Oak Park and River Forest High School - Tabula Yearbook (Oak Park, IL)

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The Business Education Depart¬ ment, under the direction of Mr. Hepker, offers vocational training in business for all who wish to become secretaries, typists, bookkeepers, or general office employees. Short¬ hand, Typing, Secretarial Training, Office Practice, and Bookkeeping are available on a semester basis. To those who wish to major in Business Administration in college, introductory courses are available in Economics, Business Law, and Book¬ keeping. A great number of students take business courses for personal use. Typing has become a very handy skill in most every phase of life. Gen¬ eral Business, Economic problems, and Bookkeeping have proved very practical for students entering busi¬ ness or college. W. O. Hepker, Head Orpha Babcock Roy Gummerson Peter Keller George Seymour Ethel Sutherland The Business Education Department

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The Art Department The Art Department, headed by Mr. Pelz, is mainly concerned with the visual world and in the different forms of visual communication. The Art Department teaches its students many ways of seeing and exploring with the materials and tools of the artist and craftsman. It teaches ways of ex¬ perimenting, of thinking, of composing, and of de¬ signing. The courses are planned to bring out the natural ability of each student. To this end, the Art Department offers a very broad selection of work at all levels of Art. It is possible for a student to take just one course, such as Crafts, or to plan a minor or even a major sequence in Art. In the Figure Drawing, Sculpture, Painting, and Advanced Design classes, students are able to do a good deal of independent work and also a considerable amount of applied art work. These classes do many school program covers and posters, Crest illustrations, and stage sets for the three major school productions. Goodwill Post Esther Robinson Paul Halac creates monsters. [ 27 ]

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The School Library The library serves all the school and provides a wide selection of reading and reference materials. The librarians, Miss Craw¬ ford and Mrs. Scherman, in addition to their work of book selec¬ tion and organization, give class instruction in the use of books and libraries, prepare bibliographies, give book talks, and help individual students with their reading and reference work. In the main library, the books, pamphlets, and periodicals are available to students during the day and before and after school. The library organizes book collections for various departments. Students of American History have access in room 225 to many history references. This history library is supervised by Mrs. Pelz. The student library assistants learn library skills while perform¬ ing helpful duties. They pass out books in the history library, help in the main library, and deliver overdue slips to homerooms. Lura Crawford Helen Scherman Ruth Marie Pelz Library Assistants BACK ROW—Munson, Watters, Riddiford, Brundage, Hahn, Dahm. THIRD ROW—Gabel, Travis, Granzow, Bockwinkel, Traut, Ryan, Ross, Mrs. Pelz. SECOND ROW—Van Sant, Cutsuvitis. Hilgeson, Phillips, Sorensen, Houck, von Plachecki. FRONT ROW—Grigsby, Strand, Richards, Ure, Urban, Kaska, Martin. [ 29 ]