Oakridge High School - Warrior Yearbook (Oakridge, OR)

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Shirley Toon and Bunny Redding work on papers in bookkeeping. COMMERCIAL ARTS Classes Find Practical Units A large office manuscript, consisting of ten chapters, telling about every phase of secretarial work, was Typing 11 s chief production work. Students typed the annual Oakridge Fire Depart- ment's report to the city council. Many copies of the 11-page report had to be separately typed. Composing and typing postcard notices to tree- planting committee members for weekly meetings was another task. They also typed the letters inviting Governor Mark Hatfield, Senator Wayne Morse, and other officials to the tree-planting festivities, May 5 and 6. Three outstanding freshmen, Linda Harer, Claudia Browne, and Becky Lockhard, typed 50 words per minute by the end of the first semester, scored in or near the 70 s by the end of the year. Garth Skaar teaches Commercial Arts: Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typing and Office Practice. He advises Pep Club. 29

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Typing I class rattles through a 5-minute timed speed test. Receipts and disbursements are the concern of Mary Cudworth, Student Body Treasurer. OFFICE PRACTICE Demands Skill The goal of Office Practice students is to operate any business machine in the school, from a paper staple ex- tractor (finger nails) to the Dictaphone. Ordinarily restricted to seniors, this class was open to juniors also, giving them the opportunity to graduate with a mastery of the basic operation techniques required for working in an office. 28 Library assistant Sandy Franklin types catalog card.

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Juanita Nencini, office secretary, searches files for records. OFFICE Assistants Help While Learning Earning one credit per semester and learning much about office routine were the rewards for 14 girls who worked in the high school office under the supervision of Juanita Nencini, school secretary. Collecting, tabulating, and filing statistical information on attendance, fees, and fines were part of their duties. Office assistants learned to operate the duplicator or mimeograph, or they improved their skills with the type- writer and adding machine. Care of office equipment was discovered to be as im- portant as its operation. Correction fluid was found to be a poor lubricant for the cradle of the telephone receiver. In fact, a new telephone was required. A big day for one girl from each class was the day she worked in the district office answering the telephone and taking messages while Clerk-Secretary Irene McFetridge was away. 30