Lubbock High School - Westerner Yearbook (Lubbock, TX)

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BUSINESS stunENts LEARN VOCATIONS Students find a solid background of business Training of- fered in the commercial department. Skills stressed in these high school courses enable students to find work after grad- uation, or to better qualify for non-clerical or secretarial positions. The courses, a maior branch of vocational training offered in L. H. S., include typing, stenography, bookkeeping, cleri- cal practice, general business, commercial arithmetic, and salesmanship. Heading the department this year was Mrs. Mary Mc- Daniel, aided by Driver, Montgomery, Burgess, Bowie, and Largent. TOP PICTURE: Jimmy. Hayhurst grudging- ly circles his mistakes made on a timed writing in typing. MIDDLE PICTURE: LaRue Elliott, Barbara Hughes, and Iris Dial transcribe shorthand ' notes into long hand. BOTTOM PICTURE: Kay Lane uses an add- ing machine, as Linda Owen lends a hand to Carol Sanders who is working on the calculating machine in clerical practice class. In clerical practice, use of the calculating, adding, memograph, and duplicator machines were taught. Students were also taught filing and picked up additional typ- ing skill. The economic conditions of the world were taught in commercial geography. Principles of business arithmetic were stressed in com- mercial arithmetic. General business taught ideas and concepts of intelligent consump- tion, while salesmanship dealt with retail selling behind the counter.

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VCCATIONAL INDUSTRIAL couksss INTEREST Boys Three subiecTs-auTo mechanics, machine shop, and wood- work-were very popular wiTh The boys This year. In auTo mechanics, The boys worked wifh some of Their own cars, school vehicles, and parenfs' and Teachers' auTo- mobiles. Theory, Taughf in class periods, was puT inTo acTual pracfice as boys learned a highly-skilled profession. Machine shop offered insTrucTion in welding, sheef mefal, and machine work. FirsT year sTudenTs spenT nine weeks in The specific fields, and second-year sTudenTs specialized in one of The Three fields. Aufo mechanics and machine shop sTudenTs parTicipaTed in deparfmental clubs. TOP PICTURE: MilTon Gardner works on a car broughf inTo The aufo mechanics shop for repair. MIDDLE PICTURE: Working on a piece of sheeT metal in shop are James PruiTT, Paul Lucas, and Earl Robinson. BOTTOM PICTURE: James Mowery works aT one of The large band saws in wood- work class. 14 V f fi wif-V Woodwork classes sTressed crafTs- manship and skill in The use of Their hands. The firsT proiecT for all sTu- denTs was building a common ob- jecT-a small Table. STudenTs Then chose proiecfs which They were per- miTTed To keep upon complefion. Mr. James BurneTT was auTo me- chanics insTrucTor, Mr. James Tol- son TaughT machine shop, and Mr. E. E. Key, one of L. H. 5.'s oldesT Teachers, service-wise, directed woodwork classes.

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, .5 I ff M..-,,.o. ,.,- . ,,..J Mwff if , K 4 Reading The American Observer is a weekly occurrence for Mike Temple and Wilma Waggener in American HisTory class. - Mc, M, JK.. ' ' Q fi f 4 Karen Havis and James PruiTT Trace Biblical iourneys from maps for Their lessons in Miss Virginia McLean's sevenfh period Bible class. SCHEDULES INCLUDE SOCIAL STUDIES, MATH The sTudenTs of World HisTory, American His- Tory, Texas Hisiory, Bible, and governmenT made up The hisTory deparTmenT aT LHS. The deparT- menT chairman was Mrs. H. B. Hawkins. The maTh deparTmenT included Algebra l and ll, applied maTh, solid geomeTry, TrigonomeTry, plane geomeiry, number sense, and slide rule. Mr. Elwin Barnby gives Bryan Edwards a hinT on how To solve a problem as BeTTy Sue Johnson labors over her TexT. Miss Whiieley was chairman of This deparTmenT. The homeroom period was a guidance for The sTudenTs To learn educaTional facTs noi TaughT from a TexTbook. On Wednesday programs and films were conducTed. IT was also used for sTudenT council reports and oTher business. Mr. John Wilson, direcTor of The Boys' Clubs, speaks To homeroom sTudenTs on The subiecf of Juvenile Delinquency. 029!'Mf fT ' f T' 2ZlM7fWKZY:5Z F!