Bridgeport Township High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Bridgeport, IL)

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EDUCATION With nine courses offered, the Business Education department is one of the largest at BTHS. Five of them are capstone courses in Vocational Busi- ness Education: Office Practice, Typing ll, Shorthand l and ll, and an Advanced Bookkeeping. These are completed just before the student enters employment in the business world , Il: Janie Robin- d ., 5. PRACTICE: lcox gets in prac- W Executive on ne typewriter . ' AS Lin a York work on . A ,EE of spacing in Q 1 gi, M 14 letter. 'A Q my f-1iM 'W:fi.ia To ' qw-Q.. 1.1 4, J .,,stt.. .4 a.Y::v...if,.. ' as fi :Qs ,A 373, vb H -2 CW. ' . . ua 'ww :Fifi ggi, ifieki ' A' f E A X ufmes Ass vaevmeo THsFELc3:'l:2l'EURF.S YN THE 1NC0flgiEET 5,,,-mafia notuwws Of we wowx T mctosxneeuwmunwistmvp. W . i K Ar W 4, pJ,iJ5,,:J,,-5,142 W -- t f - - ss Accourffi gtgtmlzmlgrg ks wav APVEIPF T-SE! Maru W WMBLS, an .- Xe -aw-if aw , . 1-if-f 5, W. ,Z I, ,H fmc.uMm M 1.1 vw-1: 4 ..wwcw'wf,,.m, f. 51:2 FL c , fm agony :woe N .MMV-ay Cffiinvizmmrl da 53 A POST'Cl-Gsflci TRUAL HAWK! L5 TAKEN AFTER YHE LEQGER K5 CLOSED 70 PROVE EQUALITY GF 955175 Ai CBYDITS wx: ii BOOKKEEPING: joe Petty, Don 5355? Gray, Linda Hodges and Trudy as i Gray demonstrate for the class V ,X 'lx ' the completion of a bookkeeping Z, QE. CYC1e with Chart- if , Q 8 if : , - f 'fi I 33: ,lg nl Ng. ,. V , .af ., BRIEF HAND: The govern- ment of the United States is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Mary Mayfield, Ottilie Lither- land and Pam Oney tran- Mac Hammer is hard at work tran- scribe . scribing Briefhand exercise from textbook. TYPING l: Kathy Eckiss, LaDonna Martin, Steve Lathrop, Starla Crump, Becky Merrill, joy Fox, Debbie Schofield, Cathy Carr and 'th s eed drills . The quick brown others limber up their fingers wi p fOX . . ffl' if L1

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BUSINESS SHORTHAND II: Speed drills in dictation SHORTHAND I: A chip on the shoulder usually indicates wood higll from records are done by Rose Creek and up . . . Peggy Edmondson transcribes an old axiom for Deanna Glenna Fye . Lewis . GENERAL BUSINESS: Phillip Spillman, Alberta jackson, Linda Brines study advertisements in newspapers . OFFICE PRAC- TICE: Diane Nestleroad oper- ates the IBM Key Punch Machine, cessing cards . punching data pro - OFFICE PRACTICE: Connie Carie, Rose Creek, Kathy Griffith, Nannette Dale, Cathy Nestleroad, Brenda Shoulders, Marsha Cotterell, Linda Berk- shire, Nancy Gross, Brenda Warren, Roberu Carie and others work on shorthand .

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Dennis Bousley and Debbie Farlow prepare to drive in new Dodge during first semester of Drivers' Education. Mr . Magee gets up courage for first day's driving by Cindy Scaggs and SOCIOLOGY Sociology, the study of social problems, is designed to as- sist the students to learn to face squarely and objectively the problems as they evolve in our social structure . It de- velops awareness, responsi- bility, sensitivity, and cour- age to face the challenge of tomorrow . DRIVERS EDUCATION A law passed by the 1968 Illinois Legislature prohibits issuance of drivers' licenses under age 18 unless the applicant has completed a minimum of 30 hours of classroom instruction and 6 hours of behind -the -wheel instruction . This has increased the number of students in the course, but two cars and two instructors are meeting the needs of BTHS students . ll! is 1' viii: L 1: -A ,, L is at I candidates . . iid During the presidential campaign of 1968 many discussions of candidates were held, with frequent changes of displays of campaign materials Ameter, Stev W ll B'l1 ' e e s, 1 Allen, Bobbie Parrott and others back their The race question is one of the greatest social problems of today, Di O, Warren, David McAdow, Nicky Pauley, Diane Sears discuss one of the A attractive bulletin boards . At left: Crystal McNew, Shirley Wheatley and others read the novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, and prepare for discussion of