Page Twelve
Thursday, May 13, 1971
The Nyssa Gate City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon
Office Practice Added To Nyssa High School Curriculum
Elaine Undorf Teaches
NHS Typing I Classes
Students Get Experience
In Using Office Equip.
Office Practice is one of the cator, office style chairs and
new classes introduced at the desks, filing cabinets, IBM
start of the second semester. and Adler electric typewriters.
The course includes work in
Mountain Bell Telephone Co.
filing, adding and printing cal­ of Boise, as a service to the
culator techniques,
voice, school, furnished a teletrainer.
writing machine, typing of This unit consists of two tele­
common office forms, typing phones and a control unit,
spirit masters and stencils, as since several Adrian students
well as duplicating and tele­ are enrolled, that school has
furnished two adding machines
phoning techniques.
and
an IBM typewriter.
In order to offer this course,
Mr. Dale Schraufnagel, office
the business department has
Peter Stephen, a freshman acquired several pieces of new practice instructor stated that
vocational agriculture student, equipment. These include fold­ the purpose of the class is to
is learning the technique of arc ing doors to divide the typing provide students with saleable
welding.
room, a printing calculator, skills which will enable them to
two adding machines, a dupli- obtain entry level employment
in the field of business.
Entering Nyssa High’s teaching staff this second semester,
Mrs. Elaine Undorf teaches NHS Typing I classes during the
afternoon hours. Mrs. Undorf replaced Dale Schraufnagel who
is teaching an Office Practice class 5th and 6th periods.
Mrs. Undorf was born in Bemidji, Minnesota, which is near
the Canadian border. She attended schools in Bemidji, grad­
uating from Bemidji State with a major in Business Education.
Transcribing letters as part of a class project are Carla Hust
and Milly Shaw. ChrisStephen is picturedin the background. Two
IBM transcribers with prqgj^ms are an integral part of the
Office Practice class. Besides gaining typing and listening skills,
students must practice good spelling and punctuation in this
office activity.
Gaining
calculator
machines
make up a
George Fanning is currently
serving as vocational coordina­
tor for Nyssa High School.
Besides accepting this re­
sponsibility, Fanning instructs
industrial arts on several levels
as well as drafting.
Before coming to Nyssa, Mrs.
Undorf taught Art at Ashland
High School in Oregon for one
year and speech and English at
Adrian High School for one year.
She has also substituted in
various schools in western Ore­
gon.
have sincerely enjoyed working
with
m
Typing I
classes.”
Mrs Undorf’s husband has
taught school in past years
and is presently employed by
Ore-Ida. The Undorf’s have two
girls, ages three and eight.
In her spare time, Mrs. Un-
dorf enjoys waterskiing, swim­
ming and sewing.
The disadvantage in being at
the school for just two hours
or so each day is that I don’t
«h—.____
really get to know the entire
Mrs. Undorf states that she
school functions or all the other enjoys country living and cur­
faculty members. The students rently makes her residence in
that I do know are great! I Adrian.
skills on the ten-key adding machine and printing
are Tina Call and Raymond Lowe. These office
furnished by both Adrian and Nyssa High Schools
portion of the office occupations cluster.
Vocational Classes
Building Trades
Farm Mechanics
Ken Schilling and Margaret Nungaray are typing on the IBM
Selectrlc typewriters in the Office Practice laboratory. Stu­
dents obtain practice on a variety of typewriters including
Olvmpia, Adler and IBM machines.
Building a comfort station for the city park is (1 to r) Rick
Myers, Gene Cruson, Cruz Granadas, Richard Bunn and Kyle
Lassiter.
All are students in the new building trades class.
Students Learn Carpentry
In Building Trade Class
This semester NHS began
offering several new vocational
classes to Adrian and Nyssa
students. One of them is the
Building Trades class taught
by William Hood.
Purpose of the Building
Trades class is to teach sale­
able skills by doing.
Besides completing a typing
lab partition for the school, the
class is currently working on
a project for the Nyssa city
park which includes a comfort
station, foot bridge and a re-
taing wall. Among the antici­
pated projects for next year’s
students is the construction of
a house.
Objectives of this building
trades class is to train stu­
dents in such a fashion that the
knowledge applied can start
them in one of the building trades
areas and to familiarize stu­
dents with the real world of
the future this will result in a
serious shortage of available
experienced carpenters be­
cause few are being currently
When asked what a student
s capable of doing after have
aken this kindofbuildingtrades
ourse, Hood Stated, "Ob-
iously, we can not expect to
levelop a full-fledge carpenter,
iut we can and do teach the
undamentals and rudements.
’his gives the student the op­
portunity to succeed or fail or
o gain or lose interest in
Expressing his views on the
ed for vocational education in
ilding trades. Hood also said
Jeff Stephens, Fred Child, Paul Skeen, instructor Larry
Bauman, John Mantle, and Dan Nelson are replacing pistons
in a tractor engine as part of an engine overhaul project.
Bauman Joins Cluster
As Mechanics Instructor
that 60-70% of the high school
graduates do not attend college.
Thus, these saleable skills are
very important. The average
Larry Bauman, NHS graduate, vocational training students may
age in the United States of a
carpenter is 56 years old. In has returned to Nyssa High specialize in any one of several
School as a teacher for the mechanical fields. Our edu­
newly formed farm mechanics cation in the past has been
class. Bauman has been em­ geared to men getting degrees
ployed with Bauman Incor­ and we have fallen very short
porated for 15 years.
in training people to be more
"To give a basic knowledge employable.
of farm tractors so students
After successfully completing
will know how to maintain and this mechanics class, a student
Teaching one of the NHS’s do minor repairs is the pur­ is capable of maintaining a
new vocational classes this se­ pose of this class,” stated Bau­ tractor, Identifying tools and to
be able to do minor overhaul
mester is William W. Hood, man.
Bauman’s class projects con­ work.
The student also be­
the building trades instructor.
sists
of
overhauling
three
en
­
comes
more
employable be­
Hood graduated from Saint
gines with a goal of seeing them cause of the knowledge he has
Cloud, Minnesota,andcontinued
his education at Southern State run, and to repair a tractor gained.
Commenting on the students
College in Springfield, South transmission.
When asked to comment on of the mechanic class, Bauman
Dakota, where he received his
Bachelor's Degree.
He also the need for this type of vo­ said, “I have enjoyed the stu­
attended the University of Idaho cational program Bauman re­ dents and feel they are under­
plied, "Qualified mechanics in standing the equipment very
and Boise State College.
Also they are learning
Besides teaching in Alberta, the U.S. today are in demand, well.
as our population grows, there how to use shop tools and we
Canada (1960-62) and in Nampa,
Idaho (1966-70), where he in­ will be an increasing need for have all had fun learning to­
them. With this basic type of gether.’
structed Industrial Arts classes
to junior and senior highschool
students, Hood had other work
experiences in housingprojects
in Issaquah, Washington, con­
structing dams in Montana and
Idaho, building bridges in var­
ious parts in Idaho as well as
miscellaneous
commercial
units.
As for hobbies, Hood is cur­
rently getting involved in a life
long ambition--he is building a
21* long sailboat.
When askedtocommenton the
NHS students, William Hood
stated, "The students here at
NHS are really splendid people
to work with. The character
of the majority is certainly a
favorable reflection on the pa­
Gary Kurtz, Curt Fewkes and Alan Atagi are shown in the
rents and the community.”
process of taking the engine out of a tractor to overhaul it.
Bill Hood
Instructs
Carpentry