Lanier High School - Viking Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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A Stylish Vocation To 34 Lanier girls students, the school year consisted of rolling, styling, combing, curling, and cutting hair, plus all the other necessities that go along with being a member of the Cosmetology club. With Mrs. Wagner as their sponsor, the Cosmetology club spent three hours a day for two years preparing themselves for careers they could begin directly out of high school. Students learn leadership, getting along with each other, cooperation, and fair play, said Mrs. Wagner. President Kathy Cantwell agrees. I receive the benefits of working with people and of learning a vocational skill, said Kathy. Officer Phyllis Clark remembers rolling her dolls' hair as a child. I enjoy helping people. I learn to work with the public and get along with people l don't know, said Phyllis. Selling singing Christmas cards and candy dolls helped pay for their out of town trips for competition. Cosmetology also sponsored a Christmas party for girls at the State School. They also did the girls' hair for free. Competition took place at Holmes Junior High in San Antonio this spring. Five girls were eligible for the statewide contest in Dallas. Those included were President Kathy Cantwell, Jodi Johnson, Debbie Ray, Sammi Styles, and Petra Club. Below: Petra Clubb gives Melissa Oatman a comb out at the Local Contest. Petra won first place for this hairstyle. Customers weren't always available but manne- quins were. Kathy Locklear and Lana Zmeskal practice rolling. i 4-.av Jf ' 'W 238 cosmetology fgiifisy it St f-X .pi . xt S , Misa . X, ,str xv ix., -is .Dil . it x 'H x,x,R', ii' ,vxffm xx Q elif. z. fs QQ 45-rs 1ifssi'T.1sma' NS V' I Q if C is mi x i 3'1 is 'l f fx X O K J

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On the Job Schooling Most people blew DE. off as a group of students who stayed hidden behind the blue door with the gold diamond, and who were lucky enough to get out of school early and make money the rest ofthe day. Not so. To be in D.E. also meant to be involved in DE.C.A. - Distributive Education Clubs of America. DE.C.A meant Halloween and Christmas parties, 325.00 dues, a Carnival booth, bake sales, a car wash, calendar sales, candy sales. Area convention and competition, a banquet with employers, and a breakfast the first Wednesday of every month. ln fact, D.E.C.A was compulsory and brought the life into being a member of DE. DE students called their jobs Training stations, which were considered a part of the Trainees grade. Joe Coach Cole, Lanier DE. coordinator, kept a tight run on how the trainee did at work through communication with various employers at stores all over Austin such as Edison, Scarbrough's, Storehouse, Beall's, K- Mart, Sage, Sears, and Leon's. Although DE. aimed at sales training, some students learned warehouse receiving, credit procedures, stock work, recordkeeping, public relations, and phone orders. Students competed in sales demonstrations, manuals, job interviews, and merchandise display at Area convention in Arlington. Two Area winners qualified to compete at the State convention in Houston. Clifton Shirley won in sales demonstration techniques which he practiced at Beall's in Northcross Mall. Gary Lockhart, DE. president, wrote a winning manual on automotive techniques in conjunction with his job in the Automotive Department at Sage. Some DE. students got out of school early after first or second period, but half of them had to attend DE. class from 7:30 to 8:25 to get to work on time. The other half had DE. first period. ln these classes, students worked on individual studies of selling techniques, display, and stock work. At other times, they demonstrated selling techniques and designed advertising layouts. Discussions were held on job problems and solutions about employers, customers, and store systems. Sometimes, Coach gave lectures on employer-employee relationships, what Right: Gary Lockhart, chapter President, works on carlight displays at Sage Automotive Center. Gary wrote an Area winning manual on Automo- tive Technqiues using knowledge he learned on the job. DE. meant, communication, and how to get the most out of business. To the DE. student, a job meant much more than just earning money. lt meant learning business and how to relate to people within the business framework. For the student who was looking ahead after high school, it provided a pattern on howto earn a living and enjoy what one was doing at the same time. Coach Cole, in executioner's uniform gets some of his own medicine as he gets a shock from the DE. electric chair. A very popular event at the Carnival, the electric chair helped raise S50 for D.E.C.A. Clifton Shirley Cleftl, practices selling slacks at Beall's in Northcross Mall. Clifton's selling techniques won him an Area Title in sales demonstration, i 4 it'i sf.: is 1- I . -m . 1'-, 'Lt' , -ff . R X ax MJ, fs ' f .L ,Et , gig... ., ,.,, ,. , .cl iii' gf, vi 9 get ..., i if

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l if l Bottom Flow. Jamie Miner, Debbie Ray, Petra Clubb, Donna Chapman, Sammie Styles. Second Flow: Janet Cook, Lisa Thomas, Mary Whitehead, Becky Balcon, Barbara Wallis. Center left: Bottom Flow: Cathy Terbay, Jodie Johnson, Cindy Whitley, Cindy Nix, Heather l-lielsher. Second Row: Kathy Cant- well, Kathy Locklear, Candy Connell, Mic- helle VanBrakle, Lisa Henry, Lana Zmeskal. Top left: Not everything could be learned in a textbook. Sponsor Mrs. Wagner shows Deb- bie Ray the correct way to make a pin curl. Top right: Phyllis Clark styles Sara Lee Arnold's hair at the Local Contest, which won her second place. A Cosmetology student blackens out the tooth ot Mary Whitehead during initiation ol new members. Cosmetology 239