Warsaw High School - Ozark Echoes Yearbook (Warsaw, MO)

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Sophomoie Janolle Gross reveals to her classmates her capability ot making c pinota w; ' h her eyes closed. Photo by Kara Hash i Spanish Club members Stacy Taylor, Kristi Breshears. Amy Potter, and Toni Phillips, show what a mess mal ing pinatas can be. Photo by Kara Hash New club successful The answer, Tlie Romance language of the largest part of Spain and of the countries colonized by Spaniards. Que es Espanol? a Spanish club member would answer. For the first year of Spanish club, the members thought they were off to a good start. Spanish club was a new or- ganization at WHS. It had never before had so many interested in being a member. The memebers really enjoyed it and were glad to say they were a part of it. The Spanish club members all had Spanish names which was part of being one of the Spanish gang. Playing Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune , were part of the club activities. During the meetings, they did everything in Spanish: speaking, singing, and playing games. They put together a skit called, The House that Jack Built, and made pinatas for Foreign Language Day held inAprilatCMSU. There was only one set back to this organization, one had to have had one year of Spanish to be able to be in- cluded in all the fun. 79

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OVERWHELMING Youngsters overpopulate foreign language classes Along with expanding their knowledge of their own native tongue, students also had the choice of learning a foreign language. Learning a foreign language had been thought of being tough, especially at the first of the year. During the first year, students learned to conjugate verbs and write in present tense. They learned the basics of the language they studied and by the end of the year, they were able to carry on a simple conversation. •Was it necessary to learn a foreign language? fvlany students thought so. Students chose Spanish because it is used here in the United States. It may be helpful to know a foreign language sometime during my life, replied Christina Hudgens. Some students didn ' t enjoy foreign language and felt it wasn ' t necessary. For those first year students who enjoyed it there is a second year. The second year is necessary for the advanced diploma. The choice of the new generation, the freshmen, chose Spanish over German. Un- desireable numbers of freshmen contributed to over half the students in foreign language. Their presence rejuvenated the upper classmen who once again remembered what it was like to be a freshman. Speaking the language was limited the first year. Mrs. Brown stated, Conversation will be limited because one hour a day using a language is not enough to become very conversive. Senior Toni Phillips explains how to make a pinata. Photo by l ara Hash Stephanie Linville sophomore, uses her ability of handling a paint brush to help her Spanish speak- ing friends prepare for foreign language day. Photo by Kara Hash 78 foreign language designed by cori cutler Singing her favorite Spanish song La Bamba . sophomore Kristi Breshears hopes no one but her- self con hear her Photo by Kara Hash

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EGGSPERIENCE Child development class is eggspecting a bundle Could it all have been a yoke? Oops! I mean a joke when Dr. Roberta Schnakenberg told her child development class that it w as time to make babies! The students were shocked. Mrs. Schnakenberg had taught for weeks on the proper care for children but they never thought she would go to that extreme. What the students didn ' t know was that she was planning on having egg babies. Each parent received their very own hard-boiled baby. From the time of birth until the baby reached four to five months (one day in class equal- led one month to the baby ' s age) the proud parents were able to take on responsibilties that a real parent might face. Just as a regular new born, the egg infants had journals where progression of their men- tal and physical growth were recorded. Dr. Schnakenberg gave us an overall look at the class: In child development we begin our class with learning about contraception, prenatal development, along with en- vironmental and hereditary birth defects. We discussed preg- nancy and delivery. At that time we delivered the egg babies. During the project we learned of development of children from 0-5 months. It is difficult to com- pare parenting responsibilties of an egg to a real newborn. But we continue doing this ex- perience at the request of students enrolled in child development. The project is concluded with a display of the babies in our nursery showcase window and a baby contest. Unfortuantely in real life babies aren ' t born in perfect condition. This was also true in child development class. Each year the doctor delivers egg babies that are premature, han- dicapped, breeched, and of course, healthy hard-boiled babies in eggcellent condition. In April of ' 87 Kelly Skiles gave birth to a handicapped egg. When she and little Eg- gweina went home from the delivery room Kelly began to dress her. The crack in Eg- gweina ' s skull kept getting deeper and wider. In a short time Ms. Skiles got fed up with her baby ' s condition and she threw it up against the wall. The death of Kelly ' s egg baby didn ' t get her out of doing any class work though. She had to make complete funeral arran- gements. I was so destroyed by my baby ' s death that Tiffany Ireland had to call the funeral home to make arrangements for the burial. Tiffany ' s baby died also. First it was kidnapped, then squished into pieces on the desk top. Kelly and Tiffany hel- ped each other through scrambled emotions. The semester in child development was quite an eg- gsperience, stated Missy Hudgens, and I learned the many responsibilties of caring for an infant. I feel more prepared for the future. All in all; it was quite eggciting. home economics QQ designed by chelle robbins In child development class Ranee Baker, junior, and Melissa Lee, freshman, discuss where babies come from, photo by Dustin Lear Ranee Baker, junior, patiently awaits the rising of her muffins while Cindy Wiimoth, junior, slaves away at the sink, photo by Dustin Lear