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

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l 5 dictation from Mr. Jn owth 5, the BUSINESS lergone a fantastic d its teaching per- iding Mr. Vernon college Comptrol- wing needs of the rt-time instructors obj ective-making enrolled in a one- four-year college. its facilities, new ly two classrooms ient now occupies students. Starting wo fully-equipped iachine room has Lh the automated, rently boasts ap- including that in md to accounting 1 under the chair- Jifferent programs of the students. A rts in Business or two years of col- fment, the depart- mcal businesses. de the department our technical pro- :al Arts Building mately 3,000 stu- Evelyn Cosio demonstrates one method of cleaning a type. writer during a secretarial practice class. Observers are fl. to rJ Amanda Castaneda, Suzy Wright and Carol n Kellner. y K-5 45 , 1-it Us Linda Trevino, intermediate typing student, illustrates the correct and incorrect way of being an efficient secretary. 1151312157929 6666000999 00900000000 Instructor Miss Virgie Crist reviews the typewriter keyboard for stu- dents in her Secretarial 312 class. If A rx fwwjg fw1?21 N'-Q. Qnkwgm s.:- s,m Among the various office machines students learn to operate is a ten-key adding machine.

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42 JO Lynn Havard puts her training to use as she takes dictation from Mr. Marvin Slovacek, department head- a Business Administration Patricia Solarczyk removes a stencil from the duplicating p I d G machine affefcompletinghef class assignment' Starting with a handful of students in 1946, the BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT has undergone a fantastic growth not only in its enrollment but also in its teaching per- sonnel. A. Beginning with only three instructors, including Mr. Vernon 1 1 La Bauve who was first chairman and is now college comptrol- I y 1 ler, the department attempted to meet the growing needs of the I community. Today, all full-time and four part-time instructors continue to work toward the departmentis objective-making the student more employable, whether he is enrolled in a one- in year program or is planning to transfer to a four-year college. As the department increases and expands its facilities, new and better equipment is being added. With only two classrooms in the old South Alamo building, the department now occupies 15 classrooms and has an enrollment of 1,500 students. Starting with only one typing room, there are now two fully-equipped rooms with electric typewriters. The office machine room has added modern machines to keep in step with the automated, business-minded World. The department currently boasts ap- proximately 3B50,000 worth of equipment not including that in the data processing center. Offering courses from typing and shorthand to accounting and data processing, the department has been under the chair- manship of Mr. Marvin Slovacek since 1960. Different programs are being offered to meet the varying needs of the students. A student may work toward an Associate in Arts in Business or may obtain a Certificate of Completion after two years of col- lege work. Aiding students in finding employment, the depart- ment receives 20 to 30 calls per week from local businesses. We constantly strive to upbuild and upgrade the department as it grows, states Mr. Slovacek. Next year our technical pr0- grams will be moved into the new Technical Arts Building career. which will then enable us to handle approximately 3,000 stu- dents, he concluded. -Maxx Ora Bell Harris types a letter with the aid of a dicta- phone in a secretarial class in preparation for her future I Instr-u dents in

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hemistr From wood and pot-bellied stoves in 1923 to central air and heat, from the basic chemistry equipment to a nuclear lab, from one instructor to 12, from an en- rollment of 100 to 1,000 students, the CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT keeps its place as one of the foremost departments in the state in terms of equipment and effectiveness. The department has seen the addition this year of five instructors, increasing the faculty roster to 11 full- time instructors, one part-time and one curator. The five instructors come well qualified. They in- clude Mr. James Archer, Mr. Charles Cottingharn, Mr. William Miller, Mrs. Patricia Sepulveda and Miss Sandra Sodd. The area of development is not limited to only the faculty. This year, the department acquired new ap- paratus with the aid of the national Defense Act. These include new Mettler balances, new chemical study films, chromatography fcolorj-measuring units, a power sup- ply, and a deluxe electrophoresis chamber. 'Zi as -.1 1 Ez, . . 511106 correct proportions are necessary in obtain- lftg the desired results from an experiment, Richard Tmnm uses a balance in measuring the appropriate amount of chemical powder, R-ll?hn KibbY,.Stephen Heinrich, James Bourne and ho eft Vaufhflll fl. to rJ, students in one of the C emlSU'Y honors classes, record counts of radioactive 1S0t0pCS from a spectometer during a nuclear labora- I0ry experiment.