Winchester High School - Aberjona Yearbook (Winchester, MA)

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Students help themselves and others lake up any time or though when I wasn’t on the job.” There are many advantages to students holding jobs. Having a job can actually supplement a stu¬ dent’s in-school education. As well as giving students a sense of self- worth, holding a job also encour¬ ages students to develop good pub¬ lic relations skills. A student’s own personal income can help a student in money management. Whether time on the job is spent gaining knowledge and experience, or just looking forward to payday, stu¬ dents are taking advantage of and succeeding in the readily available part-time job market. -Katie Herzog and Tania Giambro great experience. I love my new understanding of public rela¬ tions.” Kevin exclaimed. In addition to gaining exper¬ ience, there is also the financial as¬ pect of holding a job. Danielle Na- camuli works at The News Shop several days after school and on weekends to help pay for the insur¬ ance on her car. With all of her school work, Danielle deceided, “I wanted a job that wasn’t going to an I help you?” Don’t be surprised if the person behing the counter, an¬ swer the telephone or delivering pizzas is a student. Students today are more prominent in the world of part-time careers than ever before. There will always be statistics stat¬ ing that when students hold jobs, their school work suffers. Of course, in some cases this is true, but not everyone is a statistic. Jobs can actually be good for a student by giving them a feeling of respon¬ sibility and independence as it builds their confidence, as well as giving them their own money, for college, cars, or to do with as they please. Pitra Khaliqi found her job in the Lowell Office of Attorneys in Woburn. Pitra chose to accept this job because of her current interest in becoming an attorney. Although she has little to do with the actual process of law in her secretarial job, it is experience, the best way of learning. Pitra admitted she was nervous at first, working in such a professional enviornment, “but the people were very nice and helpful, and gradually 1 became more com¬ fortable.” Last summer, Kevin Riley be¬ came the Assistant to the Head of the Governor’s Concil at the Stale House in Boston. Kevin had an in¬ ternship with the Head of the Gov¬ ernor’s Concil, Senator Connelly of Roxbury. During his internship, Kevin reasearched various materi¬ als in the State House Library. Ke¬ vin was required to answer tele¬ phones, deliver important mes¬ sages and hold campaign signs. At the close of the summer. Senator Connelly was promoted to be the Clerk of the Supreme Court, end¬ ing Kevin’s internship. “It was a After counting out a baker’s dozen. Heather Maenpaa labels a box of home¬ made muffins for the next morning’s sale in Purity Supreme’s bakery. Jobs Nineteen 0«MBER 1 .18,1J 8tN n«l Val ' «ltJ46-5198 Part-time careers

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-■% ' ' Confident in her after school counter¬ help position at The News Shop, Dan¬ ielle Nacamuli processes a potential winning Megabucks ticket H I lobs Eighteen 35 Working girl Anita Mazzarella proudly smiles in uniform at Purity Supreme while bagging groceries one November afternoon. Wbat to do, wbat to be. Matt Pacione checks out an advertisement for the Job Bank, a system run by the Youth Center to match students with jobs.

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Closed auditions only... Student actors achieve Fame U ' ' ' I ' l. I I ■ ■ ■ H M ame costs, and right here is where you start paying for it, in sweat!” So goes the famous line from the movie and T.V. series “Fame”. How¬ ever, this line took on a more personal meaning for some stu¬ dents as “Fame” was per¬ formed at the high school on November 17, 18, and 19. Much confusion arose when it was announced that “Fame,” a musical, was to be the fall dra¬ ma production. All questions were immediately settled when director J. Christopher Martin explained that the play would be performed without music. That didn’t strike many people as a good idea, but as sopho¬ more Tom Moore, who played the part of drama teacher Mr. Farrell, pointed out, “even though it was originally written as a musical, it worked great as a drama.” The play dealt mainly with a group of students as they made their way through New York City’s prestigious High School J. Christopher Martin poses with the en¬ tire cast and crew which brought a taste of “Fame” to the high school on Novem- her 17, 18, and 19. I hoH Wi’ of Performing Arts (PA, for short). As it opens, Montgom¬ ery MacNeill (John Segota) performs his audition while dra¬ ma teacher Mr. Farrell (Tom Moore) and senior drama stu¬ dent Michael Lambert (Dave McIntosh) observe. The play then continues with the rest of the auditions and follows the students until their graduation. Several serious problems are dealt with in the course of the play, such as Doris Schwartz (Lisa Carlson), dealing with her overbearing mother (Julie Olivieri) while searching for her own identity, and Ralph Garcy (John Gray) and his idolization of a fallen star. Other problems arose around the friction which developed between classical music teacher Mr. Shorovsky (Matt Behnke) and his student Bruno Martelli (Aaron Ste¬ vens), who had ideas of his own, and Coco Hernandez (Deanna Della Cioppa) who tried to be¬ friend the stubborn Bruno, as well as the pressure felt by Eng¬ lish teacher Mrs. Sherwood (Katie Daggett) who had to deal with the illness of her hus¬ band and the stubborness of her student Leroy Johnson (Bran¬ don MacNeill), whose determi¬ nation to dance was countered by his illiteracy. All these seri¬ ous problems were dealt with and were solved in some way by the end of the play. Even though it is now over, this very successful production brought to each student, even if for only a brief moment, that which was desired, fame. -John Segota « Fame “ , Twenty