ARGENTINE HIGH e OFFICE MACHINES • Thirty students were enrolled this year in office machines, a course which was started five years ago to meet the growing demands for specialized and versatile skills to help the high school graduate find employment in various business offices. This course includes the study of filing, operation of adding machines, duplicating letters and forms by means of the mimeograph, ditto, and speedograph machines. Included in filing is a thorough study of the fundamentals of indexing in alphabetic triple check automatic subject and soundex, numeric and geographic methods. Included in the operation of the adding machines is practice in addition with special attention to the most commonly used combinations of numbers. Included in the duplication of letters and the mimeograph course is training in the operation and care of the machine and making copies, and training in cutting stencils by the use of a mimeoscope and typewriter. Included in the study of the ditto course is ex perience in running copies on the speedograph and ditto machines by using ditto carbon, ribbon, pencil, and ink. Argentine graduates have a reputation in the business houses in this area for a high degree of skill after taking this course. • TYPING CLASS • The typing department of Argentine high school has won more than fifty contests since the first event in 1914. In the Northeast Kansas or Kansas City area Argentine has never lost a contest. The first twenty-six contests in which Argentine participated, including ten Kansas state events, three inter-state meets, a national meet, and other contests of a smaller scope were won by the Argentine squads. The school holds the all-time state records in both accuracy and in speed, in both the first-year and second-year divisions. The high of ninety-nine words per minute was reached by the second-year group one year in the state contest, and within eight months in the first-year a speed of eighty-one was obtained. The typing squad for the past year was chosen from the following group: Velda Burton, Ann Coats, Roberta Fullerton John Gazda, Marjorie Grube, Rosemary Levi, and Carlene Smith from the second year division, and Anna Marie Albright, Harold Armstrong, Nancy Culp, Shirley Glenn, Cornelia Jordan, Glendora Lapham, L. C. Maddox, Jr., Arlene Markula, Barbara Puhr, Norma Smith, and Mary Weaver from the first year division. In the shorthand division were the following students who were chosen to represent Argentine in various contests: Margie Speaks, Doris Hindman, Veda Wylie, Rosemary Levi, Phyllis Knowles, and Donna Glenn. Argentine graduates have established a reputation in the business houses of Greater Kansas City for a high degree of skill. Many employers come directly to the school to choose their employees. Many students have received part-time work while attending school. • LIBRARY • The library, v ith over 4,000 books, is an integral part of the school curriculum. Serious consider- ation is given to the value of each book in relation to the subjects offered by the school before it is ordered for school use. Technical books are being emphasized more and more by the library. About one-fourth of the material is selected for leisure-time reading. The library is careful to con- sider the literary style of the books and the influence they may have on the student in helping to form a desirable habit and attitude. Over thirty popular magazines are available in the library for pleasure reading and class work. Reference books have been added to the library this year. These included the revised editions of the thirty volume Encyclopedia Americana, the eighteen volume World Book Encyclopedia, and the Encyclopedia Britannica. For the first time the school has purchased a twenty-two volume dic- tionary of American biography. Webster's Biographical Dictionary and the 1944 Who's Who, an English publication which is international in material, also were obtained. An Atlas of American History, which contains changes of boundaries and size of nations according to era, was purchased as an addition to historical volumes. Mabel Smith '47 has acted as assistant to Miss Mary F. Schuerer during second hour. Her duties were to notify students who had overdue books, and to keep books in their proper places.
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