Blackford High School - Reflections Yearbook (Hartford City, IN)

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Intensive Lab provides a stimulated office procedure to teach students the real world of work Lisha Adkins learns to use a copy ma- chine. Diane Montgomery checks her answers with the aid of a pocket calculator in Advanced Bookkeeping. Pocket calculators have be- come an inexpensive learning tool. Business skills aid future The main purpose in taking a busi- ness class is to gain skills for use in the world of work, or for education in special areas of business. When talking in her business classes about finding jobs, Mrs. Clau- dia Goodnight tries to emphasize that the person who leaves no stone unturned will usually find a good job. There are several business classes to choose from. Typing classes are usually most popular. Typing is probably the most widely used of all business skills, because whatever course of study or work a student plans to follow, typing can be used in one way or another. Skill classes such as shorthand are fun to teach according to Mrs. Good- night. Shorthand students can see their program each day. Business classes are one step to- wards reaching our goals ' in a field of our own. ' Business 105

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Karen MaJott, Mike Jones, Elizabeth Sills. and Amy Carpenter ate busy studying their bookkeeping in Mr. Lori ' s 5th period class. Typing is a skill that people can always use no matter what field they ' re in. David Randolph improves his typing skill in Intensive Lab. Business Mrs. Mildred DeWeerd — Typing. Mrs. Elizabeth Garritson — General Business, Distributive Education. Mrs. Claudia Goodnight — Short- hand, Intensive Lab. Mr. Thomas Hale — Business De- partment Chairman, Typing, bookkeeping. Mr. Charles Lori — General Busi- ness, Bookkeeping. Mr. Ross Myers — General Busi- ness, Recordkeeping, Business Law. Mrs. Hazel Redden — Business Ma- chines, Office Practice, Typing. Mr. Kenneth Ross — Typing I. Calculators are useful instruments in ac- counting classes. Annette Williams and Barry Huffman team up to finish their home- work. 104 Business

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Educacional; erziehung It would be fun to visit Germany, France, or Spain, but most students can ' t. So they take a foreign lan- guage. Foreign language classes aren ' t just learning how to speak French, German, Spanish, or Latin, although that is a big part of it. Each class also teaches about the different life styles and customs of each coun- try. This year ' s French classes were shown shdes of Paris. They also got a taste of some real French cuisine when they went to Cafe Johnell in Ft. Wayne. Doing plays and com- mercials in French were also a part of the class. In Spanish classes students learned how to build pinatas and to fix Mexican dishes. This year the students took their pinatas to the grade schools to share some Spanish traditions with the youngsters. Foreign language is a big part of education. Understanding the be- liefs and customs of others is almost as important as understanding our own. y Craig Teagle and Scott Confer take inventory ' 4t of the pinatas made in their Spanish class. r The pinatas were taken around to the grade Tim Lewis, Robin Lake, and Jill Pierson study their Latin together. Sometimes more is learned when students work in groups. Sometimes less. ■• .