Valley Central High School - Viking Log Yearbook (Montgomery, NY)

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fBelowj BOCES isn't all work. Hay Estrada and Iohn Hoekstru relax before their electrical class. uw . aio if , dp, W g . I 4 I tg ....:- , Q l F113 if ' , . fi v4.lg'mV c b :V ,A ' 1 Q eff ws., bg: . if af? fAboveJ Testing resistance is sometimes necessary on many home appliances such as stereos. radios, and TV's. Ray Prush makes use of the machine which does the testing before recording his findings. fLeftj Plumbers command high salaries and a secure future. jock Holman installs a bathroom as part of his training for plumbing classes. ACADEMICS 109

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fBelowl Complex wiring presents the greatest challenge in air-conditioning and refrigeration class. Ronny Gundermon and Scott Williams repair the controls on a large industrial air- conditioner. 'Q BOCES 'emphasizes employe bility Continued from p. 107 Cynthia Santiago started in the BOCES cosmetology program, but she switched to data processing. She said, The reason I got out of cosmetology was that I was really afraid of the 108 ACADEMICS fBelowl The BOCES store complements the other facilities at the Goshen campus. Becky Durrigo checks out purchases. is girls, cutting my hair, because in the first year we have to practice on each other. If some girl gets a low grade, it's on your head. In data processing, all we have to work on is machines. And there's a lot you can do with it. You can Work as a teller in a bank, a secretary, or you can be a typist in an office, or a file clerk. You learn about computer pro- gramming, so you could get a job with IBM. And it's good because right now you learn how to do every one of the jobs. - When the student graduates, he can take his pick. Veronica Roublick is studying in BOCES as a health assistant. She likes the course because it teaches us about medicines and also about the different departments in the hospital. After graduating, Veronica plans to go on to college for some medical career. Beth Roeper, who is interested in a nursing career, said, In BOCES you really use what you learn. And you fBelowl The least enjoyable part of working in a kitchen is the cleaning up. Herbie Govigcn, a second year good service student, takes out the garbage after a class. QQ tAbovel Real life simulation tests the individualls ability to cope with responsibility. Toolman Scott Iennings Works in the cage signing out tools to other students. learn something you like to do. Too many people consider BOCES a playground, but as Cynthia Santiago said, It isn't. It isn't designed for stu- dents to escape from schoolf, It is school.

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People Freedom - tradition blend here are more than 1200 people at VC. We'll never know half of them: we'll just hurry past them in the halls. We'll go through four years of high school and never really know the people who went through with us. And that's sort of sad. So many different peopleg all with their own ideas, their own smiles, their own way of laughing, and their own kinds of fun. During our lives, we've seen changes and made changes. But being too young, we weren't aware of the major changes, the breaking from tra- ditions tthe hippie movementj that characterized the 60's. Of course we've read about it tbrieflyj in books and have seen pictures of hippies tone or twoj in magazines, but nothing more. We, however, have inherited the freedom the 60's revolutionaries won. And beside the freedom we've placed those traditions which still have meaning for us. The freedom we've inherited has been blended among the 1200-odd people at VC to form the individualg everyone doing his own thing his own way. Allen Sargeant collects bottles. Ann Venuti composes and sings her own songs. Kira Skala and Iaime Sua- rez dance. Mr. Haggar could have been a professional photographer. We are all different and all individ- uals. fAbovej With a student population nearing the 1500 mark, locating one person is a case of the proverbial finding a needle in a haystackf' Guidance counselor, Mr. Som Tucker, searches the North Cafeteria for a stray junior. fRightJ High school students worry more about their appearance. At least one student got carried away with a blow-drier. 110 PEOPLE X rf -it M. X. K Q xt .v-:is