West Division High School - Comet Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Page Eighteen 1-4- Edwin Siggelkow Mary Welsh Blanche Pillsbury Beatrice Nielsen Iva Duden Commercial Department HE commercial department with its large variety of subjects trains stu- dents for success in the exacting busi- ness World of today. It is essential that business people write legibily and that they spell correctly. It is, therefore, with the study of penman- ship and spelling that commercial training begins. Business training and Commercial arith- metic are prerequisites for bookkeeping, and also furnish training for clerical work. The former teaches the student how to use the different kinds of business papers, such as checks, drafts, and promissory notes, and how to write business letters. The latter teaches one how to work business problems. In bookkeeping, a two-year course, the student learns how to make systematic rec- ords of business transactions in a form that is easily available for reference and how to interpret these records for the business man. Elmer VVilland Harold Kuckuk

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Ella Schroeder Elizabeth Dorothy Gardner Helen 'Reilly Mary Davis von Briesen. sf L f - . U rL6,t es ' T :ls .sl . i lf fr ,l Language Department' T IS well to know something of the cus- toms and languages of nations other than our own, because we are constant- ly coming into closer relations with for- eign nations, largely through travel. At West Division, French, German, and Spanish are offered as well as Latin. To become better acquainted with foreign cus- toms and manners some pupils hold cor- respondence with the boys and girls of other lands. This not only helps the stu- dents to realize the conditions under which the young people of other nations live but it improves their speech, because the for- eigners write in their language and we in our own. Some classes have foreign news- papers to read. The library furnishes books Written in foreign languages. Although the Latin language is no long- er spoken, it is the basis of all Romance languages. The customs and life of the Roman people are studied, besides the lives of important Romans. A biennial Roman banquet which portrays the life at a Roman dinner party is held for the Cicero and Ver- gil classes. Those taking Latin may be- come members of the Latin Club. Anna Ruschhaupt Elda Berg Lina 'Gerber - , , Y ,-L-. , V f- -,-,,,.. , ,,,-'- -V Jr,-,..-I --,-,- .... ..-.....1 e i , . 'r:.1 s+:-if . . 2,0--,-lL.LL LI.Kll .. . I .-, 1-3...:ranun. .-f---- ------ Q. -- 4--r--..-...1.g.... Page Seventeen , -fy. : fe. g ,, - : rirvrsr- e - me Qigis' . . .,w , LA ' ' f ' :Sl cs, i ' - .- . . - N .-:E-ml sj:5f4,.Qi.t,.1.V,,'V N 5 if , -. -..f1.-its ., T ' JL, '--ggi T .4 15-1-4 :K'j1':?1Il1' 14-:lj fgirffl f TI ' T' .Z '3:Z3'AE!! ' . 'i 15151-?1 , 1 ,fflff ., ,,.. ... i

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