Dobie High School - Roundup Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Cappi Lemke types her program onto a special disc to be stored lor later use. Miller, junior, looks over his to make sure it is correct. tttl 'X 'ig jiilxw thleen Murrell, Ginny Bollman, Vickie Working on their jobs is Carolyn McCall's typing class. Typing was not required, but many Eran, Betty Battle, and Jill Smith model students chose to take itg however, T-shirts displaying the quadratic formula. typing was not recommended for freshmen. .. Business lis year the business education department worked on raising its ln order to familiarize students planning to major in business with ards in the typing classes to what they used to be. According to the business world, the business education department offered many a Rowe, department head, the course had gotten way too office-oriented courses. Office machines, for instance, gave students the opportunity to practice business math functions on the calculator. :sides typing, the business department offered accounting, shor- Office procedures readied students to enter the office environment , office procedures, office machines, general business, and instruced them in basic secretarial skills such as filing, an- ess law, free enterprise, and record keeping. However, record swering the phone correctly, and making duplications, ling had to be dropped from the curriculum this year because no This year brought a slight change in the business law course. signed up tor it. Business law is a study of basic legal rights, however, the course en though students were not required to take any business has become more consumer-oriented instead of business-oriented. ses to graduate, many signed up tor them because they were The teachers who taught the business courses this year along with ir planning to major in business or just wanted to learn a useful Rowe where Donna Romans, Blanche Flores, Carolyn McCall, and Rowe said that Business offers a variety of entry level job Brenda Sabo. 5 that no other department can offer. M3IhBlTl3llCSf BUSll19SS 177

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Hoa Trieu works on her business math problems during her office machines class. 4 f ,. . . . ' .2 .W , N eww-7' Xf m 'i,,L f , ., M, . . , -4ezfttss2,q,,Vh4,hrX .f v 1 ' .1 it ' Q .V .rf . 'M t I . ff e .. .fat s ,WIS , af' 0 '-,M J Sf if ' If .f A-' 4 After failing on his first try, Sam Hari makes a second attempt to locate his p I ,4f ' 9 7'7. 4 '4 ?,,4 Y aww-nl on an Apple Il computer as Bill Eggleston watches in the computer room. Mathematics , According to Jill Smith, mathematics department head, Teachers who are very professional and encourage the students to do their best is what the math department is all about. These professionals taught introductory Algebra, Algebra I-IV, geometry, trigonometry, elementary analysis, calculus, computer math, survey math, fundamental mathematics, and mathematics of consumer educations to students trying to fulfill their two-year requirements of math. There were many students, however, who chose to take more than just two years of math. Of the extra courses taken, computer math was enjoyed most by students. There were about 51 students enrolled in the computer classes and an additional 21 students came before and after school just to use the computers. Students in the computer classes made programs to find solutions to math problems, and they devised programs for games they made up. 176 MathematiCS!BusineSS The math department made seven micro computers avalla students to use, including the four new Apple ll computers TE this year. For those students who completed two semesters of c before graduation,Eva Gates taught survey math. This year the only one student enrolled in this course. This student, San L also the only student to ever take the second semester of math. According to Gates, survey math covers topics a would encounter in his third semester of calculus in college. also said that she did not really teach Le, but she acted as visor or consultant when he had any questions. Others who taught math courses this year besides Smith and were Glenn Barnhill, Sharon Boeger, Janice Hassinger, Robert Betty Battle, Merlin Mohr, Judy Kemler, Vickie Cochran, Young, Virginia Bollman, Kathleen Murrell, and Dennis Shippey. 5 3

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Shelly Ainsworth, Susan Calp, and Theresa Autry wait in line to vote in the last of this school's elections to be counted with voting booths. Students in John Rodger's American Historyclass prepare tol notes. Duyen Nguyen lables her Korean map in Mike Morgan's American history class. R Social Studies This was the last year that students were required to take Advaced Social Studies Problems, ASSP courses were dropped from the curriculum. The head of the Social Studies department was Catherine Haney, who taught Texas History and ASSP. Haney discussed the future of the department. There were no new courses added this year, although Contemporary World History was dropped due to the lack of student interest. While discussing the improvements needed in the department, Haney replied, l think that social studies teachers should be full teachers, and not part time teachers, part time coaches. Looking ahead, Haney said she believes the following years will be discouraging because of the teacher turnover due to the curriculum changes this year. Haney enjoyed her work, and when asked about the best part of 178 Social Studies being a teacher in her department was, she said I love how the teachers all work together. This department was one of the largest in the school due tg variety of courses offered. On the freshman level there was ASS the sophomores, world history was the requirement, and juniors seniors had to have American history as well as governmer graduate, For those students who completed their requirements decided that they still enjoyed social studies classes, they could Government B and C, sociology or Contemporary American Histor These classes were taught by Ron Adams, Jean Boudreaux, Chamblin, David Chollett, Sandy Cleckler, Judy Dugas, C Finley, Mike Fox, Richard Golenko,Haney, Bobby Kramer, McKinney, Janice Miller, Mike Morgan, John Rodgers, Linda man, Charlie Sievers, and Scott Talton.