West Monroe High School 1980 Yearbook (West Monroe, LA)

Todd David finishes his vocabulary words after a weekly spelling test.

ABOVE: Robin DeCrane waits for her turn at a typewriter.

BELOW: Antoinette Haynes completes her typing of an

astronomy story just before the bell rings.

Consumer consctous students

products,

test brand

a.ry

Colvin makes an effort to swallow one brand of peanut butter before testing

110ther

bfand in a consumer taste test of leading spreads.

Choosey mothers will

choose Jif, Vlasic pickles are

not the number one choice,

and the Pepsi challenge

doesn't alter the students'

preference for Coke.

These striking results were

determined by the first period

journalism students who

prepared and presented to the

class each week a report on

some form of consumerism.

This work was done in

order to enable students to

become better consumers of

the merchandise available to

them, according to Mrs. Hope

Carroll.

In addition to the weekly

reports, students in the

journalism class progressed

from a history of American

journalism throughout the

modern concept of video

display terminals, which were

viewed in a tour of the

Monroe News-Star-World plant

facilities.

Working with the newspaper

staff to help produce the eight

issues of the Rebel Dispatch,

journalism students submitted

stories each Friday and learned

the techniques of layout and

page design during the year.

In the second semester.

students wrote, designed, and

edited the Orator, which was

the official program for the

school musical.

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