Bedford High School - Torch Yearbook (Bedford, IA)

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ll- 7 iii if Af- ,-2 f' f ' ' T--: , -ivsg - f. 4 Q X fx' -1' i 'H' 1 l I ef B. H. S. Commercial Company fFounded-1918j MAIN OFFICE-First Floor of High School Building BRANCH OFFICES-Wl1e1'eve1' You Want Our Service MANAGER-Miss Rekers STENOGRAPHERS- APPRENTICES- Advanced Shorthand Class First-year Shorthand Class TYPISTS- BOOKKEEPERS- Fifty Typewriting Students Fifty-five Bookkeeping Students CAPITAL-Thirteen Underwood Typewriters Twenty-three Adding Machine CCommercial Arithmetic Studentsj SURPLUS-of Energy to Prepare to Fill the Best Positions. MEMBERS OF NATIONAL RESERVE BOARD-fof Competent Stenographers and Typistsj. Several of our employees have been granted membership in the Order of Gregg Artists and several have become members of the Order of Artistic Typists. To become a-member of the first Order means the acquiring of such a knowledge of shorthand and such a style in the writing of it as marks the difference betweet a mediocre writer and a Writer of promise and a member of the second Order must be able to produce a copy that is not o11ly accurate but also pleasing in appearance. DEPARTMENTS-Shorthand I and II, Typewriting I and 11, Bookkeeping, Com- mercial Arithmetic, Commercial Law. In addition, the Office Training Department was opened this year for the first time by the manager in order to prepare the stenographers to meet all the problems in the office intelligently. It carries on its business two days a week in conjunction with the Shorthand II Department. AIM-We Want to be so well trained that we will be the very best in our line of wo1'k even if We have to work outside of office hours. This is shown in every departinent and especially i11 the Shorthand II Department which re-organized their O. G. A. Club this year and meets every Tuesday evening with the manager. By means of these meetings this department has come in direct contact with present day office appliances and business customs though the coeoperation of some of the local business houses. The officers of the Club are: Nettie Redenbaugh, Pres., Luella Martin, Vice-Pres.3 Ruth Grunson, Sec'y and Treas. MOTTO- A winner never quits and a quitter never wins. Our Company proves that its employees are not quitters by those who have won the Underwood Typewriter Company awards. The following have received their awards this year: 604Word Award-Luella Martin. 50-Wo1'cl Award-Ruth Gunson, Estelyne Norton, Alan Thompson. 40-W'ord Award-Ruth Gunson, George Herriot, Opal Layman, Ferne Put- man, Buford Auten, Maude Foley, Elbert Avey, Doris Lucas, Dean Price, Reginald Long. 30-Word Certificate-Elbert Avey, Cecil Blane, Opal Layman, Alan Thompson, Harold Blanc, Ferne Putman, Maude Foley, Dean Price, Karl Cobb, Beulah Locke, Nettie Redenbaugh, Reginald Long, Doris Lucas, Gene Daugherty, Eugene Jones, Elsie Goudic, Grant Aiton, Charles Myers, Bessie Smith, Donald Marsh, VVillard Marsh, Fonta Purcell, Helen Welsli. PROSPECT OF GROWTH-Sixty students have entered their applications to be admitted into the Typewriting Department next year. He profits most who serves best. Let us profit by serving you in our efficient Way. ' -4. '-9 va, . ' 443 . 'W 4 xs..v- ,WW Page Forty-four - l

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I r X! Normal Training Department Since its organization in 1913, the Normal Training course has been one of the most important courses in the high school. Its purpose is to prepare students for the work of teaching. This course is so practical and efficient that it attracts many students from neighboring towns. At present there are forty- nine enrolled in the Normal Training Department, twenty- seven Seniors and twenty-two Juniors. In the Junior year, subjects which the students will be required to teach in the rural schools, are taken up, along with their other work. In January and May comes the state tests which the Juniors Welcome with a frown and bid farewell with a smile. But they are not usually as bad as they first appear, as the ef- ficiency of this course enables the students to meet these dif- ficulties when they come. In the Senior year comes the remainder of the state tests, besides the twenty-four hours of observation and fifteen hours of practice teaching, which are required before a Normal Training Certificate is granted. This work is done under the supervision of the best teachers of the town and country. The Normal Training work this year has been under the supervision of Miss Bernice Wilcox, who has put forth every effort to make the work a success. - .: x: 'Al 3 ? 2 Eg 4? - -X J X- 'Z R' X --IW Page Forty-three

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pf , ag 'xi f f , T- y Miss Cherry Blossom As some time had elapsed since Bedford High School had staged an operetta, Miss Kindblade, the musical director, deemed it an opportune time to unite the efforts of the glee clubs in presenting the Japanese Comedy, Miss Cherry Blossom. As a consequence on March the 16 the play was given and was deem- ed by all to be a success. How Cherry Blossom, was reared by a Japanese innkeeper, 110W she came i11 touch with a company of Americans and how a Japanese and American court- ship was conducted, were entertainingly and vividly portrayed by the musical numbers as well as the spoken parts. The sparkling oriental airs were very captivating and with the aid of the Geish girls and American chorus formed an exquisite setting for the operetta enhanced as it was by the Japanese costumes and make-ups. Much of the credit or the success of the venture goes of course to Miss Kindblade wl1o directed the musical numbers. However Mrs. Moody the declama- tory coach should not be overlooked as sl1e trained for two weeks tl1c oral de- livery. Neither should tl1e decorator, Rev. Flether, or the make-up man, Mr. Trousdale, be omitted for they contributed. In selecting the cast, painstaking care was devoted not only to singing abili- ty but also to acting ability. After due consideration, Eula Blake was chosen as Cherry Blossom, with Kenneth Chilcote as the gallant hero, John Henry Smith. The role of l'Ii0kGl110H the jealous guardian of his Japanese Tea Rose fell to Wayne Clark. Raymond Shum was designated as the pompus New York stock broker, Horace Wortl1i11gton, with the inclespensible Carl Cummings as his secretary, James Young. Grant Aiton was chosen as the ever watchful lover, Henry Foster Jones , while the part Jessica the not unwilling recip- ient of his attentions was given to Thelma Mcikle. The lot of haughty Togo the rejected Jap lover and politician fell to Russell Polton. While the Geisha Girls and American Chorus completed the cast. -:L 13. ff Q 'ci Yr new MW Page Forty-five: