Berrien Springs High School - Canoe Yearbook (Berrien Springs, MI)

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Business This year the business department has greatly increased its enrollment. Approximately 300 students were enrolled in the courses available. In general business thirty students met each day to study insurance, investment, banking and check writing, thrift, and wise buying principles. In beginning typing class one hundred students learned the fundamentals of typewriting. They set their typing goal 50 NWPM, which was to be reached at the end of the year. In the advanced typing class fifty students studied typewriting more comprehensively and learned to type such business papers as inter-office memoranda, telegrams, invoices. Azograph masters, and stencils. They tried to reach a typing goal of 60 NWPM. In shorthand I thirty-five students studied the basic principles of shorthand and attempted to reach a writing speed of 60 to 80 words a minute. In shorthand II fifteen students learned to write shorthand at a rapid speed and to transcribe their notes on the typewriter. They had a much higher writing speed of 100 to 120 words a minute as their goal. The twenty-five girls who were enrolled in office practice learned how to operate the various office machines correctly. In addition they completed a filing unit and o number of other units designed to acquaint them with office procedures. Thirty-five students were enrolled in bookkeeping where they studied the bookkeeping fundamentals. The purpose of this course is to provide a better understanding of the fundamental bookkeeping cycle and to provide the student with informational business terminology. It also provides a knowledge of accounting and prepares the student for college. Advanced typists at work. D. Fisher, L. Huckabee practice shorthand. 16 C. Odiornne, A. Grayam, T. Riland study savings and investments in general business class.

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S. Breinling, B. Gifford, B. Cook, D. Kesterke, B. Howell working out a physics problem. Physical science class determining the effect of hooking up batteries in series and parallel circuits. We hope our heads aren't as empty as the bell jar on the vacuum pump, say D. Baker, P. Clubb, F. Sanders. L. Rick dissecting a frog in biology class.

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C. Steltner, K. Krone work with the Azograph machine. Mr. Burgett giving P. White a timed writing. J. Batson, S. Stover doing a conditioning practice in beginning typing. M. Reisig, S. Myers learning to use the Friden and Marchant calculators in office practice. B. Hebner is in background. D. Burgess, D. Schmidt checking figures in the Randall Practice Set.