Muscatine High School - Auroran Yearbook (Muscatine, IA)

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-a summer job with other ature Blisters! june seventh, 1976 introduced these and a seven-thirty AM roll call to the newly chosen Youth Conservation Corps IYCCI members. Twelve girls, twelve guys, two youth leaders, Debbie Pallischeck and Bob Hoffman, plus Kathy Reusswig, Mr. Charles Bogardo, Mr. Ron Kiser, Mrq Richard Shaw, and Mr. R.L. Casini all felt anxious to begin the eight week series of ecology-loaded learning sessions. At the end of that first day, unworn workboots were quickly broken in 'after one get acquainted hike that aching feet would not soon forget. Simply the beginning . . . An average day began at seven-thirty AM with roll call followed by a wonderful warm-up of calisthenics. After the tools were 16 YCC distributed, the crews piled into trucks and took off for their specific work areas. Work crews were formed and sent to Saulsbury, Chicken Creek, Muscatine High School, Evermyers Pond and Weed Park. Here, the determined, tool-ladened hard-hats mowed, clipped, polished, painted, planted, and even did construction work: whatever needed to be done to make the areas cleaner and ecologically safer. Sound like hard work? Don't let anyone tell you that it wasn't, but there were good times, too! WeedieFwhipping, or clearing areas loaded with tall, thick weeds with a sickle, was a task that proved to be more fun than work .to most YCC'ers. Water fights with fire hoses, frisbee games in rivers, Icontinued on page 181 The Tot lot Obsticle Course at the Saulsbury Recreation Area was one of the major projects undertaken by the Youth Conservation Corps during the summer.

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JQDS Farm robs are as time consuming as robs in the city. Fueling up is just one of the little jobs Marvin Levetzow has to do before moving of the heavy work of the day. 1 . ,, ' W .lg K , ' H wh A few if fi, ew eff 'f 1 s 1 'if' if fi A 'K W L W, --... c.,,.,-,,., ,, ,, ,....A f - , V 4-nw, W.. '. V . rib: sri, ' .1 . - . Drive-in restaurants furnish many job open- ings for MHS students. Shelly Reynolds has a beaming smile on her face as she waits on a customer at the A8lW Drive-in. Building his own enterprise, Bob Mittman spends his summer days, five days a week, five hours a day, cutting grass.

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i . ,ga Af in new Wd, f fy 4 'gif 0 My loading logs to be sent to the Tot Lot, Mike Mitchell and Russ Gillenwater pass the early morning hours telling jokes. Q W, i ' 9 I 5 0, vp, av if in JM' I in 1. .i,,. . , 'i' Q 'fly '. ,, ' .l,,,,ff 4 ,aw , i i Calisthenics, a 'favorite' activity among all YCC'ers was endured by all enrollees every morning promptly after roll call. 'YCC 17