Argentine High School - Mustang Yearbook (Kansas City, KS)

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• OFFICE MACHINES • Office machines, an office training course, was installed to meet the growing demand for specialized and versatile skills to enable the high school graduate to find employment in business offices. The course offers instruction in duplicating letters and forms by means of the mimeograph, ditto and speedograph machines, operation of adding machines and filing. The mimeograph course includes training in cutting stencils by use of the typewriter and the mimeoscope, care and operation of the mimeograph machine and making copies. The ditto course includes: preparation of master copies, using ditto carbon, ink, ribbon and pencil, also experience in running copies on both ditto and speedograph machines. The adding machines course includes practice in addition of all com- binations of numbers, with special attention to most frequently used com- binations, also practice in subtraction, multiplication and division. Emphasis is on accuracy. The filing course includes a thorough study of the fundamentals of filing and indexing in alphabetic, numeric, triple check automatic, geo- graphic, subject and soundex methods of filing. Emphasis is placed on the fundamentals of filing generally used.

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The student at the left is study- ing the circuits on alternating current generator and switch board wiring, while the student at the right is tracing a circuit from a direct current generator and switchboard. • ELECTRICITY • Electricity has brought about the American way of life with its high standard of living. The efficiency of our manufacturing centers has resulted from the ease with which we are able to make use of electricity. High schools are putting to use an extensive course of study in elec- tricity and its uses. Shop projects begin with investigation of dry cells and magnetism, demonstrations of motor and generator principles and differences in opera- tion of direct and alternating currents. In studying uses of electricity, the student learns how to repair heating devices, extension cords, switchboard relays, sockets for small lamps, fuses, small motors, and metering equipment. A study of the fundamentals of electric power and its generation is taken up, including generators, motors, relays, transformers and the wiring, phasing, and testing of each piece of equipment. In the study of electrical communication systems, the boy studies the operation of the telegraph and telephone circuits. The study of telephone equipment takes up the design and construction of the receiver, transmitter, switch boards, induction cords, condensers, and installations. In the study of the telegraph principles the boys set up a circuit and make a telegraph set for experimental purposes. Time is given to the discussion of the working principles of such motor- ized appliances as electric refrigerators, air-conditioning, washing machines, electric fans, ironing machines, and their repair. Radio construction principles are included so that the boy may be more efficient in these operations. Insulating and connecting as well as theoretical principles of operation of all electrical equipment is taught. 15 • ARGENTIAN '44

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Typists Taking Time Test • TYPING • The school has won more than fifty contests since the first event in 1914. Argentine has never lost a contest in the Northeast Kansas or Kansas City area. Argentine won the first twenty-six contests in which it participated, including ten Kansas State events, three Inter-State meets, a National, and other contests of a smaller scope. Almost every year some of the beginning students reach a skill of forty words per minute during the first six weeks of school. The school holds the all-time State records in both accuracy and in speed, in both the first-year and second-year divisions. High marks in speed for the first year are eighty-one per minute in just eight months, while the second year has written ninety-nine one year in the State contest. This year's typing squad composed of Alyse Aiman, Helen Southerland, Lois Stephenson, Dolores Bush, Marjorie Crube and Phyllis Hoover, along with the shorthand team, composed of Angelina Gomez, Lois Ree Carroll and Dolores Bush competed with students from Turner, Shawnee-Mission, Basehor, Topeka, Sumner and Ward at a contest sponsored by Ward high school. Argentine succeeded in winning first place and was awarded a silver trophy from the Kansas City Kansan. The Argentine graduates have established a reputation in the business houses of the Kansas City area for a high degree in skill. Many firms come directly to the school and choose their employees. 17 • ARGENTIAN '44