Pleasant Lea Middle School - Flashback Yearbook (Lees Summit, MO)

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' fuTure soid lf To im- Closs. loss for d sTu- wd ex- e orTs in ll .g -. f Z! fr fl Mr Russell Berlin Mrs Debro Horder A Z f 7 W Q WW W 'T W f US C New Harmony The Music DeporTmenT showed new sTroins of hormony os new Teochers were odded. Former music Teocher Mr. Poul ShrouT become o new vice-principol which lefT on opening in The deporTmenT. And by increosing The group To five, The new posiTions were filled by Mrs. Bonnie HowerTon ond Mrs. Debro Horder. The five insTrucTors Teomed TogeTher To moke The PLJH music deporTmenTs one of The finesT in The oreo. This wos proven in Thefollf winTer compeTiTion. The vocol secTion of The deporT- menT wos ToughT by Miss Helmer, Mrs. HowerTon ond Mrs. Horder. Miss Henry led The bonds ond Mr. Berlin wos ln chorge of The orchesTro or sTring secTions. All The sTudenTs were required To give procTice Time. Pre- cision ond Teom work, cz lifelong skill, were exTremely imporTonT in order for The groups To sound polished ond moTured. Sounding older wos impor- TonT. lT wos o complimenT To pe mis- Token for on older group pecouse of The performonce ond The perfor- monce wos everyThing for eoch of The closses. ConcenTroTing on ploylng The violin is Kim Fronko. Miss Glorio Helmer 5- am Henry Mrs Bonnie HowerTon Acodemicsf 27

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do or ,ii,, c , 'ff 1 Miss Renee Ackerson 5 . xff' , cs in A 1 f ,css 5 Q X x X X S Y f T ii g as so W Mrs. Anno Jones Miss Liso Mendlick EighTh grdder Chris Boney gives DOFTTCUIOV dTTenTion To his color chorT. Chris odrniTs drT is one of his fd- voriTe subjecTs ond he drows consTdnTly. V-qv Looking oT PLJH Through The eyes of The drT sTudenTs ond Their Teochers broughT o differenT berspecTive To The building. The orT sTu- denTs oresenTed Their vision of The school Through Their Three-dimensionol drowings ond odded sploshes of color To The hollwoys os They dis- ployed Their projecTs. gif W f THE COLOR SCHO0L All of The drT sTudenTs were required To combIeTe Their brojecTs, wiTh The besT ones being enTered in con- TesTs or disbldyed for The PTA. While ArT I sTudenTs sTudied such bdsics ds The color wheel, ArT ll sTudenTs concenTroTed on more complex forms of drT such os coligrdohy ond dimensions. When osked obouT fuTure pldns, Miss Mendlick sold lf opproved, we'd like To im- plemenT on Ace ArT Cldss, reolly d cuITurol drTs closs for Those super-TdIenTed sTu- denTs To exbdnd ond ex- olore dll foceTs of The drTs in The Konsos CiTy dred. 26 fAcodernlcs rf'dm'1M+ f-'ff gig gain, fi. g, 'f11'22f5-11-T airlfgeaif, Y ' ff--, , -re' - 5- f 1 -fr ' 'lil -' -T - 5:f'?E:i..E1f5if11 ::2:, 411' 'ff N., - Y - H '4 1:--A - ' H 3 ' -- ' f . ..-1--1 --.-A.-,-v

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Typing can really . help you in the ? f future by allowlng you to get better . A ' robs- .tot Joke Ferguson TYPI SPEEC lf you wolked by the Typing Cldss this yeor, 'lFlying Fingers is whot you'd see! lt wos d very busy yeor for students enrolled in either the semester of yeor-long course. Students Iedrned ports of the typewriters, touch-typing, formotion skills, ond mony other con- cepts. Speed ond occurdcy were stressed ds very importont skills in closs. Students hdd the opportunity to work on both :electric ond electric typewriters os well os computers. Mrs. Bowles soid, I think keybodrd- ing skills ore necessory for dll students in todoy's com- puter dssisted society. By Mott Oberweother The Speech cldsses, tought by Mrs. Little ond Mrs. Wogner worked very hdrd this yeor on vorious produc- tions. In the Foil they presented d musicol for the school coiled Coming of Age . During the yeor they worked on public spedking, debdte, ond o dromd unit. They ended the yeor with on exciting owords dssembly thot wos enjoyed by dll ot PLJH. Isroel Houk ond Brondon Curtis proctice typing o lesson. Above right. Students perform in 'Coming of Age, Mrs Dee Bowles! Mrs Robbie Littlef Mrs Esther Typing Speech WognerfSpeech 28 fAcodemics