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

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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.

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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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Checking out books, filling out and delivering fine slips, and shelving returned books are among the duties of library assistants. Here Richard Tyson, Janet Hall, Barbara Farley, Wanda Freels, Peggy Coffey, Becky Folan, Linda Beckett, and Judy Pepper watch as Mrs. Stephens instructs them in the proper method of making charge slips. Pam Case, Maureen Fite and Melanie Nicely were absent. Members of the English Department in the left row are: Mrs. Rosemary Hinds, B.S.Ed. Ohio Northern University; Miss Ruth Woodman, A.B. Heidelberg College; Mr. Thomas Whissen, A.B. Kent State University; Mr. Jack E. Woodhouse, A.B. and A.M. University of Kentucky; and Mr. Rupert Doan, A.B. Ohio Wesleyan University. Those in the second row are: Mr. Donald Bogan, B.S.Ed. Wilmington College; Mrs. Alice D. Mason, A.B. Ohio Wesleyan, A M. University of Alabama; Mrs. Edith A. Stephens, B.S.Ed. Miami University; and Mr. Norvan Morton, A.B. Miami University. In the right row are: Mr. H. Russell Powell, B.S.Ed. Wittenberg College; Miss Suzanne Booher, B.S.Ed. Miami University; and Miss Rebecca Marsh, A.B Cedarville College, A M. Ohio State University.