Salida High School - Resume Yearbook (Salida, CO)

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Contents Teacher Ron Dalrympie, lop, gets involved in a discussion concerning the Civil War in his third hour American History class. Junior Jackie Rodgers, above, sums up feelings of most students about e Spartan football team after the Homecoming victory as she shows “We’re Number 1.” Varsity split-end Randy Kapushion, left, returns a kickoff during the sec- ond half of the Intersquad Game played on White Field Sept. 2. v We’ve been here a century (Opening)....................2 From slates to calculators (Academics)..................4 From leather to air-pack (Sports)....................28 From sockhops to discos (Activities) ...............66 (Community)................112 From plumes to ball points (Classes Clubs)..........124 (Index)....................170 One down, what’s next (Closing) .................176

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Academics From slates to calculators In academics one hundred years ago, students were doing most of their figuring and writing with chalk on slates. Today students don’t have to write on slates, and with the use of calculators, stu- dents (and teachers) don’t even have to do their own fig- uring. The number of teachers and students have increased greatly since then, as well as the size and number of build- ings in which classes are taught. In 1879, Miss Jennie Smith was elected as teacher at $40 a month for three months of school in Salida. A room was rented for about 25 pupils. A stove was purchased and a load of wood was secured. Rented rooms used for school purposes for the first three years were in buildings that were in the area of Third and G Streets — what is now the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Masonic Temple, and Western Auto. In 1979, Salida school sys- tems consisted of three sepa- rate schools — Longfellow Elementary, Kesner Jr. High, and Salida High School. Within the three schools, approximately 87 teachers were employed, and an esti- mated 1,451 students attended. It was the first year that Melien Hall was used. In the vocational curriculum students are allowed to work at their own pace. John Michael Wagner, top, lights a torch during his third and fourth hour welding class. Law enforcement class member John San- chez, left, listens to a lecture, while Police Chief Leonard Post studies two sketches of the same criminal. Calculators, above, are used by business stu- dents as well as many students in advanced math and science classes. 5