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tarting From Scratch Only

SLeads to Continual Change

-Laminda Bush-

Changes, changes, changes! Every new converted from Apple liE's to Machintoses. The
year, brought with it new people and new ideas, new computers provided students with unique
which led to new changes. Ever since the school opportunities for revising and composing. Be-
first opened its doors, the changes have been un- cause of the new Macintoshes, the Computer
stoppable. Applications class for Macintoshes was put into
The first bi g change was the addition of the curriculum.
th e 11-12 side of th e school in 1980. This new half Many other"extras" had also been added
of the building allowed enough space to add jun- to the school. The old track was replaced with a
iors and seniors to the school, finall y making MN new rubberized asphalt one, and new tennis wind
an official high sc hool. blockers were installed.
With the number of students increasing, Along with the new things bought and
it became apparent that a new parking lot was added, came a new attitude among the students
needed. By the fall of 1988, the cement was laid and faculty. Social Studies teacher Terry Eicher
and the traffic problem was relieved. said , "It didn't seem like teachers and students-
School security gradually became an is- were still pulling in the same direction. The reason
sue th at had to be dealt with. Security guards were was probably because we were not a new school
hired to patrol the parking lot. Motion detectors anymore, and it was difficult to stick together."
were in stalled throughout the school, and a secu- However, such things as support groups,
rity guard was hired to monitor th e hallways. clubs, sports, and extra curricular activities were
Computers have been slowly added to available for students who wanted to be a part of
the school. Last year the computer room was the changes.

"over th e last ten years, the oral communications classes
such as speech, forensics, drama, and debate have collected
an array of different trophies and awards. This trophy case
hanging outside of the auditorium provides a place to
di splay them. (S. Alukonis)
Every year new teachers are hired for the school. Math
teacher Raven Wheeler was a student teacher during the fall
of 1989. This year she was hired into the math department.
(S Alukonis)

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