Central Dauphin High School - Centralian Yearbook (Harrisburg, PA)

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BUSINESS EDUCATION - Business Relies on 1 MR. PAUL S. MURPHY Bookkeeping, Consumer Edu- cation, General Business, and Typing-Ag Shippensburg State Teachers College, B.S:g Ad- visesAStage Crew and Visual Aids Operators. MRS, SHIRLEY Y UHAZIE Office Practice and Business Exploratoryg Elizabethtown College, B.S.g Pennsylvania State University, Advises Fu- ture Business Leaders of Amer- icag Junior Varsity Basketball Coach, A new course this year at Central Dauphin is stenog phy, which is machine shorthand. There are twenty-fi pupils enrolled in this class. The key success in writi on a stenograph machine is smooth, rhythmic unhesitatic and fluent writing. This machine weighs less than fo pounds and can be carried in one hand. The business student takes business mathematics whi includes a review of addition, subtraction, multiplicatic division, percentage, decimals, fractions, and other arit metical problems related to business. Seniors take Business English which includes vocabula building, capitalization, punctuation and parts of speech In the office practice class the students learn to opera the electric typewriters, adding machines, duplicators, ar other machines that are used in business offices. The students also learn the different types of filing. Since all business centers around selling, the pupils the Principles of Sales and Retailing class learn that tl most important factor in selling is having a good perso. ality. They learn about the seller's physical and ment qualities. L i Mary Ann Gaffney, Edna Baker, and Daryl Sweger practice taking shorthand by machine, a new part of the business course.

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n and Women for the Field of Commerce. l'enth grade students who have had very little or no ex- ience in typing in junior high take a half-year typing rse to learn the basic steps in typing. The eleventh grade typing classes work in typing prob- is and speed. The problems consist of letters, centering ulations, rough drafts, manuscript typing and additional .iness forms. The Top Typist Clubu begins in jan- y. To earn a certificate, it is necessary to meet certain uirements: type 50, 60, or 70 words per minute for five rutes with fewer than five errors, deducting ten words each error. By the end of the junior year each student expected to be typing 50 words per minute. A course for the business student in writing a word by ind is shorthand. During the first semester the students rn theory, speed building is begun during the' second nester. This subject is essential to taking transcription in r senior year. In the transcription class, letters are dic- ed to the students who then type the notes that they ve taken. MRS. E. BRAD HARTMAN Shorthand I, Senior Transcrip- tion, General Typing, Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, B-.S., University of Pennsylvania, Bucknell University, Advises Future Teachers of America Club. MR. WILLIAM F. Moruus, JR. General Business Training and Bookkeeping, Shippensburg State Teachers College, B.S., Temple University, Assistant Fafulfl' Manager of Athletics. ae' -Q1 . K I- '5 f'f 2f5'f j ff fjsfir f 1: aug fffijsa ,if gf f5j'iiSg fli?'l gf ,f3f4,:sf?ts,f fi fi ' ifilzlfi z' ef? f-,flat zi!.:i,, ' f.ifEyL'..:4' igfisgfir ,, 3!j:?l5i1ii rr ffjiiiil' a -ff!-llia Ei S - .H 1253 3 . 5 124151 , X Pi. ,ai fffmigfa ff: Three office practice students learn the procedure used in duplicating work. s ff

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mdards of the Consumer. Two D. E. Boys decorate the display window for the Christmas season. Tom Fiedler and joe Hopple demonstrate effective sales techniques in a Distributive Education Class. MR. JOHN J. MAGERA Distributive Education and Social Studiesg Bloomsburg State Teachers College, B,S.g New York University, M.A.g Advises Distributive Education Club. Education in retail, wholesale, and service fields of business is pro- vided in the Distributive Education course. Taught by Mr. Magera, the class has a morning schedule of training in salesmanship, principles of advertising, display, basic arithmetic, store organization and person- ality development. The afternoons are spent in actual work experience which is closely coordinated with the classroom training. This gives students experience in as many phases of business as possible, and prepares him for a career in merchandising.