Johnstown High School - Spectator Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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Above— Miss Emma Belle Hauch and class Katherine Zamagias and Helen Wertz Lydia Pavlo and Lois Bettle Go.mmen.cial One of the busiest and largest departments in Johnstown High School is the Commercial Department. It was the task of this department to prepare the commercial students of J. H. S. for the business world, and the opportunities that lie before them. This competent department, under the leadership of Mr. Raymond Morgan, shouldered the responsibility of preparing the bookkeepers, typists, secretaries, stenographers, clerks and machine operators for the business world. The Commercial Department had a varied field of interesting subjects to choose from: bookkeeping, shorthand, typing, retail

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 Miss Josephine Young and class Miss Ruth Hetrick's Spanish Class The knowledge of foreign languages is becoming more and more important a: Iho world is being drawn closer together by means of the airplane, telegraph, etc. Jn keeping with this trend, the language teach- ers at Central High have been emphasizing the practical application of the language they teach. The German classes used conversational phonograph records, such as were used by the army in the last war to teach army per- sonell. All conversation in the Spanish classes was carried on in Spanish, and nev- er in English. Two Spanish newspapers, La Piersa, and La Lux, were also read in class. The French classes learned many French songs, and they, too, read a news- paper, Le Petit Journal. Reading Roman myths and studying Roman customs were the prevalent factors in the Latin classes. Latin was taught so as to strengthen a per- son s sense of English construction. Without a doubt, the Language Department of Johns- town High School is really keeping up with the world.

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selling, salesmanship, business math, commercial law, and com- mercial art. At the start of the second semester many students from the Commercial Department worked a half a day over town in the field of commercial work that they had chosen. This gave them training and valuable experience. Each commercial student who took bookkeeping III re- ceived a six weeks course in learning how to operate business machines, so that they would be better equipped to find a posi- tion in a business where modern machines are used. Th Commercial Department of J. H. S. has done a com- mendable job in producing the future men and women of the business world.