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

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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.

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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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Distributive Education: Merchandising Course Combines Academics with Job Training Distributive Education consists of learning the fundamentals of the broad field of Merchandising. The students electing this course spend their mornings on academic, classroom work. They are required to take the usual prerequisites for a high school diploma, including civics and English. During one of their classroom periods, Miss McQuade instructs them on how to erect displays, plan out window designs, and, particul- larly, work with other people. After an early lunch in advance of other students taking the customary full academic programs, they are off on the job to put their classroom theories into practice, to learn the tricks of the trade. In other words, each student spends his entire afternoon as an apprentice worker in a downtown retail establishment. A hearty early lunch before departure for work. Enjoying it are, seated, Carol Scott, Alice Marek, Eleanor Settle, Marilyn Ains- worth, Donna Gregory, and Elizabeth Canedy. Looking on are Jane Elliot, Jocelyn Lynch, Marie Callahan, and Beryl Gosselin. 30