Columbus North High School - Log Yearbook (Columbus, IN)

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every year Checking their work with the teacher ' s an- swers, these girls feel confident that after mas- tering shorthand, anything is possible. The paraphernalia of the typing trade piles up as flashing hands speed over the electronic keyboards, and steady eyes watch the textbook. An expression of either amazement or exas- peration shapes Mrs. Thelma Hatfield ' s face as her introductory business students hand in pa- pers. 49

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Business courses pay big dividends The continuous clicking of fingers on keys supplementing the clicking of brain cells in hectic Business Educa- tion Department classes scattered throughout the school. Students boasted of setting new speed records on the typewriter and of being able to decipher the mysterious squiggles which made shorthand seem incom- prehensible to their uninitiated class- mates. Sophomores found that some typing ability was essential since many courses required typewritten re- search papers or other assignments. Upperclassmen enrolled in various courses such as Clerical Office Prac- tice, Intensive Laboratory, Distributive Education, Cooperative Office Educa- tion, Salesmanship, and Business Law. These classes afforded experience in the diversified areas which are con- tained in business. Business students were not confined to the classroom situation only, but were encouraged to apply their knowl- edge and skills by taking jobs in ac- tual business enterprises. Outside speakers from Hilliards lectured to classes about modern business tech- niques, while group discussions and complex problem-solving kept the ambitious future business leaders oc- cupied the rest of the time. Bookkeeping and accounting books form a re- peating pattern in this business oriented course as intent students pore over a worksheet. Their fetit spread out before them, a class of business low students consider all the aspects of question before answering. 48

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New concept calculated in Calculus Coming to the assistance of several bewilder- ed algebra students, Mr. Robert Albeitz calmly helps them out of their mathematical dilemma. Mr. Albeitz was among the first teachers to utilize small work groups in his classes, which encouraged independent study according to ability. Brain teasing geometry proofs were only a prelude to bigger and better mathematical concepts, as far as most sophomore math students were con- cerned. Many ambitious underclass- men doubled up on geometry and al- gebra courses during their sophomore year in order to take advanced classes later. This interest was reflected by the continued participation in the Analysis, Analytic Geometry, and Probability and Statistics courses of- fered again this year. The mathe- matics department celebrated the new decade by introducing a new high level course to the existing cur- riculum; Calculus was offered to qualifying seniors who had completed studies in the other college level classes. The system of splitting each class into smaller work and study groups was continued because of suc- cesses scored last year. Perturbed by the scores of his sophomores on their last geometry test, Mr. Robert Burnett con- siders the possibility of lowering the curve. The adding machines in the math resource center are convenient for everyone, as an effi- cient student discovers before class. 50