Central Catholic High School - Lance Yearbook (Lafayette, IN)

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Miss Agnes McCormack taught the accounting class, which was held third hour every day. The students learned more about numbers than they dreamed they would. The students became tamiliar with terms like ledger, debit, credit, and balance. They completed problems from the book, workbook and special packets. Calcula- tors were often used to help bewildered students add up those impossibly long columns of numbers. One day, while working on an important assignment, Lori Moser let out a groan. Her calculator had run out of power, and she was forced to rely on her own mathematical skills to finish the assignment. Many class periods were livened up with Teresa Wake- field ' s singing. The students decided that she should become a professional singer, with Jamie Delaney acting as her manager. Beginning typing students faced with memorizing the key positions on the typewriter. Their first task was learn- ing the A-S-D-F-G-H-J-K-L-semi was drilled into their heads until using the keys on the home row became easy. From then on, the rest of the course progressed steadily. Class members typed index cards, business letters and reports. When all the serious work was done. Sister Rita would give them patterns to type. The end products turned out to be pumpkins or valentines. Typing and accounting classes proved to be very valu- able for the students. The skills that they learned could be put to use later on in their lives. typing, accounting 79

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Office practice is a course designed to train people for working in a business office. Students take turns working on office machines, and hand in typing assignments every week. One day, the students persuaded Miss McCormack to let them bring donuts and milk to class. The ideas was to practice taking a coffee break. She consented to the idea, on the condition that they ate while they worked — only it ended up that they did more eating and talking than work- ing! Glass members also spent time practicing office gossip by discussing television soap operas. The only boy in the class, John Jones, had no trouble getting involved in the conversations about General Hospital — in fact, he started most of them. Office practice wasn ' t just fun and games. The students had a very good instructor. With the help of Miss McGor- mack, many of them obtained jobs in the business world. Kim Andrews started workng at Snyder-LaBaw Agency, with plans of continuing with th ' e job once she graduated from high school. Other students had office jobs waiting for them once school ended in May. Miss McGormack also taught a new course called In- troduction to Business . Students studied the aspects of running their own businesses by working on case studies and continuing projects — problems that could be applied to the businesses they would manage. After studying a unit about the stock market, they arranged to buy some of their own. The business classes at CG proved to be very informa- tive, and provided students with some of the experience they would need for their future. Julie Milakis, John Jones, and Jani Nelson gain experience by practicing witln the office equipment. As the seconds slip by, Patty Gramman hurries to erase a mistal e. ' ff ?S Jv 1S; Mc;«