Robert E Lee High School - Traveler Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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fa Jay, , ' ' Niki -5.2 no 4 HECE sponsor Harriet Becker explains her club's activities as iunior Gwyn Dowd whips up a chalupa for a visitor. lDavid Kuykendalll Y Spot welding seems to be an easy task for senior plum- bing student Tully Mangum. lRandy Sokolowskil lfrom page 28l The patch collection originated with Jim Cartier, Pre-law Enforcement, who suggested that the students could write off to police departments in other cities to ask for patches for their collection. The collection has grown. We have one from Germany and others from all over Texas and the United States, said Cartier. He explained that the students really enioyed the proiect. Some of the nicest letters have been icontinued page 371 UIORIIIIIG IT OIIT

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A Health Occupations: FRONT - Toni Weinkam, lisa Camp- bell, Delaina Gerrish, Gaye Sutley. 2 - Ben Barnes, Aleiandri Mitchell, Debbie Austin, Lindo Grumbles, Teri Waldron. 3 - Diane Snyder, Nancy Morrs, Kathy Kulesza, Cindy Favello, Lesa LeStaurgeon. 4 - Susan Schmahlenberge, Anita Meeker, ffrom page 27l has been to get students interested in the vocational program. Koop asserted that the vocational system has been plagued in the past by myths. He cited one myth: students wan- dering around campus, lying dormant until graduation, and taking blow off courses. And, people have thought that just because a student enrolled in a vocational plan he would not be able to attend college. Not so. A student may be in the vocational program and not even know it, Koop said. Students in Pre-law Enforcement, Fine Arts, Business, Homemaking and ROTC are in vocational classes. Co-op students - the half-day students and half-day workers - were 600 strong and earned almost three quarters of a million dollars. Most of the co-op students were Marcy Smith, Melany Brant, Ruth Kothmann. 5 - Betty Wyrick, Barbara Campbell, Brenda Janda, Hector Collazo, Debbie Tatsch. BACK - Beth Davis, Cindy Bates, Dianne Hahne, James Porterfield, Mike Carpenter. college-bound, Koop noted. Nineteen elective credits are needed to graduate, and in one aca- demic year in the co-op program, a student can receive nine credits. The three periods a co-op Leeite is in school can be devoted to solid subiectsf' Another myth is that vocational stu- dents are the less intelligent working class. Eventually, we all have to work, said Koop. And, an academic gradu- ate has a diploma and that's about it. Koop is evangelical in his zeal for the vocational program. A voca- tional graduate has that diploma and a choice of going to college or to work, in a trade he learned in high school, he explained. Statistics flip easily from the first- year department chairman's mouth. That vocational student knows how the business world works and how to apply for iobs, continued Koop. ln my opinion, the vocational graduate is four or five steps ahead of the aca- demic graduate. Each year, PE classes browse through the Vocational Department, an attempt to recruit more students. As more hop on the bandwagon, the prob- lem of space arises, asserted Koop. Meanwhile, back at the carnival. Students milled through the booths and exhibits, sampling food and ques- tioning vocational specialists. Health Occupations para-medics took blood pressure and typed blood for those brave enough to stand the pricking needle. Engines roared in the Auto Mechan- ics display. What kind of an engine is that? queried a puzzled PE-er. l dunno, came a quick reply. But, the mechanics did know, and eventually, they explained the inner workings of the most complex apparatus. Newest course on campus, Pre-law Enforcement displayed radar, narcotics samples l ls that what it looks like? j, fingerprinting and various law enforce- ment patches. icontinued page 291 Y Some career opportunity exhibits are naturally more showy than others, as iunior Rick Martin demonstrates. Welding was iust one of the many exhibits during the annual Vocational Carnival. And, students demonstrated the correct safety precautions as well. iRandy Sokolowskil i 4 IEIEIEEI EWG

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P Students get a chance to watch a little televi- sion during school hours, thanks to the Radio-TV Repair boys. The electronically-orientated group learns the inside and outside of repairing televi- sion sets, radios, tape recorders, public address systems and other electrical equipment. Students in this class and in auto mechanics did work on equipment brought to the school by faculty and patrons lRandy Sokolowskil ZS P lf something needs repairing, Erving Matton and Ricky Martin can do something about it. Welding craft is a part of most of the vocational courses. Small engine repair, plumbing, television repair and auto mechanics incorporate the use of the torch and allow students an opportunity to learn the safe and correct methods. These two boys demonstrated their techniques at the Career Carnival. lRandy Sokolowskil IIIORIIIIIG IT OIIT IEEE ILUWI3