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

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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

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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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questing materials from various or- ganizations. One of the most ef- fective interviews was conducted with an obstetrician. The unit was con- cluded with a debate among the class members, and each girl was left to make her own decisions on the sub- ject. Interior decorating was also stud- ied, and one class project involved the making of shades for windows in the home ec room. The advanced classes did frame loom weaving, de- signing andcreating purses, pillows, and wall hangings. Increased prices for the fruits of their labor didn't lessen the load for the guys in ag. Welding projects and ag math problems took up a great deal ofclasstime, with livestock proj- ects, ranging from rabbits to chick- ens to cattle, taking up a great deal of time outside class. That was made up, at least some of it, by timeoutof class for stock shows in the spring and fall. Many of the people in ag plan fur- ther careers in agribusiness or agri- culture, while others plan to work with animals as vets. Others look on this as an activity and not a specific ca- reer preparation. Most live on acre- ages or farms where farming is a part of the daily routine. Woodworking I students began the year with a simple board and worked up to more complex projects, such as bookcases and gun racks. The board was used to help students learn toop- erate the many tools in the shop. Stu- dents also learned to draw plans for the projects they made. The second year of the woodwork- ing department meantanadded class, Woodworking II. These students studied more advanced techniques and tools. The boys also made looms for home ec. A chance to make something for their parents or themselves and the fun of using tools were the main rea- sons for taking the class. LEFT: Despite a lot of outside class ac- tivities, ag students still manage to do c lassroom work. Roger Blackwell works on ag math problems which are required each nine weeks . CENTER: Drilling a hole in a board, a part of the year, is Woodworking I student Tim Owens. ABOVE: Discovering that Mrs. Susan Moreu,home ec teach- er,has a special seat- ing ass i gnment for talkers is Lynda Crawford. VOCATIONAL DEPT. 13