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

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Junior Kathy Palmer studies for a test. VOE students studied office skills. Miguel Marioni, junior, works diligently on his drawing in VOC Drafting. Skills were taught to students who wanted a career. These two classes helped students prepare For the job world Vocational Office Education is an excep- tional preparational program. VOE was divided into two different categories. One was the VOE lab, sponsored by Mrs. Marsha I believe that VOC drafting is one of the two most im- portant electives offered here. - David McGee Murray and the other was the VOE co-op, sponsored by Mrs. LaDean Houck. In the VOE lab, students were trained to perform office duties such as typing, filing, and some computer operations. This part of the program was for juniors only. In the VOE co-op, students worked half a day and attended school the other half. These people received pay as well as credits for their performance. Only seniors could take part in this activity. A student had to take a typing test, fill out 98 VOE f VOC Drafting . an application and be interviewed by the teacher before they could get in these classes. Vocational drafting, taught and sponsored by David McGee, is the universal language of industry. It is the perfect example of a picture worth one thousand words. Without drafting, not even the simplest building could be built properly. The main purpose of VOC drafting was to help students understand industrial pro- cesses after they were out of school and working. Drafting tied together all industries into a general language. Roland Kuhleman, who also taught draf- ting, had been teaching for four years. Mr. Kuhleman spent half a day here and half a day at Richland. Drafting will help anybody in any job, but vocational drafting gives them that extra edge so that they know just a little bit more than others, Mr. Kuhleman said. Mr. Kuhleman had two Haltom students that worked at Tandy. Julie Wills, junior, adds up some figures on the adding machine in VOE.

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sis lb X 35 EN' E x X Students who had a loue for cars got a chance to learn cz profession and their new-found knowledge made Motors pun' and chrome shine lt feels good to transfer my knowledge to them lstudentslf' Mr. Charles Cautrell, teacher and sponsor of Auto Body, said. To get a car into the shops, there was a list on which your name was placed. How soon your car was maintenanced depended mostly upon if it was educational to the students. The people whose cars were used paid only for parts and materials. These people did not pay for labor because the students received a grade for the work that was done. Among the things that were done by these students were smoothing out, repairing and replacing damaged auto parts, painting cars and working with plastic and fiberglass. Three students who showed exceptional talents, according to Mr. Cautrell, were Cur- tis Williams, junior, Cliff Robinson, senior, and Terry Wilson, sophomore. To Mr, Cautrell, these students could already do a job without having me breathe down their necks. Working on the engines of automobiles was considered just as important as working on the body of the cars. Auto mechanic classes, which have been taught by Harold Black for ten years, were working on this task throughout the year. Mr. Black stated that if he had to teach any other course he would not be interested. I feel that what l'm doing has to help the students' future. Auto mechanical training can be con- verted and applied to other related fields as well. Most of the students who wished to broaden their knowledge made plans to at- tend some sort of technical school. A trained auto mechanic can make as much as S500 a week, with auto technicians getting an estimated 540,000 a year. Mr. Black commented, 'iIt's going to be here for a long time. People will always need transportation, and people to repair it. Someday I have plans of opening my own auto body shop. - Kevin Atkinson Sophomore Terry Wilson sands a car in the shop to prepare it for priming. Sophomores Martin Gonzales and Joe Novak help other class members service an engine. Auto Body f Auto Mechanics 97

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sr M? all K H Butch Long, junior, watches closely as Mr. Roland Kuleman makes a few corrections on his drawing. VOE: Bottom row: Shelly Williams, Debbie Norsworthy, Julie Runnels, Lynn Mosses. Top row, LaDean Houck, Neva Eudy, Sandra Taylor, Rhonda Sills, Sandra Mays, Patricia Werry. VOEg Bottom row: Jennifer Price, Georgia Lewis, Jayleen Gutkowskl, Cheri Green, Teresa DePorta, Karen Roeder. Top row: Sherry Brown, Becky Parker, Julie Wills, Crista Hunter, Vlckle Baldwin, Bonnie Ryan. VOE Drafting: Bottom row: Roland Kuhleman, Miguel Marion, John Algiene, Butch Long, Steve Pfelfer, Greg McCurry, Wade Peterson. Top row: Bryan Beykln, Wade Clowdus, Carl Maclln, Jason Dickerson, Bobby Lough, Roy Lee. VOE f VOC Drafting 99