Deer Park High School - Deer Yearbook (Deer Park, TX)

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reparation makes job applications easier Learning parliamentary procedure, group planning and organization, 70 local participants of the Vocational Opportunity Clubs of Texas obtained leadership training in the Coordinated Vocational Academic Education class, or CVAE. Planned to aid students in their jobs, sub- jects also included interview and application techniques, personal grooming, income tax, budget and finance, social security, safety, atti- tude and personality development and employee-employer relations. Composed of 1 1 juniors and 22 seniors who enrolled at the end of their sophomore or junior years, membership is divided between two class periods. CVAE I, held second period, acquaints participants with general aspects of the business world, while CVAE ll, held third period, encourages them to graduate into positions which will teach them a specific trade or career. Being a work program, all students leave by fourth period for their respective jobs on which two-thirds of their grades are based. Although Mr. Steve Glenn, coordinator, provides leads by contacting surrounding businesses about participation in the program, members must obtain positions on their own. Provided it is legal, moral and safe, every occupational field is open. Participants range from service station attendants, grocery store clerks and lumber store stockers to industry trainees and food service employ- ees. A. Employed at the Fox Photo in Deer Park after fourth period, junior Flobbin Peeples takes orders. B. In charge of the bank balance and bookkeeping at the Southern Title Company in downtown Houston, senior Alfred Martinez, trea- surer, gathers information on banking and insurance. C. Senior Lara Gladden, secretary of the club, posts the mascot, a penguin designed as a likeness of Mr. Glenn. D. Setting the tables, junior Donna Van Wagner, an assistant supervisor over the night crew at Taco Bell in Pasadena, helps prepare the south campus cafeteria for the Employee-Employer Banquet. E. As a clerk at Deer Park Lum- ber Company, senior Brad Busby's duties include mixing paint and stocking lumber and hardware. F. Researching business magazines, senior Dean Bell makes up a list of questions to ask an insurance salesman before buying. G., Seniors Lara Gladden and Janice Smith look up the different types of banks and which kind of insurances to buy while studying a banking and insurance unit. H. Glancing through a Career World Magazine, senior Janice Smith takes advantage of the 'library' of career-related booklets available in the CVAE class- room. CVAE 1 PAGE 31