Lake Preston High School - Prestonian Yearbook (Lake Preston, SD)

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Our English classes strive to give the students better grammar usage and enjoyment from reading lite rature. Mr. Barto, the English instructor, resigned after the second six weeks which made it necessary to find substitutes.Now teaching are: English I, Miss Huether; English II, Tom Prendergast; English III and IV, V. W. Madsen. Underline your subjects and verbs, and be sure to punctuate correctly. These instructions are given to the English I students in preparation of their grammar assignment. American authors, their lives and works,were dis- cussed by the English III class. Speeches, ranging from extemporaneous to systematically planned, were also given by this class. Are they really studying that hard? The English IV students are earnestly preparing their assignments for the day. Shakespeare. Milton, Bunyan, and Johnson are a few of the English authors covered by this class during the course of the year. EXPRESSION IN LITERATURE IS EMPHASIZED “Shall Caesar send a lie?” The English II students enjoyed their reading of Julius Caesar, as they presented it in play form. The proper usage of grammar was also discussed in this class.

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CLASSES Office work is only one of the many daily duties in Supt. Madsen’s busy sched- ule . The necessity traffic safety is one of the problems discussed by our student panel. Working with the faculty to increase co-operation and understanding among the students, are the stu- dent council and the various class officers. Each class added afresh its own distinctive and different personalities to the student body. The shy, quiet freshmen, the giggling sophomores, studi- ous juniors, and the dignified seniors are all found in this society. In the same manner, each of the faculty members gave their undivided attention to the students, their class-work and their activities. The complexities of oxygen, hydrogen, and many other elements are discovered anew in the chemistry laboratory.

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One of the modern ma- chines used for training bus- iness workers is being op- erated by the commercial teacher, Miss Huether. Sophomores find many an answer in General Business for the many personal bus- iness situations any student or graduate may encounter. Bookkeeping, with early con- fusion of debits and credits, becomes real as each student handles books for R. L. Dean, a fictitious wholesale grocer. Secretarial training students combine their typing skill with proficiency at the stencil and the spirit duplicator, calculator, and voice writing ma- chines for a vocationally trained worker in the future. COMMERCIAL STUDENTS STUDY OFFICE TECHNIQUES “Tap, Tap, Tap,............ No, it’s not the Irish Leprechaun one may hear. But it is the most familiar sound heard around the commercial room. Typing, fascinates and challeng- es juniors, as they try to produce acceptable copy as well as match their speed with fellow classmates.