Cambridge High School - Yearling Yearbook (Cambridge, MD)

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Miss Nora Dunn tries to fill the community's need for bookkeepers by giving her students the training they need. After teaching how books are kept, each individual then keeps a set of proctice books. COMMERCIAL STUDENTS LEARN BUSINESS TECHNIQUES Stressing speed and accuracy to shorthand students. Miss Hilda Harwood gives her students drill. Dictation may be given by the teacher, but it is often taken from o record. 22

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Science instructor, Mr. Morley Jull, listens to a student in General Science class, one of the many science courses offered at Cambridge High. STUDIES MAN'S HORIZONS An occasional teasing from Mr. Ronald Savage tends to liven US History periods. Both interesting and important, a study of this subject gives the student a patriotic foundation in his life. SCIENCE PROBES TOWARD PROGRESS Learning about man and his environment is a part of the cur- riculum at CHS. All students are required to have at least two years of science. General Science, Biology, and Senior Science are open to Commercial and General students and to the Academic students, if they desire. For Academic juniors there is Chemistry, in which students study chemical equations and formulas along with all the rest there is to know about Chemistry. For those who choose to go on in science Physics is offered. For CHS students there is always something new in the science department. 21

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Instructing a class of Senior typing students is Mrs. Edna Renfro. After many drills and timed tests her students become accurate and quick typists. They not only learn to type, but they also leorn the core of a typewriter. Preparing some CHS students for the business world are the commercial teachers. Fingers flying over the keyboard, pencils making strange shorthand strokes on a page, and what seem to be mountains of figures are commonplace events in the school lives of Commercial students who will be the business tycoons of the community. Office Practice classes work as a secretarial pool for the faculty and in the ofTice learning to use office machines. Bookkeeping students keep practice books and assist in the school's clerical work. So, for aspiring businessmen and women, CHS gives a good background. Finishing up a class in Business Law is Mr. Rufus Todd. An enthusiastic teacher, Mr. Todd uses his sense of humor to keep the classes interesting. 23 V9