Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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MISS CECILE LOGIC Department Head Commercial Workshop Senior Stenography, Typewriting MISS DELIA MAY TAYLOR Shorthand Typewriting MR. RALPH KERSHAW Business Law Office Machines Typewriting Advanced typing students utilize their keyboards to practice and perfect the many forms of letters they learn. Miss Cecile Logic checks the progress of her students during a typist's day, a realistic project involving a typist’s day in an office. Learning the intricacies of calculating machines, both manual and electric, and the ten key listing adding machines keeps Mr. Ralph Kershaw's office machines class clicking. 11

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Central Test Factory! Commercial Workshop girls Betty Schneckloth, Judy Cook, Jean Ann Minard, and Mary Kuendel aid the CHS faculty by typing and duplicating test material, special projects, and worksheets, in addition to aiding clubs and activities with their material. Busy Beavers Mean Business MR. GLENN HANSEN Distributive Education General Office Training Merchandising MR. MICHAEL DARDIS Accounting Bookkeeping Coaching Because specialized training at the high school level provides an “opening wedge” in the business world, CHS stresses marketable skills through its business education department. By equipping each student with skills that will enable him to earn a good living in book- keeping, general office work, secretarial work, or retailing, the school prepares him for the job of living in our business society, where he can manage his earnings competently and can cope successfully with the personal economic problems that will confront him. Ultimately, the courses strive for active, responsible citizens in communities. To achieve this goal, CHS channels all business education stu- dents into one of four sequences: bookkeeping, general office, steno- graphic, and distributive retailing. Subjects such as business law, office machines, and merchandising, relate to all these phases. Sophomores begin their study with classes in typewriting and book- keeping, which are enhanced in the junior year by advanced courses in typewriting, Gregg shorthand, and accounting. As seniors, business education students may elect senior stenography supplemented with Commercial Workshop or laboratory, general office practice with lab- oratory, or distributive education practice with laboratory. Through these channels Central teaches its business education students the skills, knowledge, and ideals necessary to understand and adjust to actual business experiences after graduation. 10

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:-- Just a wee bit flat!” warns orchestra director, Mr. Rayburn Pierce, as he supervises one of the weekly private lessons of orchestra member Irene Blaser. MR. FORREST MORTIBOY Department Head Instrumental Music MR. JAMES CONOWAY Art Fine Arts Further Culture, Creativity MR. MILTON ANDERSON Vocal Music MR. RAYBURN PIERCE Instrumental Music To appreciate all forms of art idealizes the primary purpose of the fine arts department. By understand- ing the principles that govern the world culture, stu- dents are prepared to cultivate greater viewing and listening pleasure in later life. All art students begin their year’s study, whether at a beginning or advanced level, by separating the basic elements of a picture — line, form, texture, color, and space —and studying each one by itself. In this manner students can piece their knowledge together and form better drawings because of their understand- ing of the essentials of a good painting. In the same respect they are appreciating art, establishing a tech- nique, and learning the accompanying history. Music courses attempt to establish intelligent lis- tening habits and appreciation of music for all who have taken part in its many high school branches. While participating in each event, CHS musicians are studying something which they can follow either as a side-light or vocation in later life, a form of culture which they can better appreciate because of their knowledge of it. 12