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Career Elective Program at D.H.S. completed for 2nd successful year:
helps students learn on the job, helps school, community relations
by Pam Horst
and Ramona Sell
It all started last ycar.
What? The Career Elective
Program for Seniors at
Donegal High School.
Because of the program’s
success last year, a commit-
te headed by John W. W,
Loose, history teacher at
Donegal High School and
including Mr. Donald Dren-
ner, Mr. Harry West, Mr.
Kemp Zangari, Mr. Dennis _
lezzi and Mrs. Mary-Marar-
ct Peraro met to update and
improve the program. As a
result, this year’s program
was even more successful
than last year’s. When Mr.
Loose was asked to make a
statement, he replied, ‘Last
year was the first year for
the Career Elective program
and it was highly successful.
During last summer and
early schoolyear, the com-
mittee met several times to
improve it and as a result
this year’s C.E.P. program
was even more successful.
‘Some things tightened up
were,l. better communica-
tion between school and
sponsors, 2.set down stan-
dards for C.E.P. students,
and 3. an evaluation proce-
dure has been set up for the
student, the advisor, and
the sponsor. Reports and
conversations have been
received from the Sponsors.
These reports have been
excellent.” He added, ‘The
school district has ‘reaped’ a
bonanza of goodwill in the
Mark Presnell
community.
continued, ‘Many of the
sponsors have praised the
program as being the most
affective program offered
for the county schools.’
Mr. Loose was very
definite when he stated,
‘We have a problem here at
Donegal of being reluctant
‘to toot our own horn’. The
success of the C.E.P.
program does this for us and
gives the seniors a wonder-
ful opportunity to learn
first-hand whether their
career choice is the right one
before investing in a college
education.” He commented,
‘The community service
feature is important also.
The goodwill earned by
these students is changing
the image too many persons
have of young people. Most
of the sponsors have indi-
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Tony Sweigart
cated they never realized
just how wonderful our
students are in their attitude
and work.’
Sixty one seniors partici-
pated in the Career Elective
Program which began on
April 28th when they re-
ported to their community
sponsor.
The students picked the
sponsor according to the
goal he wished to achieve
later in his life. There were
forty seven sponsors in all .
ranging from registered
nurses, a veterinarian and a
pediatrician, to a butcher, a
fireman, and a secretary. All
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It has helped
us in school to better
understand the work world
in which the community
sponsor operates, and we
believe it has helped the
sponsor understand the
school situation.” Mr. Loose
Maureen Jones
different types of occupa-
tions were represented in
the program. The student
and his sponsor met before
the program began to
discuss how many hours the
student would work, what
type of work the student
would be doing, etc.
The C.E.P. participant
also had a faculty advisor
with whom they met once a
week. The advisor was
there to talk with the
student about any problems
the student might have had
and also to evaluate the
student on the job. Twenty
Newton and Judy help teach
two Sunday services, Sun-
day school and Wednesday
Bible Study meetings, but
they also attended United
Methodist Women’s Meet-
ing and the Pastral board
meeting. A school-board
meeting with clergymen is
on their busy schedule.
Signs throughout the halls
of the church show how hard
Judy and Newton are
working to make the youth
auction a success.
The Program has influ-
enced the thinking of both
students as they experi-
enced the things that
happen in a minister’s life.
After a trip to Philadelphia,
Judy began to appreciate
things more than she had
before. As she explained,
five high school advisors aa fs Q "
held this responsibility.
To hear both sides of the
C.E.P. program, several |
students were interviewed.
Among them were Newton
Kendig and Judy Keller who
worked side by side for Rev.
Richard Kohler of St.
Mark’s United Methodist
Church, Mount Joy. They
were given the opportunity
to visit shut-ins in their
homes, hospitals, and con-
valescent homes. The
shut-ins remarked that it
was very nice for Rev.
Kohler to bring the young
people. Not only did
Judy Keller
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Newt Kendig
‘You are your brother's
keeper. To be there was an
experience.” Rev. Kohler
enjoyed the Career Elective
Program because, ‘It occur-
ed at the right time of the
year, it gave students
freedom to do what they
wanted, and it was the right
length of time.’
Abram Koser, under the
sponsorship of John H.
Hoffman, Jr., Union Na-
tional Mount Joy Bank,
Mount Joy believes that
everyone should take ad-
vantage of the C.E.P.
program.
Abe worked in the book-
keeping department the first
week, moved to the loan
department the second week
and, at the time of the
interview, he was at the
motor bank as a commercial
teller.
Abe said he was interest-
ed in becoming a banker ‘to
see what it was like from the
other side of the counter.’
He added, ‘The only prob-
lem a teller encounters is,
you gotta be a mind
reader-people don’t tell you
what they want.’
Abe Koser
The bank position Abe
enjoys most is being a teller
because he enjoys meeting
people. Through this
program he has met many
people associated with the
bank because every day he
was assigned to work with a
different person. During
the assignment at the
Maytown Branch of the
Mount Joy Bank he worked
with many of the employees.
Phyllis Loump
Phyllis Loump, a senior
popular with the students at
Donegal for making and
selling whoppie pies, peanut
butter eggs, and peanut
butter cookies was accepted
at Byer’s Bakery, Eliza-
bethtown.
Some of the tasks assign-
ed to Phyllis were, making
bread by hand, making
cookies, pies and cakes. She
also glazed donuts.
Tuesdays are one of her
busiest days because she
has to help prepare baked
items to sell at Roots
Auction. When asked about
the program, Phyllis rep-
lied, ‘It’s a lot more work
than I thought.’
Tony Sweigart looked
very much at home, yet busy
as he worked for his uncle,
David Sweigart, at Ridge-
view Dairy, Elizabethtown.
Even though his main job
was to process milk, Tony
sometimes helped behind
the counter scooping out ice
cream and making sundaes.
This was the first year
Ridgeview Dairies sponsor-
ed a C.E.P. student.
At the end of the Career
Elective Program, students
had their choice of handing
in a journal, work collection,
or a project associated with
the work they were doing.
Some outstanding projects
and reports recognized by
Mr. Loose were:
Mark Presnell-Mark was
sponsored by R. J. Amater
Entrol, Inc. and Olen C.
Presnell, Control Flow Sys-
tem, Inc., Lancaster. For
his project, Mark engineer-
ed a fine . collection of
blueprints.
Maureen Jones-Dr. Kirtz,
a pediatrician in Lancaster,
sponsored Maureen. Dur-
ing the time she spent on
theC.E.P. program, she
tested blood samples and
urine analysis. She also
found out that book-keeping
was involved.
Jim Gerberich-Under the
leadership of George
Paules, Vardens Studio,
Lancaster, Jim uniquely
mounted colored
photographs.
The Career Elective Pro-
gram came to an end on
Friday, May 23.
James Gerberich
June 4, 1975