Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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For those who intend to make a ca- reer of business, the courses offered in this line in high school are practically indispensable. Including such a wide variety as bookkeeping, office machine training, accounting, and commercial law, they furnish a complete back- ground either for further studies or for immediate practical use. With the ex- perience which they have acquired in high school, the students arc fully qual- ified to step into a business office and assume a responsible position, for the groundwork which they have received will enable them to quickly master any differences between offices. For those who are far along in their business training, actual experience in the business field is available, through the retail training program. In this, the students attend a half-day of school and spend the other half-day actually work- ing at one of the jobs they have studied, either in a retail store or in an office. In this way, they fit themselves for the job of their choosing. Above, right: Mr. Baker's office machines training class. Below: Commercial instructors are. left to right, seated: Lois Hillemeyer, and Miss Adelaide Balluff Standing, arc: Miss Della May Taylor, Miss Alta Warner, and Miss Tbeo Schmid. Above: Miss Balluffs typing class.

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COMMERCIAL The early Indian did not need to make provision for the study of commercial subjects. His world was simple, and within the borders of it there was no room for anything more than the bare necessities of com- munication. But the members of the D.H.S. tribe” arc in a different situation, and ample provision is made to train them in the things they need. At the conclusion of the three-year course in typing and two- year course in shorthand, students arc usually prepared to take over one of the many stenographic positions open in the Tri-Cities, or continue in college courses. Even while they are still in school, students in this course have many jobs to do, including typing all re- port cards, typing and mimeographing for the Boys’ State campaign, and typing out blanks for contests held here. In this present-day world, so much more compli- cated than that of the Indian, the importance of the role which the instructors play in training students in secretarial work can hardly be over-estimated. Commercial instructors, W. R. Baker, Wallace Evans, Paul C. Moon, and Clement Bridge, discuss texts used in the commercial courses. Above, left: Jim Nelson, working in a local store as part of the cooperative retail training course, decorates a window. Below: Miss Mildred Blair, retail training instructor.

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SCIENCE ... Waller Hummel, Jack Zoeckler, Dan Hug, Helen Zentner, and Clara Asher examine a live owl in Miss John's biology class. Instructors of the natural sciences examine bird specimens. They are, left right: J. M. Hitchings. Leslie C. Goss, Harvey Voris, and Miss M. Rae Johns. When the Redman lived in this country, he was not able to cope with his environment very effectively. His methods for knowing what kind of weather was ahead were primitive. He had no rifle, but had to be content with a crude bow and a stone arrow-head. He was always in doubt as to whether his family would be able to eat the next day. Today, thanks to the many triumphs of science and numerous inventions, everyone has his opportunity to live in a hap- pier, more secure world. Students of today, who will be the scientists tomorrow, learn their scientific lore” in such subjects as chemistry, physics, zoology, and biology. Many students take courses in the ologies” which help them understand something of the miraculous universe of living things around them. Even the tiny grasshopper has its talc of wonder. Much time is spent by students in dis- secting frogs and crawfish or observing the habits of snakes and of other biological speci- mens. The Indian, through his ignorance of many things scientific, allowed many supersti- tions and beliefs to grow up around the sciences. The Great Spirit” showed his anger by thunder and lightening as a warning to the Redman. If the year’s crops were successful the gods had been well pleased. Wendell Van Alta, Dorothy Winkler, and Marilyn Lynch—members of Mr. Hitchings' physiology class—look at a model of a human jawbone. 20