Pulaski County High School - Cougar Pinnacle Yearbook (Dublin, VA)

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Helping each other out with a pro¬ gram in their computer applications class in the Vocational building, se¬ niors )on Fleenor and Chuck Smith run over what they just finished pro¬ gramming. Word processing has become one of the major qualifications of a sec¬ retary now a days. Here Mrs. Billie Farmer reads an assignment to Lori Hicks while she types it into the TRS 80 computer. Attempting to help Cindy Ross with her program, computer teacher Mrs. Louisa Davis wonders what might be wrong with it. 18 Computers

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Bringing a box of Poly-Fiber from the stockroom, Jesse Jones prepares to stock the shelves at Roses in Pu¬ laski. At the Roses store in Pulaski, Chad Howlett prices the merchandise for an upcoming sale. 6 £ 17 Student Workers traditional tatting

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L SWITCHING QVER CAN SOMETIMES BE MORE OF A HASSLE THAN fl HELP, BUT AFTER IT’S FINISHED, IT USUAi.LV SAUES MQNEV AMD TIME IN THE LONG RUM. When students arrived at school in August they found something that they never expected to happen. Com¬ puters had invaded and tak¬ en over the school. Every place you walked in the building there was a comput¬ er doing something. The freshmen ID cards had been computerized so they could check out books in the li¬ brary more easily. Comput¬ ers were doing anything and everything from teaching bi¬ ology to controlling the air conditioning. In 1981, the first phase of the transition began when Dr. Joy E. Colbert of the school board set up the first computer class. The class consisted of five computers and ten students with a teacher that taught class ev¬ ery other day. It ' s now grown to twenty Apple II and ten TRS 80 computers with nearly one hundred stu¬ dents enrolled in the class with three full time teachers. The craze continued to the pods as each pod re¬ ceived their own computer in order for the teachers to become more accustomed to its presence. The English pod had a program set up to go through each student ' s English choices for the se¬ mester, schedule him, and make out the individual class rolls. The social studies pod used their computer for var¬ ious things including teaching students about the presi¬ dents of the United States. The science pod teachers placed all of their grades on computers so they could give the students a weekly average of their grades. They also had programs to teach a student everything from vectors to asexual re¬ production and the periodic table. cont ' d. 19 Computers