Crittenden County High School - Rockette Yearbook (Marion, KY)

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and seniors. The students in this class (opposite bottom left — Jeff Wood, opposite center — Sherri Dale and Billy Mills, opposite right — Lisa Large, right center - Angie Belt) have the opportunity to become familiar with the operations of various types of calculators and adding machines. With the aid of these machines, the student will work business problems covering such things as personal money records, sales tickets, invoices, wages, commissions, interest, and taxes. Paula Porter Accounting is taught by Mrs. Easley and Mr. Seymore Using the double entry method of accounting to deal with business records, the students (opposite bottom right — Phyllis McClure and Rhonda McDaniel, center left — Tonya Nunn, top right — Sharon Cannon) use accounting procedures such as journalizing transactions, posting, finding profit and loss, preparing financial statements, and reconciling bank statements. Education 21

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The Faculty Darryl Seymore The beginning business student takes Introduction to Business his freshman year. Mrs. Porter teaches a course which is divided into four basic categories (1) banks and the services they offer, (2) the different types of personal insurance. (3) credit and the various accounts, and (4) consumer rights and advertising. This fourth period class is supplemented with Wonderful World of Work films. Next on the ladder is sophomore level Typing I. This beginning course (top Business right - Delois Paddock and Robyn Davidson; opposite, top left — Tammy Martin) includes learning to type and to develop professional skills under the instruction of Mr. Seymore and Mrs. Easley. Typing 2. also taught by Mrs. Easley, continues on the principles of Typing I. The major objective is to increase speed and accuracy on timed drills. Another is to improve the students’ skill in typing business letters, business reports, tabulated reports, and business forms. Junior or senior level Shorthand is taught in Mrs. Porter’s room. This class introduces the shorthand alphabet during the first semester. New words are also emphasized along with the reading of letters which are written in shorthand. The second semester strive to write at the speed of 60 words per minute or above. Mrs. Porter teaches Machines and Math. This course is offered to juniors 20 Education

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The Faculty Patricia Sobolewski In Senior English you find yourself bringing together the various skills you have acquired over the past three years in order to achieve a common goal — surviving the course. Under the instruction of Mrs. Sobolewski (below) and Mrs. Weaver, several writing techniques and literature analyses are exposed to their classes in preparing them for college. The degree of difficulty, or possibly simplicity, of the assignments is usually not appreciated until looked back on. Timed composition writing and British literature are but a couple of such studies. English Eric LaRue Under the observation of Mr. LaRue (above right) and Mrs. Valentine, Junior English is taught. This rather indifferent stage in a high school student’s life opens a field of opportunities in methods of teaching. Therefore, assignments are given which seem to deal with anything except English. However, they begin to fall back into this category when preparing the paper or project. These assignments may include family tree research, a fallacy collection, a research paper on a current issue, or simply tearing apart Huckleberry Finn for the story’s true meaning. But no matter what the assignment might be, you won’t soon forget it. Sophomore English, taught by Mrs. Weaver and Mrs. Sobolewski, is a starting point for applying the basics — grammar and punctuation — to a specific type of composition. A research paper, assigned in the spring, requires the student to use all the skills he has learned, including the usage of library sources (far right). The 22 Education