Three Rivers High School - Reflector Yearbook (Three Rivers, MI)

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Merrl G. Baylor, Mary B. Anderson Data Processing Added to Commercial Curriculum Students preparing for future positions in the business world must have profi- ciency in the basic office skills: typing, filing, shorthand, and bookkeeping. New this year is a unit in data processing, which coupled with the knowledge of office machines prepares the student for work in the modem business office. Also, new this year are an Executive IBM type- writer, which has proportional spacing so the resulting material looks printed, and a direct process duplicating machine with fully automatic calculations. An individual who completes the com- mercial course or simply takes a subject as typing, will possess a salable skill, which will be an aid in college or voca- tional work. Students of the Commercial Depart- ment provide a service to the school and the community by printing programs and tickets, addressing envelopes, and stuff- ing envelopes for such projects as the Easter Seal Drive for Crippled Children. Glen Dallariva , Sandra McParlan. Gerald Roys,

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■% • 1 I I r I Gladys Wellington, clerk; Martha Holverstolt. librarian. Carrels, Revolving Card File Give Library New Look The library of T.R.H.S. has put on a new face this year under the efficient guidance of Mrs. Holver- stott. the new hbrarian. Not only is the staff smaller than it has been in previous years, but students are no longer allowed to rummage freely through back issues of magazines, seeking instead the aid of the librarian or staff member on duty. Students this year seem surprised at Mrs. Holver- stott ' s speed in discovering overdue books and maga- zines. Her secret is a revolving student card file ar- ranged alphabetically for each grade. On these cards are clips symbolizing the number of books checked out by each student, lost books, and overdue books. This efficient system has greatly decreased the amount of necessary library bookkeeping. Anyone walking into the library after Thanksgiving Vacation discovered the reference section tables divid- ed into stalls by high partitions. These carrels, as the stalls are properly called, separate the students so they can use the reference materials with less out- side interference. These carrels plus the aids in charg- ing out books add a brand new look to the library. Row one: Linda Watkins, Ruth Bradford. Pat Kline, Connie Beal. Row two: Mrs. Wellington, Mrs. Holverstott, sponsors; Diane Krull, Beth Wood, Gail Tokarski, Gail Walls, Johanna Hall.

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Ronald Brink, John Kruse, David Berry, Frank Wallach Industrial Arts Department Equips Students The Industrial Arts Department is a com- pletely foreign world to students who have no shop courses. It is a world of lathes and saw- dust, drill presses, grinders, valves, and intense concentration. Boys on the industrial course work in all aspects of the shop, working with wood, metal, cars, and T-squares, as well as the essential shop mathematics and mechanical drawing. Students interested in specializing in either machine or auto shop may study in a program new this year called vocational or trade classes. This is a state-financed program of a three-hour- a-day block in machine shop or Power Mechan- ics II for senior boys. Skills learned by industrial arts students will better equip them to work with the materials, processes, and tools used in our modern in- dustrial society. Jack McElroy, Lori Moore