Commerce High School - Ledger Yearbook (Yonkers, NY)

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. 'QM . 'Sw Retallmg The retailing curriculum is designed to train young people for the various selling occupations which make available to consumers the goods and services produced by others. The first year in retailing consists of a general study of the retail field, salesmanship, textiles, and non-textile products. The second year provides a detailed study of the various phases of retailing, such as: buying, store location, store operation, advertising, and display. An integral part of the curriculum is the work-experience program. Students attend all their regular classes, and those who qualify are placed in part-time retail jobs, averaging fifteen hours a week. The retailing course at Commerce has been commended by the state. Our modern Sales Laboratory offers the students excellent opportunity for experimentation. Emphasis is placed on selling, because stores exist primarily for that purpose. Training is also offered in store operation and management, merchandise infor- mation, store arithmetic, operation of a cash register, salescheck routine, telephone selling, and cooperation with fellow employees. The program teaches the stu- dent that good personal appearance, pleasing manner, attentiveness, and alertness are necessary qualifications for holding a job. This combination of formal retail training, school store work, and a supervised part-time job gives the student, upon graduation, a head start in the retail field. 3 is .. w 24

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D Oflice Machines Receiving instruc- I tions on operating machines Pat De Meo operating Banking Ma- chine ffice Machines In Office Machines 3, pupils acquire a work- able knowledge of full keyboard and ten-key posting machines, as Well as of Burroughs and Monroe calculators. Office Machines 3 is a prerequisite for Office Machines 4. In Oiiice Machines 4, there is a wide variety of modern business machines, comptometers, hand-driven, and Electric Burroughs Calculat- ors, also a variety of other types of calculators and numerous adding machines. Pupils receive intensive and concentrated training on the major machines they have selected. By June, the pupils operate many business machines with such skill that most of them secure positions in the modern business world. Office Machines Class in Action

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-gg.. if V Q NX f V ll , V g '- si , 1 itil- X fy x X ffl! J V E we . X v lf! N X J N V w le 5 Secretarial Practice The purpose of the Secretarial Course is to give the students on-the-job training, so that when they enter offices they will be ready to take over their duties without any further training. The students must accomplish the following in order to graduate with a diploma in this field: they must be able to take dictation at a minimum speed of eighty words a minute, they must be able to transcribe at a minimum of thirty words per minute, and they must have a workable knowledge of the duties of a secretary. Last year, fifty per cent of the secretarial graduates were placed in jobs at S50 a week or more, and anyone who wanted a job was placed. TEM' 9'