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Advanced resources As the 21st century unfolds, innovative technology has become the leading agent of change in our society.
guide future leaders
Castle High teaches technology and
the ability to adapt to tomorrow's changesCastle High celebrates 50 years
ABOUT THIS PAGE
YOU ASKEDBy Andrea Mary Tacon
Na Pali 'O Ko'olauOne reason the United States is a technological leader is its advanced system of technical education. Education, the process by which we develop and train the next generation for running the world, must not only adapt to the changes technology has brought about, but it must also lead in creating the changes.
Today's students must be adaptable, creative and technically capable in order to survive. Education must provide them with the skills they need to lead themselves through this mind-boggling transformation.
That's why Castle High School strongly believes in providing students with the best technology-related courses and advanced software.
At Castle, computers and other technological equipment are being used more and more by teachers and students. Philip Acosta, for example, teaches two technology classes.
One course trains students to become computer technicians. They study the operation, construction and repair of computers and computer networks.
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In their second year, these students help set up a business that repairs and maintains computers.Acosta's second technology course is called Oracle. Oracle is a high-powered program that helps to teach students how to construct and operate sophisticated databases used by businesses around the world. Most students in this program work toward an Oracle Certified Professional certificate.
Castle's computers help students learn typing and accounting, create layouts for the yearbook, and put together the school newspaper.
A new mobile lab consists of 16 laptop computers mounted on a cart. This cart has a wireless base station and the laptops have wireless network cards that allow teachers to check out a computer lab and take it into their classroom.
Anne Kuroda, one of Castle's librarians, said "these incoming laptop computers will be capable of providing the same programs and computer services just like any of the desktop computers provided for use in our library.
This cart is practically our library and our computer labs put together!"
Apart from providing this mobile lab, the library give students access to computers, video cameras and VCRs, interactive CD equipment, and computer server software.
The library also maintains a Web page that provides students access to all of its databases through the Internet. (Castle also has a general Web page maintained by social studies teacher William Beaver. www.k12.hi.us/~castle/welcome.htm )
To top everything off, fiber optic cables are being hooked up to most buildings in the lower campus, allowing classes to use various advanced communication technologies.
In this environment students learn to integrate their studies with the tools of advanced technology and to learn about the future and their places in it. Technology-based education includes applied art, applied business, applied science, applied math and applied sociology. It is design, communications, engineering, and personal development all wrapped up into a constantly evolving, adapting, future-thinking and creativity-leaping package.
As Acosta says, "Our advanced, technologically based education and environments are designed to meet today's educational requirements, and those of tomorrow."
Castle High celebrates Fifty years ago on Jan. 2, 1951, Principal Clinton Kanahele and his 700 students of Benjamin Parker High and Intermediate School made their move to the new Benjamin Parker Annex on Kaneohe Bay Drive.
50 years
The graduating class of '52 will
be honored at commencementBy Dana Watanabe
Na Pali 'O Ko'olauThere were only 25 classrooms available for use. A library, an office and four more classrooms were under construction. At the start of the 1951-1952 school year, the name changed to James B. Castle High and Intermediate School. The name was in honor of the grandfather of Harold Castle, who donated the lands that CHS stands on.
During the next school year, the new school received many new things, including a new principal, Clarence N. Watson. Construction started on a gym, auditorium and three extra rooms.
In the 21st century, things are much different. James B. Castle High School has an auditorium, an office, a media center, a little theater, a gym, locker rooms, two athletic fields and more than 100 classrooms. In 1952 we had only 700 students enrolled for six grade levels. Now we have 1,849 students enrolled in four grades. We also have a wonderful and qualified staff of 200 teachers. Our principal, Meredith Maeda, is a CHS grad himself, '65.
A 50th-anniversary party organized by our attendance counselor, Sam Kakazu, was held at the beginning of the year. The party included a dinner, sock hop dance, and a concert featuring talented alumni. The party was a success as 2,000 students and alumni mingled, connecting the past with the present.
Grand plans are being made for this year's graduation. This year's seniors will be the 50th graduating class. And as a tribute to the first graduating class of CHS, the senior class will be recognizing the entire class of '52 during the 2002 commencement exercises.
Each week, Hawaii's teenage reporters and photographers tell us about their high school. This week's school is Castle High. ABOUT THIS PAGE
Newspaper: Na Pali 'O Ko'olau
Editor-in-chief: Allison Martin
Faculty adviser: Joel Flor
Next week: Damien Memorial High School
Castle High
Full name: James Bicknell Castle High School.
Established: 1951
Principal: Meredith Maeda
Vice principals: Larry Biggs, Beverly Barnard and Sarah Gronna
Nickname: Castle Knights
School colors: Maroon, gold and white
Students: 1,849
Staff: 200
Yearbook: Kaulana
Address: 45-386 Kaneohe Bay Dr., Kaneohe, HI 96744
Telephone: 233-5600
Note to alumni: We want to know how you are and where you are. Please contact us.
Do you consider your relationship with your parents comfortable or strained? YOU ASKED
Brandice Cope
12th grade
"My relationship with my Mom is comfortable. I can talk to her about anything. She lets me go practically anywhere as long as she knows I'll be safe. She trusts my judgments. I love my Mom; she is terrific."Jared Nishitomi
11th grade
"The relationship between me and my parents is on a comfortable level. Since I value honesty and trust, I feel that whatever my parents want/need to know, they'll just have to ask and I will tell them."Deanna Hopkins
11th grade
"My relationship with my parents is very good. We are comfortable with each other. I tell my parents everything. We even have family day still. I love them to death."Delilah Irvine
11th grade
"My relationship with my parents is strained because they are always on my back to do better and to stop going out because it is making me slack off. Plus, I can never talk to them about things because they don't understand and they are so protective. They think the world is corrupt."Keola Bollan
12th grade
I think my relationship with my parents is comfortable. They don't push me to do things that I don't want to do. They support me in the things that I want to do as long as it is legal. My parents give me freedom but not so much that I run wild. They don't treat me like a little kid but rather as an adult. Ican talk to them about anything and they always have time for me."Kelli Miyasaki
11th grade
"My relationship with my parents is comfortable. I can open up to them if I want. They don't care if I have a boyfriend and they want me to have a license. When we have time, we do stuff together. This past week we went to the mall together. It was cool. They're cool people and I am okay with them. I love my parents. The sad thing is, I don't see them that much."Jara Jones
12th grade
"The relationship between me and my parents is somewhere in the middle of comfortable and strained. There are certain things I can talk to my parents about and they'll understand but sometimes I feel like I don't know how to talk to them and that even if I tried, they wouldn't understand."Derek Townsend
12th grade
"I consider the relationship between me and my parents to be very comfortable. My parents have always been there for me and because of that, we have a close relationship."Tara Gumapac
12th grade
"My relationship between my parents and myself is comfortable because they are always there for me when I need help or advice on something and they always make me laugh."Wellyn Fontaine
10th grade
"The relationship between me and my parents is usually comfortable except when I have problems at school, then our relationship becomes quite strained because the trust between us is lost."Brandon Tabios
11th grade
"My relationship with my parents is comfortable because they are very good parents. Even though they are divorced, I still get to see both of them because I stay with my Mom on the weekdays and my Dad on the weekends."Lisa Souza
11th grade
"I have a comfortable relationship with my parents because I am not afraid to be myself. We talk occasionally. Sometimes when they are in a bad mood, our relationship becomes strained, but not usually."
Compiled and photographed by Denise Woolsey and Remington Guyton, Na Pali 'O Ko'olau
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