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

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The Clerical a Peeking in on a typical clerical bookkeeping class, one finds Theresa Saccamando, Helen Burgess, Barbara Drost, Diane Jones, and Gayle Piusz busy at work. Mr. Jones teaches Patricia Marszalek, Vivian Favreau, Carol Ordynowicz, Marilyn Dewey, Theresa Allard, and Eugene Tyburski how to manipulate a calculator, one of the most vital machines in the business world. Students taking the clerical curriculum are required to have a full year of clerical practice and a full year of clerical bookkeeping or regular bookkeeping. These students are also required to have two years of typing, or one year of typing and one year of office practice, which includes ma- 28

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Attempting to solve the problems of the world, we find Karen Eldridge, Ann Braucher, Coral LaRose, and Judy Rivard are busy with discussion in their American History class. Christine Gurski and Larry Carabine gladly ac- cept the helpful criticism offered by Ellen Steb- bins in Bookkeeping 1. Busy at a practice session of the school band, we find Ed Bentley, Betty Sarnacki, Bruce Smith, Lynda Freeman, Mike Rickson, Ron Cooper, and Jan Hoffman. 27

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Curriculum John Levalle is running the stencils that Barbara Bedinotti and Judith Karp have cut as Elvera Black, Margaret Wallace, Linda Geraci and Rosalie Shea watch. The scene is in duplicating class. chine calculation, duplicating, and filing. Three years of Eng- lish and one year of American History are necessary, as in all other courses. After graduation, a stude nt who has taken the clerical course may obtain a job as a clerk-typist, occasion- ally as a bookkeeper, and as a general office worker. Acting out a court scene in Business Law, Judith Goldblatt takes an oath given by Michael Chicketti. Karen Kenyon takes notes of the matter while Walter Riley listens attentively.