Rancho High School - El Sol Yearbook (Las Vegas, NV)

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Business skills aid in fufure To high school students, choosing their career is one of the most difficult tasks in their lifetime. There are a wide variety of careers in the business world for those who have chosen this fieldg for instance, accountants, secretaries, administrators for hotels and motels, financiers, bookkeepers, managers, computer operators or business teachers. There were many classes in the Business department which will help the students pursue their careers. Some of the classes were typing, shorthand, bookkeeping, accounting, filing, office procedures and general business. According to Wayne Adams, chairman of the Business department, Data Processing was considered a new class, taught by Lue Ann Amburn, this class helps students learn to operate terminals for computer systems. This class was taught for one semester. All the classes in the Business department were divided among the thirteen instructors. The newest member was James Allen who taught Career Math, Career Orientation, Cooperative Education and Quest programs. During Typing I class one ofthe classes in the busi- ness department students work on assignments. if i While in her office machines taught by Wade Badam is Sylvia Helms who is busily working. ii. 'Qi ' Y H if . '42 X t fl, . , Wayne Adams James Allen LueAnn Amburn Janet Gabriel Vickie Hainsworth Marjorie Love i as l Q l T. 5 Ig i, K I gi 'si 1 Q f

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Laura Dodd, Dean Steve Weiner, Dean Allah McNulty: ASSiSi8nl Daisy Miller, Assistant Principal Principal Larry McKay, Assistant Sue Robinson: Assistant Principal Principal Diasy Miller carries out one ot her responsibilities as Vice Principal by check- ing on the list ol substitutes lor the day. Administrators keep busy Remember when you were in grade school and thought that the teachers and administration never lett the school, they just sort of lived there. They turned ott at the end ot the day and turned back on when the students returned in the morning. We all know ditlerently now, or do we? For example did you know that when Laura Dodd isn't busy as one ot the deans at Rancho, she attends classes at U.N.L.V., skis, and is a lite guard. When Larry McKay isn't supervising school activities, and heading the Health, P.E., Industrial Arts, and Mathematics departments, he plays in a softball league and otticiates basketball games. Alan McNulty goes bicycling, back packing, and swimming when not busy with the English department, Library Science, and Title I programs. Daisy Miller is in charge ot Special Education, Foreign Languages, Home Economics, Perlorming Arts, and Social Science departments and sews and listens to music from Jazz to Country Western in her spare time. Susan Robinsons duties include Business, Science, and Counseling departments. When not busy with these she enjoys water skiing, dancing, and reading. When Steve Weiner isn't disciplining students he is working to get his doctorate at U.N.L.V., playing trumpet in an orchestra on the strip, and played brietly with the group Blood Sweat and Tears. Rancho's administrators are not only busy at school it seems, but also in their personal lives. M 25, X Q L. ! ' 'P 1 , UQ. 4 , 2909-.M Even Sue Robinson joins in on the newly introduced reading program. Assistant Principals 199

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, if--4 Rhoda Michaux Lois Nicholson Juanita Riedlinger Emma Simms Heavily engrossed in her typing I class, Carmen Moron works on her assignment. V Claudette Whitson n.p. Jackie Varrato P 1 While in her typing class Kathy Tollelson completes a work proiect. Busily working on his assignment in oltice machines is Rodney Thomas. Business Department 201