Edmunds High School - Hi Ways Yearbook (Sumter, SC)

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4, , 4: 4-A ,,.,-v 1 i ..r v,q1,1-n'.'u, sv a'W1VK D. O. class in session: Front raw, left to riqht: John Bar- Russell, Wayne Beasley, Billy Thompson, Edward Smith, wick, Elizabeth Kolb, Becky Epting, Don Birdsong, Joyce Charles Johnson, Brady Wilson, David Purvis, Arvin Tisdale, Robert Mauldin, Melvin Turner. Second row: Davis, Jack Dewitt. Absent when picture was made: Timothy Gaymon, Doris lrick, Kay Stafford, William H. B. Shorter, Nancy Morgan, Give Students Theoretical and Practical Training D. O. students are given a schedule of processes which they should complete by the end of the designated D. O. training lusually 2 yearsl. The Diversified Occupations program, a part of the State Trade and Industrial Edu- cation section, sponsored by Mr. W. E. Han- cock, is an important part of Edmunds school life. lt is a program in which the students, teachers, trades, and industries cooperate to give the students guidance, supervision, related training, and actual on-the-jcb-ex- perience while they are still in high school. Daily work and reports on studies each has made in relation to his D. O. occupation are recorded in a notebook. x D. O. students shown on the job in panel above are on a truck ata filling station, Timothy GOYlTWOni VSDCUY- left to right: Joyce Tisdale, checking a potient's tem- ing a radio at a radio shop, and Edward Smith, pre- perature at Tuomey Hospital, John Barwick, working paring for any emergency that might arise at Tuomey. 23

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li 4 i D, E. Class in session: Front row, left to right: Eddie Farrish, James Dennis, Earl Walton, Second row: Ron- nie Barrineau, Regena Mixon, Nyra Flowers. Third row: Delores Thames, Robert l-lorris, Charles Way, ,G . X ,Q Fourth row: Thomas Singletary, Bobby Thigpen, Richard Newman. Fifth row: Mendel Teddcr, Ernest Windham, Buddy Taylor. Distributive Education and Diversified Occupations The distinctive function of Edmunds Dis- tributive Education is to provide in coopera- tion with the local businesses and public schools, basic vocational training in outside selling. This training is useful in college, in- dustry, ar institutions for management. This is a national program supervised here by Mr. Virgil Roddey, and is primarily con- nected with retail and wholesale training. D. E. students shown on the iob in panel above are left to right: Eddie Farrish, supermarket employeeg Regena Mixon, mixing a drink at a drug stareg Nyra Flowers The student has a merchandizing manual in which he studies and reports on his voca- tional training and he also writes an essay in January of every year on his vocational training. The lower South Carolina Chapter of Dis- tributive Education has a convention in the fall of every year. 2.3. ii filling out business farms in an officeg and Charles Way preparing tools for a job at a garage. 22

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A J Haley Charles Mooneyhan and Emery McElveen concentrate mtently as thelr fmgers fly through an un trlcate exercuse Commerce Students Prepare for Busuness World The Commercual Department at Edmunds offers courses In typmg bookkeepung and shorthand Typing as offered un a one year and a two year course as preparation for stenographuc work A one semester course IS also gnven to those wlshlng to know the fundamentals of typung for personal use ment IS one and two year courses are book keeplng and shorthand The first year course of each IS very helpful rn regular stenographuc as well as bookkeepmg occupatlons Edmunds IS one of only a few schools whuch offer the second more advanced preparatuon for future bookkeepung Donald Bnrdsong Muller Wullroms and Gwen Addrson gif rg? check thenr fngures closely as they practxce for future bookkeepmg dunes Also included in the Commercial Depart- 24