C E Ellison High School - Free Spirit Yearbook (Killeen, TX)

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1 LAB-flab'l-a period devoted to work or study in a classroom. Throughout the year teachers assigned labs. The students were pleased. To many students a lab was basically uno work . David Collier said, 'ILabs are fun and like a class project. It may have seemed fun and like a free day, but it was really a regular workday. Instead of just listening to a teacher lecture about the operation, the students would actually be conducting and ex- perimenting with frogs, worms, chemicals or foods. Many different lab courses were offered. Some of the more popular were biology, chemistry, physical science and homemaking. A few others that might not have been thought of as labs were drafting, art, photography and shop. Some of the more popular labs in- cluded dissecting the worm and frog in biology. When asked how she felt about dissecting a frog, Amanda Everhart replied, 'iUgh . Richard jackson said, 'Il don't like it. In homemaking the labs were more domestic like preparing meals and making shirts. Louie Longoria said, 'II liked homemaking because we made good food, and it was fun. An upper level lab course was physics, the study of the laws of science. Charles DeShazo said, uPhysics labs are fun, I think. IN Mrs. Malone's biology class Tana Hegin- botham, Greg Crowell, and Toni Sortino take turns looking in a microscope at slides they prepared from material in the inside of their mouths. DAVID COLLIER measures the length and mass of a block of wood in a physical science lab. GINGER CHAFIN and julie Thomas work together on the force table during their physics lab. RALPH AVERY practices taking pictures of people, but gets his picture taken by Marcus Sisko first. Labs - 15 layout and copy by Lisa Anker

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.a .ca vu 3 :- w c 3 nc :- .Q 2 .S Q. 12 - Electives WAYNE LOVELIS, Meg Gwaltney, and Melissa Reeves enjoy learning the respon- 'sibilities of driving by using the simulators in Driver's Ed class. LORETTA SHEPPARD prepares for a timed writing in Office Practice. Il fl! .1 T' wi Q---.....,,, VQYV -P., Y .nv' W? DONNIE VALE, Kenny Segal, james Carey, sions of the Egg-McMuffin on a p and Jerry Bark are making their own ver- stove,

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ONE of the many lessons taught in VOE is learning to listen to the employer. Arlene Sequeira and Kim Shockley practice their listening techniques with their instructor, Mrs. Annette Harman. CHARLES WHITE checks and replaces a broken picture tube on a television brought in by a customer. .+..l' NX.-'aa A. N www' 'st fs fe it 1-,,t,-vw.-, ,, N ' 'Iii Ziff' 'K . - CARL GENTRY works on a tiller which is us- ed to plow ground for a garden, a type of engine the students learn to repair in their class. ONE of the skills needed to be mastered in order to work in retail and sell- ing is how to run the cash register. Ron Roder demonstrates how to Luis Alverez during their DE. class. 16 Vocational R , i