Albert Lea High School - Tiger (Albert Lea, MN)

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For Various Secretarial Occupations Not only students planning to enter the field of business benefited from business courses but also those who were going to college. Diversified occupations employed students in part time employment. Various places they Worked were department stores, restaurants, drug stores, garages and business offices. These students attended school only in the morning and Worked during the afternoon at their respective places of employment. 'lhe first year of stenography taught students how to write and apply shorthand. Constant drilling of brief forms and recall words enabled students to build up speed and accuracy in dictation. Transcription ll, the second year of stenography, Eugene Lysne provided advanced learning for those interested in further training. Most of the year was spent on writing letters from shorthand notes and taking speed dictation tests. Awards were given after passing each test. Shorthand I Typing Business machines trained seniors how to operate the ten-key and full-keyboard adding machines, calcu- lators, the bookkeeping machine, the spirit duplicator, the comptometer, the Burrough accounting machine and other important office equipment. About eight Weeks was spent on the dictaphone and IBM. Marie Skieveland Typing Bookkeeping I FOUR STEPS IN WRITING A LETTER: dicution. composition, typing and examination of the Journalism Business Adviser iinished product. were shown by Ronda Iohnson. it XT Ruth Woods Typing Iunior Red Cross ' Puqe 23

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Business Classes Arthur Anthony Bookkeeping II Business Arithmetic Business Machines Journalism Business Adviser Gene Erickson Business Arithmetic Business Correspondence Personal Finance mv' Charles Fairchild Business Principles Typing Iournclism Business Adviser Iva Loy Shorthand I. II Office Practice Prepare Students Numerous business courses offered interested stu- dents Valuable training. These courses enable gradu- ates to obtain better jobs in the future. Seniors were taught in office practice how to operate Various business machines by practical application. Machines used in the course were adding machines, calculators, a duplicator, a comptometer, a dictaphone and the bookkeeping machine. A special office prac- tie book was used with the course to teach students about familiar office procedures. They were taught how to file and how to type contracts, wills, letters and telegrams. About nine weeks was spent working on the IBM and dictaphone machines. Methods of filling out cash receipts books, cash payment books and profit and loss statements were only a few business techniques taught in bookkeeping. This class was offered either as a one or two year course to juniors and seniors who were interested. Through typing, students were familiarized with the standard typewriter keyboard. Speed and accuracy were the main things stressed as methods of typing memorandums and letters were taught. Charts with the maximum words per minute typed by each student were kept in some typing classes. ONE OF THE MANY MACHINES used by students in business courses was run by Dorothy Reichl. Norman Bailey Retail Sales Diversified Page 22

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Russell Esson Earl Iacobsen Electricity Industrial Drawing Aeronautics Photography Adviser To gain practical experience and basic technical knowledge, many students enrolled in some of the various industrial arts classes offered at Albert Lea. The industrial arts courses were divided into four general areas. One of these, aimed at developing technical skills, was instructed by Mr. Earl lacobsen, and included machine drawing, blue print reading and shop mathematics and architectural drawing. Metals, a one semester course in basic metal work- ing, served as a pre-requisite for Vocational Machine Shop I, and was open to all senior high students. luniors who progressed satisfactorily through the first course in vocational machine shop were allowed to take a second year of it as seniors. These courses in metalworking were instructed by Mr. Linus Siefert. Electricity and basic electronics, delving into the world of radio and television, were taught by Mr. Rus- sell Esson. Through the course in aeronautics, students learned the principles of flight and navigation. Mr. Sydney Schwartz headed the classes in wood- working. ln the basic course of machine woodworking, any senior high student was given an opportunity to learn safe and proper use of the tools used by an exper- ienced craftsman. Upperclassmen were permitted to learn the many aspects of cabinet-making, and exper- ienced seniors learned much about the trade through a practical course in carpentry. Linus Seifert Sydney Schwartz Metals Machine Woods Vocational Machine Shop Cabinet Making Sh P 'd V t' 1'I' g AS THEIR MACHINE SHOP project, Steven O'Neal, Gary Rupp, Gary CAREFUL MEASURING and calculating had to be considered before Nelson and Dennis Stoa constructed a motor scooter on which to ride. David Larsen could finish his architectural drawing assignment. If - Page 24 in