George Rogers Clark High School - Powder Horn Yearbook (Whiting, IN)

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Jerry Gajos, Ron Vale, Judy Lovrinich, Nancy Silvasi, Susan Pierce, and Sherry Gurevitz increase their speed. Commercialists Acquire Experience by Alta Mitchell In Mr. Steve Stavros’ business machine class, Dolly Ciez, Diane Dufallo, Mike Sulich, and Penny Flesher improve their skills with various types of modern office equipment. In preparation for careers in business, 346 Clark- ites undertook the commercial course. Dexterity is mastered as the student’s fingers travel the key¬ board in beginning and advanced typing classes. Here, 160 students become acquainted with typing techniques, then work to acquire speed and profici¬ ency. Beginning shorthand courses teach word ab¬ breviations while advanced shorthand and tran¬ scription provides practical application of tech¬ niques. Other classes comprising the full commercial course are business training, consumer education, including facts of advertising and buying tech¬ niques, and business law, dealing with business con¬ tracts and policies. Bookkeeping gives students prac¬ tice in keeping accurate records. In addition to practical exercises, students receive a glimpse of how businesses operate through spec¬ ially prepared movies. Valuable equipment, 56 type¬ writers, two electric typewriters, three adding ma¬ chines, two calculators, one duplicator, and one dic¬ tating machine, are utilized to supplement regular classroom experience. 15

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The familiar buzz of the saws and pounding of hammers are heard as Tom Gallager and John Cook work to finish the shop projects that are required every six weeks. Learning the proper way to fit and sew a pair of slacks in advanced sewing class, Dolores Gyurscan receives special help from Miss Marie Nordvig, sewing instructor. Ularkites Develop Useful Skills bv Carole Conrad Learning to set tables, plan menus and parties, girls in home management class become the perfect hostesses. Here Sandra Zagrocki serves tea to Jackie Gillian. Home economics and industrial arts support the useful skills department of the year’s curriculum. Both of these courses are taught as a preparation for college, business, and homemaking. Included in the home economics course are cloth¬ ing and food classes. Students who aspire to be homemakers, designers, or dieticians enroll in these classes. The importance of personal appearance, design, fabrics, color, and wardrobe planning is stressed in clothing classes. Food classes stress the importance of preparing and serving appetizing and well-balanced meals. The knowledge of attractive table setting, well- planned menus, and wise marketing is included. The industrial arts course prepares students for engineering or industrial occupations. Shop class members find that the experience gained by work¬ ing on various projects has not only an industrial preparation, but a practical application. Future en¬ gineers, draftsmen, carpenters, and machinists dis¬ cover mechanical drawing class can be a help in seeing dimensions and geometrical relationships. 14

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pCM . . . “Is there room for my coat?” Jean Makis voices a familiar complaint and wishes her locker was about two feet larger as her locker partner, Penny Flesher packs in her books. “The 8:25 rush.” Every morning students hurry to the main office and buy pencils, paper, notebooks, folders, and a variety of other essential school supplies. Between classes a stampede occurs in the halls. Students lockers, and greet their friends, all in short five minute hurry from room to room, crowd the stairways, rush to their intervals. 16