Tokay High School - Tokay Yearbook (Lodi, CA)

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lubs assist Tokay, city Helping others was the busi- ness at hand for Tokay's service clubs Communications lmprove- ment Association and Key Club. The focus was first on com- munications, said Stephen Berkowitz, ClA adviser, but it's become more ofa service for the school and community. For students who needed a little extra help with their work, ClA had tutoring sessions after school. Volunteer students would stay on certain days to help those who needed it. The tutoring sessions received good publicity, according to Mr. Ber- kowitz. i'Sometimes they had more tutors than students that needed tutoring. Tutoring chairmen were: Pris- cilla Louie and Brian Brice. Anahita Jamshidi, chairperson of the escort service, started the program to aid new students in becoming acquainted with the campus. More organization helped the escort service as packets were handed out which contained a welcome letter, list of sports, clubs and their advisers, and a map of the school for new students to the campus. Volun- teers would take newcomers ar- ound campus, and show them their lockers and library and tell them the general rules of the school. Tokay received an average of 15-20 new students a week. Each student was escorted for two days. The food and toy drive was the most successful ever, according to Michael Lynch, CIA president. Tokay's total collection of 5,200 cans compared to last year's collection total of only 3,600. Doughnuts and hot chocolate went to Courtney Porter's Gen- eral Physical Science class for contributing the most cans to the drive. 3. To find the best doughnut prices Stephen Berkowitz, CIA adviser, Michael Lynch, president, and John Cook, vice chairperson, discuss Food and Toy drive class rewards. 4. Anahita Jamshidi helps Janet Aoyama with her Physics home- 249 work during an after school CIA tutoring session. 5. Collecting cans from a Lodi citizen, Kuldip Kaur adds to the 5,200 cans that Tokay students contributed in the Food and Toy drive. Photos by Eric Johnston To create a better image of the school, ClA planned to combine ideas with Student Government. Another goal was to get fresh- men more involved by having a Freshmen Auxilary to adjust to their schedule. Officers besides Lynch were: Michael C-riffitts and John Cook, vice chairmen, John Nahigian, secretary, and Edward Vander- linden, treasurer. ln Tokay's Key Club the offic- ers started the studentfteacher of the month awards to give recogl nition to those who served the school. Although the group had a slow start, the few people who joined made the club's existence possible. Officers were: Kelli Emerick, president, John Cook, vice pre- sident, Elizabeth Barnett, second vice president, Erika Kegel, trea- surer, and Edward Taylor, secret- ary. by Sheryl Tankersley f N.. if

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1. Laughing over a mistake in a story is Cherie Cortez, Lea Munoz, Darrin Coe, and Zuriel Cervantes. 2. Pasting up the final pages of the sports page is Kuldip Kaur and Darrin Hughes. 3. Accepting the All Valley Newspaper award is Kate Steinheimer, co-editor. Staff kee s up wi n n i ng After keeping up with another year of deadlines, the Tokay Press staff showed their talents by keeping up its award-winning tradition. Winning the All Valley New- spaper Award last year, the staff knew what strain the year would hold. 'tThis year we tried to be tougher with the writing, said Robin Saxen, co-editor. We exposed people to better writing to produce a sense of winning. To contribute to the work of publishing the paper, the staff purchased six IBM computers, four IBM printers, and typeset- ting software. Tokay's Student Assembly purchased four IBM Wheelwriter three typewriters to replace its antiquated manual typewriters. i'The computer equipment was from profits ac- quired from the newpaper and the yearbook over the Iast six years, said Adviser Roger Woo. They enable the students to keyboard their own stories and it also gave students computer lite- streak racy. The talents of the writers showed at the annual San Joa- quin Valley Scholastic Press As- sociation at Fresno State Univer- sity. On-the-spot winners includ- ed: Cherie Cortez, second, fea- ture writing, Robb Wright, third, newspaper layout, and Darrin Coe, honorable mention, photo- journalism. In the mail-in com- petition, Timothy Skamel won an honorable mention for sports writing. t'Although we didn't win back the Sweepstakes Award at Fre- sno, our overall was 92 points with the All Valley, two points better than the Iast year, said Kate Steinheimer, co-editor. 'iThis years staff excelled They've asked a lot of them- selves and gave a lot to the paper, said Saxen. On a whole, they were the most coop- erative and talented group of people that I've ever had the privilege to workwithf' by Kimberly Banghart Tokay Press 23

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