Tokay High School - Tokay Yearbook (Lodi, CA)

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Indecision meets fluctuating faculty Convergence with 1982 met transitional time and in- decision, which rooted at Tokay's outset in 1972-73. Faculty alterations and additions faced Tokay the en- tire school year. Fourteen members were added to the teaching staff of 100. The root of these additions ap- peared in its old form-- unsolved student and teacher housing. Despite constructional in- terruptions including roofing problems and proposed por- tables, courses adapted to new Americans as well as to native Americans. Principal Leroy Carney ex- plained the cause of Tokay's faculty and student enduran- ce through 10 years of solved and unsolved problems: We have the best student body and the best facultyg the ability of students and faculty to meet obstacles has prevailed through past and present history.

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enrolled at Tokay because of new North Stockton and Lodi developments. Two con- troversial solutions were suggested by administrators. One plan, the Carney Plan, was an extended 10 period day designed to house 3,000 students on a campus designed to house 2,000. The northfsouth boundary change, proposed by the Board, was meant to divide North Stockton students between Lodi High and Tokay High. The Board put aside until September, 1982, the decision of choosing the method of student growth aleviatlon. Instead, it chose to send six more portables in Tokay's direction. Also, this year, was the presentation of the first San toria parade in Brltlsh Columbia. The parade, commemorating the birth- day of Queen Victoria, con- sisted mainly of mllltary groups and bands from the United States and Canada. Participation ln this parade marked Toka 's rst representation in any lnter- national competition. The quallty of the year would be decided by personal opinion, but undisputed was the fact that it was a year of many changes. by Valerie Harper 1. WASC members pose for a commit- tee group photo which was submitted with the final evaluation report on Tokay. 2. Students flock in a locker area to pick up their books. 3. Lodi Superintendent of Schools Ellerth Larson discusses the boundary change with a member of the audience at a school board meeting. Joaquin County Academic Decathlon. This event was an academic achievement contest held at the University of the PacU'lc. Six seniors represented our shcool, and although they failed to place as a team, several of them received outstanding in- dividual awards. Academic awards were not the only honors received by Tokay this year. Tokay's Honor Band was invited to perform at the Queen Vic- Student Life Essay 93

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