Hamburg High School - Echoes Yearbook (Hamburg, NY)

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Our highly competitive business world requires Seated: Bender, Larivey. Standing: Baur, Hewitt, Ashcroft, Hastie. Today's business world is a fast-moving competi- tive one. The business department moved rapidly and efticiently in its attempts to keep up with the new methods and techniques of this progressive world. Business machines, typewriters, and audio-visual aids were essential parts of this up-to-date depart- ment. A variety of courses were offered to provide Students learn accounting processes in Bookkeeping classes. Marthia. Ottice Practice trains students in the use of business machines found in modern- day offices. Smith. Froehley, Ashcroft, -, Principles and theories of business are taught in the Management classes. the college-bound student with preparatory training and the terminal student with skills for his vocation. Numerous and diversified courses led to business sequence diplomas. This year, as always, awards were given in June to students who demonstrated exceptional business ability. Q , BUSINESS f i i i .. V - . , ' I ii.. r'fi Shorthand and Transcription prepares students for immediate placement as secretaries. Collins, Strasser, Williams. Regents Typing helps students in writing term papers, business and personal let- ters, and manuscripts. Mc Peek.

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is as important as speaking another language. .ch X ll l l Wi li dia i .ir l i .Eh ,N Merlino, Meloy, Foster. lt's all Greek to me! wailed many frustrated students upon first confronting a foreign language. Ability to understand the language when spoken and to express themselves orally and in writing came slowly and sometimes painfully, but contributed to the deep- ening of linguistic sense. Frequent use of the language laboratories, especially by advanced classes, improved aural comprehension, intonation, inflection, and accent. Language study included background and culture of the adopted peoples. We deepened our under- standing by contact with the fruits of a civilization widely differing from, yet closely bound to our own. Hamburg's progressive language curriculum added Russian ll this year. Spanish students studied the language and culture of that country. Krueger, Smith. Customs and speech of the French people interested many students. Demmerley, Lockwood. A new alphabet as well as a new lan- guage appealed to those who elected to study Russian. McLaughlin, Rusert, LANGUAGE Some classes reviewed German novels along with learning the language. Kiriloff. Language and writings of ancient Rome intrigued students enrolled in Latin classes. Standing: Hoffmann. Seated: Juran.

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capable counseling and modern guidance techniques. in W-eq, it Seated: Ratcliffe, MacAlIister, Owen. Standing: Hale. Meeting the requirements of an ever-growing, ever-demanding world is becoming increasingly diffi- cult. New fields, never known before, are becoming vital and integral parts of our everyday life. Interesting new iobs have been created. Accordingly one must know both his environment and himself. Through counseling, members of the Guidance Staff have helped us to use information about ourselves and about available opportunities so that we could make wise choices, appropriate decisions, and realistic plans. Toward this end also conferences were sched- uled with college and employment representatives. College information and applications were handled with expert care. GUIDANCE Many career problems were solved by discussing them with a counselor, Wright. ' fit' 1.1.1.1 s Us Sf., .,.., .. . . I , S ,, ' If' H-Iwi ' s College-minded iuniors and seniors found it advantageous to sign up for interviews. Stachowiak, Endress.