West Jefferson High School - Buccaneer Yearbook (Harvey, LA)

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Business Education The Business Education Department is repre- sented by six faculty members who include Mrs. Marguerite Avery, dept. head; Mrs. Leigh Brignac, Mrs. Kathy Hurley, Mrs. Bertha Shiloh, Mrs. Kay Stiles, and Mrs. Dinah Wynns. Interested students have a variety of courses to choose from — Bookkeeping I and II, Bookkeeping I and II, Data Processing, Office Machines — and more of the basic courses. Two Cooperative pro- grams — are also offered giving the young man actual work experience while attending high school. Future Business Leaders of America is the Club that many business students join. FBLA helps stu- dents to become active in student leadership, to meet people their own age from other areas in the state and country, and to participate in various com- petitive events involving business subjects.

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DE, COE, T l Students at West Jefferson are offered three courses in which they come to school for three hours per day and work in the field for the rest of the day. In the Cooperative Office Education classes, the students do work in the offices of the commu- nity and use all of the clerical skills they have learned. In the Distributive Education classes, the stu- dent works in the sales, marketing, and retailing fields. In the Trade and Industry classes, the students have the opportunity to work directly with indus- try. The purpose of each program is to incorporate the high ideals of the programs into the personal- ities of the students through sound working tech- niques in the business community. In addition to classwork, the DE and the COE students are organized into DECA and COE with both clubs jointly sponsoring employers to a night at the Beverly Dinner Playhouse. ;i 256

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Home Economics The dynamics of American culture have brought about many changes in the role of the male as related to personal, home, and family life. Home Economics at West Jefferson offers courses geared to motivate the student in per- sonal development, food and nutrition, money management, housing, dating and entertaining — to name a few. The students shown in the pictures are in lab exercises. The young men learn survival skills in class. In one of the pictures they are learning the correct techniques in measuring. In the Foods I class members learned the typi- cal answer to Creole cooking — first you begin with a roux. The young men enrolled in the classes find this study most beneficial and have nothing but praise for the course and their instructor. 258