Classen High School - Orbit Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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Q ' .1 ETHEL BASINGER GRADY SKILLERN GRACE Pmrcnnnn ETHA TOWNSEND EMMA MENEELY HAz1-:L HORNUNG The Commercial Department The chief business of the commercial department is to offer a Afundamental business training to students who plan to enter the business world. This department is showing rapid growth with the addition of adequate equipment, and is becoming more advantageous to the student than it has been in the past. The book- keeping rooms have been equipped with new tables and a new calculating machineg lockers are being installed wherein each student shall keep his own office supplies and, before the next semester, a book-keeping machine is expected to be added. The aim of the typing division of this department is to enable students to write accurately with efficient speed to meet the demand of commercial efficiency as well as the economizing of the students time in his college work. Many typewriting honors have been won in the past year by students from this de- partment. From the L. C. Smith company there have been eight pins awarded to students making over forty words per minute. From the Remington company six pins have been giveng and over eleven have been received from the Underwood company.. The watchword of the book-keeping department is Service -independent business on the part of every student. Students from the third year accounting class have worked out their own plan of accounting and have served as book-keepers for the Classen Life. The students in the salesmanship classes have devoted their time to the learning of the art of real salesmanship. Sales talks by different representatives from various companies in the city have added much interest to these classes. Other courses ollered in this department are penmanship and spelling, commercial law, and commercial arithmetic. Page 2 4 Ep Mn ' J W - , , 'I . . ..-gh munnnnm mmmmmqmmmm

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Mafffvff W?1v1f'v1'3iUEf5i3ii2lQ75TfUf5' T , fx, wig J EARL COFFEY RETHA WAVE HULET FRANK E. MCKE1-: G. W. BRUCHER Industrial Arts and Physical Education Departments A total of approximately one hundred students was enrolled for woodwork each semester this year according to Frank E. McKee, head of the industrial arts department and instruc- tor in manual training. End tables, furniture novelties, cabinets, and various household fixtures are some of the articles manufactured by the pupils. Four lathes, a surfacer, and a hand saw were installed this year as part of a two year equipment program for the woodwork de- partment, and application has been made for four additional lathes, a jointer, and a morticing machine. The mechanical drawing students under C. W. Brucher held to their regular courses of study consisting of architectural and mechanical designs together with the more elementary work. Although Arthur Hutchinson's auto-mechanics classes were somewhat handicapped by a lack of apparatus this year, such will not be the case in the future since the requisition for new equipment includes everything that goes to make up a modern auto-mechanic shop. Addi- tional electrical apparatus and a print shop will also be requested. Materialization of plans, now under advisement, will somewhat alter the boys' physical education courses next year according to Earl Coffee, instructor. Every boy will be required to take at least one year of gym and such additional physical education as may he warranted by the individual. The boys spent most of their time on calesthenic nomenclature and marching, while the girls classes, under the supervision of Miss Retha Wave Hulet, made a specialty of gymnastics proper throughout the latter part of the year. E5 Page 23 QQ WW 1 Wwvamra ' 2,

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VERA CAMPBELL FLORA Wim EDNA M. LUCAS ALBERTA SMITH VERA Cnopraa The Domestic Science Department and Office Force The aim of the home economics department is to teach healthful, artistic, and economical selection and preparation of foods and clothing. The girls foods classes, in charge of Miss Lucas, are following a course of study which includes menus, general household management, child feeding, budgets and accounting. The advanced class prepares menus and diets. One of the interesting features of- the food work is the boys' food class, in which they are learning the correct form of preparing meals, the carving of meats, table etiquette, and the duties of a host. Sewing is taught in all grades. Problems in textiles and personal hygiene are discussed in the 9th grade. This class consists primarily of girls who have not studied sewing in junior high. Less time in garment construction, and more time in the study of color and design, is the problem of the 10th grade. In addition Miss Flora Wild is directing the class in preparing a series of budgets for typical high school girls. Sewing in the advanced classes is taught by Miss Vera Campbell. The greater part of the work of the semester for the eleventh grade is the study and making of clothing for in- fants and small children. The rest of the time is devoted to millinery. For the twelfth grade class, home furnishings and interior decorating covers the course. Several days are spent in visiting furniture stores for ideas which are later developed by students in class room work. Miss Alberta Smith and Miss Vera Cropper make up the office force. Miss Cropper succeeded Miss Margaret Gainer who had been secretary prior to this year. Page 25