Satanta High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Satanta, KS)

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Coach Bill Stevens displays that famous “Mildcat'' smile. Variety Adds Spice Completing tomorrow's assignment Kelly Anthony, Derek Stevens, Karla Feezor and Lisa McLeland work on their history. Various ways to teach American History exist, and Mr. Bill Stevens has used several of them. Showing films on the VCR, doing map studies and playing the current events game are just a few. All of these things tend to help students understand history better. Current events is my favorite activity because you learn some- thing and have fun at the same time, said Stephanie Myrick. When the history class studied slavery and the Civil War, they had a slave auction. This helped the students have a better understanding of what slaves had to go through and how they were treated. When the history class studied the Pilgrims they held a mock town meeting. Each student was given a character such as the town crier, the parson, the town tax collector or the keeper of pigs. The students had a chance to express their opinions on town policy and town rules. This helped the students to understand more about the Pilgrims who founded our country. A new addition was ad- ded to the social studies program. This course is ge- ography. It was added be- cause of the new credit re- quirement in the social studies area. Students must now have three years of so- cial studies instead of two. In geography students not only learned where countries were but they also learned how to use a map and how to find places on a map. 28 History

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Running a small business, this requires skills that range from secretarial duties to accounting skills. These skills are taught to students by Mrs. Mary McGowan. It was hard at first to remember to set the margins and which letter style was which, said Typing I student Shari Honsby. The typing classes learned how to type the three different kinds of business letters and how to type unbound and bound reports. My favorite part of typing is the composing of a story. We type for three minutes then pass it to the next person. You never know how your story will turn out, said Typing I student Rachel Middlebrooks. My favorite part of Accounting was when we did the business books. It was like we were real accountants, said senior Kay Lopez. How to do a payroll, income tax forms and run a business were just some of the things learned. A representative from Brown Mackey College gave a lecture to the class on the many opportunities for an accountant. Although everyone worked hard at learning these skills, no one forgot to have fun They laughed at things like Marc Anton's sneeze that left his gum on his typewriter and Casey Apsley's constant teasing of Mrs. McGowan. Type. Erase. Type. Erase. Thai's the way it is in Typing t for Daniel Jones, Lisa Doerfler, John Longona. Charles Stapp and John Rangle. j4ne you sure that's ttS nqht margin setting? says Jenni Reed to Michelle Hughan in their Typing I class. Skills ... It was like we were real accountants. Business 27

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Understanding Seniors Become Informed Trying to understand our American government sys- tem is probably the most ex- asperating experience a senior goes through. There are so many details and loopholes to everything in government. That's what makes it hard to under- stand, said Sterling Slaven. Whether it was memorizing the amendments or trying to understand the constitution the seniors kept busy in government class. Income tax forms were Scott Strano think he knows the answer to the question, but Mary Shivers. Steph- anie Lighty, Denise Har- ding. Rick Limon, Kay Lo- pez and Tammy Wheeler have their doubts. Watch them grow. The gov- ernment classes collection ol cans make a colorful ad- dition to Mr. Troutt's room. another complicated mat- ter. Trying to figure out when to use what tax form is a job in itself. Itemized de- ductions, dependent chil- dren, donations and ex- emptions where other things that had to be dealt with. Occasionally Mr. Troutt would take a break from the book and would let the sen- iors discuss a current event. Topics of discussion ranged from the bombing of Libyan ships to the terrorist attacks on American tourists to the justice system's punishment of juveniles. In order to keep up with local events, seniors were required to attend one city council meeting. The senior who attended the meeting then had to give a report to the class on that meeting. Some very interesting to- pics of discussion came up during these reports. The seniors had a very unusual project going on in Mr. Troutt's room. The Great Wall of Cans was an appropriate name for this project. When this was completed there were ap- proximatley 444 cans in all. The wall took up one-half of Mr. Troutt's chalkboard. It was twelve rows high and thirty-seven cans long. After this was completed the sen- iors took a day off to crush them so Mr. Troutt could cash them in. Government 29