Maryville High School - Maryvillian Yearbook (Maryville, MO)

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I TYPEWRITING In the Commercial department more than any other, may individual progress be noted. both by the teacher and the individual himself. Even the most disin- terested person can. by listening to the typewriting pupils at work. discern the difference between the slow uncertain pecking of a Novice and the rapid rhythmic touch of the Amateur. However, while such a person may note this difference, only one who has experienced the despair of the beginner and later the deserved pride of the advanced student fully appreciates the thrill which comes at the mastery of the art of typing. Rewards are presented when certain rates of speed are attained. Indeed, an efficient typist may at will rival a war hero's decoration, by arraying himself in the medals he has won. Closely allied with typewriting is shorthand. A person writing imaginary characters with an imaginary pen. in an imaginary notebook is not necessarily a crazy person. Instead. he is very probably being initiated into the intricate mys- teries of shorthand. There is a fascination about the little hooks and curves that forbids our leaving them in the class room! BOOKKEEPING At the northeastern end of the hall is a room with three long rows of desks. It is here that the expert bookkeepers of C. W. Keeland and Company are to be found. To anyone who has never taken bookkeeping let us explain that C. W. Keeland is the invisible employer whose set of books we keep for three months. It is in his ledger, journal. and cash book that the business transactions are re- corded. To most of us the cash book is the most interesting of the set. What glorious possibilities the name holds forth. As we mechanically count the artificial money, visions rise before our eyes of the day when we shall be handling Uncle Sam's currency and adding it to our own cash books. We see ourselves a bookkeeper in a well established firm. next-the most highly recommended member of the officeistaff, and finally-the manager himself. With a sudden jerk, we realize that we have miscounted the paper money and recorded it in the wrong column. As we red ink the mistake, we realize that our dreams may come true only by being forgotten-at least in class. MANUAL TRAINING In the Manual Training course. Woodwork I, II, III, IV. and Architectural Drawing are offered. Woodwork I is a correlation of mechanical drawing and woodwork. The boys plan their work and then put it into effect. The other wood- work courses are a continuation of such work. Their object is not a superfluity of production but the acquiring of knowledge pertaining to the care of tools, and the development of skill in the use of them. Every student in the course is per- mitted to make any project that he wishes. Really excellent pieces of fumiture, library tables, cedar chests, floor lamps-are made by the manual training boys. To the eye of the casual observer they seem flawlessg and a closer inspection is rarely disillusioning. The mechanical drawing course deals with the construction of a house, and the different styles of architecture. Each boy in the class designs a house of his own, figures the cost of such a building, and then constructs it in miniature. Some- day we expect to hear that the leading carpenters and architects of 1940 are M. H. S. graduates. Why not?

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