Newcastle High School - Blue Racer Yearbook (Newcastle, OK)

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Poised and ready to type, Carol Dean con- templates her typing II assignment. homes. Now, how about electronics? These students were involved with the workings of TV'sand radiosand how to repair them. They even took field trips to TV repair shops. In addition, carpentry was of- fered. Students built a house from floor to roof and sold it at the end of the course. Auto Mechanics was one of the most interesting classes. This class proved valuable for job train- ing and personal need. Distributive Education envolved learning all about merchandising and marketing of products. The stu- dents gained experience by working in a store set up at the Vo-Tech center. Besides classes, there were three different clubs to join: Future Business Leaders of America, Dis- tributive Education Clubs of Amer- ica in which Mike Howerton served as Reporter and Promotional Man- ager, and Vocational and Industri- al Clubs of America in which Becky Fletcher was elected President and Marilyn Curl was elected Vice- President. Even with so many students goingto Vo-Tech, Typing and Gen- eral Business classes at the home school had very few vacant desks. General Business was in such demand that one of the two classes was in the Home Ec. room. Learningto master the keyboard took up the first nine weeks of Typing I. Stu dents struggled to complete their lessons, turn in work, clean up their desks, and rush off before the second bell rang. By the end of the year, the hour went faster, and the typewriters actually seemed to work. Ten of the older machines had been re- placed by new models, thus re- ducing the odds of having a totally inoperable typewriter. Ten students were enterprising enough to enroll in a second year of typing. Classwork was done on a weekly unit basis with emphasis on independence, accuracy, and care of typewriter. Yearbook and newspaper was another course offered in the Busi- ness Department. Staff members combated late pictures, sick du- plicators, numerous copy revisions, and endless deadlines.

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Enjoying an early lunch before dashing off to Vo-Tech are Marilyn Curl, Retha Klopfenstein, Cindy Hildebrand, and Gayla Henson. Business Vo-Tech: One-Hour Bus Rides, Paper Shortage, Writer’s Cramps Current trends place emphasis not only on college prep courses but also on gaining valuable tech- nical training for entrance into the working world. This trend was re- flected locally as the business courses were filled almost to ca- pacity. Each day a disappearing act among some of the students took place. It began at 8 o'clock every morning and ended about 4:30 ev- ery evening. Where did they go? Why did they go? What did they do? These students went to Mid- America Vo-Tech at Wayne. Se- veral different courses offered there led to promising futures. It took incentive on one's part to get the work done in the business classes. Every day, typing warm- ups had to be done. Assignments were given in weekly units. Busi- ness Math, Accounting, Bookkeep- ing,Key Punch, and Office Practice also had to be mastered. In n u r s i n g , students learned how to be nurses' aides. This in- cluded taking tests, making beds, and bandaging fingers. Actual training was received in nursing

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Mr. Henry Mobley Thrust directly into the economic shows a student howto situation, the vocational education use one of woodwork- classes dealt with directly, but with ing's many tools. opposing emotions, today's higher prices and tight supply. Woodworking and home ec students found inflated prices when purchasing lumber and food supplies, while ag students found increasing profits from sale of livestock and grain. Ag student Kerry Keen spoke of the situation, saying, The housewife thinks she can buy food at the grocery store, so what do we need the dumb old farmer for? Cultural shock hit the Home Ec Department as students found changes in course content. The girls cooked and sewed, of course, butalso held discussions on abortion, wom- .. ,. , en's lib, venereal disease, and trans- vocational: actional analysis. When discussing ------------ abortion, the girls heard a speaker PnlfiiKol QhnrL f|,om Birthright, an anti-abortion IsUllUldl OIIULIV, organization. T hey collected other furino CUniA c information, both pro and con, by OWine onOWS, interviewing authorities and by re- Splinters in Your Fingers. 12 V0CATI0NAL DEPT