Mishawaka High School - Miskodeed Yearbook (Mishawaka, IN)

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Says New Busine ss Advisory Committee OKKlCt PRACriCl-:. .Seniors I ' at Anita, Alarlenc CiiMcr. and Jayiic liici-. collate courses of study lor Business Education Department. Walking around the table, each girl compiles one set and statlvs it on the tabic. I I ' i.NC;. KiMMui- ilii- uiK - lo Hi ' h I.., llie (airiage relinn li (r. Kalhv kobb .iiid .Sue . i on use the new Sele iri(s. F. STER, F. STER. IMng dictaphones. Jane Mcuienga. Paula NVlM.n. and I ' at . rata transcribe letters from plastic belts. They can stop the machines with a loot pedal to catch up on tvping the words that diey are hearing. 15

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s Business Education Teach Girls to Spell, I TELETRAlNliR. Geia-ial Bumiic .s bLudciils learn that a - uud (nc(j is alert, expressive, natural, pleasant, and distinct. Tcrrie Ballard talks to complaining customer Mike Bongioxanni and arranges for him to call back. WORksill- 1- I . Hiicikkccping student |iin I ' lielps finds the net income on a work sheet before niakinj; tlie statements. Colorful typing tables and revolving chairs that could be adjusted to individual heights made the typing rooms more attractive and comfortable for typists. In October fi ' e manual typewriters in Room 210 were traded for new Selectric typewriters. Typists found it strange to just lightly stroke the return key and have the type ball return on the stationary ' carriage. Room 209 also acquired a new look. Equip- ment and furniture were shifted to gi e the office practice class exclu- sive use of this small room. The new arrangement ga e the girls room to operate the duplicating, adding, and calculating machines and dictaphones. This car se en business men who hire or train beginning office workers met with the teachers in the department and administrators to e aluate the training of MHS students for office jobs, to offer their advice about the purchase of equipment, and to review the changes in office equipment and procedures. On the advice of this committee, the training in basic skills was intensified. Business teachers changed methods and standards of teaching typing, decreased the time spent learning to mimeograph, and added spelling drills and tests to CNcry business course. Two sur evs were made b the department this year. One showed that there were over 700 jobs in Mishawaka for high school busi- ness graduates, that about 60 per cent of the dictation in large indus- tries was transcribed from dictation machines, and that most businesses preferred accurate t pists to fast typists. In the other sur ' ey the de- partment obtained a profile of the average .student in the depaitment; his job preference, his intelligence, his age, his work experience. From the results of these sur cys, the department changed the content of courses and considered adding new courses. To judge the effecti eness of the business training, the department plans to do a follow-up study of the 1967 business graduates who get office jobs in Mishawaka. 14

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EuHis i Struggle V ith Symbolism Challenges English Students WORK I ' AVS. Judy Re and Rim Vallers of die affimiative debate team listen as Roger Brady, of the negative team, presents his and Dan Spross ' s opinion that U.S. foreign policy should be limited to non-militan assistance. THE MR.Sl ,SI tP. Learning the tcdi- Mi |iics of source theme writing, senior Nancv Nania studies ilie Fuuilnmi ' iiltils of llir liisrinrh I ' nJH ' r. a booklet used in both luiglish and International Relations. Vhile learning the difference between good and well, freshmen touched upon the rules of writing smooth compositions. In the second semester they read short stories, essaxs, poems, and the noveb Great Expectations and David Copperfield. Enjoying the agonies of writing reports, sophomores learned about luiidentificd flying objects, extra-sensory perception, and ghosts. Oral l)ook reports on Seventeen and Life on the Mississippi kept them laugh- ing at the ad entures of teen-agers long ago. They read various selec- tions in American literature, such as the play. Our Town; the poem, The Ra en ; and the short stories, The Fall of the House of Usher and The Secret Life of S ' alter Mitty. Fascinated juniors delighted in the ghosts and witches of Maebith. although they were shocked by the results of too much ambition. Their outside reading aried from the satire of Gullivers Travels to the sad- ness of Silas Marner. Reading selections in the Xarratives from the Old Testament, juniors were mo cd bv the literarv qualities and the beauty of the Bible ' . Seniors learned to spell and define 1000 ocabulary words ranging from aberration to zenith. They wrote research papers on Junior . chievement, electric automobiles, air pollution, inflation, censorship, and federal aid. In English ' III they studied world literature includ- ing Homer ' s Odyssey and Shakespeare ' s Hamlet. 16