Oshkosh West High School - Notebook Yearbook (Oshkosh, WI)

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Students Decide Future Plans

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On - The - Job Experience Helps CO-OP WAS FOR THE STUDENT WHO: 1) Wished to reach a 5 oa career goal, 2) Wasn't sure if a particular area was for : him her, 3) Was going on to college or vocational school and wanted something to ‘fall back on’’. The choice of fields that students had a choice of working in were: Office Occupations, Sales Marketing, Food Services, Applied Electronics, Applied Metals, Agri-Business, Automotive Service, Industrial Drafting, Data Processing, Vocational Agriculture, Graphic Arts, and Health Careers Program. CO-OP HELPS ME TO ... be more self-supportive. It has also given me a great job experience, which | intend to keep to help me through technical school. -(Wendy Wolf) ... decided to go to college instead of technical school. -(Kris Richey) .. . learn some things that you just can’t learn in the school shop. - (Warren Davies) ... talk and actually do things in class related to food service jobs. -(Renee Larson) ... get the experience of working in an office, so | will know what to expect when | go into the working field after graduation. - (Julie Kasper) ... look at the kind of jobs | might be doing. - (Larry Watson) ... learn the skills that | will need to obtain and keep a good job. -(Cassandra Apkarian) ... prepare for the ups and downs that may happen on any job. -(Debbie Seiberlich) ... get experience that you can’t get anywhere else except on the job. -(Marie Putzer). | LIKE MY JOB BECAUSE ... | like running errands for my boss in his cadillac. -(Deb Pongratz) ... | really like my boss, he is more of a friend to the employees. -(Daryl Schmidt) .. . | like the variety of work | do. -(Sue LaCroix) .. . | enjoy what | do, and | get along with my bosses very well. -(Cassandra Apkarian) ... | like coming in to work and not having a routine job all the time. -(Kim Koechell) ... I'm interested in being around people. -(Debbie Innerebner). SOMETIMES | DON’T LIKE MY JOB BECAUSE ... of the pres- sure there is at times. -(Kris Rickey) ... people call in half an hour before appointments and say they can’t make if. - (Annette Biernat) . . . of the manual typewriter | have to use. -(Amy Schettl) ... it has limited experiences, and | would like to learn more about different situations. -(Lisa Demski) ... the days seem to drag on, when there is not so much to do. - (Marie Putzer). 1. Lori Ohlrich works as a secretary at Century Capital. 2. Showing a customer the latest in fashion at Prange’s is Kim Hielsberg. 3. The automotive depart- ment at Copp’s gives Bob Lundt on-the-job experience. 4. Keeping records at Medalist Industries is one of Brenda Doemel’s responsibilities. 5. Charlene Barden is also employed at Medalist as a part of Office Occupations Co-op. 6. Caring for plants and flowers at Hrnak’s is part of Lynn Zentner’s training. 36

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38 Places To Go-Foreign Exchange Malin, Martin, Joanna Trade ¢ Joanna Jones EE a The British invasion hit West in the form of seventeen-year old senior Jo- anna Jones from Mary Tavy, England. Joanna was West's AFS student, and she stayed with the Barroso family. Her American sister Maria was also a senior at West. In addition to Maria, Joanna has a twenty-year old Ameri- can sister named Mona, and two younger brothers in England, Timothy who is fifteen and Matthew who is twelve. Joanna says that she really likes Oshkosh. It is bigger than Mary Tavy by quite a lot, considering that her hometown is a village with a popula- tion of about six hundred. She does, however, attend school in a neighbor- ing town which is larger. Her school is drastically different from West. For ex- ample, while students there start ele- mentary school — Primary School to them — at about the same age we do here, they graduate from high school — Comprehensive — at age sixteen. Their schedules run on a two-week timetable, so they never have the same class at the same time two days in a row. They are not given a choice in their classes until their third year of Comprehensive, when they are al- ae aT . lowed to choose five classes in addi- tion to the required two English classes and one math class which they must take every year. These classes last one hour and ten minutes each, and she has four classes a day plus lunch. Joanna liked M-TV a lot, mainly be- cause they don’t have such a station in England and rarely get to see videos. She also loves American food, espe- cially hamburgers, pizzas and hot dogs. Although they have these things in England, she feels they are not as good or as plentiful. The climate, how- ever, is one thing she could do with- out. “It’s so cold here!l’’ she exclaimed. While Joanna certainly likes Osh- kosh, it is only natural that she would want to see other parts of the U.S. before returning to the country that gave us Def Leppard, New Wave and the Beatles. Where would she like to go? New York, Washington, and, of course, Disney World. Eventually she would also like to visit Germany. A final difference between here and Mary Tavy is something that any self-respecting seventeen-year old girl would notice. She observed that the boys are better looking here and not as competitive with each other. Sweden is a land of lakes and moun- tains, snow and skiing, and the home of Malin Brenklert, one of West's three for- eign exchange students. Malin was a seventeen-year old senior who enjoys downhill skiing, wind surfing, and water skiing. She lived in Kalmar, which is a town with about the same population as Oshkosh and which is on Baltic Sea coast. Malin also admitted to liking her fifth hour Honors English class here at West the best of all her classes, al- though at home she preferred history. Also she really enjoyed gymnastics, a new experience for her in America, as her school doesn’t have extracurricular sports and she’d never had the opportu- nity to become involved in it before. Malin lived with the Schumachers here in Oshkosh, and had two American brothers, Jim and Scott, who were twen- ty-two and twenty-nine respectively. She said of them, ‘They are very spe- cial. | think | will miss them most of all.”’ West seemed to be “going Swedish” this year. You’ve already read about Malin Brenklert, and now meet another Swedish foreign student, Martin Hell- mark. Like Malin, Martin was a senior and he also liked to downhill ski, a sport that is obviously very big in their home- land. Martin said that he usually goes skiing in Austria, But that this year he went to the Rocky Mountains, which he found comparable to the Alps. Howev- er, he also liked to go sailing and partici- pate in races. Martin stayed with the McFarlane family and had three American siblings, Chris, who was thirteen, Erin who was eight, and Mike, who was four. At home he had one sister, fourteen-year old Maria. He was sponsored by Rotary Youth Exchange, and was very glad that they gave him the opportunity to come here. Of the United States and Oshkosh, Martin said, “| like it very much here. Everybody is so nice, and who knows, in a couple of years | may be back to go to the University.” He, like Malin, admitted that there are many differences between here and Sweden. There are more apart- ments there with fenced-in yards, and where there are houses, they don’t