Douglas MacArthur High School - Brahma Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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In Vocational classes, such as welding, students get both knowledge and MIS- Alice Boggan, Health 0CC'1P3t10n5 practical training. A long neglected and underrated part of education has arrived. . .the vocational de- partment helps career bound students learn the trade of their choice . , . the department's 400 enrollees picked from a broad curriculum including Data Processing, Welding, Vocation- al Drafting, Air Conditioning and Refrigera- tion, Office Education, Electrical Trades, Electronics, Distributive Education and Indus- trial Cooperative Training . . . vocational strives to unite knowledge with practical experience. advisor, reviews student job assignments Mr, Alfred Peiper uses a pie graph to illustrate his lecture

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Emphasizes Money-Making Skills Beca Krause works on the completion of an assignment for typing. Coach Gene Smith, typing instructor, receives his hero medal. Business education has no one primary objective . . . it is both vocational and general education . . . Four Business Education instructors combine to teach eight courses for students interested in a business career . . . freshman through seniors can choose from a variety of courses . . . General Business, Typing I and II, Short- hand, Business Law, Bookkeeping, Stenographic, Of- fice Practice, and Clerical Office Practice.

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Vocational Stresses Practicality MN Mr. Geor e Rona ri t demonstrates the use of a reversing device to his Air Conditioning and 5 Y C sh J Refrigeratlon class. Mrs. Lynette Transou files records on her voca- tional training class. Welding instructor, Mr. Frank Bradfield, traces diagrams on a test paper.