Merrimack College - Merrimackan Yearbook (North Andover, MA)

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Secretarial Science Although much emphasis is placed on taking, reading, and typing shorthand notes, the effi- cient secretary must be capable of effectively transcribing from machine dictation. Today’s secretarial field is alive with opportunities for skilled personnel who are willing to assume respon- sibility. The two-year and four-year courses at Merri- mack offer adequate facilities for the proper training of secretaries. The students concentrate on the acqui- sition of special skills— typewriting, shorthand, tran- scription, mathematics, and accounting. In addition, they study cultural subjects in order to broaden their horizon. Through a system of electives in advertising. journalism, merchandising, sales management, finance, and marketing the prospective secretary is permitted to obtain an acquaintance with various other fields. This rich curriculum, a staff of experienced professors, and a well-equipped department combine to produce a corps of trained secretaries each year. A constant demand from business and government emphasize the importance of the division. Speed and accuracy is the motto of all secretaries. These two-year secs” are diligently at work striving for greater speed and perfection at the keyboard.

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Summer and Evening Sessions Part-time sessions at Merrimack are di- vided between courses during the summer months and evening classes during the reg- ular school year. Adult education is the primary concern of the Evening Division. Here ambitious rep- resentatives of all walks of life devote their evening hours to intellectual pursuits. The rewards are Associate Degrees in Arts or Bus- iness Administration, or Certificates in Sec- retarial Science. Summer classes afford educational oppor- tunities to those whose work allows them little time during the regular school year. Re- ligious teachers are brought up to date on the latest findings in literature, history and sci- ence; students make up required credits and businessmen learn the new techniques of management. Ah! just the thing to relieve that dryness on hot sweltering days in summer school. These three students don’t look too unhappy, just anxious for the dismissal bell so they can enjoy a cool, refresh- ing swim.

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The seniors of 1955, glamorous in the eyes of the underclassmen and j intermittently in their own, now must return to freshman status, but in a new environment— the world. The difference is that this time they are equipped with the faith, the philosophy, the special skills, the social aware- ness that come of four years’ involvement with a curriculum which blends general humanistic and scientific knowledge with concentrated training in a chosen specialty. The curriculum, however, has not been all. There have been sports on land and water, trips to the north and the south, tea dances, dinner dances, hops and proms. The graduate has thus learned to compete fairly and to liv graciously in society. Finally, there have been daily and weekly Mass, days of recollection, and annual retreats to call to mind man’s