Tokay High School - Tokay Yearbook (Lodi, CA)

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3. Trying to set up a parent confer- Presenting Drug Awareness ence for one of her students is Jo Week. Eileen Will fakes h0ld Of a Wyllie. 4. Wearing the red ribbon nublicity balloon. 780

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Trustees tabl proposa Students at Tokay and other high schools were relieved when Lodi Unified School District's board of trustees tabled the pro- posal for year round school to go into effect in the local high schools. During the first of the school year, many Tokay faculty mem- bers were involved in discovering the advantages and disadvanta- ges of year round school. One advantage was that it would allow Tokay's strained enrollment to be spread throughout the calen- dar year. On the year round schedule, students would be placed on tracks, only two tracks would run simultaneously so there would be two-thirds of the 5 total enrollment on campus at onetime. On the other hand, a disadvan- tage was that it would require the district to hire more teachers. Faculty members were conc- erned with the quality of educa- tion as the year round school schedule would disrupt extracur- ricular activities and elective classes such as band, choir, and shop. Following many discus- sions with students, parents, trustees, and faculty, the board of trustees decided to temporarily shelve the idea. Meanwhile dis- trict personnel visited Los An- geles' year round schools in order to study the possibility of the Lodi Unified School District converting to the schedule in the future. Another change that occured was after the smoking areas were removed from all high schools, Tokay put into effect that it was illegal to possess tabacco of any kind on campus. Students caught with any kind of tabacco would be suspended from cam- pus. The last change in the board of trustees was that they were seek- ing a person to replace Ellerth Larson, superintendent of schools, who announced his re- tirement. by Kimberlee Giberson Photos by Eric Johnston 4. Expressing his view to Tom Kaser, Tokay's economics teacher is Tom Bandelin, assistant superin- tendent. 5. Voicing her opionion on the year round school proposal is Eleanor Todd, board of trustees vice president. 6. John Vatsula, board member, sheds light on the subject of the smoking area contro- versy. Board of Trustees 77

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'M'-Q. The Anti-Stress D 1. Dlscusslng plans for college staff weekly meeting, Henry Mel- scholarships are Counselors Davld lon, head counselor, Mary Durham, Lynch and Delmar Petzold. 2. Studying notes in their counseling 1 'x - -if and LaVerl Giles. David Lynch Henry Mellon Delmar Petzold Jo Wyllie Computers h lp counseling staff Already with a year's practice with the new computers, the counselors were able to meet the needs of students. Along with the seven IBM PCXTS for the counselors, the career center also added a computer to aid students'career research. Each computer was connected to a central computer. One of the problems we had was that the computer system was not able to keep up with the input that needed to be stored linside its memorylf' said Coun- selor Jo Wyllie. She also said that the counse- lors had a difficult time learning how to use the computer be- cause they had only a 60 minute session. The computer package itself was funded by SB8l3, which was a lOth grade counseling program, and CAPS for CASH, which was the award received for high California test scores within the school. However, the funds had basically gone to waste in the career center because a techni- cian was not available to run and operate the computer for the students. The counselors' computers were used to help choose classes and programs for students and were also used to store informa- tion on student attendance. by John Park Photos by Matthew Silber Counselors 79