Belleville Township West High School - Bellevinois Yearbook (Belleville, IL)

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Business courses provided experience for our futures For the first time, this year students were given the opportunity to take a course in Computer Programming-Cobol. Before taking the course, they had to have completed Introduction to Data Processing, a one-semester course. Cobol students learned to write assigned programs, to enter the programs on an Apple II Plus Computer with Microsoft Cobol, and to save their programs on a floppy disk. Mrs. Sandra Tinney taught Cobol for the Business Education Depart¬ ment, which was headed by Mr. Howard Belcher. Laura Bauder learned that figuring taxes was a big part of her first-year accounting class. Charlene Coll learned how to transcribe a dictated John Shipley used an adding machine to figure out accounting letter during her shorthand class instruction. problems in his General Business class. 22 Business Education

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Paul Meyer prepared a titration in a chemistry lab experiment. Video tapes were important tools for science education. 8haun McGuire and Carl Hose learned that making careful observations was a vital part of every physics experiment. Natural and Physical Sciences 21

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Lisa Houba improved her skills at the typewriter during her second year of typing. Lori Robinson worked as a secretary in Principal Jerry Turner’s office as part of her Office Occupations work-study program. Pat Herman entered her Cobol program into an Apple II Microsoft Computer with Cobol. This was the first year that Cobol computer programming was introduced to students. BUSINESS EDUCATION COURSES Accounting Distributive Education Shorthand D.E. Work Co-op Typing Consumer’s Education Business English General Business Intro, to Bus. Management Intro. To Data Processing Business Law Computer Programing Cobol Business Math Business Communications Personal Typing Office Procedures Marketing Distributing Office Occupations Office Occupations Work Co-op Business Education 23