Plattsmouth High School - Plattonian Yearbook (Plattsmouth, NE)

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Junior Tammy Gonyea shows how much fun it can be to clean her locker during home- room. Pencil, paper, ruler, eraser—Senior Krista Phillips is glad drafting is offered this year. v Introduction 3

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New Direction In Routines Mrs. Mary Nelson reads the morning an- nouncements to her homeroom class. Sen- iors Michele Norris and Wendy Thomas listen closely. Almost every day, the hallways at PHS would echo with feeble cries of Why did they have to go and change everything? and I liked it better the way it was. Indeed, the 1987-88 school year has marked a great change in student and faculty life. The year has taken a new direction. Many changes were made which seemed to put things in a different perspective. A homeroom was added to our everyday routine. That was the fun-filled ten minutes after first hour that we got to spend with our teacher-advisor. Also, this year was the first year PHS had soccer as a school sanctioned sport. Many people welcomed it into the PHS family of athletics. There were many new happenings in the academic field. The drafting course which was done away with three years ago was revived. And there were ten new computers for students taking Keyboarding Typing courses. Also, with the addition of several new teachers and coaches, the classroom activities and sports seasons took on a new direction. The new boys' basketball coach Steve Daniell takes time out during practice to ex- plain some fundamentals to senior players Dan Cahalane. Bill Lukash and Devon Fulton. 2 Introduction

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New Direction In Policies What difference does five minutes make? Well, not much you might say, but some of the school policies this year had taken on a new direction. School started five minutes earlier this year than last year. Also, when students registered for their classes, they simply wrote down what courses they wanted to take and the computer figured out their schedule for them. This was a new direction compared to the arena scheduling system that we had in the past years. This year, whenever a student had to leave school for any reason, they had to sign out in the office.lf they returned to school, they had to sign back in. Also, the Senior Class of 1988 was the first to gra- duate under the new requirements of having four years of English, three years of social studies, and two years each of math and science. Driver's education was no longer required. There were many new policies started this year, all of which headed the students and faculty in a new direc- tion. Junior Bryan Schaffer remembers to sign out in the office before he leaves school. 4 Introduction Miss Chris May, the new English and Jour- nalism teacher, stays after school to correct papers.