Lanier High School - Viking Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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4 To learn about plants you have to work with them. An Ag Co-op student, Curt Kasper enjoyed the easy no hassle atmosphere at Vaught's nursery. i011 Jobs for Credit howing livestock, giving make-up jobs at Merle Normans, cutting hair, and selling diamond rings at Edison's. Three hundred-plus students in vocational programs learned a val- uable trade through on-the-job-training. Algebra taught us how to find missing variables, which might be used in figuring out income tax, but income tax came long after high school. Classes like DE, VOE, and Auto-Mechanics gave stu- dents the thorough training they needed to handle a job - while on the job - now. Solid academic classes prepared us for college and gave us tid- bits of information for conversation. But the vocational classes really showed us our potential and our limitations. Practical skills like typing, selling technqiues, credit procedures, and shorthand let us know if secretarial work would suit us better than salesmanship. And if we liked it, the vocational program made it easier for us to get the job. We recognized the value of money, After making our own money, we didn't spend it as fast, Two-thirty an hour didn't stretch as far as our parents' salaries. We had to use psychology to keep a job. We found subtle ways to ask our supervisors for the day off, and telling a customer that their lay-away item was accidentally sold to someone else was a breeze, We realized that college wasn't necessary to get a good job. An electrician could earn up to 340,000 a year, while college educated teachers, architects, and lawyers were finding it harder to land jobs. The white collar demand was slipping. Secre- taries, plumbers, farmers, and salesmen played an important role in society. Whatever society needed in goods and services, vocational students could deliver. work classes 107

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