Adlai Stevenson High School - Aurora Yearbook (Livonia, MI)

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o ' ounds of ilence, for Business Ed Dept Checking the number of letters in the title, Connie Thor prepared her plan of attack for typing a manuscript. A steady rat-tat-tat-rat-tat-tat echoed through the halls of Stevenson High School. Was it a violent student rebellion, with machine guns set up around the library, gunning down assistant principals and teachers? Not quite. The whole thing was very non-violent, as a matter of fact. It was merely the sound of busy hands typing away down in the business ed department. No matter what time of the day, a walk down the hall near room lll was anything but peaceful. The mood was flurried but constructive. If the typewriters werenlt clacking, then the data-processing equipment was making weird noises. And if it wasn't the data-processing equipment, then it was the adding ma- chines, busy sub-totaling. Much of the work which had to be done for business ed classes was carried out in the business resource center. Bookkeeping students went to the center to do their weekly projects. Students who missed an economics lecture could listen to a taped version in the center. Shorthand students used this same apparatus to work on improving their speed and accuracy. Whether it was a request for Lord of the Flies, a Stevenson pen- was ready and Willing f0 Ying UP the Order nant, or just a plain pencil, Larry Stork of the Four Corners stay? during the lunchtime hours. Business Ed 43

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I ack Firestone Joellyn Houston il Z Marian Kukhann Caidel Marilyn McCabe Linda Modderman Robert Morris Ruth Naslund Michael Salzenstem Nick Sipus Cherilynn Williamson 42 Business Ed Monstrous machines, astbe 4b2 ' didn't faze Debra Bloomfield one bit, probably because of her work in the attendance office. The endless timings given in Typing I turned otherwise sane Stevenson students into neurotic clock watchers.

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Language Experience pens Doors to Humanit ' M ..,--' V wigs. Conjugating hablar for the nintieth time just did not have the appeal it used to for Spanish students Mary Doughty and Debbie Dybash. 44 Foreign Language Man must live with his fellow man. For this to be so, man must have an education in brotherhood. One of the best ways to educate is to break the language barrier. This was attempted by the foreign language department at various levels, which included class projects and oral communication between students. The language lab was stocked with many new tapesg and stu- dents utilized a new foreign language office to plan many class projects. Spanish students met to construct pinatas, French stu- dents swapped recipes for gourmet meals and German students gathered to practice skits and songs and to converse in their native language. These facilities and projects aided the language staff in pre- paring students for their place in an internationalized world. -ii'-EC SST lg i Taking advantage of a situation, Jet? Kabat decided to enjoy Spanishkby slipping some very interesting material between thewpages of his book.