King High School - Coronat Yearbook (Corpus Christi, TX)

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Creativity of Designs Sparks Drafting Club tZi fftH With pens in lian l. a small group of students interested in drafting attacked sheets of paper and turned out intricate and accurate designs. These students came toget- her in the King Drafting Chapter 686 which is a club affiliated with Vocational Clubs of America VICA. VICA brings together young men who share common interests for an exchange of ideas, a discussion of problems and the opportunity to work toward common pur- poses. VICA offers prestige and recognition through a national program of awards and contests. It broadens perspectives through interclub and interstate activities and offers co-curricular activities that make education and training more meaningful. In the spring, members competed in trade skills, job application, public speaking, parliamentary procedure and safety at Del Mar College in district competition, with winners advancing to state competition in April. Top; Drafting Club members were (sitting, l-r): Carlos Gonzalfz. John Johnson, Ken Hyden. presi- dent; Steve Daiton; (standing, l-r) Terry Gamble, Arnold Grimes. John Hand. Bottom; Steve Daiton (left) and Homer Laurel (right) work on difficult drafting designs to complete a class assignment. Organizations 55

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Alfred Projects Inexpensive Fun for Students (5 Above: IStudfiils who volunteered their time to Alfred this year were (First row, 1-r): Debbie Walden. Debbie ChurchUI. Caria Cavett, Behnda Avila, Andra Crawford. Gracie Garza, Parker Au- trv; (Second row. 1-r) Bonnie Wharton, Karen Easter, Rov Glaus. Kay Hendricks, Lila Hubner, Daniel Laser, Kathy Morgan, James Rasmussen; (Third row, 1-r) Estella Garza, Diane DeLong, John Johnson, Perry Hurley, Bill Jackson, Sylvia Cantu, Craig Lasscigne, Edward Rhodes, Mr. Mauricio Arevalo, Mrs. Lucy Hill, sponsor; (Not pictured) Sara Keene, Debbie Taggart, Bruce Kramer, Mrs. Dorothy Bailey, sponsor. Below, middle; Bonnie Wharton and Debbie Churchill arrange Alfred ' s advertising board in the concourse. Right; Roy Glaus and James Rasmussen work together during a meeting of the electronics committee. Every other Friday night a new adven- ture was brought to the screen of King ' s own student run movie theatre, Alfred. More than 25 movie-minded students composed various committees. A film selec- tion committee chose each film to be shown from selections offered by several film com- panies. The presentations were advertised by P.A. announcements and posters created by the publicity group. The actual showing was handled by the electronics committee com- posed of several student projectionists, while other students sold popcorn, candy and drinks. The movies were shown at the low price of 35 cent.s, except for special showings, such as the planned presentation of BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID. The entire affair was handled in a relaxed manner with the audience occuppying folding chairs or lounging on pillows on the floor. 54 Organizations

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Twenty-five King students earned mon- ey and gained on the job experience while taking classes of machine transcription, filing, typing and adding machine and calcu.- lator training at school. These students were part of the program known as OEA, or more formally, the Office Education Association. This has existed for five years. They obtained office procedure training in class and are graded on the quality of this work. In addition, the student must work a minimum of 15 hours per week which is also graded. The club met once a month to plan such activities as an annual employer appreciation banquet and a March field trip to San Antonio. An area contest was to be held in McAllen in April. Members of the OEA program were Middle: (First row, 1-r): Debbie .McGlaun, Connie Luedke, Carol Pilgrim, Doris Boyd, Marlene Richter, Pat Osborne, Anne Garcia, Norma Coffey, Debra Rhodes; Second row, 1-r); Wanda Sherwin, Cathy Dunn, Debbie Majors. Doreen Fry, Rhonda Goss, Sharon Pons, Sharon Daniels, LesUe Hunter, Debbie Krank- hn. Juniors and seniors, age 16 years or older, had an opportunity to receive training and on the job experience in the field of skilled work in the ICT, Industrial Coopera- tive Training program. Chapter .366, King. Thirty -seven students look advantage of this opportunity by having one hour of ICT daily along with their required subjects. In order to get to their jobs, they were released from school early. These students served as Santa ' s helpers during the holidays and sold M M ' s. Phil Heaton served as president of the ICT Club. Diana Rodriguez was secretary. Cathy Williams was in charge of the treasury, while Mr. Benson Bailess Jr., sponsor, gave advice and help. Bottom: Students participating in the ICT program were (first row, i-r): Michael Booker, Steve Struve, Gary Keenan, John Smith, Robert Stamford, Rick Larson; (Second row, !-r): Steve Panknin, Ronald Thomas, Valerie Fletcher, Dorothy Johnson, Diana Rodriguez. (Third row, 1-r): David Morrison, Ernest Stary, David Moore, Jody Gamett, Danny Silk- wood, Roy Soliz. Three Vocational C Organi2ations 56