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

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TAKING A BREAK FROM ROUTINE, physical education classes observed a Karate demonstration by Walter Bones of the Florida Karate School. One can do anything if he wishes to. This phrase describes the beliefs of at least ten percent of the schools enrollment. Though these students were handicapped, nothi'ng ever stopped them, Crowded halls did not stop wheelchairs and attending regular classes was possible because of special machines enlarging writing or typewriters with braille keys. Although the school was built to accommodate physical impaired students, the task of drinking from a water fountain or sitting at the table dif- ficult to be accomplished. Their pride wasn 't dampened, Mike Pino displayed his by working hard at being the trainer of the Varsity Football team. Bill Fielding is a member of the Sunspokes wheelchair track team. Being handicapped did not take away the ambition ofthe handicapped, it added to their determination. I CANT BE STOPPED is on attitude felt by Mike Pino as he was seen on the football field at every game. Mike worked as a trainer and did not allow his han- dicap to stop him. 41. , -- HER TYPE OF CLASSWORK for Joe Norris, MADE JUST FOR HER was the special feeling Rocheal wan, was participating in a game of soccer. lt Allen, Sophomore, felt when she finished her sewing acquired that two credits be earned in Physical project. :tion for graduation. J WING and GYMNASIUM X 173

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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

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O' CHRISTMAS TREE, on interesting woy to promote the selling of popers, Jonice Jennings dressed-up os 0 Christmos tree for the selling of the December issue of the POWDER HORN PRESS. Unity through Ionguoge Whether the Ionguoge wos French, Sponish, Lotin or English, the bosic ideos of communicotion were present in eoch. Nouns, verbs, odjectives, ond other ports of speech tied the foreign Ionguoge ond Ionguoge orts closses together. The Ionguoge moy not hove been the some, but none-the-less, students in the vqriety of foreign Ionguoge ond Ionguoge orts closses were forced to leorn the techni- ques of sentence structure ond diogromm- ing, noun usoge, ond verb conjugotion os well os the other bosics of English grommqr ond literoture. Students hod to follow o pottern of re- quired longuoge orts closses from the first doy of their freshmon yeor, A semester eoch of communicotions techniques ond literoture explorotions wos preceded by Ionguoge ond Composition l their sophomore yeor. Students in their junior ond senior yeors were required only one credit in Americon literoture. Some students felt it wos necessory to tolse Ionguoge orts electives, ond hod ci voriety of literoture courses to choose from such os Humonities, creotive writing, Jour- nolism I-IV, ond Moss Medio I-IV, Students interested in the mony foreign Ionguoge closses tools Spqnish I-VI, French l-lV, ond Lotin I-IV. The hondful of students thot come from foreign countries such qs Vietnom, Peru, Toiwon, ond Nicoroguo could not speols suf- ficient English, tools English os o second longuoge. Regordless of students' foreign tongues, or English grommor, eoch hod the oppor- tunity to either enrich their present knowledge, or leorn new. 1711! K ond L WINGS .wg