Myrtle Point High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Myrtle Point, OR)

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Mrs. El Urquhart and Mrs. Joyce Sixberry advise the student A.F.S. club. Travel with A.F.S. Anerican Field Service is making the large world become smaller by sponsoring student exchanges. A.F.S. makes the world smaller by expanding world understanding through knowledge of foreign cultures and beliefs. A.F.S. is also a program that brings long lasting friendship to students in host schools and to the American and foreign students who travel. In addition to student exchanges between countries, A.F.S. sponsors student exchanges between states and teacher exchanges. Fran Ploen, Qarmany is the A.F.S. exchange student Bettina Roth. Shelley Brown is telling the A.F.S. club about her trip to Australia. Pictured are Sue Greene, T ara Winward, Su Heim, Liz Schafer, Joe Clark, Janita Johnson. 16 A.F.S.

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Proofreading, headline writing and copy writing are some of senior Buddy Jackson's duties in yearbook. Editor Ruby Crook sells an ad to Senpert's Dtug Store. She has been in yearbook class for three years. The yearbook staff includes Lee Ann Crook, Judy Newton, Amie Howell, Sheila Justice, Kathy Stevart, Eiiddy Jackson, town Lee, Ruby Crook, Jennifer Clinton, Sonya Sams, Mike Wood, Charles Spivey, Rob Ward, Paul Stallard, Marc Storm, and Mrs. Kirk. Not pictured-.Veronica Davis. Yearbook class gets an Apple The electronic era landed in the yearbook class as the Bobca;-. staff members received a computer to help them put out the yearbook. Editor Ruby Crook, senior, felt relieved at the prospect of receiving a corrputer. She said that the computer, helped us to keep more organized, and she added that it saved a lot of time. I think that using a cocrputer is a good idea because it is a good experience for everyone, commented Kathy Stewart, freshman. Amie Howell, also a freshman, replied, I loved it because it gave students in yearbook class a good experience in working with computers and it saved a lot of time. In the class students drew layouts, wrote stories, took pictures and completed other tasks that had to be done to rreet deadlines throughout the year. Photographers Pau 1 Sta 1 lard, senior, and Marc Storm, freshman. agreed that they won't forget their experiences in the class. It's not a boring class. You get to do lots of different things, Paul said. I think it's pretty good because everybody works together and other people give their opinions. If you don't know what to do they will help you, stated freshman Sheila Justice about the staff. Adviser Ms. Kirk commented, I think we have a great yearbook staff that's hard working, and she added, It's hard to make the deadlines though. Yearbook 15

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AFS brings student from Germany This year's exchange student das Bettina Friederike Roth from Hannover, West Germany. Hannover is a big city with about one million citizens. She ,as going to a boarding school in Ploen, West Germany. The boarding school is in a castle built in the seventeenth century. A very big difference for her «s school not only because of the srmller size by also because if the more relaxed atmosphere n class in the U.S. She is staying with John and Beverly Hawkins in Myrtle Point. Oregon meets Students are considered for NHS membership as sophomores or juniors. Club members were (front rcw) Mr. Art Denning, advisor; Anne Sturgill, Tressa Little, Lana Ingram, Gayl Anglin, Susan Storbeck, Kari Cribbins, Shawn Rochek (back row) Lesley Smith, Ernie Newton, Tim Robertson, Norman Sturgill, Robert Radley, Wes Duey and CarrenGibbs. NHS rewards students with a 3.5 or-higher GPA Australia Dreams are a part of everybody's life and Shelley Brown made her dreams secome a reality. Shelley went to Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia, last summer for ten weeks as a foreign exchange student with American Field Service A.F.S.). Shelley said that the experience if being on her own and making tier !wn decisions irade the trip ■ r.cth-hile. Shelley attended a public scfiool-hile she was in Australia. Shelley aid that classes really weren’t more difficult than classes in Myrtle Point, but the school was run more ike a college and students were equired to wear uniforms. Shelley's host family was hospitable but she thought that the family ■as a little bit uptight sometimes. Tie National Honor Society members were selected by a five member faculty council for '.embership at the end of the tenth and eleventh grade. Important for being selected are scholarship, leadership, sentua, character end a grade point average of 3.5 or high.--. . Enrichment fund sends students to Washington, D.C. The enrichment fund at Myrtle Point High School was designed to replace the TAG (Talented and Gifted) program. The TAG program was for the talented and gifted students. But the enrichment fund is available to everyone. The enrichment fund can be used by anybody at the school, by teachers and students alike as long as the student is supervised by a teacheri according to Mr. Scott MacCluer, principal. The enrichment fund provided money for the Washington, D.C. trip letting the following qroup of students gain better knowledge of how tlie government works. The students who were involved in this activity were seniors Jennifer Clinton, Robert Radley, Norman Sturgill; and juniors Sue Heim and Gayl Anglin. The advisor was Mr. Cave Robnect. NHS Enrichment Fund 17