Caruthersville High School - Cotton Blossom Yearbook (Caruthersville, MO)

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 WRITER KEYBOA K Commerce Department Adds Secretarial Practice Commercial courses were added to the high school curriculum because parents began to say, Why not teach typing and shorthand in the high school and save us the expense and worry of sending our sons and daughters to business school? Long since the vocational side of the picture has changed and students now take commercial courses for their own personal use. However, C. H. S. is proud of her many graduates who, without further business training, successfully have held jobs, have become accountants, executives, secretaries, owners of businesses, typists, and are filling their niches in the business world of our town as well as other communities. MR. REDMAN DUNHAM MISS BONNIE FEARS Mr. Dunham teaches beginning typing, bookkeepinq. business English, and business law. He is bookkeeper lor the hiqh school athletic fund, and a co-sponsor ol the senior class. As every C. H. S. student knows, his hobby is his birthday book of C. H. S. students and friends • and fightin chickens. This year the commercial department included courses in bookkeeping, typing, shorthand, general business, business law, business English, and a new course, secretarial practice. The department had two instructors, Mr. Redman Dunham, who has headed the commercial department since 1928, and Miss Bonnie Fears, who was employed to meet the ever increasing student enrollment in commercial classes. WORKING at the new electric adding machine is Janie Kindred. Other bookkeeping students pictured are Hedge. Hicks and Lay. Miss Fears teaches shorthand, general business, typing and secretarial practice, and is a co-sponsor of the junior class and Honor Society. Her hobbies are crocheting, sewing, and collecting earrings. BUSY waxing, dusting, and cleaning typewriters as a part of their office training are secretarial practice class mem bers Ball. Danley. Greer and Thompson.

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Art Activities are Varied The varied projects exhibited at Open House by the art department were evidence of the fine work done this year by the students in Art I. II. and advanced art. This year students especially enjoyed their work on a mural which depicted life in C. H. S., making jewelry for Christmas presents, and doing the art work for the Cotton Blossom. Other activities included cartoons and caricatures, weaving, basketry, copper enameling, lettering, costume designing, and free hand drawing. MRS. ERNEST HAZEL, art instructor, examines a free hand drawing by Kay Summers. Behind her is the mural depict ing life in C. H. S. made by the advanced art class. Mrs. Hazel, art instructor, has received wide recognition for her work in the educational field of art. Her articles have appeared in numerous professional magazines, and she has sold designs to McCall's Magazine and to Frederick Hershner Company. She is a member of the Missouri State Art Council and the production staff of the State Art Curriculum Guide. Mrs. Hazel teaches Art I. II, and advanced art, 8th grade art, and supervises art in grades 1-7, she is also the adviser to the art staff of the Cotton Blossom and co-sponsor of the S. A. C. LOOKING at Martha Lauck's tree hand drawing are first place winners Swiggart. Davis. Dodd. Summers. Lauck. and Dickson in the District Art Contest. PREPARING TO FIRE their copper jewelry are art students Dick Prost and Wayne Hardy. Christine Reichert cleans a copper ash tray for enameling. ADMIRING Billy LaForge's third place design in the Centennial Emblem Contest are art students Martha Lauck. tied for third; Kay Summers, second place; Carolyn Davis, first place winner.

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Math Students Learn Basic Science Since mathematics is used in everyday life, our four mathematics units are an important part of our curriculum. This year Miss Lena Walk and Mr. Paul Price instructed students in qeneral math, Algebra I, plane geometry. Algebra II, and trigonometry. General math students learned the simple principles of arithmetic, informal geometry, Algebra, graphs, charts, and numerical trigonometry. Algebra I and II are taught because they are the shorthand methods for solving problems and provide a background for higher math. Geometry and trigonometry are taught as practical tools for academic and engineering math fields. MISS LENA WALK Miss Walk teaches Algebra I. Algebra II. plane geometry general mathematics, and trigonometry and is a co-sponsor of the senior class. Her outside interests are the Korean war orphan whom she supports through the Christian Children's Fund and her African violets. GEOMETRY STUDENTS are working on units which apply geometry to their field of interest. Pictured are Britton. Fig-gins. Davis. Snow. Coleman. M. Berry, Gortner. Mollett and Jones. IN TRIGONOMETRY class. Jim Southern explains a problem to Jim Leslie while oth »r class members J. Streete, T. Streete, Johnson. Jones. Figgins look on.