Harding High School - Acorn Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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The business department at Harding offers helpful and valuable courses for all students. Typewriting 1 is helpful to all students. In Typing I, students learn the fundamentals of the course. In Typ- ing 11, pupils put to use their knowledge of typing skills. Shorthand is a must for anyone interested in a secre- tarial career. Students taking this course learn various symbols and brief forms. Dictation and transcription are an important part of shorthand. Business courses provide Our photographer interrupts Mrs. Smith and her shorthand class. Mrs. Laura Morris watches her Typing II students peck away. Mrs. Lettie Smith, Mrs. Ella Mae Morris, Mrs. Laura Morris. Page Twenty-eight

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A guest speaker talks to the D. E. class. Mr. Crotts instructs one of his students in a hiisy 1. C. T. class. Vocational training in future jobs Miss Mahel Chandler, Mr. Douglas Crotts. The distributive education program at Harding is composed of juniors and seniors wdao are interested in working part-time while still in high school. The stu- dents come to school in the morning and work on part- time jobs in the afternoons in selling, wholesaling, and service occupations. A minimum of fifteen hours per week is required to receive school credit. In school, the student takes the regular required subjects and distribu- tive education, hie is given one unit for each class of D.E. and one for work experience. Some of the units studied in class are School and Busi- ness Relationships, Sales Development, Business Com- munications, Business Organization, Economics of Dis- tribution, Career Planning, Merchandising and Business Psychology. The industrial co-operative training at I larding was begun three years ago. The program is centered around placing boys and girls on jobs that require 2,000 hours of experience— in class and on the job— in order for them to be trained. Page Twenty-seven

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Mrs. Lcitira iMorris helps a student in G. O. P. :ommerdal skill and training Mrs. Ella Mae Morris watches her industrious hookkeepiug class. General Office Practice is designed for students in- terested in clerical careers. Filing, mimeographing, busi- ness machines, and machine transcription are covered in G. O. P. Students learn hov ' to keep records in bookkeeping. In Bookkeeping I the complete cycle is covered for a single proprietorship, partnership, and corporation.