West Carrollton High School - Piratan Yearbook (West Carrollton, OH)

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Student in the office practice c!a s gam experience while learning to use such machines as the Munroe calculator, the comptometer, the adding machine, dictaphone, the mimeoscope. the mimeograph and duplicating machines and electric typewriters. They also gain experience in filing, and for one week each girl serves as a secretary in one of the administrative offices

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COMMERCIAL AND BUSINESS DEPARTMENT The Commercial and Business Department increases in popularity each year. Not only does it prepare commercial majors for good positions in industry but also it gives other students many skills which will help them in college and in their various walks of life. Above: The second-year typing class rushes to finis! the day's assignment on time. Circle: Members of the Commercial and Busines Department are Miss Ruth Arnold, A. B. Wilmingtoi College, A.M., Ohio State University; and Mr. Jame Robinson, B.S., Eastern Kentucky State College, A.M University of Kentucky.

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At West Carrollton courses are offered in reading, spelling, grammar, literature, speech, and journalism. Thus the English Department stresses two closely allied fields—self-expression, both written and spoken, and literature, a record of man's society. Both oral and silent reading skills are stressed in seventh-grade reading classes. Here Margie Butts reads aloud in Miss Booher's class. ENGLISH In 1955-1956 College Preparatory English was offered for the first time. Themes and term papers were given much emphasis in these classes which were taught by Mr Whissen.