Oxford High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Oxford, KS)

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Speaking 4 Talking by Kassa Collingsworth The speeeh drama class was taught by Mrs. Wiicoxen. It was an English credit and was offered to all O.H.S. students. The class started the year out giving demonstrations. The demonstrations were anything from making cookies to changing the oil on a three-wheeler. Next the class gave all forms of speeches including, informative, persuasive, impromptu, all the way to orations. All speeches and demonations were to be a maximum time, and included certain things in them. Nearing the end of the year the class went to a league or regional speech festival. Here certain people did plays, duet acting, prose readings, poetry, IDA'S and so on. Those participating were rated just Debbie Torres. Leigh Dobosenski. Susan May- brier. Sabrina Marsch. and Mr. Nicolas are dis- ect ing a shark actually Mr. Nicolas does the touching. ■ Ill IillllIffififimfgi like a choral concert. If you rate as one of the top 3, you get a medal and qualify for state. The class also helped with the fall and spring plays. They sold tickets, made posters, applied makeup, and did hair. Speech was a really fun class to be in and alot of neat things go on ..... just ask Mrs. Wiicoxen???!!!” says the writer of this article Kassa Collingsworth. Extemporaneous speaking is a big part of any speech class and Sandy Bain practices her here for us.

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Learning that computers can be used in Chemis- try, Keri Thomao. Yvette Abston, John Cooney, and Paul Jones curiously watch as an example is There is a new math teacher at OHS. Mr. Clark seems to be doing well. Mr. Clark didn’t teach last year but has 5 years at Cowley County Community College under his belt. 1 think he is doing quite well if the students he teaches come out of his class knowing how to work those types of problems. Don't you??????? by Kassa Collingsworth Can you make a home row” in typ- ing? Do talk basic” with an adding machine? What does balance” have to do with ledgers and checkbooks? The business and computer literacy classes Accounting, Business Law, Typing, Office Practice, Consumer Math and Computer Literacy offered OHS students the answers to these and other business questions. Mrs. Hiltzman instructs all the business courses at O.H.S. Mr. Banks and Mr. Left- Tulsa Embrey. junior, concentrates on typing a perfect paper in his first typing class for Mrs. Hiltzman. Above- Don’t bother us!” blazes in the eyes of Tammy Bingham and Becky Woods, juniors, in Computer I. iteracy I class during a textbook assignment. Dement instruct Computer Literacy. Computer Literacy is a new business class. The class is made up of 14 stu- dents. The first semester they were taught the basics and fundamentals of operating the computer. The second semester they have made up programs and watched films over computers. They have ordered new books and data processors. They hope to in- crease the class in the next school year. The business classes range from consumer math to typing. Accounting class has students. Business Law class has 4 students. The typing class is of- fered to Sophomores, Juniors, and Sen- iors. The class conducts time writing contests. The Office Practice class learns to use adding machines, to file and type up business forms. Consumer Math is a required math class for Juniors and Seniors. The class combines simple math basics to every- day situations. Also, the class did packets to earn how to keep the bud- get of a family of four.

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Mr. DeMent contemplates his next example during a lecture.. Some of the students really pose difficult questions for him. John Cooney, Keri Thomas. Paul Jones, and Yvette Abston are hard at work in Chemistry class notice they are having loads of fun, too. Malley’s Comet Matching Chickens by Todd DeMint Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble. This year's science classes were just that. They my not have used chants like that one, but all of the science classes did lab work. Mr. DeMent was one of our new teachers. He taught Physical Science and Chemistry. The Physical Science classes did experiments with weight and volumes of matter, motion, and light, while the Chemistry class spent their time in the lab doing chemical reactions. Mr. Kehres was at it again teaching Biology and Ecology. The Bi- ology class did several disections, from worms to a shark, and the Ecol- ogy class took plant and dirt samples. Both classes had a student teacher, Mr. Nicholas, and both classes made trips to the zoo and Chaplin Nature Center. Junior Paul Newhouse even created life in his science class. Under the di- rection of Mr. Kehres, he was able to incubate chicken eggs — colored ones in fact — and he sold them for a small profit. The coming of Halley’s Comet was a big interest for the freshmen science students. Early in the year, they did research on this phenomena. The news media had sufficiently covered the Comet in their reports . . . now the students were the reporters.