Weslaco High School - La Palma Yearbook (Weslaco, TX)

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AT RIGHT: Osborne Little's government classes combined reading and original research on drugs, city and state problems, with traditional government stud- ies this spring. 'TOP RIGHT: Johnny Trevino points out an area being studied dming Obert Aga's fourth period American history class. BELOW: It's test time in jim Davis, American history class. 14X Academics

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Typing and Bookkeeping Skills of Seventies ln this age ol' ubiquitous computers, someone still has to man the old typewriter, take dictation and keep business books organized, so WHS offers typing, shorthand, book- keeping and related bookkeeping to help students make it in the business World. Typing l is learning l.lH1ll21IIlliIll2llS of using typewriters and basic business forms. Typing ll is a combination of letters, manuscripts, business forms and other types of typing. Students also switch from manual to electric type- writers at this point. Shorthand is a skill that will come in handy for taking notes in college, or for taking dictation in an olliee. The first semester is spent learning how to take dictation and mastering the forms. In general, mostly girls take short- hand, but more and more, boys are entering the class also. Bookkeeping and related bookkeeping are similar but the regular bookkeeping course is more business oriented and complicated than the related course, which stresses skills needed by the ordinary citizen in home and simple business records. ln addition to classroom activity, business students also particpate in Halloween carnival activities, UIL competi- tion, and a Valentine typing contest. Working busily in their bookkeeping workbooks are Susan James, Sylvia Salas, Vicki Bell, Blanca Chavez, Alicia Marin and Selina Gonzales. School takes independent study, this girl finds.

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Young Voters Corsider '72 Election Issues When I8 year olds received the right to vote this year, suddenly almost 900 students in WHS joined their other counterpart adults in becoming involved, aware, apathetic, and all the other adjectives that apply to the American voter. Social studies, particularly government, suddenly became more relevant than ever before students did re- search, interviewing, and considering of the prime issues beliorc the public . . . this year, drugs, sealing down of the Viet Nam war, local, state and county elections, education, and law and order. Registering to vote and campaigning by school policy arc not permitted on campus, -but students nonetheless spent informal hours off campus concerning themselves with the business of being responsible citizens. As the year came to a close, the last ofthe states were considering the womenis rights amendment to the Constitu- tion . . . an amendment which the Texas legislature passed during a special pre-Easter session. Campus girls mused over their new dralt status, along with the rights they won.