Austin High School - Comet Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Computers schedule closses puzzle, confuse Whenever there is a major world change, there is a generation that grows up with it. For our parents it was the Depression and World War II, for us, more fortunately, it is the dawn of the Computer Age. This year's senior class is the first to go all the way through Austin High on com- puterized schedules. There is no longer anything unusual about studying data pro- cessing in high school. International Business Machine recently moved in down the street and many students work at IRS. oclministrotion Students going on to the University of Texas will see more advantages of the computer. They will be served in many ways by the expanding Computation Center there. Twenty years from now, we will be in a wide variety of occupations. In whatever line of work We choose, the computer is likely to be involved. Our children will have lived with computers all of their lives. We will recall the first struggles with computerized schedules. And then we can say, I remem- ber very well when we started using themf' A Computer scheduling brought problems. Charles Trapp, Mrs. Eloise Brooks, Mr. Dale Jackson, Kathleen Morgan, Miss Lilybeth Lewis, Eugene Armistead, and Neil Williams struggle with schedules. Q Computers are capable of saving precious hours of work. While Mrs. Mary Katherine MacDougall, Larry Kille, Mary Jo Neal, and Ben Crenshaw look on, the computer processes income tax forms at IRS. lllnsuanqwmr A Computerized class schedules caused more problems than were anticipated. Red Jackets Robin Mueller, Sharon Reed, Pam Reed, and Arm Whitworth try to solve some with Mr. Dale Jackson. 17

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