Halifax County High School - Haliscope Yearbook (South Boston, VA)

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Mary Carol Lacy takes dictation from fellow business education student Kathie Slate. Mary Carol will then transcribe her notes on the typewriter. S uc en s in business Cxfucation Serve Learning to mimeograph is an important part of the office training class for advanced business students. Here Ruth Whitefield runs off a stencil. Jean Crews and Jennie Lee Midkiff work at typewriting, the most popular class in the department. 24

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The purpose of the Vo-ag. Department is to prepare students for agricultural or agricultural related jobs after graduation. Therefore, the subject matter presented in the classroom is extremely practical. Vocational Agriculture classes 9 and 10 meet two periods daily: one is spent in the classroom, and the other in the Vo-ag. shop. During the period in the shop the students learn how to handle power tools such as electric welders, table saws, and jointers. The students are taught the basic fundamentals and principles of rais¬ ing livestock, crops, and other jobs re¬ lating to agriculture. These principles are used in the specialization of Vo-ag. classes 11 and 12, which meet one period daily. The students also learn such things as electrical wiring, landscaping, fencing, and a host of others. During the latter part of the year the classes began the study of judging such things as dairy animals, beef cattle, crops, poultry and farm mechanics. The top stu¬ dents in these classes will go to VP I this summer to the annual F.F.A. Rally, but even those who don’t make the judging teams will gain valuable experience. Eugene Satterfield, Douglas Moore, and Lindy Puryear construct a self-hog feeder under the supervision of Mr. Currie Lacks. Mr. E. D. Patterson uses visual aids to make a point in one of his agriculture classes. Prepares Pis Siucienis for the Puiure 23

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Mrs. Freeda Akers Typing; Shorthand Business Math Radford College, B.S. Miss Frances Aiken Typing; General Business East Carolina College, B.S. Mrs. Dorothy C. Cheatham Bookkeeping; Office Practice Typewriting; Shorthand Transcription Mary Washington College, B.S. Chairman, Business Education Department Mrs. Mary Jane Fletcher Record Keeping Elon College, A.B. F.B.L.A. Advisor Miss Sylvia West General Business; Typing; Shorthand Longwood College, B.S. Practical experience and training for clerical and secretarial work after gradua¬ tion are the two valuable assets which stu¬ dents in business education courses receive by their academic work. In addition, the girls in office practice and shorthand classes render much service to their school. The advanced typists work for the STAR and the HALISCOPE as well as for the other school departments while the advanced shorthand students take dicta¬ tion from Mr. Swanson and other faculty members. The standard bookkeeping course, offer¬ ed only to seniors, is preceded by a general recordkeeping course which offers the stu¬ dents training for general clerks, book¬ keeping procedures for small businesses, and bookkeeping practices for personal use. The Business Department also offered night classes in typing for the adults of the county and had so many people to take ad¬ vantage of this opportunity that the group had to be divided into two classes. This group was almost double the number enrolled in a similar class offered last year. 25