Paradise Valley High School - Trojan Yearbook (Phoenix, AZ)

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DECA takes firsts in conferences The Paradise Valley chapter of the Distributive Education Clubs of America, DECA, was involved in many activities this year. They were involved in a Toast- masters program. Toastmasters ln- ternational is a nationwide club, designed to improve a person's speaking abilities. They went through a ten week program within the class. They finished the pro- gram by holding a banquet and in- viting the administrators. The club's highlights for the year were going to conferences. The Western Area conference was held at ASU Metrocenter on Feb. l3. ln- dividual winners were Mike Schneider for Entrepreneurship, Scott Simon for Restaurant Man- agement, Lance Bartholomew for restaurant Management, Bobby Zbrudzewski for General Market- ing, Martin Barringer for General Merchandising, Ken O'Brian for fi- nance and Credit, Kim Haugen for General Marketing, Judy Rich for Apparels and Accessories, Pam Cristiano for General Merchandis- ing, Wendy Ludwig for Advertis- ing, Duane Mantey for Service Sta- tion Management and Eric Hecht for Service Station Management. The state Career Development Conference was held March 20 through 22 at the Phoenix Hilton in downtown Phoenix. This confer- ence gave members a chance to meet and compete against l2OO other DECA members. The I984- 85 DECA chapter has proven to be hardworking, dedicated and ambi- tious. You are looking at the future leaders in marketing and distribu- tion, said Miss Sue Rosenblatt, coordinator. This year's officers were Scott Simon, President, Carol Burawa, Vice-President of fundraising, Shannon Collins, Vice-President of publicity, Judy Rich, Vice-Presi- dent of activities, Toni Farmer, Secretary, Ken O'Brian, Treasurer, and Giovanni Cosetti, Historian. l54 Top Row, Micheal Schneider, Scott Simon, Shannon Collins, Carol Burawa, Lance Bar- tholomew, Alli Combs, Curt Rowe, Bobby Zbrudzewski, Tim O'Connor, Toni Farmer, Martin Barringer, Ken O'Brian, Kim Haugen, Ms. Sue Rosenblatt, Bottom Row, Judy Rich, Pam Cristiano, Wendy Ludwig, Toni Jones, Duane Mantey, Eric Hecht, Paul Tenaglia First Group, fForegroundD Giovanni Cosetti, Toni Farmer and Pam Cristiano work on the special interest committee. Second Group: Mike Schneider, Martin Barringer, Judy Rich, Kim Haugen, Alli Combs and Paul Tenaglia decide what activities the club will sponsor. President Scott Simon J calls a weekly meeting to order.

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-IOE aides students in Medical Careers Top Row: Yvonne Stacy, Carla Rote, Jeff Miles, Mike Selmer, Ist hour Historian, Sheree Gordon, Chris Grenier, Tom Ohmstedt, Russ Bergstrom, Sheri Wlas, Wendy Whitney, Amy Coe. Middle Row: Mike Graham, Becky Smith, Rhonda O'Brien, Carmen Lopez, Karen Goodwin, Kelly McGregor, Miki Riep, Yesenia Spencer, Patricia Ybarra, Michele Valdez, Lori Hargrave, Laurie Strole, Eric Martin, Sandy Rogoff, Judith Gerdin, sponsor. Bottom Row. Michelle Cikowski, lst hour Recorder, Jenny Blair, lst hour Secretarys Robert Del Principe, lst hour Treasurer, Lauri Daniels, Ist hour Parliamentarian, Laura Bizily, lst hour President, Dana Mule, 2nd hour President, Lisa Harang, 2nd hour Trea- surer, Tonnisha Standifer, 2nd hour Historian, Kristin Dixon, 2nd hour Secretary, Tracy Morgan, 2nd hour Recorder, John McMullen, 2nd hour Vice-President, Brian Smith, 2nd hour Parliamentarian. Medical Careers is a one hour block which is the first year of a program called Health Occupa- tions Education at PV. The second year, two hour block, HOE will be offered at PV next year. In HOE one is placed in different departments of a hospital for three days a week for five weeks or more. There the student explores career opportunities and develops skills. Areas include surgery, nurs- ing, pharmacy, social service, den- tal, physical therapy and equine veterinary. HOE and Medical Careers are af- filiates of VICA. Students partici- pate in regional, state, and national leadership and skill conferences as well as running the club on a local level. Club updates equipment i w F 'rM Top Row: Craig Frost, Chris Zollinger, Greg Vaughan, Mr. Riall. Bottom Row. Mr. Paul Cornell, Paul Johnson, Casey Rombouts, Keith Passmore, Ken O'Brien, Bill Grube. The Computer Club began the year with a fund raiser to raise money for a large monitor to be used in classrooms for demonstra- tions. About 20 students are involved in the club, designing programs such as one that would keep teach- ers' grade books for them. The club also planned field trips to busin- esses that were related to comput- ers such as IBM. The main goal this year was to do what we could to improve the computer equipment and to ex- tend the knowledge of computer programming to the students espe- cially in the area of team program- ming because it's something that cannot be done in classrooms and is very important, commented Mr. Paul Cornell, head sponsor of the club. I53

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Students gain from Home Ee. Home Economics Related Occu- pations is more than just a class that helps students prepare for the future. lt helps students to improve themselves, to gain respect, to be- come motivated and to get along with others. HERO Members held jobs in fashion retailing, food ser- vice, nursing, child care and the selling and preparation of floral bouquets. Sponsoring many fundraisers was a responsibility for all HERO students. The major fundraisers were memopads and gifts galore which was a variety of different items. The money raised helped HERO: Top row. Kim Heser. Trish McKinney, Holly Bissel, Sundae Reeder, Chris Giordano. Second row. Alejandrina Spencer, Yulanda Brisker, Julie Szy- chowski, Terra Cousins, Lisa McConnel, Kevin Zollinger. Bottom row: Judy Alfaro, Brooke Steinberg, Denise Pavao. Not Pictured. Dina Muraviov, Debra Pennington. 1 NS the students pay for the many con- ventions held throughout the year. The fall convention was for HERO students to elect their state officers. Yulanda Brisker was nominated for State Senator but after a hard fought campaign did not win. The Vocational Officer Leadership Training Convention held in October taught officers of all different co-op groups how to organize their offices better. The spring convention was a competi- tion among all different HERO chapters around the state. HERO students really enjoyed the community work. ln the fall, Members of HERO help Yulanda Brisker with posters for her HERO State Senator campaign. students ran in a Hike-a-thon to raise money for Cerebral Palsy. For Christmas, Hero sponsored a cou- ple of families. At Christmas rais- ing food and clothing to give the families showed HERO had respon- sibility and had learned what HERO was all about. At the end of the year the club had an employee and employer ap- preciation banquet. Miss Michele Frieswyk was the sponsor for the first semester of school. Miss Frieswyk left to move to California to be closer to her fiance. It was her first year teach- ing HERO. Sundae Reeder applies make-up to a trick-or-treater at Roa- drunner park on Halloween. I55