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

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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

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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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J ob School Swap Students learning from vocational experiences 521 Vocational Vocation, n.-a particular occupa- tion, business, profession trade, or calling. In other words a vocation is a job. Often a school will have vocational programs in which the student goes to school half-day and to work the other half, receiv- ing full credit for the time they work. This describes Crockett's vocational program perfectly. There are nine different pro- grams available here, but a pre- vocational course must first be taken to help prepare the students for the new system. O.J.T.-lOn the Job TrainingJ,H.E.C.E.-lH0me Economic Cooperative Educa- tionl, Health Occupations, Health Careers, C.V.A.E.-iCooperative Vocational Academic Educationl foods, C.V.A.E.-Office Duplica- tions, I.C.T.-llndustrial Cooperative Trainingl, M.D.E.- lMarketing and Distributive Educationj, and P.E.L.E.-fPre- Employment Laboratory Educa- tionl all can be taken to better one's skills and experience in the chosen field. M.D.E. is a productive program at Crockett, and it has been ex- tremely popular with its students. The related club of M.D.E. is D.E.C.A. or Distributive Educa- tion Clubs of America which has many students that attend com- petitions throughout the city, state, and even the country winn- ing different types of honors in categories like finance and credit. Senior Blane Peery went all the way to San Francisco and now he is in the top 20 students in the en- tire country in finance and credit. When using the things obtained from M.D.E., You know what to look for in a job. They teach you the basics from advertise to bookeepingf' said Peery, It teaches mainly patience, respon- sibility, and how to deal with peo- ple in general. M.D.E. enables students to pro- gress at a much accelerated rate over people doing the same job, only without the training received through M.D.E.. The other voca- tional programs do the same thing as M.D.E., but in their field. When these students graduate they will be around two years ahead of other people as far as ex- perience and maturity are con- cerned, some go right into manage- ment jobs after two years of M.D.E., said M.D.E. teacher Wendell Koenig. 1 - -' Vocational programs may be something worthwile to look into. They help in getting the wanted and needed experience for the wanted and needed jobs out there, especially now in the 1980's. The purpose of these programs is to let students get the mental develop- ment for a job that they need, and to get rid of that unwanted in- timidation of some jobs in certain areas. C.P.R. is an extremely valuable skill to know and the H.O.S.A,-Health Occupa- tions class is a good place to learn it, just ask seniors Beverly Scherff, Sandra Llewellyn, and sophomore David Farrar. l ri ' ' M. we ,...v. 1' i - J .1 ' kj , 1-H . L ,,,..-f K- ia -.Z A F