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

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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

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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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School Nurse Typewriting Annual Editors First Aid Senior Ploy Lunch • Custodian Trophy Case Sewing • Hobo Day Argentian Editors Victim! •