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

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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

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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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E 5 .-.-,-.-.-L-J xc-.-ALO.-14,5I,-Q-.-,Ac-.-L-.-41,4-,4,g,4-.Ac-.Ac- -,- - ' 1 lw kWKN JOHN STALEY HELEN MYERS JAMES TAYLOR FLoYn GRAHAM First Semester Student Council John Staley was chosen at the beginning of the year to head the Classen Student Council for the first semester of 1926-1927. Helen Myers was selected to serve as vice-presi- dent, James Taylor, secretary, Floyd Graham, treasurer, Robert Dean, reporter. Many plans for school improvements were sponsored by the Council. Advancement in school activities was stressed throughout the semester's work. Season tickets to football and basketball games, and Little Theatre play tickets were sold by the Council. For the first semester members were: Ed Azwell, Donald Akin, Tommy Anderson, Jamie Anderson, Margaret Bearley, Marguerite Biewer, Marie Becker, T. C. Bishop, Lindsay Boone, Gertrude Beriwinkle, Douglas Bowers, Sylvia Baker, Dudley Coursey, Willard Cox, John Cooper, Bob Covey, Delos Cook, Carita Cromer, Emily Downing, Madeline Douglas, Linette Donson, Robert Dean, Homer Dunlap, Bernice Eiler, Jeannette Eacock, Fern Eyer, Aaron Fisher, Lorin Frymire, Charles Grady, Floyd Graham, Jimmy Hopkins, Elizabeth Hayes, Dick Hodges, Les- lie Hemry, John Hampton, Eleanor Hall, Maxine Marrelson, Lovelace Kerr, Betty Le Compt, Eu- gene Land, Clarence McCoy, John Mench, Ruth McCullough, Earl McAlister, Jack Morrison, Harold Morgan, Helen Myers, Erma Love McCreary, Viva Nelson, Bob Nelson, Milton Peaster, June Peterson, Page Peck, Bill Robertson, Martha Russell, Harold Ritter, Hazel Sledge, Bob Allen Street, Gretchen Swisher, Laura Smith, Emma Lou Sackett, Francis Smith, John Staley, Albert Stewart, James Taylor, Jewel Turner, Ruth Thomas, Harriet Willis, Loree White, Alease Wilson, and William Weisigner. Page 26 ' 'A 'A' C ' 'A 'A' 'A' 'A' 5H MxEF ' 'A' 'A' 'STEM