Belleville College - Dutchman Yearbook (Belleville, IL)

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Property and home appraisal was a topic for the residential real estate class. Office workers by day turned into efficient business students bv night. J V Dow Jones averages have been tabulated, retail establishments have been padlocked, but the business world is alive in the night school classroom. When teaching a business-related course, a teacher really “Gets down to Irusiness.” Hunting for the keys to success in typing. Pat Delmore used the typist ' s tool, an eraser. 11

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Establishing rapport between teacher and sttident sometimes took humor. Mr. Boyett ' s main task aros getting the material across to his economics students. Balancing the hooks by mastering the theory that the debit column totals must equal those of the credit column was the chore of this accounting student. There is a certain type of business acumen obtained in no other way than by actual practice, such as taking over leadership of a class.

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Education section trained students for future classrooms and pupils. Students who planned a career in teaching realized their time and hard study were well spent when most four- year institutions accepted the courses in JC’s education section as profes¬ sional credit. Although they were mainly available only as night-school courses the students found the educa¬ tion courses an asset to their future in classroom instruction. Principles of child growth and de¬ velopment, as well as the practical ap¬ proach to music, the recent trends in arithmetic, and the concept of teach¬ ing small children to read were topics considered by tomorrows educators. f uture Rembrandts of the kindergarten class gladly demonstrated their artistic skills to Kathy Moore, student assistant at Signal Hill. Kathy Moore provided the tune while the five-year-olds heat out the rhythm. 12