Chamberlain High School - Totem Yearbook (Tampa, FL)

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GUIDANCE OFFICE-Front row: Mary Johns, Yvonne Young, Cindy Utley, Jane Shields, Nancy Hickey, Gale Channel, Janet Aldridge, Sue Lenarts. Second row: Valeria Baker, jan Young, Diane Williams, Renee Polen, Amy Bettner, Caroline Horn, Lynne Lemley, Brenda Harvey. Good Guidance Leads To Successful Future For problems concerning future goals, nine times nine out of a hundred a ready source of needed information can be found behind the door labeled Guidance Ofiice. Mr. Dix, Mrs. Wooldridge, and Mrs. Carneal, chalk up countless hours of checking and charting in helping students plan successful futures. Every week this office prepares a display case in the main hall depicting the Career of the Weekly with posters, models, maps, and pictures. Speakers are invited to address special groups and inform interested students of the myriad possibilities and opportunities offered in major and minor ca- reers, Many students leave these crowded busy rooms with a surer step and more conhdence to face the future. Counselors try to know the students for what they are. They chart their capabilities by various aptitude tests, then to the proiile is added all special characteristics measured in grades and extra activities. Each visitor leaves his image in a file for reference. SORTING PAPERS, Diane Williams, Nancy Hickey, and Sue Lenarts do tedious work in the Guidance office, ,fggfgz ,l f CA UGHT STUDYING, Mrs. Carneal often pauses to welcome new-corners to Chamberlain and give them information needed. WV Vs ., .- . M. ,,., ,, r 'V

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K 2 Z ff? 3 DISCUSSING COLLEGE APPLICA TIONS, .ML Dix explains t0 Paul Lloyd that it is wise to send applications in as soon as possible. HAVING ENDED TESTING for the day Mr. Dix returns the booklets to the ojice 1 M, iff rw r X! X 1 ri K ,fo NL' If f f 2 I 2 H VY f V' 'V-'f .ff t X QW 1 fp, joseph Dix PERPLEXED F012 DECISION, David Cobb gets mfofmonon about an E W' army career from Mrs. Wooldridge who's always ready to help. Margie Wooldridge june Cameal 136

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ONE MOMENT PLEASE is familiar reply of switchboard operator Diane Woods in answer to incoming and outgoing calls. Maxine McRae Head secretary M217 Johns Ruth Kirby I-B'M- Asst. principal? 017574507 secretary j-Q Dorothy Hewlett Phyllis Beams Bookkeeper Regismu. 138 ain flice Serves As Pivot of School Efliciency is the key in the main oflice. Here all business transactions of CHS are handled by clerical staff and students. The registrar compiles her records of grades, later to be used in transcripts for mailing with applications to colleges and industries. The IBM machine, under the hand of a special operator, gob- bles and digests information fed into it. This is evi- dence of the influence of electronic changes of this age. Students, working as office assistants guided by the head secretary, direct the steady How of people coming into the ohice, sort, alphabetize, and file, stacks of cards and mail. Their physical exercise comes from the marathon of errands run. Something practical is gained in mastering the switchboard. All finances of the big business are shuttled through the bookkeeper's books. FILING IBM CARDS is one of the easier tasks performed by IBM assistant Barbara Hissong in her scheduled duties.