Haltom High School - Buffalo Yearbook (Haltom City, TX)

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8 VOCATIONAL OFFICE EDUCATION Sl-fills and jobs for office Workers T ping essential Typing and filing may not appeal to some peo- ple, hut to others, they are essentials of a career after graduating. Througliout the year the students in Vocational Uffice liducation practiced and studied to work in office related professions by actual on-the-rob training. 'l'he girls in VOIQ worked in various husi' 1. nesses as llaltom City llall and llaltom City State 1' Bank doing jobs that ranged from secretarial work to computer programming. Requirements for hem' accepted into VOli include taking typing and or any business-related course. Students applying for the course must he seniors and they were interxiewed for acceptance in the spring of their junior year. VOIS Lalw was a pre-requisite for juniors to take. The girls work from X-12 or l-5 five dats a week. Mrs. l.a Dean Ciunter, VOIQ teacher. said. lt gives them an opportunity to make money while gaining xaluahle experience. livery spring the girls compete against other V012 students around the area, to see who is most skilled in office related procedures, Mrs. Gunter and Mrs. Marsha Nlurray coordi- nate the program. lfach year a student that does outstanding in VOli is awarded the departmental award. which was given to llehlvie Proctor. Most activities were planned hy the club offi- cers, and at the end of the year there was an empltryer-employee hanquet. Typing business letters for REHO Construction Company, Senior Debbie Proctor works from 1 p.m. to 5 p,m. tal, l iw., Q 9 .Q K xx nu--- ' Y qxf K ii.. w'i Receiving checks for the Haltom City Police Department, Seniorjeana Hamiltom keeps a rally. Filing for the city attorney Senior julie Roeder maintains a job at city hall.

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REMODELING PROJECT 'Q , gli M W4 FS: 3' 4 if t n s 1 i7 5 1 Q -ff Q Wi sl I 'Ft . P . i v n ij Y Y vm, f f 1, f 5 3 war Y ' . .gt Q A .,.....,,,,,, v 1 5 I , f-fe: ' ' if! 6 vf J! K iik V. dr, n of I Bill Dunlap, a member ofthe Vocational Drafting Class, sketches plans for the construction trades house, Home furnishing students were also involved in the project. Located on Layton Street off Belknap, the house showed many signs of neglect when first purchas- ed, but improved after construction trades spent five months working on it. in fi lv'S-rw - . eff? 4.1

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FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA 3 'Z qw' -K , FFA members Tracy Anderson, james Ripple, Bobby Hill and Bart jackson take time to talk between workshops at the district convention. as ., K -- Area FFA at Coliseum V W., 9-A M mm ixii ,. whqw I Bobby Hill observes chap display on a Vocational Agriculture field trip at the Fat Stock Show. Theme building Future Farmers of America were seldom heard from during the year, but they did a few activities besides their regular farming duties. They hosted the area convention May 11. The local chapter was represented by james Ripple, Bobby Hill, Bart jackson, Tracy Anderson, Marc Saddlemire, Trey Blevins and joey Dorman. Six hundred and fifty FFA members from 115 schools attended the con- vention at Wiley G. Thomas Coliseum. Delegates elected area officers, a state officer, a state candidate, an area talent team and an area beauty queen to participate in the state FFA convention scheduled forjuly in Dallas. The Haltom voting delegate was Sheila Tillery. No students from Haltom ran for an area office, Building Tomorrow's Today was the theme for National FFA Week in February. During the week FFA distributed compli- mentary litter bags and bumper stickers. They set up a display in the showcase across from the main office showing that FFA included a variety of jobs and projects, such as conservation, A 9