Ruskin High School - Mirage Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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Oren Bates 8.8. Basic Business Richard Boone M MS, 38. Bookkeeping I St II You doubt my answer? The: TEACHERS TALK ABOUT STUDENTS When I interviewed the teachers in the Business Education department, I found that they are almost speechless when put on the spot. However, since the teachers at Ruskin hate to let students down, they tried to oblige. My first victim was Mr. Bates of whom I asked it any business would have a chance of surviving if one of his students kept the records, to which he said, Possibly, if they had a partner with some brains. The question I tested Mr. Boone's imagination with was, How can so many people add the same numbers, yet I Cars we can fix, typewriters we can't. come up with such a variety of answers? His reply, Addition and subtraction gets harder as you get older. Upon cross-examining Mrs. Maupin with, Isn't it difficult sometimes to tell a student's shorthand lesson from a two year oId's writing? , she came out with, 4 IIQUITE OFTEN! Next, I asked Mrs. Mullins if she ever worried about her students trying to paint the walls while they are doing an assignment with carbon paper. Her response, + They are usually too busy painting their face, hands, and clothes to worry about the f walls. Mrs. Pearis told me that my question was kind of personal when I asked her how , personal her students got in personal typing. After cornering Mrs. Pozniak in room 217, I ' asked her if any of her students had ever gotten tangled up in a typewriter ribbon while trying to change it. She answered, No, but sometimes I'd like to tie their fingers to the . keys with it. The challenging question I threw at Mrs. Skinner was whether any of her ? students ever claimed to have been attacked by an electric typewriter. She claimed that an 43' H. electric typewriter was harmless, but a calculator once bit a student's finger. When I finally tracked down Mr. Wrisinger, I bombarded him with the question. Teaching aII-girl classes most of the day. . . doesn't that get monotonous? With a grin he replied, Girls? Theyire just protoplasm. Mr. Boone never helps me. , .-.. NM... . e. - 7.7 a. -, , -'-Aw.--... guwwlxMA-w-wwwvgwswwty .u...e 0.... a NY a

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Dorothy Maupin Aleta Mullins 8.8., MS. 85., AM. Shorthand l. Typing I Typing l, Clerical Practice I d that they Iuskin hate n I asked if records, to tested Mr. mbers, yet gets harder metimes to e out with, Ients trying ' response. I about the ad her how room 217, I bbon while Igers to the any of her hed that an hen I finally 1ing aII-girl lied, Girls? Say cheese!