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

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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.

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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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.. ,ff ..,.,, , N J M gi? t M? X? ui i ,Q 5' pig . . . 1 .F Q , E at 4 2 2 22 'WF I-45:22.41 ' tiiifs. :.:'wzvi5?i f, t .lis f MR. JOHN W. HOLBERT Head of English Departmentg Shippensburg State Teachers College, B.S.g Pennsylvania State University, B.Ed.g Ad- vises Rambler Staffg Secretary of Alumni Association. MRS. E. KATHRYN BROWN Englishg Lebanon Valley Col- lege, A.B.g junior Class Play Director. ENGLISH - The Study of Engli MR. WHARTON H. BITTLE, JR. Englishg Pennsylvania Univer- sity, B.S.g Advises Hi-Yg jun- ior Class C0-Advisor. MR. J. EDWIN CRONE English and Mathematicsg Bob Jones University, B.A.3 Ad- vises Christmas Around the World Speech Contest Par- ticipants. Senior English students are observed around a display of projects.