Arthur Hill High School - Legenda Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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THE LEGENDA B. G. Wells Ralph E. Reynolds Edwin jahns HE commercial curriculum is pri- marily intended to equip students for im- mediate participation in business. At the sam: time it permits them to secure a liberal education, This department also offers opportunities for college preparatory students to gain prac- tical commercial training. Beginning next September, s e v e r al changes will take place in th's department, Eric E. Serin Twelve and one-half units, including gym, are required in commercial subjects for graduation. Cf this number, seven units are prescribed, which leaves students the opportunity of electing E. ., hve units. A year of commer- cial arithmetic will be required in the tenth grade. This is a pre- requisite to the year of bookkeeping which is required, but is not oliered until the elev- enth grade. The com- mercial arithmetic Commercial course will ke especially adapted to prepare a student for bookkeeping, and as a result, will make the work in the latter subject much easier. Upon enter ng high school, the student goes into typewriting Ill, which is now required' ln the twelfth grade, business English and economics are required. In addition, a student must elect two units from any of the following subjects: commercial art, commercial geography, and history of commerce in the tenth grade, commercial art, commercial law, advertis- ing, and shorthand in the eleventh grade, commercial art, transcription, business ad- ministration, bookkeeping, and salesman- ship in the twelfth grade. This new com- mercial curriculum for next year now con- forms with the present academic curriculum in that the same number of units are required and the same amount of electives are offered, In planning the course theendeavorwastofol- low modern trends in commercial education.

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THE LEGENDA Albert G. Dersch R. E, Trippensee O. L. Poulson Gertrude Vanderhoof Nlathematics and Science INCE the industrial revolution, the life of man has become more and more complex. Science and mathematics have become necessary factors in any well- rounded education. Recognizing the need for these subjects, an especially strong de- partment has been built up in the high school curriculum. The science department offers three fields from which the student may choose. Biology, chemistry, and physics are all taught by a combination experiment-recitaf tion course in which the student proves, by experiment in the laboratory, many of the principles given in the text-book. Outside trips to points of interest are made by the various classes at appropriate times during the school year. The Beta Kappa in the biology section, the Crucible club in the chemistry section, and the H. E. l.. M. S. Science club in the physics sec- tion are correlated activities w h i c h help to maintain student interest in science. Beginning with al gebra lll, the mathe matics department ad vances through succes- ive steps to trigonome try, a college prepara tory subject. The first Dorothy S. Giesel semester of algebra is devoted principally to a review of junior high school work, while the second semester is a foundation for higher mathematics. Plane geometry, dealing with figures of two dimensions, is followed by solid geometry. This study in- vestigates the relations and 'properties of solids, while trigonometry deals with tri- angles and their measurement. Mr. A. G. Dersch, in chemistry, Mr. O. l.. Poulson, in phy- sics, and Mr. R. E. Trippensee, in biol- ogy, make up the faculty fo r t h e science department, while Mrs. Doro- thy Giesel and Miss Gertrude Vande r- - hoof are mathema- tics instructors. y By David Stewart. wi

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THE LEG Georgiana jones Mary E. Thompson The commercial department stimulates initiative among the students by offering many individual awards during the year to those who excel in typing and short- hand. Typing awards consist of twenty- five, forty, fifty, and sixty word pins. Certificates are awarded to shorthand stu- dents who write sixty, eighty, and one hundred words per minute. As a further enticement, bronze medals are presented to those who reach the speed of one hundred forty and one hundred sixty words per minute. A placement bureau, under the direction of Mr. Ralph Reynolds, head of the com- mercial department, gave its first service to Arthur Hill this year. The purpose of the bureau is to get positions for Arthur Hill graduates by fostering cooperation between Saginaw business men and the school. Mr, Reynolds registers any Hill stu- dent who wishes to make use of the bu- reau, listing his quali- fications and his ex- perience, if any. Let- ters were written to Saginaw business men with the view of arranging a per- sonal meeting with I 19 ENDA M. Marie Olsen Bernice Francis them to become ac- quainted with their needs. The bureau which is under the direction of the commercial d e p a r t - ment, will probably be able to fill bookkeep- ing, stenographical, sales and clerical posi- T tions most easily. Gle 1111 Barney Mr. Reynolds instructs in salesmanship and business administration. He is assist- ed by the following: Mr, Glenn Barney, business administration and commercial law, M iss Bernice Francis, commer- cial geography and commercial history, Mr. Edwin lahns, history o f commerce a n d bookkeeping, M i ss Georgiana I 0 n e s, shorthand, typing, and filing, Miss Marie Olsen, typing and shorthand, Mr. Eric Senn, economic or- ganization, applied English, and book- keeping, Miss Mary Thompson, s h o r t - hand and typing, Mr. B. G. Wells, arithme- , tic and bookkeeping.