San Antonio College - El Alamo Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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Top, Mr. Marvin Slovacek proves to Mary Dell Everts and Ernest Wallo that there is a solution to all of the finance problems. Center, Miss Vivian Cobb supervises as stu- dents in the Secretarial Studies 315 class improve their dictation speed with the aid of a tape recorder. Below, William Cowan places control pan- el wiring into one of the computers in the Data Processing Division. B.A. Department Grows Steadily Training personnel for modern business is the goal of the DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION. Under the direction of Chairman Marvin Slovacek, the faculty strives to make each student more than employable re- gardless of how long he will be enrolled in col- lege. The Department, one of the fastest growing in the college, continues to expand to meet the ever-increasing needs of the students. Only this year, a new shorthand laboratory was added. The new lab equipment is designed to give dictation to students at 12 different speeds simultaneously. A new computer for the data processing division will be added in the fall. Mrs. Juanita O ' Brien gives dictation . . . 120

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Department Gets New Microscopes Fifty new microscopes were bought during the fall semester to replace the less streamlined models. All students in Biological Sciences have been given access to these microscopes. All forms of life — as we know it — are pre- sented to SAC students for study. The human body itself is analyzed in many of the biology classes, but most thoroughly in Anatomy and Physiology, a subject designed chiefly for nursing students. One zoology course concerns a study of the ani- mal kingdom, while another deals with the para- sites that infest man. The heredity of plants and animals is studied in still another class. Top. Mr. Lloyd McFarland points out some of the plant life on the San Antonio Col- lege campus during a field trip taken by students of a biology lab. Above, Mr. Larry Stripling and Caroline Mitchell, student assistant, look over one of the 300 specimens, mostly of local plant life, which .ire stored in the herbarium cabinet acquired this year. At left, Nannette Davis, seated, appears to be pleased with the assistance of Bobby Ware, Mario Torres, and Arthur Guz- man, left to right, in dissecting a foetal pig during zoology lab. 119

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Top, Data Processing students Sandra Sharp and Sandra Geest imprii e their ef- ficiency on the IBM card punch machine. Center, Mr. Robert Driska explains the facets of the modern business in his In- troduction to Business class. Below, Erlinda Peiez, Marilyn Rohan, and Veronica MuUins aim for speed and ac- curacy in the office machines class. Transfer, Special Classes Available To meet the annual growth, at least one new teacher has been added to the staff for the past six years. Besides offering courses in transferable cred- it for students entering senior college upon grad- uation, the Department also provides special courses for those who enter the business world after leaving SAC. Students are taught how to meet the keen competition in the business world as well as how to succeed in their respective fields. Business Administration students were fea- tured on the SAC Presents program on KONO- TV during the fall semester. . to a typical shorthand class.