Highland Park High School - Polar Bear Yearbook (Highland Park, MI)

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Miss 9 MISS NORMA Sammett, head of the Commercial Department, interrupts her busy schedule to answer the telephone. . . heh MISS GLADYS Sterling looks on as Lucy Halouian, l2A, runs through a typing exercise. Mr. Ray Mrs. Katie Dell

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pK,,,,..-avr 'ahqnvn BUSY FINGERS 1oom across the keys during typing class, LEARNING TO read and write all over again are what these Shorthand I students had to do. SINCE MODERNIZATION has taken place, machines play a big part in the daily lives of people. Theresa Bratta, Sheron Russell, and Velma Scott learn the tricks of operating a dictaphone machine. FILING CAN be difficult but also fun as you can tell by the smiling faces. The clicking of typewriter keys is a familiar sound oft heard around HPHS. Our adequate commercial departme offers a wide variety of classes to Parkers who are seeki immediate employment after graduation from high scho Wise college prep students also take some commercial cour: such as typing and shorthand to help prepare themselves t summer employment. This will also be of great value to thi throughout their college years. In the 9A all students are required to take 9A Explorato a course in which they take IO weeks of typing and IO wee of Home Mechanics. After this, students may take typing fre one to four semesters. Other classes offered are bookkeepil business machines, filing and general business. Employers are looking for well-trained office workers a our commercial department has just this. Besides traini Parkers in the fundamentals of a subiect they also tec them good office habits such as punctuality, dependabili good grooming, and other assets of this nature. Commercial students help out the school by typing a mimeographing material for teachers and department hea

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MISS GRACE Wallace, English Department head, examirfes some entries for the Literary Contest. , fewzq . '7!1d'40wL.fZm7ZaJL-.L' EMM Smith Miss Mr. Joseph Miller M455 Dr. William Valade For the most part, the wide variety of courses offered to Parkers this year in the English-Language Departments aimed at col- lege credit. Communication skills were emphasized in all classes, and for eleventh and twelfth graders who were weak in English, opportun- ity classes in basic English were available. Apart from special courses such as 'IOA Journalism, Dramatics, Radio Speech and Speech, the department set up five areas courses from which students could elect ad- vanced work if they wished. These included advanced English E classes and Literature. 'English Workshop class helped Parkers who had difficulty in composition, grammar, spelling or reading. These workshops were assigned in addition to regular English classes. English and social studies constituted the core program for the 9B's. Literature, oral and written composition and functional gram- mar made up the course. Book reports played a vital part of the Parker's English requirements. The cumulative book card plan was used to encourage wider reading. Highland Park High offered German, French, Spanish and Latin and classes were available to all Parkers. Most college-bound students were enrolled in these language courses.