High School of Commerce - Caduceus Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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STENOGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT Mr. Hayes Explains Duplicating TYPEWRITING ROOM STANDING, left to right—Lloyd H. Hayes, Mrs. Catherine H. Hayes, Anna S. Danforth, Madeline C. Hunt, Honora F. Nelligan, D. Edward Fenton. . . . SEATED—wNatalie Clark, Phyllis Savoy, Charles A. Campbell, Eleanor M. Walker, Catherine M. Casey, Mrs. Marion H. Davis. The Secretarial Department places its emphasis on developing usable skill in writing shorthand and in typewriting, so that it may send its grad- uates well prepared into Springfield offices, but it also finds time to help organizations in the community—such work as addressing envelopes for the Tuberculosis Campaign each year. The duplicating room (left) is one of the busiest and most useful corners of the building. Here the pupils who operate the mimeograph, the direct process duplicators, and the multigraph, turn out thousands of copies of bulletins, outlines, and programs for the use of the school. This work affords valuable and practical experience to students in their senior semester. ENGLISH DEPARTMENT Mr. Chatto Directs the Print Shop CLASS ROOM 106 Clarence I. Chatto, Jennie M. Roberts, Theodore M. Pease, Mildred B. Jenks, Genieve M. Allen, Emma G. Nickerson, Margaret O. Palmer, Augusta Colby, Belding F. Jackson, Frances C. Blakeman, Bernice W. Dearborn, Theresa W. Williams, Helen E. Rankin, Elizabeth S. Ullery, Madeline E. Maurer. Besides teaching, the members of this department supervise many major extracurricular activities. Mr. Chatto, Chairman, advises the school paper, Commerce, the Debating Team, and the Golf Club; Mr. Jackson fathers the Boys’ and the Girls’ Patrols; and Miss Rankin advises Caduceus, Director and founder of the Radio Workshop, Miss Allen also coaches the National Forensic League speakers; and Mrs. Williams advises the Nisimaha. Prac- tically all of the members serve on important committees. [10]

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Enduring. Smiles BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Class in Business Machines OFFICE APPLIANCE ROOM James L. Clancey, Mae G. Anderson, Russell L. Williams, Ralph C. Parmenter, William C. Masters, Anna G. Carmody, Susan C. Dowd, Charles A. Speer, Winona F. Libby, Eleanor P. Davis, Gilbert C. Walker, Charles H. Oswald, Guy D. Miller, Helen E. Parker, Sarah A. Hillman, Joseph E. Buckley, Will W. Macalpine. The Business Department, under Mr. Guy D. Miller, Chairman, offers Commerce students a wide field of work in the accounting, salesmanship, and clerical courses. This year pupils have been especially interested in the new office apparatus: the Ediphone, two billing machines, different bookkeeping machines, and the electric calculators. This department aims to teach students the fundamental principles of business, and to develop initiative and executive ability. For this reason, in 1935, G. O. Accounting was introduced. In this course, the members follow the same procedure as is used by any business office. SOCIAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT Mr. P. A. Richmond, Exchange Teacher from California CORNER OF LIBRARY G. Donald Melville, Preston A. Richmond, Leslie S. Shipway, Mrs. Rena P. Bartlett, Hazel K. Miller, Mrs. Hilda H. Madsen, H. Elizabeth Phelps, Augustus H. Smith, Harold E. Taylor, Dora M. Briggs, Helen M. Lynch, Alice L. Halligan. History, not a drab recital of dates, not a list of pompous public officials, but a living, human study of a nation struggling toward democracy; civics, the mechanics of that same beloved form of government; economics, not Carlyle’s “dismal science,” but an attempt to show.how the factors of production, labor, business enterprise, land, capital, and government may work together to protect our American ideal from all “isms: these are the subjects our department of social science offers. Aaa 2: [9 }

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HOME ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT Miss Dobbs with Foods Group DRESSMAKING ROOM Mildred Dobbs, Janet E. Scott, Rebecca S. Flagg, Martha B. Judd, Bernice White, O. Jean Bell, L. Frances Tourtellotte, Grace L. Bulkeley. What to eat; what to wear; how to make a good appearance and be socially acceptable; how to get along with one’s family, friends, and other associates; how to stretch the family dollar: these and kindred subjects are studied in the required Home Economics courses. Girls who have a special interest may elect advanced work in foods and in dressmaking. During the past year, many girls in the clothing classes have joined the Junior Red Cross and completed the:r quota of 488 garments: 341 skirts, 12 jumpers, 18 baby dresses, and 117 baby bonnets. Timely work has also been done in the planning of low-cost meals, and in the use of war-time rations. ART AND SCIENCE DEPARTMENTS Se ue Bia eto hill Music Director ART ROOM Howard C. Kelley, Science; Edith F. Marsden, Art; Harold W. Jones, Science; David H. Reid, Science; Helen Norrgard, Art. . . . RIGHT — F. Anthony Viggiano, Music. Arts, dealing with shaded lines and blended harmonies; science, working with truth and cold facts—these subjects are taught by two departments, one encouraging creative ability and developing imagination, the other demanding geometrical precision and clear reasoning. Working together, both departments develop within the students a breadth of appreciation and a clarity of thought that could not be attained without this co-ordinating of efforts. Be: [i]