Calumet High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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Business Courses Prepare Carole Prasnikar realizes that time is an important factor especially in the dictation of short- hand. She must be fast and accurate in order to receive a passing grade. Gary Mantz offers his assistance to Kathy Hornbeak on a difficult business law exercise. That’s co-opera- tion. Pat Timm uses the adding machine as she puts her acquired book- keeping skills to use. - 18 -

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Specialty Of Home Ec. And Shop Classes “Industry builds America,” and at Calu- met High School the students are able to learn the fundamentals and how to use ma- chinery, which is the basis of industry. This is offered through the industrial arts program. The program contains wood and metal shop classes, and the preliminary of the two, mechanical drawing. They are instructed on how to use and apply their skill and the machines in produc- ing a product. But, safety is the point most stressed. Mechanical drawing, the pre-basis to ma- chine working, is also offered to students of Calumet High School. It confronts them with the language of industry and the art of draft- ing an image of what will be the outcome of their skill. The industrial arts program is offered to the students as a means to devlop their men- tal capacities to co-ordinate with their physi- cal abilities, and may help them later in their chosen profession. Being skilled in running machinery is a basic necessity in metal shop, as Tom Cook proves, while running milling machinery in Met- al Shop. Manual Lazono uses his tri-square to achieve a precision draw- ing in mechanical drawing class. No project is complete without being assembled. James Thompson and Mike Baker assemble their lawn furniture. - 17 -

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For Commercial Life. In order to keep up with the rapid pace of the business world, a wide and varied commer- cial program is offered to those students inter- ested in developing business functions which they may put to use efficiently and economical- ly- This commercial program consists of: gen- eral business, which stresses money and credit problems and the responsibilities of the salesman; business arithmetic, which enables students to better understand the law one lives by; secre- tarial training, a course in which students work under actual office conditions; bookkeeping, which teaches how to maintain neat and accu- rate records; personal typing, which teaches the basic fundamentals to those wanting to type for their own personal reasons; and two years of shorthand and typing both of which are con- cerned with the basic fundamentals in the first year and with rapid transcription and accuracy in the second. Students at Calumet are offered all of the above courses which provides them with excel- lent opportunities to obtain business training. Alphabetical order is what is requested and Janet Charbonneau wants to do her best at it. Just what I wanted. And naturally be- cause as a result of his salesmanship course Avon Shepard wants to please. - 19 -