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

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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

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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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Darren Layman is ready to start his run in the advanced tractor driving contest. Students place at Skills Day Skills Day went veil for MPHS students with five students placing first in vocational competitions held at Southwestern Oregon Comnxinity College. Sue Greene received first in sewing followed by Brett Woolley who placed fourth in the soup carpet it icn. Seventh place in Interior Stitching was taken by Liz Schafer. First in Bookkeeping vas Susan S tor beck. Jeannie Kinney took fifth place and Karleen Huff nan placed sixth. Twd first places were brought heme by Julie Perry. She won first in Ccrrputer crafting and first in Blueprint Reading. Other students who placed were Tim Robertson, second in Blueprint Reading and second in Drafting II and Richard Joyce, fourth in architecture. Etug Qsbon and John McCollum both brought heme third places in Ccrrpass and Pacing and in Tree Identification. Ninth place in Ccrrpass and Pacing vas taken by Richard Dupuis and Bob Palmer took tenth in Climbing. Tractor Driving went veil for the ag students as Darren Layman took first in Advanced Tractor Driving followed by Darren Sinko, second; Gary White, third; and Joe McDonald, fifth. In Beginning Tractor Driving Wayne Vermillion took first. Other winners were Brian Madewell, second; Steve Catlett, third; Keith Baker, fourth; Steve Nichols, fifth and Marc Newton, sixth. -Shawn Rochek 18 Skills Day