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

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Commercial Classes Train office assistants, clerks, bookkeepers, stenograpllers Approximately six hundred and forty students are enrolled in commercial courses and plan their futures in the business world. Typing and shorthand train future secretaries, while advertising, salesmanship and bookkeeping start artists, sales- men and accountants on their prospective road. In the picture Mr. Robert Shorney, Miss F. Alison Spence, Miss Ruth Mc- llvenna, Mr. Hasler Osborne, Mr. B. G. Wfells, department head, Mr. Eric Senn and Mrs. M. Marie Crittenden are discuss- ing future instruction plans. CANDY STORE Gaining experience in selling and meeting the public, stu- dents like Doris Boyd and Ernestine Weiss shown in the picture aiding john Bremer, work in the Student Organization Store supervised by Mr. Hasler Osborne. Eleanor Ahrens, Dorothy Bartel, Amelia Berbylos, Doris Boyd, Edith Chisholm, Alice Fox, Betty Garrett, Pauline johnson, Bernice Kaesmeyer, Jane Kingry, jean Law, Ruth McLean, Caroline Meyer, Gertrude Miller, Martha Noack, Elfriede Schiesswohl, Arda Shook, Theo Snow, Shirley Soderquist, Geraldine Spiekerman, June Trier, Lorna Vollmer, Ernestine Weiss and Virginia White all consider their library periods well-spent in waiting upon the sweet-toothed Hillites. Besides the much demanded bars and gum, the students may purchase pencils, paper, rulers and other articles to aid their studies. Profrts made in the student store are used to support Student Organization activities. ADVERTISING AND SALESMANSHIP Each year students who study the principles of advertising and salesmanship in all its phases under the supervision of Mr. Robert Shorney receive special training by assisting in a sales capacity in business houses in Saginaw. Students who have worked this year are Kenneth Bublitz, Roy Clement, Roy Demongey, Melvin Dietzel, Kathryn Dollhopf, Joanne Dunn, Joyce Dunn, Mary jane Erzen, Virginia Gates, Shirley Guil- bault, Bob Hannon, Max Heise, Charles Hubbard, Loraine Keinath, June Krieger, june Laufer, Max LeClair, Olive Miller, Vean Miller, Elmer Nestell, Marvin Page, Geraldine Peloquin, Art Pincombe, Doris Schmidt, jack Schofield, Mervin Straw, Delores Thomas and William Tubbs. High pressure salesman Marvin Page is showing his tech- nique to Vern Miller, june Laufer, Geraldine Peloquin and Charles Thorsby by using jack Middlebrook as his model customer. TYPING During the four-semester course, limber fingers, touch-key method, accuracy and speed were dwelled upon by the three hundred students, some of whom are pictured in the large typing room, before they began the typing of letters, telegrams, cablegrams, radiograms and common forms of legal and busi- ness documents. Since typing is so essential to the business world, much emphasis is put on the finished product. For those students not planning on continuing their business careers, the typing and formation of personal letters is taught. BOOKKEEPING Bookkeeping gives the student an understanding of the sub- ject and business procedures that he will need as a citizen regardless of how he will make his living as well as personal, social, economic, educational and vocational information. About 170 students enroll each semester for bookkeeping in- 17 structions as in Mr. B. G. Wells' class with Dorothy Hall, jeannette Ewald, Helen Decrock, Ernestine Weiss, june Krieger, Peter Herzberger, Harold Smith, Charles Slade, james Hutchison, Bob Averill, Lydia Geyer and Mildred Franz. Students are taught the uses of business papers, checks and the importance of records as well as how to make and use business statements. General mathematics is planned for students who have not had any high school mathematics and who prefer to take it in place of English 8. Mr. j. Hasler Osborne and Miss Ruth Mcllvenna have taught 95 students the fundamentals for every- day use. SHORTHAND AND TRANSCRIPTION With the aim to better the quality of the stenographer, shorthand and transcription are approached in the familiar book, pencil and pad manner shown by Shirley Kaiser and Doris Boyd at work in class.

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if 5 i Last year only one student made the 120 word Gregg short- hand test. This year seven girls qualified. They were Georgia Burke, Katherine Feit, Mildred Franz, Enid Gardner, Coral Oberlin ,Betty Spooner and jean Williams. Passing the lOO word test were Elaine Berka, Lydia Geyer, Lorna Schreiner, Clara Smith, Berde Trew and Ernestine Weiss. Students con- quering the 80 word goal were Inez Alexander, Maryann Ball, Jeannette Ewald, june Krueger, Catherine Llewellyn, Eleanor Mey, Geraldine Price and Esther Schluckebier. COMMERCIAL LAW The jury will now adjourn to make its final decision. Such are the words often heard in Mr. Eric Senn's commercial law classes during the session of a mock trial. To acquaint the stu- dents with the use of the law terms and facts, various days are set aside in which classes attend trials at the Saginaw Court House. Upon retiring to the class the next day, the future members of law-making bodies discuss the occurrences of the court room in order to better understand what took place. To give these citizens a greater interest in their study a preparation of questions for an Information Please program is a highlight. For those wishing to further their study outside of school, extra credit is given for all special reports and collections of clippings applying to law. The commercial department sponsored a broadcast over 'WSAM this year. The topic, From Classroom to Office, was presented by four successful alumni now holding jobs down- town. How their high school commercial training has prepared them for actual and practical work was the topic for discussion led by Miss Ruth Mcllvetma. EXPERT PERFORMANCE In a special assembly Mr. George L. Hassfield, the world's fastest typing champion ten times, exhibited his skill at typing. One hundred thirty-nine and four-tenths words a minute for one straight hour has set the record for the champion typist. 1