Argentine High School - Mustang Yearbook (Kansas City, KS)

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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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ARGENTIAN 1945 • BAND • Seventy members of the band furnished the entertainment at such programs as the Kansas City Structural Steel Production Drive, Mustang Revue, Spring Concert and other auditorium programs. The full band in complete uniform played at all home football games and performed stunts be- tween halves. A pep band composed of about twenty members of the regular band played at most of the pep assemblies and all home basketball games. At the end of the season this group had a banquet because of its extra duty. Majorettes, led by Dorothy Clevenger, took a prominent part in numerous programs. The major- ettes were: Bobbee Isaac, Eleanor Ann Duckworth, Martha Grube, and Dolores Hisel. 9 9 9 The band presented its annual spring concert May 7, featuring as soloists lames Childers, bass- horn; Veda Wylie, piano; Dorothy Clevenger, who presented a baton twirling exhibition; and a clar- inet trio composed of Glen Mayhugh, Norma Thorp, and Marjorie Grube. • ORCHESTRA • The orchestra was composed of sixty-five members, twenty-eight of whom played string instru- ments. This organization played for assemblies, programs, and presented a nickel assembly. An ex- change concert with Shawnee Mission was held again this year. The entire string section composed a string orchestra which played at the junior and senior plays and other programs. The only senior soloist to play at the spring concert was Marilyn Bell, celloist. The orchestra is under the direction of Harold J. Mould. • GLEE CLUB • The boys' and girls' Glee clubs were combined this year for the first time because of the war con- ditions and the depletion of the faculty. The Glee clubs, in former years, wore sweaters and other uniforms to denote their club. These uniforms had to be dispensed with this year as uniforms were too hard to secure and much too high priced for many of the club's membership to buy. The officers of the club are chosen at the first of the fall semester and are in office the entire school term. The officers were formerly tv o presidents and two vice-presidents, two secretaries and two treasurers, but as the Glee clubs are combined, the officers were chosen from the entire group. The officers are as follows: Bill Ely, president; John Gazda. vice-president; and Roberta Easley, secretary-treasurer. The annual program given by the Glee clubs in the spring of the year was of original ideas, arranged by students from the club, assisted by Miss Mona Walter, club sponsor and director of the club. The class had an enrollment of 52, of whom 16 were boys and 36 were girls. In the club this year there were several different groups of students who practised numbers for special occasions. The groups were a boys' quartet of Paul Stigall, Bill Ely, Paul Ludwig, and Eugene Leaf, and a girls' trio composed of Phyllis Hoover, Ann Coats, and Norma Ayrault. PAGE TWENTY-EIGHT