Jersey Village High School - Falcon Yearbook (Houston, TX)

Page 192 text:

Many JV students receive on-the-job training in offices right in their own com- munity. They are typing, keeping books, filing, answering the telephone, doing administrative and secretarial work. VOE is a two-year program beginning with the pre-Employment Laboratory at the iunior level tor two hours each day. Students must have completed a typing course before enrolling in Pre-Employ ment Lab, and some student will have also have taken recordkeeping, account- ing or shorthand. ln VOE, students do exercises to improve these basic skills. Students also receive individual and group instruction on calculators, meth- ods of tiling correspondence, proper tele- phone techniques, and use of transcrip- tion machines. Today there is an ever rising call from parents for schools to teach abilities that can be easily adapted for use in the com- munity. Here at J.V. the Career Course Department fills that valid. C EECICT H DE rw CD ur 3 Ei' CJ It CJ G7 -4 Q '4 P' nt This was John Truehitt's first year as an Ag. teacher here. 188 - Faculty and Academics F.F.A. members worked hard during Ag. in their own metal shop. l New Vocational Club of America members were put through initiation.

Page 191 text:

l Being employees of Serendipity Inc. is hard work, just ask the Flecep- Senior Diane Morris was one of the first girls to enroll in auto mech. tionist Pat Lyons or the Sales Clerk Lisa Smith. this year. As part of their on the job training students in C.V.A.E. built a house. Faculty and Academics - 187

Page 193 text:

FACULTY Donna Badger VOE Bob Jackson Distributive Ed. Lisa Fischer CVAE John Truehitt ' VOC- AQ. Toni Hall , Department Chair- person, Homemak- ing all L i Cl'13Vl9S Watson Laura Leatherwood Auto IVlech. Pre-employment Business Lab I-elafid Moore Annette Jackson VOC- AQ- Cosmetology Charles Powell Jim Floach CVAE ICT Bill Nunnallee Voc. Adjustment Coordina- l tor Faculty cmd Academics - l89