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

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62 VOEAOEA VOE-OEA helps teach office skills fOffice Education Association OEAJ is an organization that stems from the Vocational Office Education class. VOE, taught by Margaret Blanton, prepared students for future jobs as they learned various skills including in- terviewing for jobs, learning telephone techniques, making out payrolls and fil- ing reports. This two semester course began with a first semester lab involving pre- employment training. Students in the co-op portion of the class went to school only half a day before leaving for work in the afternoon. Most VOE students were members of OEA and they participated in various activities throughout the year. At Homecoming the group sold spirit chains and for Thanksgiving, members collected canned goods for baskets to give to needy families in the communi- ty. They also sold calendars and notepads to students. OEA attended competition in March, April and May. The money from their fund raisers went to help pay for the cost of expenses for contest. The group also made a monetary contribution to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Penny Lofland and Pamela Lopez, juniors, count the spirit chain links to see which class is in the lead. The seniors won the contest. f ,6 A I V , , nu., 1 .ot inn l A 'fi g 'X f. Seniors Lisa Stluka, Sandra Coffey, Lisa Wheeler, Mary Cearley and Litza Morales discuss fundrais- ..-A XM it y g M... V. ,west 1' s i.: ing. OBA collected canned goods for Thanksgivir baskets and sold calendars and notepads. C3 D VOE-OEA: QBottom Row! Martha Chavez fsponsorl, Roxanne Wheeler, Sandra Coffey, Debra Heikens, Liz Johnson, Lisa Stluka, Litza Morales, Mary Cearley, Lisa Wheeler, Janice Stin- son, Adrienne Gardner, Margaret Blanton tspon- sorjg QSecond Row? Karen Carter, Janet Bagley, Mary Perez, Michelle Arenson, Valorie Langridge, Rosalind Siress, Michelle Wyatt, Heidi Olson, Lora Salvatierra, Natalie Yingling, Michelle Ler- ma, Cathey Kline, Susan Carter, tThird Rowj James Fisher, DeAnn Marx, Benzenhoefer, Karen Neal, Pam Green Monetti, Kim Sobczak, Veronica Buckles, Harbin. Cathy Zamarripa, Cindy Campos, Needham: tTop Row! Miranda Rice, YQ Diaz, Lisa Payne, Deanna Nava, Ros Medina. Michael Green, Derek Cross, T Woehl. Marlyn Alabat, Michelle Hage, C Hogan.

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avid Witt, senior, works at Safeway after school through the Marketing and istributive Education program. DE is taught by Rhonda Cmerek and orothy Sullivan. Students study, work for Vocational education was a program that helped many stu ents improve academic skills as well as train for various types of jobs. Elec- tronics, office education, auto mechanics and building trades were available to all students. In 1984-85, 800 students were enrolled in vocational courses. Sixty-five of those students were Westwood students who came over daily to attend the courses offered only at the Round Rock ISD Vocational School which is located on the RRHS campus. Eighteen of the twenty vocational instructors taught credit in the classroom. Vocational education is very beneficial to all students, commented Mrs. Dennie Saul, vocational orientation counselor. Other vocational courses availiable to students includ- ed vocational agriculture, homemaking, marketing and distributive education, food service, drafting and electronics. Heidi Olson, junior, felt that those courses helped to expand the minds of many students. She added that her year in Vocational Office Education was, A learning experience which I won't forget and which I shall use in the future. CVAE foods teacher Phyllis Edmison assists Janice Blackburn, sophomore, in making rolls while Doris Maldonado, junior, watches in the background. -ti n, Neil Dedear, electronics teacher, helps Jeff Starr, senior, and Kurt Janson, junior, work on their stereo radios. The students are bused from Westwood every morning to attend electronics classes at RRHS. Will Stafford, GMR instructor, demonstrates for his students the process of repairing a hole in an innertube. Vocational Education 61

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+71 aricela Alvarez, senior, tags a few of the carnations for delivery to students , Emotion Day. The carnation sale was a new project for the DECA ganization. DECA initiates Carnation sales Distributive Education Clubs of America CDECAJ members sponsored a new project this year. The club sold carnations to be delivered on Emotion Day, the day of the Round Rock- Westwood football game. The purpose of selling the flowers was to raise spirit for the game. Of all the games this has to be the most emo- tional onef' said Rhonda Cmerek, DECA advisor. The group had seven colors of flowers available, each with a different meaning. The DECA group also sponsored a Free Enterprise assembly featuring guest speaker Dr. W.C. Newberry of Southwest Texas State University. The group spon- sored a Civic Consciousness Project to benefit the Spina Bifida Association for which they held a benefit dinner as a fund raiser. At the State DECA con- ference, Cindy Lucas, senior, won her event and then went on to compete in the Na- tional Conference in San Francisco. At the state level Traci Gray, junior, won a third place trophy. Junior Traci Gray happily accepts her award as State DECA winner for the local Civic Consciousness Project. The project was to raise money for Spina Bifida research. Mark Reyes, senior, accepts an award from Cindy Lucas, sophomore, on behalf of his employer. Local employers were honored at the Employer- Employee luncheon in April. 4 t yywh A 113 iiiiakx DECA: tBottom Row! Dorothy Kay Sullivan iadvisorj, Rhonda Cmerek tadvisorlg tSecond Rowj Cristy Kee, Shelly Strickland, Debbie Geib, Misti Moore, Andrea Ellis, Lisa Patton, Amy Burghartg QThird Rowl Betty Wallace, Maria Alvarez, Cindy Lucas, Tammy Wiedemeyer, Randy Ran- dolph, John Laytong tFourth Rowj Allen Hughes, Mark Kadlubar, Michael Huff, Jeff Reynolds, Roderick Willliams, Paul Szendreyg QTOp Rowj Randy Cloud, Steve Lucas, Jessie Cigales, Mike Moore. DECA 63