Eau Claire High School - Kodak Yearbook (Eau Claire, WI)

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GDQDMM IE IDID Il A IL GDGD IU IDJV IEJV COMMERCE There is something about an office and business routine that is irresistible to one in every three of us at some time. ls it the inky mimeograph, the snap- ping adding machine, or the tramp of keys to the Victrola's march? Perhaps it is filing pa- pers, Winning Speed tests, or Mr. Tealey, Miss Slaughter, Mr. Johnson, Miss Syverson, Mr. Beede. even filling note books with crooks and dotted lines that makes plain spelling and punc- tuation palatable side dishes in this varied menu offered by the Commercial department. At any rate, we may begin with junior business and follow it with bookkeeping, typing, short- hand, commercial law, and finally by general office prac- tice. After four years of such diet We emerge practically a Roger Babson body on a Gregg chassis. Iunior business we acquire from Mr. lohnson and Mr. Beedeg typing and shorthand, from Miss Slaughter, Miss Sy- verson and Mr. Tealey. Mr. Beede, chairman of the depart- ment, unfolds to us the myster- Center-Shorthand Class. Bottom-Typing Class. ai ies of bookkeeping. Miss Sy- verson gives us a taste of actual office practice in commerce, and Mr. Iohnson inducts us into the first principles of commercial law.

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IHDIDIIAII. JNDI! IEN QEIE Top-fstandingl Mr. Helleloid, Mr. Haig, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Matbison, Mr. B. E. Anderson, Mr. A. L. Anderson, Mr. Rist. fSittingj Miss Mitchell, Miss Blum, Miss Baum. SOCIAL SCIENCE We, the young people of the United States, in order to estab- lish - insure - promote- any- how, in order to learn the first steps in becoming the citizens We shall need to be in six or seven years more, have to lse- stir ourselves in social science. We study the successes and failures of yesterday in the hope of being able to cope with the inq Qood laws and of repealing had ones. Freshmen study social sci- ence, sophomores study World history, juniors and seniors se- lect either American problems or American history. Miss Blum, as chairman of this department, is assisted by Mr. A. L. Anderson, Mr. B. E. Anderson, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Haiq, Mr. Helleloid, Mr. Law- rence, Mr. Mathison, Mr. Rist, Miss Mitchell, and Miss Baum. problems of tomorrow. Some of the routines of political or- ganization we learn by actual practice. An attempt at good citizenship is made by all thoughtful students. We begin to see the reasons for some of our charitable and penal insti- tutions, the methods of enforc- r ff Center--American History Class. Bottom-Social Science Class.

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Mr. Thompson, Mis: Elmgren, Mr. Boyd. MUSIC You yearn to play some instrument? Name itg Mr. Boyd will set you at it. Let Mr. Thompson find out that you can sing, and sing you will. Tweedle- Weedle, oompah-oompah, aaah, mi-mi-mil Can your dear ones hear it? Wait for a concert and watch the family chest expand. The Pep Band is playing for a game: a Pop concert is ony a surge of orches- tral harmony envelops youp you are learning the difficult technique of marching and playing at the MlU1f II IE same time. Mr. Boyd directs all of these. Will you sing with Miss Elmgren and Mr. Thomp- son ? A minstrel show earns the funds for promoting the more dignified projects, the annual oratorio and the opera which train in the traditions of great music. Innumerable programs about town, a good-will tour for the choir, the climax of the band tournament- it's loads of strenuous work-and you love it. 1 1. iff QQ' an 2 Center left-Senior Orchestra Bottom-Girls' Glee Club. Center right-A Cappella Cbolr