North Side High School - Legend Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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Business gets students jobs Besides the basic courses of typing, shorthand, recordkeeping, and accounting, the Business Department has nine other full and half year courses to aid students in achieving a well-rounded knowledge of the business world. These courses include two work-study pro- grams. Distributive Education, (DE), covers many facets of marketing as well as on-the- job training, while Cooperative Office Educa- tion, (COE), helps students obtain jobs at lo- cal business firms to help narrow the gap be- tween the working world and school. Courses added were those of personal typ- ing, which is one semester acquainting a stu- dent with fundamentals, Economics, and a second year of recordkeeping. In clerical practice students learn to use many types of machines, such as ten-key cal- culator, the executive typewriter, Thermofax, collator, and dictation and duplication machines. As one business teacher put it, I don ' t care what you do for a living, you ' re defi- nitely going to come in contact with the busi- ness world and it ' s best you know something about it. Mr. Eastes tries to get lessons across to first-year accounting students as they hurry to take notes. Mrs. Johnson ' s first year shorthand students practice making the basic shorthand symbols to attain speed and accuracy. 24 Business

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Mr. Lewis ' chemistry class works on an experiment dealing with metals and nonmetals Physics and Chemistry oldest subjects The Science Department had a wide variety of courses. Physics and chemistry have been taught all of North ' s 50 years, but physical geography and botany, which were taught a half century ago, are no longer offered be- cause the interest in them has declined. Biol- ogy was dropped since North no longer has freshmen as it did in 1927; but, since then, advanced biology has been added. Presently the curriculum includes physical science, en- vironmental conservation, advanced science, ECCP block, and earth science. The physics class sizes were smaller than last year. Earth science and physical science, a less pressing physics type class, increased in class size. Mr. Orvill Schlatter, who has been teaching only in the Social Studies depart- ment, taught physical science because of the increase of interest in these classes. Juniors Cindy Huhn and Tiia Tomusk look for organisms through the microsope in Mr. Slavens ' advanced biology class. Mr Rice ' s physics class discusses the layout of the school auditorium on the overhead projector.

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Senior Romelia Rodriquez practices using the calculator in Miss Ayers explains the arrangement of the keys of the typewriter to her personal typing C.O.E. class. class - Business 25