Milwaukie High School - Maroon Yearbook (Milwaukie, OR)

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These kids are just great to work with. Everyday there is something new for them to experience. They are curious, friendly, trusting, and very honest indiv- iduals. Ms. Diane Lewis TMR Students develop skills to help prepare for independent living Two lower health rooms have housed special educa- tion classes for the Trainable Mentally Retarded lTMR'sl for the past two years. Since 1976 when a state law was passed ruling that every district must have the least restrictive environment for educating retarded persons, the classes have been held at different high schools which have the facilities. There were two separate classrooms with a total of twenty-four students. The students were legally per- mitted to attend the class from age 14 up to age 21 if necessary, receiving a special certificate in place of a diploma. Subjects stressed survival in later life, rather than academic emphasis. A wide range of skills were taught, including learning coins and money, bus and shopping procedures, and basic words such as those on traffic slgns. Occasionally, a few students were mainstreamed into regular home economics and P.E. courses. Many of the TMR instructors, pointed out that teaching retarded people was very complicated because each student was on a different level, each had his own needs. Basically, they aren't much different from 'normal' kids. They simply have slower or damaged brain functions which impedes the learning process, ex- plained Ms. Diane Lewis. Several field trips interrupted the classroom routine. Students visited the Portland Zoo, Mt. Hood, and a pumpkin patch. They also went bowling monthly and enjoyed a shopping excursion in downtown Portland at has if! ii E if E I X' I I I In I I teacher Christmas Mark Allgeier Jackie Baird . L 3 Eddie Benson - A Karen Cabe gig U., ,K g, Sue Crader , fy A e 'V a Carol Crosby 3 ' S Y- Shirley Esweiler if - ' f' 'M 1 ri nan Fisher siset . Kathy Garrison b if , ff I f ski Jeff Hitesman 'S' N' ' e ' f 1' ' 5 Michaellde 3 gy 1, i f John Matthews ' y, gj rf e Q ' g y Tammy Phillips 5-Y an 'f 1 .. if-X j W .. ... 1 X N ' A kggg 26 TMR

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'Everything done is hands on experience. Kerry Van Orsow 28 Skills Center senior Skills Center Hands-on vocational experiences taught at district-wide complex With 12 different skills to choose from, 1100 students from Milwaukie, Clackamas, Putnam, and those from LaSalle who lived in the district, attended Skills Center for 2-3 periods a day. The Skills Center included the main campus located at 14211 Southeast Johnson Road in Milwaukie, and the Land Laboratory off Sunnyside Road. Forest Pro- ducts and Agriculture were the two classes out of the 12 offered, that were held at the Land Lab. Land Labor- atory consisted of a 50 acre farm where students raised their animals and worked with the land. Getting experience was what really conmted: that's why 'everything done was hands on experience, stated senior Kerry Van Orsow. All of the teachers at Skills Center have either worked in the field they're teaching or have experience with that field, that way teachers were realistic and speaking from experience. Marketing and Management offered a chance for students to actually work with a cashier and the whole- sale business in the student store. Health occupations 3-4 allowed the students to experience, in the commun- ity, the health career of their choice. Nursery and Landscaping, Business Data Proces- sing, Child Services, Electricity and Electronics, Graphics, Industrial Mechanics, Metals, and Building Construction were the other eight classes offered at Skills Center. Two-tmrdsofthekidsthatgraduatedwiththeir acquired skills from the Skills Center made an early commitment to studying and learning, that's why the Skills Center seemed to be so successful. TOP RIGHT: Barbara Vistim, senior, feeds the card machine in Business Data Processing class. CENTER: Mrs. Olga Haob, teach- er, and Jessie Jagow, sophomore, both take, junior, Kathy Boatman's pulse for comparison in Health Occupations Level 2. RIGHT: Mark Stevens, sophomore, lines up his boards at a right angle to com- plete first step of project.