Weslaco High School - La Palma Yearbook (Weslaco, TX)

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La Palma Staff Separates '68 From Other Years :,nm 6-.M Members of the 1967-1968 La Palma staff are fseatedj Clairjohnson, Yolanda Salinas, Barbara Graham, editorg Tania Knowles, Debbie King and Francisca Matamorosg fstandingj Raul Arredondo, Alan Smith, and Dean Burkett. Distributing the new 1966-67 La Palmas to students and faculty members are Debbie King and Clair Johnson, annual staff members. 160 What did happen in 1967-68? What made this school year different from all the other years that WHS has been in existence? Who were the people on campus- the students, the faculty members, the adminis- trators? To tell the story of 1967-68 at WHS ill story and picture, is the task that the La Palma staff seeks to fulfill each year, and the 1967-68 staff had an unusually eventful year to record. There was Hurricane Beulah, with its effect upon school schedules, activ- ities, and individual students. There was Sing Out 767-a demonstration for America in which about 300 students in the community participated. These and many other events may be recalled because the annual staffers worked late and long to record at least a mention of each school related activity- even study-during the year. -M-N..

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i l rQ .f . Industrial Cooperative Training members are ffront rowj B. Sanchez, M. Castaneda, G. Lugo, L. Flores, V. valdez, and V. Rodriguezgfsecond rowj M. Molina, E. Villarreal, J. Reyes, 0. Ortiz, J. Rivera, and J. Marroquing ftop rowj J. Noriega, R. Guajardo, G. Gutierrez. E. Treio, and .l. Herrera. VOE officers include Norma Reyes, activity chairman, Lupe Rodriguez, DE officers are Lydia Vela, O. Garcia, Student treasurer, Juanita Cerda, secretaryg Ib Buentello, presidentg Diane Senate representativeg Petra Nestor Hernandez, Gonzalez, vice-president, Vicki Caballero, parliamentariang and not president, Dolores Gomez, and Ricardo Gomez, shown, Paula Tomlinson, historian. parliamentarian. Distributive, Vocational Office, and Vocational Industrial Cooperative Education Clubs, all separate units, are all composed of students who are learning business tech- niques, and practicing them, while they are attending high school. Members of these three groups also participate in specialized contests on thc area, district, state and regional level, as they demonstrate what they have learned before judges who are professionals in their fields. ICT officers are Mary Castaneda, secretaryg treasurer, Jesus Rivera, sergeant-at-armsg Martin Molina, Raul Guajardo, vice-president. Z ' , , , ,l 1 px , 159 tl

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V 4- , T 3 '9- ll l ,S-sf ,..- Q 0 'Ff- 'graf i Advanced joumalism students are jim lVlcMillian, Bryan Drake, HI-LIFE assistant editorg Alan Smith, 2' .4 xg ,n'f ' editorg and Raul Arredondo, photographer, l Iris 'freer Of The uestioni' For HI-LIFE 1967468 proved to be the Nyear of he questionw for HI-LIFE staff mem- ers as they explored much that is new n the field of communications. The students conducted student olls on such vital questions as attitudes f the student body on drug usage, the iet Nam issue, and the drafting of women. The Hl-LIFE received much ublicity, through the state Inter- cholastic League Press Conference, the ewsletter of the -Newspaper Fund, Inc. nd all the local media. Staffers toured modern com- unications centers such as radio, news- aper, and television stations, and heard rofessionals speak on the com- unjcations break-through. They put nto practice what they learned through roduction of the newspaper, which hey write, makeup, edit, and sell. They earned about the art of advertising hrough servicing local merchants and riting and producing 'ccommercialsw layed over the school public address ystem. w Joumalism I students are ffront rowj. Debbie King, Peggy Bradford, and Francisea Matamorosg fsecond rowj Zeke Lopez, Dean Burkett, and Kerry Kitchell. ftop rowj Joe Lopez, Rene Correa, Jose Garcia and Alfredo Salinasfnot shownj. 161