Sweeny High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Sweeny, TX)

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Learning Lifetime Skills, Earning the Right to Work TOP LEFT: Junior Carlos Borrego displays his winning starter assembly project which earned honors in the district VlCA contests in the spring. Carlos and other student mechanics learned many professional skills related to the automotive industry. BELOW LEFT: Mary Thompson works as an office assistant in process engineering and first aid at the Phillips Petroleum Company at Old Ocean. BELOW RIGHT: Sweeny agriculture student Johnny Scott closes the deal on the purchase of a Brangus project heifer from Moon Ranch at Ftosharon. Set lor summer competition at Kerrville, Johnny and his classmates are instructed in farm and stock business procedures in agriculture courses and FFA related activities. Pictured are Mr. R.P. Doherty, owner of Moon Lake Ranch: Johnny Scott, local FFA member: and Mr. Larry Dickschat, ranch manager. ' inns!-1 ,I 'x 4 .Q B45 AN - ' V ff'- ,,-A2 ul, lf 103

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l Uocationa Q' 102 l TOP LEFT: Joe Truitt and Luke Harlen, CVAE construction trades students, do finish work on custom carpentry in the wood shop. W TOP RIGHT: Examining a V-8 prototype engine aslpart of their studies in auto mechanics class are student mechanics Carlos Borrego, Jeff Surber, Richard Brittain, Doak Hall, Maurice Griggs, Author Woodard, Dennis Jonps and Robert Hunt. Under the instruction of Mr. Raymond Hale, the boys provided a . Fllwnrnwmsmwoqv.-fw,W wr 5, CLX N k ' ...' - variety of auto services from t ups to minor repairs. ig ABOVE LEFT: Pre-employment student Toni Oaks works on ano phase of specialized cler training. She will enter the program in the fall as a part employee. ABOVE RIGHT: Senior student Sharon Slay prints billing statements at her offiti for the City of Sweeny. ,

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In Suooortineil Resource People Provide Special Services, Personal Link to Real World RIGHT: To stimulate student interest in engineering careers, Phillips Petroleum Company engineers Mary Halliday and Kent Kedderman present an informative program to SHS science classes. Local industry often provided resource personnel for on-campus programs and demonstrations. FAR RIGHT: Sweeny teachers Marjorie Pollard, Josefa Gupton, Elizabeth Hudson and Dorothy Woodard attend a special summer workshop in June. Staffed by resource personnel provided by and coordinated by Region lV Education Services and the local district, summer workshops were offered in varieties to supplement oles... f teacher training on most any course and grade level. 104 ABOVE: Michael Bradley, a National Education Association consultant from Australia, speaks to government and history classes about the processes and structures of Australian government as compared to that of the United States. 1 ABOVE: New Sweeny board trustee Dr. Alma Davis speaks to a gathering of local P7fA members. ln presentations to school and civic groups, Dr. Davis covered a variety of topics ranging lfrom child psychology to teenage pregnancy. 1 4 l l N Y r l .. Q ' ' im? X, X . V -5 ,x ABOVE: Inmates from the Department of Corrections Huntsville visited the SHS to encourage students to trouble that leads to drinking, d I'