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

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Distributive Education is a spe- cial course offered to students interested in the various phases of merchandising and retailing. Its students are scholars. of two different types during the course of one day. They spend part of the day as typical high school students; the remaining part of the day is spent in on-the-job training. Combining both text- book learning and actual busi- ness experience makes the stu- dents of this course ready for almost any future type of work in relation to Merchandising. VARIOUS ELECTIVES AID COMMERCITES Shown at the top of the page are Gay Gallerini and Barbara Los in Hall Galleries, Steigers. The girls are Mr. Fusco is shown below assisting Pat Laurier in setting up a display to help promote the sale of a the correct procedure of making out a check. These set of dishware. students are also taught the fundamentals of Clerical Bookkeeping. Clerical Practice is a two-year course offered to students in their junior and senior years. This is a preparation for routine office tasks such as filling out checks, making entries in books, and properly answering the telephone. As the students successfully progress into the senior year, they will be enrolled in Clerical Bookkeeping. Upon completion of the course, the students have the knowledge and ability to undertake al- most any type of office work or respon- sibility. 24

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STUDENTS FOR COMMERCIAL CAREERS Danuta Basiak is at the blackboard show- ing the class a ledger entry. Looking on is Mr. Concheiri. Seated at desks are Eloise Begg and Theresa Bishop. Students interested in mathematics usually One of the most widely used skills ac- elect to take the Bookkeeping course. In first year Bookkeeping, the fundamentals of the course are taught. These are general knowl- quired at the High School of Commerce is that of a stenographic student. Under the su- pervision of the able faculty, Commercites are taught the main requirement of becom- ing an efficient secretary in the approaching future. The skills learned in this class are applied to actual business work in every of- fice where Commerce graduates will be employed. edge of everyday business transactions, mak- ing journal entries, and posting to the ledger accounts. In the second year of the course, students learn the more complicated and advanced statements, and are introduced into work that is almost identical to that of an actual business office. Evelyn Hanson is dictating a typical form of business correspondence to the other members of the class. Seated at desks are: first row, Beverly Webster, Elaine Le- moine, Rosalie Gentile; second row, Mari- anne Ames, Ann Tranghese, and Irene Duquette.

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The High School of Commerce offers Filing to senior students as an elective. This subject is vi- tal in every business office or organization, regardless of its size. Among the various methods of filing are alphabetic, numeri- cal, geographic and many more. If students can successfully pass a test, they are awarded the Filing Certificate. Each year many students achieve this goal. Filing is a half-year course alternating with Machine Calculation. IN CHOOSING FUTURE VOCATIONS Barbara Sarage and Bill Leventis are pictured at the top of the page trying to solve the difficult filing Mr. Jones, below, is explaining on the Burroughs procedure of the problem involved. Calculator chart a new method of machine tabula- tion. Looking on are Mary Lou Trombley, Gail Blan- chard, Linda Daniele, Mary Ellen Cameron, Pam Ed- wards, and Mary Poulos. BURROUGHS CALCULATOR Manes! or Sacteie Xvlaed + Single ce Tey Yobds Sebimetion Machine Calculation is a course de- voted almost entirely to the learning of the operation of comptometers and other calculators. Since this knowledge is vi- tally important in the modern business office, where the majority of graduates will be employed in the future, Com- merce offers it as an elective. Students enrolled in this course learn the various steps to becoming full fledged operators. First of all, they learn addition; later on multiplication. The big step is subtrac- tion, after which the peak of progress is reached when a student can master all these three, plus division. 25