Wamego High School - Wa Kaw Yearbook (Wamego, KS)

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1980-81 FBLA members: First row. (L to R) Kayla Oliver. Jeff Modean. Petie Swearingen; second row. Brenda Elder. Libby Len- herr. Julie Anderson. Lori Schmidt; third row. Dixie Flinn, Penny Hupe, Mary Dawson, sponsor; Lana Northup. sponsor; fourth row. Linda Oliver. Susie Rhea. Tina Clark; fifth row. Gini Farrar. DeAnn Jackson. Nancy Zoeller; sixth row. Gail Strickland. Jill Yager. Rexene Rich- ards; Seventh row. Amy Holle. Tammy Springer. Nancy Routh; eighth row. Jerry Bellinder, Jim John- son. Joe Keller. Dazzled by all the games at the FBLA carnival, this girl tries her luck with bowling. Julie Anderson. WHS sen- ior. and Richard Strick- land. WHS junior, admire the stuffed animals given away at the FBLA carni- val. 19

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FBLA Looks Towards Future FBLA stands for Future Busi- ness Leaders of America, and that is what they are . .. leaders. At the beginning of the year FBLA traveled to Emporia State University for a Business Career Day. Classes concerning secre- tarial careers, business educa- tion, business management, and other business related courses were attended. During the year FBLA held its annual carnival complete with clowns, ring toss, darts, fish pond, and bowling game. $170 was raised from their effort. The Wamego FBLA Chapter has sent many students to state and even national contests each year. FBLA gets results at Wa- mego High School. Members then attended regionals at Shawnee Heights High School on Febru- ary 14, 1981. The group competed in typ- ing, accounting, advertising, marketing, poster events, office procedures, and oth- er business contests. Winners were: Lib- by Lenherr. senior stenographer — 1st place; Jeff Modean, poster display — 1st place, principles of sales — 3rd place; Lori Schmidt, senior stenographer — 3rd place, office procedures — 4th place in 10-key calculator. Jim Johnson, extem- poranous speaking — 3rd place, current events — 5th place, general business — 5th place; Wamego's team, spelling relay — 4th place; Vicki Woodard, spelling re- lay — 4th place; Jean Niedfeldt. spelling relay — 4th place. Business English Es- sentials — 5th place. FBLA also attended state competition at Emporia on March 26 and 27. Those placing at state were: Libby Lenherr — 5th Accounting II; Julie Anderson — 3rd Stenographer II, 2nd Advertising, 5th Re- tailing, and 2nd Office Procedures; Jeff Modean and Jimmy Johnson — 2nd poster event; Jean Niedfeldt — 4th Clerk- Typist I, 5th Stenographer I; Penny Hupe — 5th Marketing; Gail Strickland — 2nd Sales. 2nd Marketing, and 2nd Manage- ment; and Jeff Modean — 3rd Marketing. No one was eligible for Nationals. U T U R E USINESS EAPERS MERICA 1980-81 FBLA officers: (L to R) Libby Lenherr. secre- tary; Kayla Oliver, treasur- er; Lori Schmidt, president; Dixie Flinn, public relations; Jeff Modean, vice-presi- dent. Brenda Elder, stu-co. Not pictured Julie Ander- son, parlimentarian. Mrs. Dawson is surprised at one of the FBLA member's suggestions as student teacher, Mike Ronen, laughs on.

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FFA SPELLS SUCCESS Future Farmers of America is de- signed to prepare students through classroom instruction and contests for a career in agriculture. In the 1980-81 school year FFA stood for success and winning. It also stood for community projects, learning, and growing. FFA week, a nationally designated week, started with the group attending a local church. Other activities were planned for the week such as the Food For America program which was de- signed to educate children about how their food gets to them from the farm. There was also fun activities such as an arm wrestling tournament and egg throwing contest and a farmer's awareness day when students could VST ,« dress as farmers. Five students from the FFA were also sent to Topeka and were interviewed on TV and Radio about the FFA and it's activities. V MR. EBERT FFA ADVISOR Mr. George Ebert has been the FFA advisor at Wamego for four years. Besides being a leader and teacher, he is also a friend to many of the stu- dents. Ag students often com- ment that he never accepts anything but perfection. This method seems to have paid off for Wamego has a leading state and national FFA group. National livestock team placed third at Denver: Stan Bartley. Jon Haynes. Mike Torrey, Jacquie Rickstrew, Sherri Beach. ri T, The 1980-81 FFA officers: (back row) Theresa . Rafferty, reporter; Paul White, president; Stan Bartley, vice-president; Roger Anderson, stu- dent advisor; Greg Riat, stu-co rep.; Sherri Beach, secretary; (front row) Mike Torrey. N.E. district vice-president; Dennis Wilson, parli- mentarian; Larry Holz. historian; and Alan Bu- chanan. sentinel. . 1. nfl 20