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Job Title Openings Jobs, 1978-1990
Industrial assemblers 77,000 43.0
Blue-collar-worker supervisors 69,000 16.0
Bookkeeping workers 96,000 11.8
Cashiers 119,000 49.6
Receptionists 41,000 27.9
Secretaries and stenographers 305,000 45.4
Typists 59,000 19.4
Bank clerks 45,000 50.5
Accountants 61,000 29.4
Building custodians 176,000 20.1
Cooks and chefs 86,000 31.9
Waiters and waitresses 70,000 18.2
Private guards 70,000 50.0
Kindergarten and elementary-school teachers 86,000 24.9
Retail-trade sales workers 226,000 32.8
Wholesale-trade sales workers 40,000 14.0
Carpenters 58,000 10.9
Construction laborers 49,000 12.8
Local truck drivers 64,000 18.4
Soil conservationists 46,500 26.8
Industrial-machinery repairers 58,000 66.0
Licensed practical nurses 60,000 67.2
Registered nurses 85,000 49.6
Nursing aides, orderlies, attendants 94,000 52.0
USNOR chi-Baw data US Department of LaborCouncil News/Views
COUNCIL MEMBER NAMED TOP TEACHER --
Council member Gay Sweet, a vocational
office education teacher at Jefferson High
School in San Antonio, was recognized as
the outstanding national business educa-
tor of the year at the recent American
Vocational Association convention in New
Orleans.
This award of merit was presented by
AVA's Business and Office Education (BOE)
Division.
Sweet is currently serving as president
of the BOE Division of AVA and as a vice-
president on the AVA Board of Directors.
She has been a member of the ACTVE since
1980. (P.S. Gay has an article in the
January/February issue of VocEd magazine.)
This is the second Texas teacher that
has been recognized as the best in the
nation -- Tommy Jones of Brazosport was
named top Trade and Industrial teacher.
Congratulations to both of these worthy
recipients.
NATIONAL POST -- Another busy Council
member is Dr. Robert Hunter, vice presi-
dent of Abilene Christian University. He
was recently elected secretary-treasurer
of the State Association Executives Council
of the National Association of Independent
Colleges and Universities. Congratulations!24 Occupations With
Lots of Openings During the 1980s
Annual Average % Growth In TotalON TO HOLLYWOOD -- Council member Jessie
Lee Sharpley, owner of Jessie Lee's Hair
Design Institute in Lubbock, has been asked
to go to Hollywood, Calif. and tape nine
hours of cosmetology instruction for cable
television. It will be shown all over the
U.S. and put on discs in many different
languages for distribution internationally.
A star in the making'
FACT SHEET AVAILABLE -- Will Reece, ACTVE
program officer, developed a Fact Sheet on
Vocational Education in Texas which was dis-
tributed at the Voc Ed Week breakfast. It
contains enrollment figures, placement fig-
ures, average pupil cost, etc. For a copy,
write Will Reece, ACTVE, P.O. Box 1886,
Austin, TX 78767.
11TH REPORT OUT -- The 11th Annual Report
of the Council to the State Board for Voca-
tional Education has been printed and copies
are available from ACTVE. It includes a
section on the "Status of Vocational Educa-
tion in Texas," "Reactions to Federal Fund-
ing Flow," "Climate of Vocational Education,"
and "1981 Advisory Council Recommendations."
VE WEEK BREAKFAST SUCCESS -- Over 275
students, educators, business people and
legislators gathered to observe Vocational
Education Week on February 10. American
Vocational Association executive director
Gene Bottoms was the main speaker. Over 50
students from across the state were recog-
nized at the breakfast and again at both the
House and Senate chambers. They were pre-
sent as the Governor signed the Vocational
Education Week proclamation. For a copy of
Gene Bottoms' timely, informative remarks
at the breakfast, write Jeanine Hicks, ACTVE,
Box 1886, Austin, TX 78767.
The Foundation is rapidly moving toward
its immediate goal of $3,000. Vocational
educators from across the state have respond-
ed to the call and donated $1,600 to the
Foundation. It is anticipated that the
Directors will agree to use this initial
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