San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-27
BRECKENRIDGE WILL
HAVE "OPEN HOUSE"
THURSDAY EVENING
Students Will ShoU Value
Of Picking a Vocation
Carefully.


With vocal charts being prepared
by the Brackenridge High School
senior English students. setting forth
the pre-yocational value of different
subjects. plays and sSits written and
presented by the students. the patrons
and parents of the pupils of Bracken-
ridge are TO be amply compensated for
coming TO the open house program.
which is TO eliminate vocation week.
Thursday evening.
Vocational week, an innovation of
Alice Stone. head of the English de-
partment. has been created with the
view toward stopping students from
hlindiy entering professions. The
breckenridge Times" student publ
cation. gives the real purpose of voca-
tionnl week in the following editorial.
by William Resin. cditor-in-chief:
while [ Stand in the Shadow of
Indifference, No Virtue Shall Come
Ny Way
Once in every mans life comes a
time when he must choose one seeking
or another: time when he must
choose wisely. At this time he must
not be indifferent. but must intelli-
gently weigh the choice at hand.
Likewise n time comes in the life
of student when he must observe
wisely the many professions that are
at his disposal, and begin to lay plans
lures lead 10 success.
When answering the challenge of
the world. that challenge of leaving
the universe in little better coudi-
ton than he found it. the student
must start training early 10 prepare
his way. One who takes the attitude
of the world owes me living will
find that he is a poor collector il he
stalls his way through life"
The big feature OF the program is
the posters which have been made
from charts. the outlines of which
were prepared by Calm Jones. direc-
tor of vocational choosing in the junior
high schools. Each student made n
study Of the subject he was interested
in and then prepared Il chart for him
self. The most exhaustive study being
used rs the basis of n poster. Teach
Ing * the vocation that is the most
popular with the students of advanced
English. with stcno=raphy and secre-
tarial work following as n close sc2-
cnd. The most thorough invcStSa-
ti0p. il is generally conceded. is that
made by the students interested in
Journalism.
Posters containing slogans illustrat-
ing the pgc-vocational value Of various
studies have been prepared by the diff
fercnt departments.
4 play. written by Renwicke Cory,
of the citizenship training class. show
ing the value of the school in training
tho future genera ton for citizenship
will be presented AT the open housr.
The cast will be made up of the fol-
lowing: civicS paphS. .Alicn Dyckcman.
who is the Spirit of the Flag: Luther
Kiblr. the bow: Amy Arno. the girl.
Bessie Lee nickcy. public spenking
instructor. and Jessie Nance. Of the
ciyics department. are directing the
.onc-act play.
Miss Helen Cockren with Miss
Katherine Fall wrote Skit for The
salcsmanShip department. based uron
conversation overheard in a downtown
department store. Dee Armstrong and
Ola Nations are the customers. while
Saunders and Frances Bishop are the
sales people in the play. which deals
with the power of good salesmanship.
Miss Cockren. who is head of tho
salesmanship department will make n
speech streSsing the merits Of sales
manShin in the prologue TO the nlnylet.
The home economies and domestic
Science classes will put on r MAY,
showing the necessity of home training
for the success of the home. Miss
Pirie of the faculty has written the
play. which will be presented under di-
rections of Miss Jean Harwell. head OF
the domestic science department. The
two principal characters in this. skit
are Euleone Mcdonald and Margaret
Lecky.
As part of the statewide classical
week" movement. Main Avenue High
School is preparing for a classical
omen house next week. run on n SINH
lar basis TO the one at Breckenridge.