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

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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

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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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SOCIAL STUDIES GIVE AWARENESS OF HERITAGE At Commerce we have a fine opportunity to learn about the world we live in through the courses which are offered to us for social studies. Geography, modern and American history, civics, and economics are the chief courses in the very complete program. With the understanding they gain, students are able to apply their knowledge of past happenings to our present day situations. For instance, civics offers the student a better understanding on how In a junior American History class, Mr. Alminas is pointing out to Judith Keefe, Carol Murphy, and Faith Gladden the progress of the Western expansion. 26 In a simulated election, Mr. Finnegan and Carol Ottoson are observing Joanne Lyman, Carl Greene, Rose- marie Borowik, and Gene Spencer in a senior civics class as they stress the importance of voting. the various branches of our government perform their numerous duties and how they solve their problems. Economics is an important subject in the world today. It deals with the satisfaction of human needs and political economy. Economics is essential to successful living and good citizenship. American history, modern history, and geography present to the student our own heritage and the many different types of people in this world and their customs.