Powers High School - Cruiser Yearbook (Powers, OR)

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(Top left) Mark Mugil , Chuck Hendon, Curt Warner, Prudy Lucas, Eddie Wilcox, and Roger C auson finish an assignment in American Problems. Teri Riley and Alice Blonde I I (top right) make a collage for world geography. (Bottom left) Sue Hambly and F.laine Qui hough work on the potters wheel in art. Jim Thornton, Brad Allred, and Rick White (bottom center) work in U. S. History. (Left) Bill Walker makes a drawing in art class. Art. 17

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social studies. AST I Social Studies Students Explore World Problems; Art Student The world geography class studied regions in Australia, Middle East, parts of South America, and North America. These countries were picked for their importance in the news headlines. In the second semester they plunged into Self Understanding Through Occupation Education or S.U.T.O.E. They watched movies and took tests to see what career they would be interested in pursuing after graduation. The U.S. history students read the paperback book, Growing Up Black In America The book was an aid to help understand the discriminations faced by non-white Americans. American problems students broadened their outlook of life by spending six weeks reading pamphlets on different problems of American society. They also created a mock senatorial system where they made and passed laws. Art classes under the leadership of Eric Leegard learned the fine points of leather craft. They also made pottery, drew with chalk, painted, and made candles. Social Studies

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18, P.E., Drivers Ed DRIVERS EDUCA TION, CLASS AIDE, PHYSICAL EDUCA TION Students Learn Basics of Driving and importance of Physical Fitness Elementary class aide was a new class offered to interested high school stu- dents who spent one class period a day working in grades one through five help- ing students with their assignments, listening to reading lessons, and grading papers. Physical education and health classes held many sports activities. The girls spent much time learning modern dance, archery, tumbling, and trampo- line. The boys played basketball, volley- ball, and decathlon. Both classes took nine weeks of classroom health studies. Due to a shortage of teachers, drivers education was almost dropped from the curriculum in September. When the math position was reinstated and tea- cher staff increased, drivers ed was then offered and taught by Ron Neher. Freshmen who had reached age fifteen were pleased to learn that they too would be given a chance to learn the necessary driving skills needed to drive a car over the roads of Powers. In the past the class had been limited to sopho- mores.