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

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70 I SENIORS Adoms, Dovid Adoms, Jomes Addison, Kelly Lynn Adkins, Gregory Lee Albritton, Wynn E. Alchin, John Allen Aldermon, Suson M. Alexonder, Liso L. Allen, Rondy J. Allen, Reginold SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS: Cfirst row? Poulo Johnston, vice President, Chris Cundiff, secretory, Kechio Wilson, president, Lourie Bornett, senotorg Cbocls row? Todd Hillier, senotor, Scott Bobo, senotor, Bob Schweirkert, treosurer. Almond, Elizobeth D. Allen, Stocey L. Alt, Betsy Jo Anderson, Melisso Andolino, Ronold C. Applegote, Down Morie Armbruster, Cliff H. Asberry, Leroy Jr. Ausley, Lourie Ann Axler, Jeff Dovid

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Step up the High school is the bottom rung of o adder to o student's future coreer. iounselors, occupotionol speciolists, ond eochers worked to help the college- mound ond non-college-bound students :hoose coreers. The counselors begin nreporing students for college ond :oreers in the ninth grode. Freshmen vere given the Job-O-Survey, o less ophisticoted survey thon others. lt gives he student suggestions for different obs. Juniors toke the Colifornio Occupo- ionol Preference Service CC.O.P.S.D. The I.O.P.S. tokes the interests o student night hove ond compore them with obs thot might contoin those interests. 'hese two surveys ore self-scoring, giv- ng students the results within weeks. lodder The counseling deportment olso uses the Guidonce lnformotion Service CG.l.S.D computer. A student plugs in chorocteristics he is looking for in o job. The computer then reods out o long list of jobs which holds those chorocteristics. Juniors took odvontoge of the computer to ossist them with finding compotible coreer choices. Mrs. Jerri Groy, Qccupotioncil speciolist, works with teochers os well os students in the progress of coreers. She helps teochers by contocting profes- sionols to porticipote os clossroom speokers. Groy usuolly worked with non-college-bound-students, getting op- pointments for students in shodowing progroms, which enobles o student to meet o person of ci chosen profession ond follow thot person oround for o doy, like o shodow. This enobles Groy to tolk to mony students on o one to one bosis eoch doy. Mony courses ore provided thot moy olso be considered o rung on the lod- der. On-the-job troining moy be elected by level three students in mony voco- tionol closses such os: plumbing, ond pipefitting, cooperotive heolth occupo- tions, oir conditioning ond heoting, photogrophy, ond printing. Auto-body point ond repoir, ond mony of the cooperotive educotion courses moy help in quolifying o student for work in reloted oreos, Those first few rungs were essentiol to the climb, to o future coreer, Boder, Todd Andrew Boiley, Christopher L. Boinum, Alyson Lynn Boll, Croig Steven Boker, Junie Bommon, Williom Dee Bommert, Tim A. Borker, Cindy Lynn Bornett, Jeffery M. Bornett, Tom C. Bornette, Lourie Lee Borronco, Julie Morie Botes, Shoron Alice Boust, Tommy Jo Bouwens, Bruce Allen Beols, Kimberly F. Beosley, Williom Neil Beebe, Kevin Belcostro, Regino A. Beidlemon, Scott K. SENIORS X 71