Cody High School - Comet Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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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

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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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A world of bottles all shapes and sizes opens a vast universe of experimentation to Chemistry I students What each contains IS something which Mr Morrison knows and they must find out ssjflldlellffi QXIQ 0l 2 LUOIJJ 0 5CL2l'lC2 Living in a world which now places the accent on nuclear energy and conquering the vast horizons of the universe, science students learned to meet this world and test the hypothesis that science is a means of solving everyday problems and improving human life. Exploring lifels span of existence and the living things of nature, student biologists and horticulturists were introduced to basic principles of science in everyday life. They experimented with live frogs, worms, and unusual plant life to further their understanding of natural science. Cody's future scientists majored in chemistry and physics to open new doorways to scientific knowledge. Experimenting in the laboratory with elements combined under various conditions offered the observant chemist an insight into the chemical and physical reactions that change our earth. Amateur physicists spent hours involved in problems dealing with light and electricity. The principles of magnetism and accountability for the conservation of mass and energy developed minds to a higher degree of scientific intelligence. These things demonstrated today's concept of science as a method of new discovery and enabled students to recognize the fact that they are a part of this never- ending phenomena - the world of science. One hundred four