Tokay High School - Tokay Yearbook (Lodi, CA)

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4. June Shipley prepares to boil eggs for the salad bar. 5. Betty Blankenship slices fresh cheese needed for constructing the cafeteria's cheeseburgers. Q 5.8 Cooks 79

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Staff makes sweet recipe With an average of 200 or more lunches per day, the cafeteria cooks were kept hopping as they baked, boiled, brewed, and basted. lt seems like we're cooking more and more and more. l don't know where all the students are coming from this year, said Martha Avitt, head cook. Beginning as early as 5:45 a.m., the staff was kept on a continuous working schedule. lt's been very busy from the beginning. We're serving a lot more students then last year. Every lunch is frantic, but l think it works out real well, said Cook Becky Octave. The problem of preparing fresh food for each of the five lunches, while ensuring that present students were served and the dishes washed, was no easy task for the kitchen workers. According to Mrs. Avitt, she was thankful for the student help. Overall, 13 students helped out in the kitchen washing dishes, wiping tables, and serving on the line. Senior Tonia Sisson was positive about working in the kitchen and how it was run. lt's a good crew. They work well together, and they're nice and pleasant. Mrs. Avitt agreed that the staff of girls worked well together, especially since they were baking so much more than usual, in fries alone they served 1,678 servings per day. l think that students are eating more on campus then off, which l hope is the truth, said Mrs. Avitt. Not including the 13 student helpers, there were a total of 17 ladies who put the kettle to the metal. They were: Emma Berg, Betty Blankenship, Ella Buethe, Claudia Cagle, Alvina Heapel, Diana Hogue, Robin Koinzan, Celia Kolb, Darlene Kukendall, Bessie Mahl, Joan Mansu, Anna McCormach, Marie Medford, Becky Octave, Marge Putman, June Shipley, and Jeanne Wood. l have a very good working group. They're very flexible and it seems that whenever a crisis arises, they're there and we work through it,'7 said Mrs. Avitt. by Robin Saxen photos by Mike McMurray 1. Claudia Cagle takes out the ice milk that she needs to make the daily supply of milkshakes. 2. Martha Avitt, head cook, stacks the hamburger buns prior to warming. 3. Becky Octave serves sixth period lunch students. 'Y .if Q, K gk ... ,, QT : X E l U Wffw'

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Organized writing programs prepare students for college lf there was anything that made the English Department a success it would have been good organization. With 24 teachers on staff and two new additions, Michael Lynch and Beverly Durham, everyone dedicated themself to develop strong writing pro- grams. We've definitely developed a strong program in writing as a process, said Lynda Nahigian, English Department chairperson. We also feel some of our strengths were our cooperative spirit and or attitudes that we as teachers are professionals. Five teachers also went to North Star in Lake Tahoe for the CATE convention lCalifornia Associ- ation Teachers of Englishl, the California Writing Project. With speaker James Moff, who is the writer of Active Voice and the major consultant of the California Assessment Program lCAP Testi for seniors, teachers learned more about literature, reading, and writing. We were also very involved in helping student teachers, said Mrs. Nahigian. Student teachers were Sandy Stubbs from the University of the Pacific and Kathy Boedikker from Sacramento State University. Both received moral support, and assistance in planning their lessons. I. Freshman Jason Shaffer raises his hand in curiosity. 2. Michael Lynch, English teacher calls upon a student to answer a question. 3. Freshman Christy Gonzales questions a statement made by her teacher. They learned to develop their own style, and recognize their own strengths as well. Soul searching was taken seriously during the WASC meetings lWestern Association of Schools and Collegesl, and it was discovered that the English Department was doing effective things for the students. Students believed they were well prepared in their reading and writing skills to go on to college. by Cynthia Gonzales photos by Mike McMurry in-1.-..-.1 r ff ef T 5 . ?fsf5gz'f if . Lui f?s3 'i : 1 ,- sri: 1 f A via s m? ,-L 39 .L wi., . 1