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

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It ' s a boy! Dr. Roberta Echnakenberg has suc- cessfully delivered a bouncing baby boy for cfiild iss. Photo by Duslin Leer David Fajen, junior, shows Jim Mick, senior, and Timmy Leighty. junior, how to prepare a gourmet meal. Photo by Dustin Lear The one skill in life that everyone needs Homemaking. Whether it ' s a bachelor pad on San Francisco ' s Hyde Street, a ranch in Scottsdale, a room in a com- mune of back-to-nature thinkers, a home in Connecticut or a reconverted barn, it ' s a home. Home to someone. And that someone is a homemaker. Sooner or later everyone is a homemaker and needs the skills of suc- cessfully managing his or her like. Homemaking is more than cooking and sewing. It is learning how to establish goals within a family and achieve them, how to create a happy home. Traditionally, the homemaker ' s role has been thought of as the woman ' s role, in fact, the stereotype of the woinan tied to her apron strings and slaving over a hot stove all day has been with us far too long. That ' s changing, now. Slowly to be sure, but changing for the better. More and more family members are assuming their equal responsibilites as homemakers. Sharing in the home work, in the care and guidance of children, in the establishment of values in the home. And even where there is just a single person involved, there is still the need for a homemaker ' s skills. It ' s one thing in life everyone needs to know. How to manage your future. Future Homemakers of America 81

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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

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DECEITFUL Industrial arts turns out more than meets the eye Shop. The word most people used to refer to the industrial arts classes taught by Mr. Wil- liam Gant. There is more to it than just shop . Some of the classes offered in the industrial arts department include woodworking, eighth grade crafts, general shop, and draft- ing. Industrial arts was more than just hammering, sawing, and welding. Much more went on behind the scenes in these classes. It seemed that nobody considers the safety precautions or learning the correct techni- ques to using the tools and ma- chines. ..at first. The students began their classes by learning the basics from watching a variety of movies dealing with the proper ways to use the machines and learning the many safety proce- dures and precautions. After they learned how to operate and use the machines and tools they selected various projects to make from such materials as wood or metal. One special thing that the general shop classes did was to make toy buses for the kinder- garteners to give to them during the holiday season. Students have various reasons for taking an industrial arts class. Senior, Stacy Sledd, took in- dustrial arts to learn to work with the machines. Dawn Mallonee, sophomore, commented, I took general shop to learn to build stuff with my hands and to learn how to use certain tools. J - 4 1 V |J ' V- TB 1. V taEr ? I9 g W M . ' IgL Industrial arts tervet as the ideal place for Jerry LoMore to relax and enjoy life. Photo by Dustin Lear- Gary Jones, treihtTXjn, expresses nis mechanic ' obility a ' , :e shows tiow l.o assomble on engine. Plioto by Dustin Loar 82 industrial arts designed by Christina hudgens