Butler High School - Magnet Yearbook (Butler, PA)

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Eilcen's A's are art and adding , . . Fingers speed while Miss Wigton directs . . . Miss Brier demonstrates lining-up figures and columns. standards and procedures that are essential in acquiring and holding a business position . . . next come figures carrying pen, pencil, and ruler arranged in even columns by the Guides Debit and Credit and led by Major Black who must keep out of the red . . . here are Trial Balances that never balance . . . Profit and Loss Statements with always a loss . . . checks that always bounce . . . General Bookkeeping, a vocational fellow who designs to prepare students for posi- tions as bookkeepers andoffice clerks . . . here come twins: Commercial Geography-directing the route with product maps and magic films to lands of sugar and spice, of minerals and rubber, of fruits and graing and Commercial Law-keeping all within bounds, insisting that Business moves along in an orderly, dignified, and legal manner . . . tagging along are speeding figures, in orderly array, pouring from the adding machine and the mimeograph, and Commercial Arithmetic, counting the cost and working out budgets and interest and short cuts.

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EUMMEHEIAL HE commercial division opens with a meaning- less parade of letters and signs-agsldkfjgh space agsldkfjgh-ribbon, spacer, keys galore, sit up straight, feet on the floor . . . easy exercises and much practice bring order out of the chaos and soon words fly along from the typewriter with rhythmic click-click at the rate of fifty per minute . . . there are sometimes slight delays for the correction of errors or for learning the proper way of folding papers, addressing envelopes, or the correct form for legal documents . . . next come queer little objects with curious lines, twisted curves, and funny curliques, singing a dot and clash melody as they go by at the rate of one hundred words or more each minute . . . by and by they are marshalled into neat looking lines across a page and make intelligible sentences in the stenographer's notebook . . . here is the student learning to type, conning the Smiling captains of the keys . . . Miss Morrison on Mr. Gai-ner's desk . . . Miss Greenough searching for commercial treasures . . . Miss Riggle suggests the proper symbol for A . . . Artists of high finance, Youkers and Miller . . . Figures, letters, name cards, it's all one to Miss Murphy . . . k-i-k, space, j-u-g, space, k-i-f-darn! . . . Martin keeps track of the money.

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ENEUEH RAMP! Tramp! Tramp! comes the sound of marching feet . . . first in the procession of our English section come rows of proud, stately exclamation points, followed by roly-poly commas, colons, periods, and semicolons, with par- entheses and brackets scattered through the crowd . . . and what a task to keep them in their proper place! . . . this company is followed by hosts of nouns, pronouns, prepositions, verbs, adverbs, adjectives . . . next come a motley crew of hackneyed expressions, misused and mispro- nounced words, and several very battered looking adjectives known as cute,', good , and nice . . . close by walk a group led by Public Speaking who stops to explain the headaches of play- wright and producer, i.e. play writing, casting, practicing, play technique, costumes, make-up, properties . . . after seeing this fellow, Shakespeare seems to us like a mighty good guy, instead of just a great dramatist. Public Speaking's Chief Aide is Radio whose personal friends are terri- fying microphones and a stop watch, whose bitter enemy is Western Pennsylvanian Nasals . . . members of this group have a special privilege, the person who sticks his tongue out farthest Mrs. Seyler's future Garbos . . . Mrs. Turnblacer, Miss Jamison, and Miss Harper tea-ing . . . Peggy advises . . . Walking out? . . . What a deskful! . . . Mrs. Sarles on guard . . . One second before the bell.