Moore High School - Timekeeper Yearbook (Moore, OK)

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A J traight Lines. Senior Jill Murray works on a drawing, while senior Dwight Kandel offers his ideas. Mechanical drawing was offered to students interested in engineering and architecture. ' if I ew Stuff. Juniors Jason Harrell and Tracy Marrs check digital equip- ment as they carefully unpack it. The equipment, a frequency tester, was used in the electronics classes. 1 . G -...K 1 4 ., eadership. Moore-Norman Vo Tech students hold offices in VICA. Peggy Howard was district treasurerg Tiffany Waller, state treasurerg Bryan Wood, district historian. Vo-Tech -I Academics

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Many students from Moore attended Vo Tech, an abbreviated name for Moore Norman Voca- tional Technical School. All attended Vo Tech to leam a new skill which prepared them for the working world. 'Alt is an excellent way to leam a skill and meet new friends in a job- like environment, said senior Bryan Wood, who was enrolled in graphic arts. Students chose between taking moming Vo Tech from 8:25 to 11:25 or aftemoon classes from 12:15 to 3:50. V L arning Career Skill 1 am glad that I go to V0-Tech because it gives us chances for jobs. - junior Dwayne Myers We had to be back at the high school by 12:00 so we could go to fourth hour, complained senior Bobby Suttles. Student organizations such as Future Business Leaders of America KFBLAJ, Distributive Education Clubs of America CDECAJ, Vocational Industrial Clubs of America CVICAJ and Home Economics Related Occupations QHEROJ made atten- ding Vo Tech even more exciting. All students automatically qualified for the club related to their respective classes. Dues were 5 ki 'if'-ii P - sess ctee as m mm: atch Your Fingers. The tension of competition is an experience for senior Gary Conaster. Competition consisted of reading blueprints, then precisely framing a small structure to be judged. earning the Trade. The dental program offers challenges for seniors Jackie Adams and Bobbie Adams. Hands-on opportunity was given to students, providing a chance for a career. paid by the school. Students decided for themselves whether or not to participate. Over I25 MHS students received diplomas on May 16 after completing two years of vocational training. These individuals had a sense of accomplishment and something to be proud of. Cooper had the chance to get ex- periences in the control booth of WWLS as a part of his COE studies. WWLS was a Norman radio station that .J. in Training. Senior Jeff featured oldies, but goodies. lower Assortment. Arranging silk flowers into a centerpiece is a satisfying experience for senior Tandi Ritter. The floriculture students made arrangments for customers to buy, .. I 1 QW... gf ...l I. G J is ki -I 26 Vo-Tech Academics

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Fond Memories. As he gradu- ates. senior Jay Courtright remembers events that happened during his high school years. Jay was a national merit finalist and a shot-putter in track. 8I4'lIC.S' 3 in ers... i'4'Q' if 1 3 'J gg ,ff orklng Scholashcally r W I I didn't think I would win. I d0n't believe I was the only one. - junior Ethel Glisson Not every school competition was athletic or spirit oriented. Some competitions had a scholastic motif. The four major academic contests were the Na- tional Merit Finals and the scholastic meets at Rose State, OSU and Central State. ln the National Merit Finals, students took a Preliminary Scholastic Achievement Test, PSAT, to become semi-finalists, and the SAT for the real competi- tion, National Merit Finalists. Prestige and money, a 51,000 renewable scholarship to be exact, prompted students to compete for the honor. The finalists got many other benefits such as being treated well on campus and having forms for scholarships filled out for them. The only pressures, said senior Richard Sauer, are the ones you put on yourself. That's the way it should be. The SAT boards honored five students, the greatest number of National Merit Finalists picked in this school's history. They in- cluded Jay Courtright, Mike Morrison. Dylan Romo, Richard Sauer and Mark Wheatley. Scholastic meets also encouraged academically-inclined students to do even better in school so they could qualify to go to these meets. At Central State, four students placed. The only contestant to take second was junior Amanda Meade, who placed in sociology. Three ranked fifth. Juniors Lynn Lesseg in French, Mark Weber in spelling and senior Amu Soininen in the fourth level math event. Two scored at OSU. Junior Robert Courtright placed first in world history, junior Lana Hutchins took second in poetry. At the final and largest scholastic meet, 12 students placed and Moore ranked fourth overall. First place winners were senior Kyung Hwang in music history the also took fifth in music theoryj and junior Terry Anderson in art. Second place winners included juniors Gina Woods in home economics and Accounting ll, Lana Hutchins in spelling and Marcus Zielke for computer programming. Placing third were juniors Lynn Lesseg, who entered the French event, and Beverly Nice for biol- ogy. Senior Keri Jump ranked fourth in shorthand. Senior Dylan Romo in English IV and juniors Chris Cooper in economics, Kristina Southwell in English III and Mark Weber in the French category con- stituted the fifth place winners. Whether or not these individuals and others brought home the gold, they still brought pride to the school by competing. l at lil if . was JW rs 7 ,J . -, h ave 'if Notionol MeritlScholcstic Meets Academics