Chesterton High School - Singing Sands Yearbook (Chesterton, IN)

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Leaders of the Business World Tomorrow With their entire concentrating power focused on the simultaneous development of speed and accuracy, these first-year typing pupils work on their assignments to the best of their abilities. Above: George Ekstrom concentrates on the copy in his book while taking a timed writing in beginning typing. Left: Standard office equipment makes learning experience profitable and realistic. Terry Ryan files her assignments for easy reference. 17

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Practice Trains the Youth of Today to Become General business includes a study Babcock is explaining the procedure. af check forms. Chucit Sondra Cline receives practical experience by working with the dictaphone in office practice class. Swift typists, speedy stenographers, bookkeepers, and general business students are trained to a point of high efficiency in our business departnnent. Business teachers, Mrs. Callis, Mrs. Datlsmari, Mrs. Gaston, and Mrs. Milholland, teach a wide variety of commercial subjects— shorthand, typing, transcription, office practice, bookkeeping, general business, business principles and management, and business law. The clicking of typewriter keys along with the flash- ing of a pen across a stenographer ' s page characterize a business major in action. In typing classes st jdents do basic problems in centering, arrangement, letter writing, erasing and carbon technique, direct dictation, simple tabulation, and composition. Typing instructors stress both speed and accuracy. In these commercial subjects, students learn how to conduct their own personal business wisely. Actual book- keeping and secretarial work through the use of practice sets teach students to record business transactions, to keep accounts and ledgers, financial statements, and summaries of fiscal periods. Special projects are included In these courses. In busi- ness principles and management, a student may ac- tually set up a fictional business. Business leaders dis- cuss with students the advantages and opportunities- of the business world. When a student completes the commercial courses of Chesterton High School, he is ready to become an asset to any business organization. Left: Janet Bergquist and Diane Yagelsiti connplete their week- ly job assignment in office practice by nnaking use of the adding machines. 16

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Lessons From Past Prepare Students for Future John Andershock, Terry Olson, and Angle Kamaski take ad- Dick Olsen and Susan Lobslger study the contents of a hls- vantage of their democratic privilege by voting in the Student torical book while their instructor, Mr. Mullin, prepares a quiz. Council elections. 1 .M I r I . » I I r.3 The social studies program at Chesterton hHigh School includes courses in world history, world geog- raphy, United States history, sociology, civics, and economics. Sociology, added to the social studies curriculum this year, gives data pertinent to economic institutions, education, family life, government, religion, population, crime, and delinquency. The first semester of the one-year geography course is spent in studying the geography of the world; and the second, in studying Indiana history, geography, and government. A semester of civics and a semester of economics teach CHS seniors the importance of good citizenship; these courses give information that may be us ed to solve present-day economic problems. Mr. Grismer, Mr. Hall, Mr. Hanson, Mr. Lawson, Mr. Miller, Mr. Rebber, and Mr. D. Nelson are instructors in our social studies department. Left: In preparation for a test, Meridith Greene does sonne research work fronn the map contents. 18