New Athens High School - Vespa Yearbook (New Athens, IL)

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Academic Team Placed Third in District For the first time, the NACHS Academics Team competed at Belleville Area College on February 20. The competition was sponsored by the University of Illinois and Junior Engineering and Technology Society. Each team member took a sixty-minute test in one of seven different subjects. Sponsored by Mr. Germann, the team came home with a third place trophy along with three individual winners: Dan Stoops, second in Biology; Jim Woolford, third in Graphics; and Laura Parker, second in Pocket Calculators. The New Athens Math Team competed at the Red Bud Invitational Math Contest on March 6. Each team, consisting of four students from each grade level, took a test covering different areas of math. The freshman team won third place, and the sophomore and junior teams each won fourth place. Freshman Larry Mueller placed fifth in individual scores for all freshmen. The team was coached by Mr. Germann and Mr. Trotter. (left) ACADEMICS TEAM: (kneeling) Connie Wesolik, Amy Litteken, Mary Schoepp. (standing) Chris Boyett. Tom May, Larry Birkner. Mr. Germann. Dan Stoops. Laura Parker, Jim Woolford. INDIVIDUAL WINNERS: Dan Stoops. Larry Mueller. Jim Woolford. Laura Parker. MATH TEAM: (first row) Dan Stoops. Chris Boyett, Carrie Magill, Laura Parker. Connie Wesolik. (second row) Amy Litteken, Clare Wesolik, Dawn Albert, Jody Bayer. Dan Rickert, Kevin Koenigstein. (third row) Russel Kin-zinger, Jeff Parker. Jim Woolford. Larry Birkner. Rodney Kinzinger, Larry Mueller. Mr. Germann.

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(1) Miss Jent checks to make sure the scorebook is okay. (2) Mary Schilling tries to get an idea for her yearbook pages from an old annual. (3) Some unknown pranksters make a mess of a cafeteria lunch. (4) Dan Hammel. Renee Karber. Kent Heberer. and Rita Deutschman join forces to show how much fun the FFA Dance can be. (5) Mr. Powers goes through another one of his U.S. History lectures. 3

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FFA Individuals Achieve Highly 22 (above) John Pannier was the recipient of the Bickel-Bchnken Award at the 1980 FFA banquet, (above right) Denis Jucnger won the first place state award for his FFA sawmill operation, (left) Rodney Kinzinger was selected as the Star Grcenhand. the most active freshman FFA member. Individuals in the FFA have worked very hard and accomplished much. The FFA Parliamentary Procedure Team won first place in the sectional and district contests. Another individual to accomplish highly was Mark Schneidewind, who received a first place rating for his hay bailing operation in both the sectional and the district levels. Although FFA members worked for their awards, they leanred a lot and enjoyed it.