McClellan High School - Lion Yearbook (Little Rock, AR)

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. V .Q dwarf Working in personnel can be a hectic job as well as a fun one. Susan Jones operates the switch- board. She got her start at the Highway Department through COE. Scheduling work at the Highway Department is Alice Rain. She began through COE. ,,aaaan,. . - Receiving assistance from Mrs. Cummings during Typing I class is Jim Teague. COE: Front: Jean Ann Slavings, Crystal Allen, Mrs. Kay Beckworth, Csponsorl, Brenda Cheek, Barbara Hickman. Row 2: Susan Jones, Nancy Ross, Cindy Whittington, Dorothy Stacks, Kim Carter, Dana Williams, Karen Whitworth. Row 3: Vicki Watson, Carol Rich, Renae Jones, Angalique McGarity, Rhonda Goodwin, Melinda Hughes, Debbie Elliott. Row 4: Holly Melton, Donna Bemis, Brenda Selby, Terri Rouse, Alice Rain, Connie Cagle. Back: Terri Dicus, Patty Slocun, Diana Bailey, Becky Baggett, Ralph Shuster. fNot pictured: Donna Close, Robin Dunlap, Robin Fletcher, Carla Ledbetter, Robyn Townsend, Rebecca Truan, and Sue Phillips.J I Mrs. Burr's 4th and 5th period business law classes visited Judge Lowber Hendricks at the Circuit Court 5th division who recently ruled the Guest Statute unconstitutional. in Program scheduling at the Highway Department involves locating counties and districts. Here Barbara Hickman is finding a county for her boss. She was placed there through COE. FTA: Front: Angie Bryant, rep., Renee Russenburger, sec., Back: Bryan Smith, pres., Mrs. Moore, Csponsorl, Mrs. Herring, lsponsorl. Academicsf47

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With all the technological innovations in business, the emphasis in all our business teaching and learning activities should be to help students cultivate imagination, innovation, and creativity. -Doris Robey, teacher. Eumputsr Business Eames his is great! We made the right decisions this week. The seasonal index was high and we made a large profit. Next time, though, I think we should put more money into marketing expenses? These were some of the state- ments heard during Mrs. Robeyis lst and 2nd period Data Processing classes. They were involved in computerized business games spon- sored by AP8LL. For this concept to be successful, the cooperation of three groups of people was neces- sary. A business with an interest in educating young people about business and private enterprise was responsible for bringing these people together. Arkansas Power and Light Company worked with the econ- omic and business administration professors at the University of Arkansas at Monticello to develop the program for the computer. A primary goal of the computer- ized business games was to reinforce DECA: Front: Bobby Shepherd, historian, Scott Gross, parliamentar- ian. Back: Miss Finney, fsponsorj, Brenda Boyce, reporter, Chrystal Jones, v. president, Jennie Kirkpatrick, secretary, Tammy Ebsen, treasurer, Mr. Steele, fsponsorl. Missing, President Standley Henderson. 46 f Academics Data Processing Board of Directors: Tonya Loftin, secretary, Rebecca Higgins, treasurer, Renae Rapier, president, Rene Eagle, vice president. These students make the final decisions concerning the computerized business games. the concept of Management'by Objectives. Most of the functions of a business were simulated on the computer that is programmed to correspond to real worldu responses. Different schools competed as a firm against each other. Each firm was in a consumer goods industry selling one product. It was flight bags. While 2nd period Data Processing students discusi business game decisions, Mrs. Robey intervened witf several comments. , l 1 --' 1 E

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Since many boys going to college will soon be having their own apartments, it is important for them to take home economics too. -Mrs. Friedl, teacher nd Pans rid E ming Things 44 LU ill you hurry up! 'Tm washing dishes as fast as I can. We're only fixing about 100 cheeseballs for the tea, you know? But we only have five minutes, and for once, I want to finish on time. Holding a tea for the faculty members on December nineteenth, the Home Ec. Department displayed their achievements to the teachers. Home Ec. students wore clothes they had made and the Foods and Nutrition class prepared the refreshments. Ten FHA girls competed in a fashion show at the State Federation XX meeting held in Jacksonville. At the convention, Valerie Hinton won the position of First-Vice-President. HERO, another club of the Home Ec. Department, held an Employers Employee Banquet at Murry's Dinner Playhouse on March twenty-seventh. HERO also hosted Sylvan Hills and some naval chefs, Culinary Arts Team from Fort Brag, Virginia, at a seminar held at the school. Sampling some food, Janet Gann expresses het dislike. 1 Making a robe for their Home Ec. project is Jervi Broadway and Gary McCoy. l Threading the machine to finish their last minut sewing is Clarise Kelly and Linda Golatt. 48 X