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

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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

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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 Little Earninz . . . A Lot of Learnine REGINA LORNSON practices to improve join the Metal Trades class. ANTHONY workmanship by using an acetylene torch TREVINO learns to speak correctly over to weld metal. Lornson is the first girl to the telephone in his VOE class. X . .E Q VOCATIONAL: Pertaining to, pro- viding, or undergoing training in a special skill to be pursued as a trade. ln the high school each vocational class had a goal: to prepare students for careers. From Office Education to Small Engine Repair, students had a large range of choices. Welding, one of the many voca- tional courses offered, taught the students on the job training, and some worked after school at jobs pertaining to welding engineering. Welding students, Larry Rey and Jessie Richardson said, 'We came here to learn and to communicate with people. And according to Thomas Ruegames, llWelding is something you can use later on in your life and it is also something that you normally would not learn. ln other courses like Distributive Education and Vocational Office Education, students studied clerical work whether it was running a cash register at a fast food place or work- ing at a bank. Michelle Lenox said, l'm in this class to get job ex- perience and to learn more about people. And lamie Mew who worked at Killeen Teachers' Federal Credit Union said, 'lt got me a jobl'f Two other classes offered to students were Small Engine Repair and Radio and Television Repair. ln small engine repair, students learned to repair lawn mowers and kitchen appliances whereas in Radio and Television, students worked on tape recorders, radios, and stereos as well as televisions. Nick D'Alessio said, 'This class helps me study for a future occupation, not necessarily televisions but electronics. Vocational 17 layout and copy by Vdcy He g