Round Rock High School - Dragon Yearbook (Round Rock, TX)

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uilding Trades students from all schools must work igether to create a high quality piece of furniture. ound Rock building students Kevin Garner and John jk ,,,, , rafting student Andy Grimes, junior, consults his part- zr as he works on designing an original plan for the :sign of a residential home for District competition. Rauch, juniors, and Westwood student Roger Kietzke, junior, do just that as they help each other with their woodworking projects in Building Trades. ,- 3 Round Rock High had eleven first place winners at the competition and ten other placeholders. First place win- ners went to Houston for the statewide competition, UILDING TRADES: fFirst Row, Talmon Jackson, xonsor, Fred Angus, Brent McElroy, Joe Jackson, rett McElroy, Eddie Armitage, Billy Ray, fSecond owl Norbert Cody, Charlie Hoffstatter, Jesse Mendez, Isaias Palacios, Tommy Simpson, Roger Kiet- zke. QThird Rowj Cliff Edwards, David Taylor, Peter Davis, Brian Litson, John Rauch, Wade Strickel, Willie Reed, Kevin Garner. Vocational clubs teach job skills Vocational Industrial Clubs of America IVICAI have more than 40,000 members throughout the United States. Many dif- ferent clubs make up the National VICA program including those at Round Rock High. Local VICA members entered district and state skills contests as individuals or in teams. There were also various functions for VICA members throughout the school year. Industrial Cooperative Training QICTI, Building Trades and Drafting were among the VICA clubs at Round Rock High School. VICA-ICT helped students to earn money and learn a skill at the same time. ICT students attended school for the first half of the school day and then worked on an in- dustrial job for the remainder of the day. During their school hours, ICT members learned many things in class ranging from first aid to income taxes and budgets. ICT members also went to District, where Paul Stinson, senior, took first place in auto parts and Arthur Bucher won second in an electrical skills contest. Sixteen other ICT students won first and second place prizes at an industrial displays contest. Preparing students for drafting related jobs was the task of the VICA-Drafting club and class. Led by sponsor Bob Fredley, Round Rock and Westwood drafting club members drew up plans for residential homes to be built by area builders. These students also submitted their plans for the design and working drawings of a residential home. VICA-Building Trades taught leadership skills through application of skills. Round Rock students built bookcases for RRHS and Purple Sage Elementary School. They also built some portable classrooms and a shop building. In addition to the building of projects, each student made a project to take to con- test. RRHS had eleven first place winners, and ten second and third place winners at competition. First place winners went on to competitive statewide competition in Houston April 26-28. Organizations 121

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VICA-Building Trades student Fred Angus, senior, var- nishes one of his projects, a bookshelf for Purple Sage Elementary School. Angus' work won him second ,,,. .... f ,ff L., . ., I 1 .......---V ff'ffa4144Q . ,,r,, .! .- 4 'af M ' Y I fy. rf. M Ei? 2 2 -WMS' RM.-cw' ,WMWWW WMM ...awww 'Malawi , as V place honors at the District competition. Building Trades students spend three hours each day working under the direction of sponsor Talmon Jackson. fr -V f 5 4 ' 4' ,, ur f Linda Fulton, senior, confers with VICP -lCT sponsor Leroy Starnes about her work. ICT students are trained for work in industry. VICA-DRAFTING: lFirst Row! Tim Brittian, Lea Hutchison, Dawn Cox, Scott Cecil, Bob Fredley, sponsor QSecond Bowl Donald Russell, David Whitford, Mike Bowen, Stacie Sample, Eddie Breeze QThird Bowl Scott Felsted, Dave Lauer, Albert Cortez, Charles Price, Roy Prosise. 120 Organizations Gabriel Bracamontez, junior, works at a drafting table making a plan to enter in VICA District competition. Competitors were required to submit original plans for an urban house. House plans were only one of a number of designs which the students were trained to produce during the drafting classes. VICA-ICT: QFirst Rowj Todd McKee, Teresa Rodriguez, Linda Fulton, Arthur Bucher, Cindy Hernandez, Herschel Buck, Paul Stinson lSecond Rowj Leroy Starnes, sponsor, Eddie Girvan, Chris Comtwell, Brent Brown, Kevin Lindell, Craig Powell, Terrill Fowler, Ken Chalfak Cfhird Rowj Richard Stem, Sherman Wipff, An- dy Grimes, Karen Graham, Mary Becton, Ronnie Wolff. - u . A W 1 EZ., W U

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6 l OEA dance helps Cystic Fibrosis Office Education Association KOEAD is the club associated with the Vocational Office Education CVOEJ class. Students attend school half a day and work in office jobs the remainder of the school day. ln VOE class students learned to file, type letters, memos and various business reports and learned the correct procedures in answering a business telephone. They were also introduced to the word processing ap- plications of computers. On the job, students were evaluated by their employers on how well they performed, how fast they learned and how much effort they put forth. OEA students took on Cystic Fibrosis as their special project and worked to inform the public about what Cystic Fibrosis is and what causes it. The group sponsored a dance in January with proceeds going to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to assist with research to find a cure for the inherited disease. The group also held two other fundraising projects, the spirit chain at Homecoming and a porcelain candle sale later in the year. Proceeds from these two events were used to help pay the expenses of the students when they went to district and state com- petition. They were also used to establish a scholarship for a VOE or Word Processing student. A number of VOE students entered regional competition held at Reagan High School in Austin in February. Several of these students placed high enough to ad- vance to state contest held in Dallas March 22-24 and Kim Rodriguez, junior, took seventh place in Extemporaneous Verbal Communication I at the state contest. .,., X is 1. t N X? K f... Amy Marshall, senior, looks over the adding machine tape to see if she can find a mistake. ln the Vocational Office Education class, students are introduced to a variety of business machines. 1 22 Organizations OEA students, Debbie Grivas and Amy Marshall, look on as sponsor Martha Chavez greets Mrs. Marshall, Amy's mother, and Mrs. Sheveland, Debbie's mother, during the Vocational Open House which was held dur- ing the fall. All vocational classes invited parents an the public to visit in the classrooms and see wha students learned in their classes during vocations training. Sherelle Reynolds, senior, works on the VOE class com- puters. OEA students are taught basic computer skills to prepare them for office work, utilizing the modern ........-f technology. The classroom equipment includes a ty of types of computers to provide the students with broad background of experience. VOE-OEA: tFirst Row! Martha Chavez, sponsorg Lisa Simcik, Adrienne Gardner, Meshell Robertson, Vicki Remmert, Stacey Vlach, Amy Marshall, Norma Alvarado, Barbara Wilson, sponsor, fSecond Rowj Sharon Jackson, Laurie Hedrick, Lynda Morales, Delaine Brockway, Dawn Kelley, Darla Kelley, Sharon Brown, Sherelle Reynolds. tThird Bowl Carolina Peralez, Jackie Vallejo, Carol Gaitan, Cathy Zamar- ripa, Miguel Gonzales, Debbie Heikens, Langridge, Pam Mouser, Litza Morales, tFourth Cissy Hernandez, Stacy Stark, Glenda Hayes, Glenn, Sandra Coffey, Roxanne Wheeler, Ann Lisa Wheeler tFifth Bowl Becky Herrera, Mary Krista Miner, Corina Moreno, Yolanda Diaz, Rodriguez, Stephanie Behn, Lucinda Pierce.