike, Charles Chase, Rogers Frisbie, Charley Hall, Ken West, Gary jones. KROW FOUR! Larry Clayton, Glenn Meador, Mike Moore, jerry Gipson, Mike Farmer, Kenneth Hanna, Alan York, Wayne Stowers, Dannie Slater, Bill Hanley, Gale Stowers, Roy Rogers, Sam Smith. INOT PICTURED! Mike McCoy, Clay Heiser, Gilbert Blackburn, Gary Littrell. BELOW IBOTTOM ROW! Debbie Smith, Betty Miller, Barbara Boi- court, LeeAnn Krull, Vicki Heim, jana Fisher. CROW TWO! Kathy Dingman, Linda Marietta, Betty Hawkins, Carol johnson, Linda Becker, Kathy Mills, Kendra Sullivan, Robin Neely. KROW THREE! Nita Smith, Vicky Umstattd, Vickie Fierge, Sharon Sampson, Nancy Donaldson, Sharon Rutlif'f, Pam Mechlin, William Maloney, sponsor. KROW FOUR! Eva Oller, Pat johnson, Cathy Matthews, Kathy Kropf, Patricia Davidson, Nancy Gould, Mary Blue, Cindy Admire, janice Pollard. CNOTPICTURED! Patty Garrett West. Organizations 137 Pam Mechlin, who plans to become a dental technician, works with a patient in the office of Dr. Robert Love. Brushing the hair of a poodle, Stanley Hays learns techniques at the Mexico Animal Hospital which he plans to use in his future as a veterinarian.

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COE Celebrates 30th Anniversar The selection of Mike Farmer, MHS senior as Missouri's student of the year and the thirtieth an- niversary of their program at Mexico High School highlighted the year for the COE classes. The anniversary, celebrated as a part of the annual Employer-Employee banquet, featured as guest speaker Dr. David Nicholson co-ordinator at the first such program at MHS. Then called Diversified Oc- cupations, the class included Kirby Allen who served as master of ceremonies at this year's observance. Mike, chosen earlier by a panel of judges at the state convention in Columbia as student of the year, was also honored at the banquet. Mike, president of the Missouri as well as the Mexico club, went on to compete in the contest held in Atlantic City, N.l. in May for the national title. Other contest winners at the state convention were Robin Neely, Linda Becker, Sharon Sampson, Kathy Mills, Gary Little, Mike Moore, Pam Mechlin, Ken West, Mike Forck, Charles Minney, Gary jones, and Dan Slater. Activities throughout the year for the group in- cluded an employer-employee basketball game, a dance featuring the music of the St. lohns, a picnic and Wiener roast, and a rummage sale. They also made a trip in May to the Mid-America Raceways in Wentzville and arranged window displays at Thrifty Finance and the COE display window in observance of National Distributive Education Clubs of America lDECAD month. Sponsored by William Maloney, the club elected as officers Mike Farmer, president, Kendra Sullivan, vice-president, Pam Mechlin, secretary, Nita Smith, treasurer, Gary Little, reporter, and lohn Cox, par- liamentarian. As master of ceremonies, Kirby Allen calls the roll of students en- rolled in MHS's first COE program thirty years ago. With him are john Waggett of the A. P. Green Co. and Dr. David Nicholson, co- ordinator of the class in 1938-39. tabovel Mike Farmer, Missouri DECA student of the year, accepts his first place plaque from Lester Kesterson, State COE director.

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Building Projects Bring Fun, Profit With projects ranging from a safe corn harvest to building loading chutes, members of the Mexico Chapter of the Future Farmers of America were ener- getic and spirited. During the year, FFA members participated in a safe corn harvest project. Realizing the need for a safe corn harvest, members called on area farmers to point out the dangers involved in harvesting, and asked their cooperation in avoiding accidents which annually takesatollof1400lives from farm families. Along with the safe corn harvest, members partici- pated in raising 50 feeder pigs in cooperation with Hale and Hunter, a local feed supplier. The project netted over S150 for the club. Other business ventures through-out the year in- cluded building gates, loading chutes, and wagons and selling them at a profit. Some were used for the boys' farms, others were sold to Economy Lumber Company in Mexico for resale. ' The FFA varied its activities for each month in the year including basketball games with other chapters for january and a state convention in Columbia, Mis- souri,for April. During National FFA Week, February 15-22, the Mexico Chapter, along with other area chapters, in- formed the public of the organization's work through the local news media, the Mexico Evening Ledger and Radio Station KXEO. Tony jesse watches curiously as one of his prize hogs takes some independent action and rushes feeding time. His advisor Dennis Baker checks his project. Members receiving awards at the annual banquet are IBOTTOM ROWJ Walter Paden, electricity, Bob Bertrand, home improvement, Kenny Welch, star chapter farmer, Warren Wilson, cropfarming, Larry Frey, livestock farming, IROW TWO? joe Secrease, DeKalb award, David Welch, farm safety, joe Donaldson, soil and water management, Harry Damron, public speaking. Not pictured Mark Norwald, star Green Hand, Ed Groves, farm mechanics.