Clarkston High School - Hilltopper Yearbook (Clarkston, MI)

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Head of the business department, Mrs. Jervis looks over the progress of one of her students. Office skills taught by Mrs. Jervis is offered to seniors. Mr. Thayer who teaches Business Law during the school year, shows another teaching ability during the summer months as he instructs students in Drivers Training. ABOVE: One of the new teachers at Clarkston this year is Mr. MacArtnur who teaches the Principals of Business Math. LEFT: New sponsor for both Co-op and Wolves Den Mr. Horrigan displays the Wolves Den’s new jackets to Dienie Weeks. 29

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Commercial Courses Stress Trade Skills Mr. McCurdy gives Mrs. Pierson a speed test on the adding machine while Mrs. Schebor. Mrs. Crowley and Mrs. Becker find enjoyment in her frustration. Students at Clarkston High School have several chances to learn of business trades. Shorthand, bookkeeping, typing and business law are among the classes designed to give them an education in the particulars of commercial work. First hand experience in the use of business machines prepares the students for the mechanical segments of business positions. Brief hand, an abbreviated form of writing, enables the student to take notes and dictation quickly and accurately. Typing is offered in three courses. Typing I and Typing II, are essentially secretarial typing. The third class is personal typing, a one semester course which gives the student some background in this particular skill. Business law calls the student’s attention to various aspects of the commercial world.

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New Classes ABOVE: Mr. Jacobson teaches the basics of algebra to students that are planning to go on to college. RIGHT: While looking over the results of a recent sports survey taken by one of his statistics classes Mr. Tungatc explains its importance to Miss Curtis and Mr. Solley. The Math Department under the direction of David Skillman, the department head, has undergone many changes in the past few years. New teachers in the department this year include Errol Solley and Miss Marilyn Curtis. Many new classes have been added including the History of Mathematics. This class taught by Paul Tungale, deals with the accomplishments of great mathematicians from the time of the Egyptians and Babylonians to the present. Some of the people studied in the class arc Newton, Archimedes, Pascal and Pythagoras. Statistics is another of the latest additions to the Clarkston curriculum. In the class, students are guided in making surveys and determining what they mean. They are also required to conduct a survey as a class project. In one of these surveys various students in the school were asked to name all of the presidents since Lincoln. The results show the boys’ average to be higher than that of the girls’. The Michigan Mathematics Prize Competition Test sponsored by some of Michigan’s Industries and twenty-two of its colleges was given to seventy students in December. Don Mayo qualified to take the second part in January. Don was also the only one to take the second test last year. 30