Pinellas Park High School - Occurrences Yearbook (Largo, FL)

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XL STAGES of making woodwork projects is to h the wood on a router, David Forshee wonstrates skills learned in shop class. 3 QNCED TECHNOLOGY enables Chuck Reynolds to different types of woodwork projects using the modern equipment. I . f,- - . Amid the usual rush caused by sending in college applications before the January deadline, students talfing vocational classes were lost in their own rush. A rush, not for college applications, but of job applications. A student pursuing a vocational profes- sion such as plumbing, printing, and photography need not attend college to get experience in order to qualify for a good and profitable job. The experience could be obtained in the variety of courses offered in the vocational department. Work programs were SGT up by the vocational instructors to give students the experience of working in a real job. After a two year program consisting of QOO hours of in-class worlr, students were able to app- ly for a job as an apprentice. After a suffi- cient job had been found through work programs, and millions of job applications, students were placed in on-thejob-training. .Some students proceeded to further their knowledge in their chosen field by atten- ding a vocational school, Completing the two year program, vocational students were Q00 hours ahead in experience, in the rush of job applications. ON THE JOB training is given to plumbing students John Thompson and Chris Greer. They were able to gain this experience because of the excellent pro- gram here. F, G and H WINGS l 171

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Jumping into the worlsng world Bongs, whirrs, thumps, ond grinds were the dominoting sounds heord while wolls- ing down the corridors of F, G, ond H wings. These wings were composed of industriol orts closses such os: shop, drofting, printing, outo body, plumbing, oir conditioning, ond photogrophy. Eovesdropping on the rooms, the hum- ming of mochines, rustle of working students, ond helpful directions being given by the instructors were olso heord. Students leorned to use mochines, tools, moteriols, ond their honds. They olso Ieorn- ed to opply their skills in future jobs, ond school projects. TELLING TIME is the moin objective of Vincent Roberson. He uses o bondsow in preporotion of making o clock in his vocotionol closs, 1701 F G ond H WINGS ii. M 'it ii,

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Aspiring for hoppier, heolthier lives Overcoming obstocles to leod o heolthier, eosier life wos o job thot the Physicolly lmpoired, Physicol Educotion, ond Home Economic Deportments were oble to do for mony students. Physicolly impoired closses enobled the students to occept hondicopped pupils into the enrollment. These closses cotered to the needs of the hondicop by offering mochines ollowing them to do regulor closswork, interpreters, or the chonce of leorning lip-reoding ond sign longuoge. This yeor becouse of lock of money to hire new foculty some progroms were dropped from the Physicol educotion Deportment. One of these progroms wos gymnostics, formerly o populor sport omong the girls, Physicol educotion's octivities con- tributed to the necessory dolly exercise needed to lseep o heolthy body. Life sports, individuol sports ond teom sports were selected from by the students to receive their second credit in phys. ed. A closs once consisting of moinly girls, but becoming more enjoyed by men wos the home economic closses. Clothing ond foods enriched the lives of mony by teoching the proper technique of sewing o new foshion or preporing o gourmet l dinner. Fomily living, child development, ond child core deolt with the fomily, o spouse, ond children. Students who porticipoted in closses of the Physicolly lmpoired, Physicol Educo- tion, ond Home Economic Deportments leorned mony new woys to fulfill their lives, moking it o little bit nicer. 172 I J WING ond GYMNASIUM m122g555w 25, . 5 'fi' .ggi . V ' ' .J my '-st. K .. , -- N