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

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Business Department Offers Skill and Ethical Training Flying fingers here get swift and accurate results on the adding machines, as Mr, Charles Oswald watches the operation on his Machine Calculation Class. Commerce's efficient business training is one of the main reasons why its graduates are in high demand in industry, stores, and offices. Accuracy and neatness are stressed, as well as learning new techniques and the operation of new machines. Bookkeeping courses train stu- dents in accounting practices and in the General Organization class, students handle thousands of dollars of Commerce’s money. Clerical Practice gives experience in record- keeping, use of business forms, and filing, while Business Law teaches future office managers knowledge of and respect for the law. Salesmanship promotes honest and effective selling, filing gives training in keeping orderly records, and Penmanship insures that the records will be legible and neat. The stress always is on business as an aid to the public in providing goods and services in an efficient and ethical manner. “Take a Letter—and Do It Right” Is Secretarial Rule The voice of the boss is heard and heeded as these future secretaries get practical experience in taking dictation from Ediphone recordings, Here is the department which turns out the boss’s typing, and transcribing from recordings. The finished right-hand men and women—the secretaries. Demanding product is a graduate who is an asset to any office and precision in English and a high degree of common sense. who can be given a high degree of responsibility. the secretarial department promotes skill in shorthand, 13

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Theres A Reason... There’s a reason why the High School of Commerce customarily places ninety-five per cent or more of its seniors in good paying jobs by graduation time. There’s a reason why an average of fifteen per cent of the graduates are admitted to excellent institutions of higher learning. There’s a reason why Commerce students go out enriched to their jobs and schools. That reason is the high caliber of instruction which takes place at this school. Furnished the proper books and equipment by a generous city, Commerce teachers make the best of their academic riches, as the program focuses on both the academic and the practical. The photographs which follow of classes in action show how Commerce students and teachers use the excellent facilities at their disposal. They show how this school fulfills its function of turning out graduates who can gain material success, and even more importantly, acquire that spiritual success which comes from making a worthwhile contribution to mankind through knowledge and understanding.

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Bards : ) : : apt ‘ (a3 Have Can you write an excellent business letter? you wondered how Shakespeare moves men to tears and laughter ? These are a few of the items taught in Commerce Under Miss Jane M. Roberts, chair- man, the department offers a pleasing variety of courses. English classes. Many classical favorites aré represented in Commerce reading lists, among them Silas Marner and Macbeth, which vie for favor with modern works such as Stein- In Social Studies, Colorful Past Studies class political Springfield, Social analyzes the structure of while Mr. Bruno R. Rumpal stands ready for questions. a vital becomes venerable Abraham Lincoln The human being, the romance of Magellan’s exploration is a fascinating adventure, the illumination of the Magna Charta shines brightly in the Social Studies Department. Guided by Chairman Bruno R. Rumpal, instructors weave the past, present, and future together with threads of understanding. Courses in Modern History suggest causes of and 14 to Business Letters” Is English Department Motto “Now say that again a little more slowly,” Mr. Wayland J. Holley tells of his Junior English class, as the group speech correction with the tape recorder. a member works on beck’s The Pearl and O’Neill’s Emperor Jones. Students satisfy their writing urge in the Journalism class, which prod uces Commerce, the school paper, while future Daniel Websters get valuable public speak- ing experience in the Speech class. Expanding to meet student interests, the department will offer several new courses next year, although de- tails have not yet been announced. solutions for present problems, while World Geography relates physical environment to man’s development. American History concentrates on the United States past, while Modern Problems and Economics do their share in preparing students for good citizenship. Carefully taught, absorbing perspective understand- ing and facts, Commerce students leave their history classes, with new understanding and with new hope for a complex world,