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5.- Left-Many oH'ices now have opportunities for girls skilled in the operation of calculating machines. Above are a group of Nliss Van Buskirlfs office practice girls during a lesson on the calculators. Right-Bookkeeping is a wide elected subject in this Department. Pictured is Mr. Yodet's Bookkeeping II class. Left-Students in the office practice classes receive complete instruction in the operation of the Dictaphone machine. Right-Typing is one of the THOSE popular subjects in the Busi- ness Education Department. It may he elected for personal use or as a vocation. This is a scene in Miss Wyrick's class. Hugh Yoder George Koch V. O. Bachtel Lionel Martin
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Since its begin- ning business educa- tion has gradually developed year by year, in the number of students taking it and in better meth- ods of learning, un- til it bas reached its peak at the present time. The B u s i n e s s Education Depart- ment at Riley offers, in reality, two types of train- ing. One type trains students who want to qualify for employment in the business world immediately upon graduation from high school. The other type consists of informational courses dealing with business organi- zation, functioning, and management. Katherine Van Buskirk Dept. Head Students who are enrolled in the Business Educa- tion Department are taking the following subjects in the branches most adequate: bookkeeping, typing, shorthand, business correspondence, commercial geography, salesmanship, ofhce practice, and retail merchandising. The pupils in the latter two classes, in their Senior A semester, are given the opportunity to manifest their ability, and to observe and correct their particular weaknesses, by working in a store or office for six weeks, thereby gaining valuable practice in their individual field. Bookkeeping, business correspondence, salesman- ship, and retail merchandising may all be classed as both vocational and informative subjects. Shorthand, typing, and office practice are purely vocational. All subjects in this curriculum are elective, and vary in the number of elections by pupil requirements. In the matter of size, classes in the Business Education Department rank in about this order: typing, short- hand, bookkeeping, salesmanship, office practice, commercial geography, business correspondence, and retail merchandising. Graduates of today are finding it unwise to pre- pare for just one field because of the rapidly chang- ing economic conditions which make any prediction of the future uncertain. A broad foundation of which both academic and non-academic courses are a part may prove to make employment easier as well as more lucrative. Riley High School is particularly fortunate in hav- ing such a complete course in this work and also in having such a competent and well trained staff, head- ed by Miss Van Buskirk, who is ably assisted by Mr. Bachtel, Miss Kern, Mr. Koch, Mr. Martin, Miss Wyrick, and Mr. Yoder. Miss Van Buskirk has a B.A. degree from West- ern College and a M.A. degree from Northwestern. Mr. Bachtel has received a B.A. degree from Notre Dame. He also has a MA. degree from Indiana. Besides having a considerable amount of graduate work from Chicago University, Miss Kern has a B.A. degree from Michigan State Teachers' College. Business Education Mr. Koch has received a Bachelor of Education degree from Western Illinois State Teachers College, a Bachelor of Commercial Science degree from Notre Dame, and he is now working on his M.A. degree from Notre Dame. Mr. Martin has a B.A. degree from Indiana Uni- versity and a MA. degree from Chicago University. Miss Wyrick, besides having a B.A. degree from Franklin College, has a M.A. degree from North- western. Mr. Yoder has received a B.A. degree from Man- chester and is at present working on a MA. degree from Indiana University. The laboratory periods oliered Senior students in the ofiice practice and retail merchandising classes is an interesting phase of the work done in the Busi- ness Education Department. Those in Miss Van Buskirk's ofiice practice classes leave school each afternoon for assignments in various ofiices throughout the city. Only part of the class is assigned at a time, the rest remaining to continue regular class activities. They alternate at the end of a two week period until all assigned have served six weeks. While at the ofiices these students receive ex- perience in filing, typing, and secretarial work. They become accustomed to actual Office procedure, and rind the experience a valuable aid in adjusting them- selves to the job after graduation. The procedure in Mr. Koch's merchandising class is much the same. Out of this class of thirty, half were assigned to the leading downtown stores for a period of three weeks while the other half remained in class. These groups alternated until all had spent six weeks in the business laboratory. Personnel managers of the stores were glad to co- operate. Students were hrst put through the mark- ing and stock rooms and after they had become ac- customed to the store, they were put on the fioor under a supervisor. Stress was laid on the student attempting to apply, in actual selling, the principles of retailing learned in the classroom. In both these classes students received grades on the quality of the work, this grade becoming part of their semesters final grade. On May 16, the merchandising class and Mr. Yoder's salesmanship classes journeyed to Marshall Field's store. In Chi- cago, they visited the Board of Trade to see the famous Wheat Pit in ac- tion, and the display rooms in the Mer- chandising Mart. Included also was a visit to the Na- tional Broadcasting Company's Studio, Station WMAQ. . ' i as ' Bess Wyrick
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