David Crockett High School - Texan Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Surviving without Mom Domestic skills are necessary for everybody Homemaking, not just f'or girls. Guys and girls coming out of high school and going into college have an extremely large sense of independence, more so in the 80,s than before. Surviving on their own isn't just school during the week and, PARTY, on the week-ends. Keeping a decent house is something that shouldnlt be avoided. Some people like living in a nuclear dump site fwhere your socks stick to the walll and eating cold pizza and chocolate milk every night, but that's not one of my favorite pastimesf'At first I just wanted to do it then I set a goal to learn more about it, said Junior homemaking CGUYJ student Jerry Klekotta. He won the departmental award for homemaking at the lst annual Cougar Gold Award. It has been thought that the most common parts of homemaking, cooking and clothing, would be taught in the same course. However, they are each split up with two other different fields. CookingfNutrition!Housing are taught in one class and Clothing!Family Living!Child Development are in the other. Cooking deals with the basics of planning, preparing, and serving meals. The nutritional portion has to do with the principles of nutrition applied to growth. The housing part stresses on the influences of housing on family living. They don't tie together as well as the cooking-clothing combination, but teach a little of what you need to know in order to keep you and your future family in sinc. The process of cooking is a real means of therapy toward nutritional eating and being better fed,,'said Homemaking Teacher Minta Palmer. More guys are taking homemaking now. They're more concerned with cooking if they are fixing it themselvesg they have fun and like to eat, said Palmer. Clothing is a basic necessity and a lot of people fespecially guysj are helpless when the simple task of sewing on a button comes up. Not much knowledge is needed of sewing to know how to put on a button and hem up something, and clothing goes far beyond this point. They have to widen what is taught of that subject, could you imagine the final if they didn't. Clothing covers the significance of clothing and design, the selection and care of clothing,and the construction of garments ffar beyond the feats of normal menj. Family living and child development are two other subjects the class takes in hand. These two things, also, fall extremely close to 50!Homemaking one another, parallel you might say. Family gets kids ready fsome of us sooner than othersl for just that, family living, which goes over appreciation of self and others, family relationships, getting along with others, and dating. Child development deals with basic child care. Some of the subjects in family living fdating, getting along with others, family relationshipsl point x 5 'Wir -X5 'Na r ,J ff' 1 ' 5 1 ibu- izrf ff' directly to the subject covered in child development, basic child care. All these things help the young people of Crockett and thoughout the U.S.A. prepare themselves for life after school QTHE FINAL FRONTIERJ. by Christy Hodson lj i , 'I 2 4 I Q' Q If Q , if N of t xt N' , vi-xi fwmt tlilx 44-1 c, I ' ,, .I

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Helping Hand As a student walks into Crockett High rr the first time, the great numbers of eople overwhelm him. There are nearly D00 students and nearly 400 teachers and laff. To help students feel welcome and to lake the school run more smoothly there also a great support staff. These are the Ffice personnel, librarians, cafeteria orkers and custodians. One of the first people to lend a hand is Irs. Sarah Bauer, the telephone operator id receptionist. She said that there are .any little jobs that she does but they reep things interesting. Every new student must meet Mrs. ay Clardy, the registrar, when they enter :hool. Her job is to register new students, eep up permanent records and send the ecords of transferring students to their ew school. There is a real river of people lat flows through my office. Everyone knows Mrs. Geisg she's the one ith the funny accent. Her duties have her Jing just about anything. She writes per- mits when no one else is available, she gets messages to students. Mrs. Geis tries to keep up with many of the students she comes into contact with, I've been to every home baseball and football game for the last ten years. I wouldn't work anywhere else. Because being a librarian requires so much responsiblitiy and takes so much energy, there are three full time profes- sional librarians who divide their duties to keep our library in in good shape. They can help find a particular title or suggest one that might be what a reader needs. Our duties keep us busy and we don't get a chance to get very close to many students. said Ms. Dorothy Laird. I get the satisfac- tion of helping so many people. There are sixteen women who prepare meals in the cafeteria each day. With 1200 people eating there each day, that can become a monumental task. The basic design and contents of a school lunch are dictated by state and federal regulations. Within this framework, it is the job of food service manager, Mrs. Ann Smith to make meals that students will eat. Trying to satisfy both the federal government and teenagers is a real challenge. Mrs. Smith said, This is my 27th year here at Crockett, so I think I can say that I do en- joy my job here. There are 21 custodians who keep the rooms, outside areas, and hallways safe and clean. Their job is compounded because of the dual usage of the school facilities by Austin Community College. Each custodian is responsible for six to ten rooms as well as restrooms, hallways and sometimes the lawns or patio areas. Custo- dian coordinator, Otelia Peterson, arrives every day at 6:30 to unlock the school and to get ready for the day. She is in charge of all the custodians and it is her responsibili- ty to make sure things get done. Of her workers she says, this school couldn't sur- vive without the people who really keep it going. We keep Crockett on its feet. ..,,...,.- N22 i W . I sg I f-A 4 'P 2 'Q- v . 5 is ' -x ': xl . f' wi ff 4,55 .fQ1y ii .' 'T' ze. f W N f . 3-iZ'fg,ef1.g x W if . fi-I, , f f f f ' 5145, ' .Q .W 7 l T' I f ' . ...,,,,,l..gf , t..b.f I ge Mrs. Clardy, registrar, uses a computer that is. tied in ta the school district's main computer to keep up with Crockett's 3000 students. ...l- ,. .l, + 'I X 3f ' .3-5,-.ill , -, Q iii-f Often it seems like the paperwork breeds and multiplies at night. Diana Johnson needs to get as much done as possible to keep the work from overwhelming her. in oi 'lf . ,. H '. l Support Personnel!49

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Below: Port of the homvmoking cooking course is to Qlan, prepare, and serve meals, and here some hungry Jeoplf' selvvled lu try their meal, eagerly stuff their aces. -0-wi' 7.5- rr my 1 X: K4 .b..,,, C U vs 'f 'K ri 4 K 'K ev Q'- 'vxv f ' X 'M ,f Left: Sewing isn't just needle and thread, and Senior Rashiha Khatoon is well aware of this as she prepares a pattern for a new garment. H Y ,, L ,Qs ,ii ff Jerry Dean Lola Fowler Foods Community Living Family Living Interior Design Minta Palmer Foods Clothing Listening is a very important skill in any class, even homemaking. So these students are listening and learning in their cooking class. Homemaking!51