South Garland High School - Sabre Yearbook (Garland, TX)

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Sources of Activity, Informotion CHELK Ol T BOOKS ,lf ,W-T.- . T .ft 321 ft ' ' Mia., . f Q Diane Sue Dickson Nichols North Texas East Texas B.A. M.Ecl. Librarians Librarians The library is the information center of the school. Mrs. Diane Dickson, Mrs. Sue Nichols head the library with students who work in the library one period each day. The South Garland library contains 6,600 books to help students with book reports and research projects as well as a current magazine and reference section. New books are continually added to the shelves, and students have found the library a hideaway for serious study or casual magazine browsing. The library also stocks film catalogues for the teachers' convenience and aid plus all audio-visual equipment. E 5 Maw ta-11 help Cathy Cook catalogue new books i TOP LEFT: David Brawley assists Cheryl Capehart in checking out a book. LEFT Mrs. Sue Nichols and Mrs. Diane Dickson

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Attendcince Office, Librdry Both Tommie Narene Crenshaw Skelton Attendance Visiting Secretary Teacher RIGHT: Attendance girls, Delores Forsythe, and Patti Stone, check attendance cards daily. BOTTOM: Delores Forsythe aids Mrs. Narene Skelton in one of her many tasks. A1 tt' 1- e .. lg ,....m.,., .. 'lst R,OW:,Mrs. Tommie Crenshaw, Shirley Brown, Barbara Holton, Melinda Wyatt, Kathleen Hall, Marsha Cawdle, Vicki Nelson, Debbie Jackson, Sheri Carnes, Jeri Rollins. 2nd ROW: Muffet Russell, Patti Stone, Patsy Jones, Mary Forsythe, Denise Dorman, Mrs. Narene Skelton, Terry Ander- son, Gayle Richards, Cile Davis, Connie Finney, Jill Starling, Rhonda Smith, Kathy Hopson, Willa Petty. Checking attendance, delivering such things as messages and tennis shoes tostudents, writing tardy and absent slips compose only a small por- tion of the activities in the attendance office daily. Under the direction of Mrs. Tommie Crenshaw and Mrs. Narene Skelton, student assistants be- gin each day with keeping up with attendance or tardies of all students, plus notify parents of ab- sentees. The attendance office handles correspondence to the assistant principals, Mrs. H. E. Turrentine and Mr. Bob Owen. 20

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VOE ond DECA Encourages ln Vocational Office Education the students learn to use transcription and dictation equip- ment, adding machines, and calculators. Operational procedures of electric typewriters are also taught, in addition to duplicating and mimeograph machines. Some time is spent on grooming, professional actions and attitudes. Knowledge of filing, record keeping, spelling, and business English may be gained by using sources of information and exploring all facts of working in an office. Guest speakers were as follows: Mrs. Tonia Blair, Patricia Stevens Career College, Mrs. Ann Cogburn, Pompadour Wig Salon, Mr. Glenn McLaurin, McMahon School of Stenotype, and Mr. Rodman Kypke, Executive Secretarial School. The Office Education Association Club is a part of the V.O.E. Department. Contests in record keeping, and management, typewriting, machine transcription, 10-Key adding ma- chine, shorthand, spelling, and iob interview were held at the area conference. Students winning in these contests went on to the state competition in Abilene. A field trip was taken to El Centro Junior College. 22 i Dixie Orten E.T.S.U. B.S. V.O.E. BELOW: Mrs. Dixie Orten goes over the Reveille with Dee Thompson and Gail Hamilton.