Calumet High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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COMMERCIAL NECESSARY Miss Francis Meyers plays record in her shorthand class to time students on taking dictation in shorthand. The Commercial Department provides an excellent opportunity for students to obtain training in the commercial arts. The department helps to develop an understanding of business functions by teaching certain basic principles of business education. Typing is taken by many students whether they are preparing for clerical jobs or not. Personal typing is recommended for students who wish to type for their own personal use, while two years of typing are offered for those who are planning on a career in business. Shorthand is an important part of secretarial training. Two years are offered; the first year is to introduce the use of the symbols, and in the second year the student achieves rapid transcription and accuracy. Salesmanship, bookkeeping, secretarial training, and business law complete the cur- riculum . These students have the advantage of using the new typing tables bought this year. Betty John Holmgren McCall Frances Valeria Joseph Meyers Wojcik Yacko sixteen Mr. Joseph Yacko, typing teacher, is showing new typewriter to Barbara Bradley.

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The Industrial Arts Department offers train- ing for boys in the fields of mechanical draw- ing, woodworking, and metal shop. In wood shop students are instructed on the processes of hand woodworking, and information about ma- chine tools and use of materials is offered. Metal shop gives the student a chance to acquire skill in the construction of metal artic- les. The students learn the basic operations on the screw cutting lathe, and other machines. Special projects are made by the students as the basic part of their training. Mechanical drawing provides a necessary phase of industrial arts training. Students are drilled in drawing scale model pictures of con- struction problems and are taught the language of industry. FURTHER TRAINING Avon Sheppard performs one of the operations necessary in making an article in wood shop. Mr. Michael Vass, metal shop teacher, looks on while Dale Hirsch uses the cutting lathe. John Michael Shinovich Vass Bill Warchus receives advice from Mr. John Shin ovich on a mechanical drawing problem. fifteen

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A few members of Mrs. Elsie Waldron ' s French class are making posters to decorate the room. Verb conjugation is an important part of learning a foreign language. These students are conjugating a French word as Mrs. Elsie Waldron watches. LANGUAGES STRESSED Foreign languages are an important item on the curriculum of all high schools. Students have had the opportunity to take Spanish for several years at Calumet. In addition to this, French is being offered to the students this year for the first time. In first year Spanish and French, vocabulary and grammer are studied, and a limited speak- ing knowledge of the language is acquired. However, a second year of Spanish gives the student a chance to develop this further. Vonda Howell is about to hit a pinata in Miss Yatsko ' s Spanish II class. This is one of the customs of the Spanish during their festivals. Miss Pauline Yatsko ' s Spanish I class listens to a report given by one of the students. Pauline Yatsko seventeen