Parkview High School - Spirit Yearbook (Little Rock, AR)

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l l Taking care of business the courses they took as merely requirements for graduation or preparation for college, those who took business courses acquired skills which they could use on the job. Taking business courses will always be to your advantage, because once you get out of high school you can fall back on the skills you've learned, said sophomore Lisa Tumer, whose mother was Mrs. Helen Turner, a business teacher. Parkview's Business Department offered over 10 courses ranging from Typewriting and Shorthand to Accounting and Business Law. lt all adds up. As a student in Simulated Office Practice, Janiece Alexander, president of FBLA has the responsibility ofa real office worker. students learned how to operate various business machines invented-to some students' dismay-to make office work more efficient. Typewriters weren't the only machines on students' minds and under their fingers. Calculators, switchboards, mimeograph and bookkeeping machines waited for some soft-hearted student to push their buttons or turn their switches. Typewriting classes, filled with students who didn't want to pay someone else to type their junior or senior themes, seemed reminiscent of a child's first piano lesson. The textbooks displayed tints of Teaching Little Fingers to Play. The Patriot Company, which was run by the Simulated Office Practice class, gave students ideas about how an office worked. They found that communication between the components of a company was essential. The students had to apply for jobs in the company and be accepted for employment. These jobs provided an opportunity for them to gain real experience while studying at Parkview. To make the company more realistic, the students worked with simulators which represented the outside world. Students who wanted authentic office experience could take Cooperative Office Education. In COE, students took regular classes for half a day and worked half a day in an office. n l Tip toe through the tulips. Senior Darrel Parks separates the carnations for delivery by the money management class to friends, sweethearts and secret admirers on Valentines Day. Business 187