Vergennes Union High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Vergennes, VT)

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Special Needs Of Students Alana Miller and Jody Heath reveive special attention from Mrs. Sullivan. 27

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Special Services Meet Special Services for students this year were both specialized and diversified. Title I funds, coordinated by Mrs. Gail Lynk, provided for reading and photography programs, as well as Operation Advance, a new program under the direction of Mr. Larry Shepard, emphasizing survival skills. One of the major concerns of the reading specialists, Ms. Mary Ellen Sessa and Mrs. Anne Sullivan, was designing new reading programs which would incorporate the teaching of basic reading skills into all areas of the curriculum. Selected junior high students continued their education in the self-contained classroom with Mrs. Thelma Oxholm. Their activities included work with U.S.S.R. (Uninterrupted Sustained Silent Reading), a new reading concept being used in schools throughout Vermont. The Home Economics Department, Mrs. Nancy Em-berly, offered specialized courses on family living and outdoor survival. One of their most practical projects was making down parkas and vests. Mrs. Kitty Oxholm, Self-contained Classroom Mrs. Gail Lynk, Title I Coordinator 26 Mrs. Cheryl Thurber, Title I

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Vocational Arts Mr. Harmon Boyce, Woodworking and Vocational Agriculture. Once again this year, the Vocational Arts proved to be one of the school's most active, engaging in a wide range of activities. Several of Mr. Boyce's Vocational Agriculture students flew to Kanas City to receive an award that they had won last year in a nationwide Agricultural Mechanics competition. Mr. Lynk's Industrial Arts classes worked on a wide assortment of projects, including making hunting bows, handcrafting furniture, restoring a 19th century horse-drawn sleigh, and studying automotive diagnosis tune-up. The Graphic Art classes, in addition to working on numerous independent study projects, assisted many other departments of the school, silk-screening CAST Project t-shirts, aiding in the production of the Human-tities class Christmas card and providing tickets and posters for numerous school functions. Mr. Scott Lynk, Industrial Arts. Mark Sabourin, unaware of the camera, works on. 28 Mr. Michael Thibault, Typing and Bookkeeping. Us guys can type too, say Peter Smith and Michael Livingston.