Chelsea High School - Beacon Yearbook (Chelsea, MA)

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THESE GIRLS ARE busily work¬ ing at their office practice assignments while the future bookkeepers carefully go over their ledgers with Miss Bennett. MR. CLARKE goes over a problem with his class while the students in Mr. Greenfield ' s room hunt for a country on the globe and the girls in the typing class get set for that test.

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COMMERCIAL DEPT. — w4ee t Often in predominantly academic schools one finds an antipathy towards business education. This attitude is based on a lack of realization that the knowledge of business skills will smooth our daily living. Consequently it often becomes necessary for business education teachers to sell their program. In our school the value of com¬ mercial training is recognized. Mr. Webber has always shown a keen interest in this department. Instruction is received under the guidance of Miss Bennett, Miss Harris, Mrs. Malone, Miss Sylvester, Miss Sharood, Mr. Greenfield, Mr. White, and Mr. Clarke, the head of ‘this department. To the graduates we owe much, for in their success in the business world is measured the value of the training received in our department. In the past three months alone fifty girls have been placed. Those pursuing the secretarial field receive thorough preparation in all its phases. THE MANIPULATION of adding machines, calcu¬ lators, and comptometers is very important in an office as the girls in Mrs. Malone’s class fully realize. EACH DAY the girls in the stenography class pass their homework into Miss Harris, who carefully goes over each symbol in order to help the girls become good stenographers in the future.

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LANGUAGES In years ahead we will remember pleasant hours in our foreign language classrooms. Grate¬ fully we will recall the days of preparation— preparation as thorough as our principal himself. We will realize that our sometimes trying lessons were not in vain when we read scientific books in German, finding the meaning of unfamiliar words through their Latin derivations, carry on commerce with South America, or converse in French, the language of culture. Our lives will be forever enriched, and we will always be thank¬ ful to our school,.our teachers, and our principal. FORSAN ET HAEC olim memi- nisse iuvabit. It certainly will be pleasing to remember those happy days in Miss Deasy ' s Vergil class. WITH THE BEAUTIFUL PIC¬ TURES of the French coastline in the background as inspira¬ tion, it is no wonder that these pupils listen to Miss Connolly with avid interest. 1 ■ - h 4 f