Worthington High School - Trojan Yearbook (Worthington, MN)

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Employable Skill for All ls Aim of Business Department Are you in position? Mr. Music is ready. Best position. Ready. HHH space Ill space ... So goes the introductory typing instructions for over 150 beginning typing students. Expansion of class offerings in the Business Education Department provided students with 32 electives. Reprographics, Income taxes, Mak- ing the Best Buy, Business Oppor- tunities in the 70's, Professional typing, and Machine Transcription proved to be popular quarter courses. Development of an em- ployable skill as well as an explora- tion of various business areas are the objectives of the Business Education Department. Lynn Stofferahn frantically keeps up with 140 words-a-minute in her Advanced Steno class. Preparing an off-set master by using the new copying machine makes work a lot more tolerable. julie Hoffman readies a mat for a 2,000 copy run. I 9 ll Q. it Q: M, . YA Next step, attach to the offset and run my copies, enumerates Sue Alliband. Repro- graphics students have been in charge of athletic program. Next step, 'sighs Lynn, is typing a mailablel copy. 'l4fBustness Education ' . 5 n . ' . .. 'QHUIHIW 1 'QV' H' 531- If - , ff C. rf'-Q, 4 i 1 fy 1 V if .la With fingers over the homerow keys, feet Brua strives for the professional touch--60 on the floor, and eyes on your COPY. lanet wpm.

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rf Mr. Al Swanson gavels the mock political convention to order. Pam Carlberg, Blas Gonzales and Ron Bisbee wonder if Mr. 1 1 o WANT ED ,. 5 llblwn Ot Public LW l Gi QMS- - ' I lvl. llnconcerned FOR ESCAPE FROM civic DUTIES WMKMM ,ff lame 0F M,-mv Mr.-pg DIDATES MEETING TM 24, yen - MMS C 0 fY Dew, Swanson is going to give them another snow job or will he abide by the rules of order. You must be on your toes! any p,IlbN 9 Student-Community Involvement students made themselves known, not only at the various meetings they attended, but also appealing to the members of the community to also become aware and involved. Debra DeGroot, Ralph Davis, and Roxanne Ella publicized their feelings. 1 H 'S' vii-mal I thought we'd just listen to rock 'n roll in Popular Music in History, groans Diane Hartman as she frantically takes notes. Past, Present, and Future Are All Brought Together The Social Studies Department has expanded greatly this past year. There were forty quarter and forty- six semester classes.- As a sophomore you were re- quired to take Introduction to Social Studies. Included in this semester class was a unit in the political process, from the home room caucas to the resolution committee then the convention itself. lt involved the students in trying to pass legislation. In Psychology, students studied behavior. They were involved in independent research projects which included both human and infrahuman subjects such as rat experiments. In 1850, only four cities of the world had a population of over one million. In 1900 there were 19 cities, 1960 there were 141 cities, and by 1980 there will be twice that many. Urban problems, population, cloning, ecology are a few of the topics studied in Fu- turistics. lt helped students to understand what would be facing them tomorrow. Social Studlesf13

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A well tuned engine will give greater gas mileage. Larry Fuerstenberg carefully checks the timing on his car as part of his class project in Transportation by Land. With hard hats in place, hammers in hand Lynn Brunk and Greg Swenson work vigorously on the construction of the three-bedroom frame house that was built Debra Oberloh finds quiet concentration functions that must be carried out to com- a must in the model office class. The train- plete work in an actual office. The model ing station simulates as nearly as possible the office class is offered three times a day. in the Building Trades class. Upon com- pletion of the structure, the home was sold ata public auction. PLVC Gives New Dimension to the School Curriculum With the beginning of the 1974- 1975 school year came Prairie Lakes Vocational Center. The new facility gave juniors and seniors from the four member schools lFulda, Brewster, Round Lake, Worthing- toni an opportunity to explore var- ious vocational fields. Building trades, Child care and develop- ment, health services, model office, model store, transportation by air, and transportation by land were the seven cluster initiated this year. The two-hour classes each day also pro- vides the students with two credits towards graduation. Although the programs are not work-study they do give each student the insight into the work experiences of their selected vocation. Prairie Lakes Vocationalf15