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TOP LEFT: COE students such as Annette Creery are taught how to use business machines
1nclud1ng the dictaphone. TOP RIGHT: COE sponsor. Mrs. Audrey Phelps sorts ass1gnments
on her desk to
be
rettKned. ABOVE: Using a dictaphone. Lydia Poche completes her
assignment BELOW: Terri Calhoun and Vicki Vinters compare cards in their index
file$.
employment
COE
Permanent
extended to
workers
Notifying substitute teachers
each day required that COE
student Chris Cobb be at
work at 6 a.m. at the central
office of the Ouachita Parish
School Board in Monroe.
Chris must listen to the
tapes of teachers who will be
absent and then place a call
to substitutes in time for them
to be at school. Chris himself
must then be at WMHS for
his classes.
Chris was one of some 30
students who were placed in
jobs through the COE
program, under the direction
of Mrs . Audrey Phelps.
Cooperative Office Education
provided vocational students
an opportunity to obtain office
experience as they attended
school. Students worked in
the afternoon, after having
attended morning classes, in
most instances.
Most jobs held by COE
students were filing and
secretarial-type work.
Of
the
students employed in the COE
program, 75 per cent of them
were offered permanent
employment, according to Mrs.
Phelps. She noted that about
50 per cent of the students
remain on the job, w ith the
other half being college-bound.
Students in the course were
selected in the spring by
applying. Among the
requirements were two
business courses and one's
own transportation.
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