Cody High School - Comet Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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One hundred two An office machines student re- ceives a helping hand from Mrs. Dudley as she helps her to master the keyboard of an adding machine. Giving full concentration on the present assignment this typing student learns the processes necessary for commercial employment.

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Miss Seaman instills an appreciation of classical music as she instructs budding young musicians in the techniques of professional musicianship. Versatile performers in a music medium, the clarinet section accompanied the rest of the band in its offerings of a wide variety of entertainment to Cody audiences. Y' i With ink, charcoal, or water colors, individual artistic techniques were developed in classes of advanced commercial design. Members of the Cody Madrigal singing group rehearse many hours after school in intimate sessions like this.

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cleuefop career olaporfunified This commercial student examines the workbook used in Typing I to gain certain fundamental skills and knowledge of the typewriter. Neatness, legibility, and accuracy count when it comes to keeping bookkeeping records. This com- mercial student learns how to prepare ledger accounts and special record sheets as part of a well-rounded course in business education. In the hurry and bustle of today's business atmosphere, commercial students majored in everything from basic General Business and Business Arithmetic to Advanced Bookkeeping and Accounting and Business Law. Pre- paring students in the whys and wherefores of the business world, courses covering all phases of commercial employment served as stepping-s-tones to a usable knowl- edge of basic skills. Added to textbook learning was the necessary wisdom of experience. The rhythm of busy typewriters and office machines and the swift pencil over the shorthand pad and bookkeeping practice sets were vital parts of a miniature industry producing future executives and secretaries. The driving wheels of in-dustry could not function without the pounding keys and busy fingers which at Cody drilled on fundamental skills in prepara- tion for the real thing. Well-guided training given to these industrious hands was designed to assure future profits instead of deficits. Mr. Stark demonstrates to advanced typing students the results of a well-cut stencil as the ink registered sheet rolls off the mimeograph machine. One hundred three