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

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Miss Frances Aiken Typing, Shorthand East Carolina, B.S. Mrs. Freeda Akers Typing, Shorthand Radford College, B.S. Mrs. Julie Babcock Typing General Business University of Florida, B.S.E. Mrs. Dorothy Cheatham Recordkeeping Bookkeeping Mary Washington College, B.S. Chairman Business Education Department VOT program is continued during this year Seniors, who were skilled in typing and had taken the entire business course up to their sen¬ ior year, were qualified to take Vocational Office Training. This course taught students office pro¬ cedure through experience in downtown offices half of each school day. Sophomores, juniors, and seniors could take typing and general business, while only juniors and seniors could take shorthand. Record-keep¬ ing was open only to juniors, while bookkeeping and transcription were only open to seniors. Advanced senior typists in shorthand tran¬ scription classes typed articles for the STAR and HALISCOPE. Some students volunteered to do secretarial work for the main office and other departments. 30