Milwaukie High School - Maroon Yearbook (Milwaukie, OR)

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rm an rf .J 5' 'W-np .- w t Q, f is ' ,1 . o-wma. X 'Q 5 BOTTOM LEFT: Dan Swift, fresh- man, checks his igures for accuracy in Marketing and Management. TOP LEFT: Beckie Salmonese, junior, reads to a small boy to keep him entertained at Skills Center Child Services Day Care Center. TOP RIGHT: Robin Kollbaba, senior, and a students from another school, help each other on putting a graphic arts project together. ABOVE: Robert Svensomsenior, checks through his cards to make sure all of them have been entered in the keypunch computer in Business Data Processing class. Skill Center 29

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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.

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30 Language Arts RIGHT: Insights and Great Expect- tations, freshman literatureg Encounters, Animal Farm, and The Little Prince, sophomore lit- erature. BOTTOM RIGHT: Mr. Richard Geer laughs at a student joke during his fourth period English class. BOTTOM LEFT: Jim Sams relaxes while reading 'Nightmare' during Mrs. Susan Kimberley's fourth period English. BELOW LEFT: Miss Frances Turner instructs students on spel- ling in her sophomore English class. 'lov wi