Dobie High School - Roundup Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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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.

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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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l .gs ., 3 . i ,W hallenging courses and good teachers are what the science artment had'to offer this year. Beatrice'Borja, department head, ductory chemistry and physics teacher, commented, One ot the things about the department was the eager teachers and their eration. lasses added this year were physiology and environmental ince. The reason they have been added is to give the students e ot a choice and also to fill the state requirements for more rs of lab work in the courses, Borja explained. An early case of dalism delayed the progress in the science courses because glass nets were cracked, and many crucibles and beakers were -cen. re University interscholastic League science team competed in sts throughout the year. Sponsors Nancy Walker and Bill Ey led the science team students to capture many trophies in lus tournaments. nda Perez, basic introductory chemistry and physics. as well as. Marine Science, taught by Russell , juniors, Annette Mingarelli Fisher disect a baby shark S, Science physics teacher, -was invited to attend the National Convention on Precollege Education in Mathemiatics and Science in Washington, and to fill in her class as substitute was her husband, Leopoldo Perez, who was an aerophysicist. Estis Lander. supervisor ot science within the district, also acted as substitute durng Perwz's absence. A Chemical Engineering Career Day was also sponsored by the science department. Lloyd Fannin, Karen Crowe, Richard Bhoden, and Kathy Collins of Texas Alkyls, were guest speakers. Other teachers that taught science courses were Bettie Holt, Biology ll and physiology, Terri Estes, introductory chemistry and physics, Bobby Blackwell, biology, Lou Parlangeli, chemistry and chemistry ll, Lois Anderson, chemistry and geology, Tom Neuendorft, biology, Anne Holeman, biology and environmental science, Jimmie Lange, introductory chemistry and physics, Russell Hooper, marine science, Greg Layton, introductory chemistry and physics. Jon Schmitz. physiology, Walker, biology and advanced biology for ninth grade. and Ashby, introductory chemistry. Science 179