Maryville High School - Maryvillian Yearbook (Maryville, MO)

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IMPROVING SPEED and accuracy in the use of the adding machine is one of the goals of clerical practice students Ro- berta. Thompson, Diana Vawter, and Marilyn Hanna. PROUD TYPIST is senior Fred Poppa, who has just achieved twenty-five words per minute. Sharing his pride are his teacher, Mrs. Robert Brown, and a class- mate, Jim Kish. MRS. ROBERT BROWN Basic Business Bookkeeping Typing I Sz II Freshman Sponsor B.S. in Ed., NWMSC Students Favor Commerce The commerce department at MHS ranked high with a majority of interested students this year as over one-third of the student body was active in some part of the commerce program. Let by two instructors, Mrs. Robert Brown and Mrs. Otis Wagner, students gained valuable busi- ness experience from units on filing, consumer eco- nomics, office practice, and business law. Typing, another important phase in the com- merce program, provided many eager fingers with the challenge of achieving forty words per minute. SHORTHAND ERRORS are pointed out by Mrs. Otis Wagner to future secretaries Charlene Harrington. LaVern Keyes, MRS. OTIS M. WAGNER Co-Sponsor, Student Council Advanced Business Typing I 8: II Clerical Practice Shorthand I B.S. and M.S. in Ed. NWMSC

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MR. DELBERT C. DICK Industrial Arts Freshman Class Sponsor B. S. in Education NWMSC M. S. in Education Iowa State College, Ames hop Boys Master Skills Through drawing, manipulating hand tools, and operating power machinery, shop boys have produced useful projects in industrial arts. The hum of motors blended with drilling bits, buzzing saws, and whirring wheels to create a busy atmosphere for the 115 students in six shop classes. Such Work is all a part in learning to change raw materials into useful products. The development of creative ability and skill are the objectives for students in Mr. Del- bert Dick's industrial arts classes. HARD AT WORK soldering and shaping metal are these metal workers, Gary Wright, Philip Wilmes, John King, and John Still. 12 1-. AFTER DEMONSTRATING the drill press in shop, Mr. Delbert Dick is ready to let Larry Ross, Richard Thacker, Joe Christen- sen, and Roger Heflin operate it. NEEDED HELP is given to this industrial arts student, Larry Jones by J. R. Calkins and Mr. Robert Fine, student teacher.

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CORRECT PROCEDURE in arc welding a steel beam is demonstrated by Charles Shoesmith for David Nelson, Lloyd Blackford, and Vic Schneider. Boys Improve Skills Mastering the skill of farming played an im- portant part in the lives of the fifty-seven boys who were enrolled in agriculture this year. Under the direction of Mr. Robert Bruch, they participated in such activities as arc welding, oper- ating farm machinery, wood-working, swine, beef, and sheep raising, livestock judging, and small grain production. These students went on a variety of Held trips and excursions and took part in local and district judging contests. From these programs they gained experience which will aid them in their later lives as farmers and businessmen in a farming area. 'l refs . 'XM .1 ii 3 .jf , ROBERT BRUCH Agriculture I, II, 8: III FFA Sponsor A.A. in Science Graceland College Master of Ed., B.S. in Ag. University of Mo. SWINE VACCINATION, a profitable farm practice, is learned by John Schafer, David Taylor, and Larry Luke. Supervising the boys is Mr. Robert Bruch, in- structor, left. l U 1 CHECKING FARM record books are vocational agri- culture students, Ernie Mozingo, Roger Ruhl, Dan- ny Zimmerman, L a r r y Newlon, B o b b y Wagner, and Virgil Ebrecht. 5