Mountlake Terrace High School - Tempo Yearbook (Mountlake Terrace, WA)

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TOP LEFT, Working at Penney's for a D,E. credit, Nancy Condon, senior, laughingly fits a wig to a fellow employee. BOTTOM RIGHT, Selling in the Hawk Shop provides an opportunity to meet new people. Patty Tarabochia senior deals with Craig Gourley senior in a businesslike manner. 96 Distributive education OPERATION INVOLVEMENT producer to consumer Distributive education classes not only ran the school's Hav Shop and kept the display case in viewing order, but learnt and acquired a sense of salesmanship as well. Students takii distributive education classes were in for a truly mind-expan ing experience. This experience led them to a greater knot ledge and understanding of how goods from the producer real the consumer and areas between this complicated journe l Besides training unskilled students in how to look for a jo how to live through an interview, and how to keep a job, d tributive education taught a most important lessons--how get along with people. Areas covered in the classroom includ transportation, banking wholesaling, retailing, advertisir display and service industries. Relating effectively with types ol' people seemed to be instrumentalwhen dealing in t business world, as the students found out. l Each student enrolled in the distributive education program w required to hold a part-time job. Compiling a job informati' manual containing store policies, management, and store flc plan was among the students' several projects throughout t year. Inter-school competitions served as learning centers whe students displayed their acquired knowledge and skills in su areas as poster design, advertising techniques, general displ layouts, and news, radio, and speech styles. if ful: t.

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'Hunt n peck becomes lost entity as skills improve Business classes provided necessary skills for students' future occupations and activites. General skills classes such as typing, shorthand, and book- keeping were offered singularly or in labs as last year. There were three business labs this yearpclerical fbookeepingl, secretarial Cshort- handj, andjunior lab. LEFT, Taking advantage of typing training, these beginning typists spend a lot of time leaming fundamentals. BOTTOM, Busily working in one ofthe busJ iness-ed classes are Ruth Ann Fredrickson, left, and Val Beglau,juniors. OPPOSITE PAGE, TOP, Penny Kesti, sen- ior, attempts to make a correction on a ditto in office lab. OPPOSITE PAGE, CENTER LEFT, Begin- ning typing holds the concentration of junion Robert Lee. OPPOSITE PAGE, CENTER RIGHT, Jerrj Little, Dan Rollins, and Greg Fox, juniors pool their efforts in computer technology, a new course. OPPOSITE PAGE, BOTTOM, Leaming the basic responsibilities of akey-punch operatoi is senior Debbie Molitor.