Crown Point High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Crown Point, IN)

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COMMERCIAL CAREERS A second year of “key pounding” is offered to develop greater speed. This is also true of shorthand. Additional classes, such as book¬ keeping and business law, complete the di¬ mensions of commercial study. Some students taking the course receive extra credits for actual office work in school. Helping out in the cafeteria, switchboard area, guidance, nurse ' s, attendance, and main offices, they acquire insight as to how their future jobs will be. By enrolling in the business course, students may become directly prepared for their careers. Bobbie Broomheod odvonces her dictation speed in short¬ hand class to the voice of the tape recorder. Second-year typists pound the keyboard to perfect skills of speed and accuracy while taking a proficiency test.

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SWITCHBOARDS, TYPEWRITERS LEAD TO Sally Stroup, one of CPHS ' s student switchboard oper¬ ators, keeps a tangle of wires and incoming-outgoing telephone ca lls straight. As students progress in school, one thing be¬ comes apparent—they begin to take interest in areas that will someday become their life work. Vocational counseling is employed to establish the courses students will follow, and individual curriculum is planned accordingly. Each year the business course is pursued by a good portion of the student body. Several subjects, on different levels, make up this commercial study plan. Freshmen are able to begin with general business, in which they plan trips, keep expense accounts, and ven¬ ture on other similar projects. Business math also gives practice in the art of account-keep¬ ing. Students who are at least sophomores have opportunity to take typing, either busi¬ ness or personal. Paye twenty

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With complete modern facilities, labs and equipment, the CPHS science program cap¬ tured students’ enthusiasm. In general sci¬ ence many of these students learned the basic mechanics of the world around them, touch¬ ing on phases of biology, chemistry, and phys¬ ics. In biology classes sophomores explored the hidden secrets of life from the simplest one-celled plants and animals to the most com¬ plex. Traditionally, the class project raising the most excitement in this course was dis¬ section. As the life scientists probed into their worms, clams, starfish, and frogs, tragic little accidents occurred, such as, ‘‘I cut out my liver; now what do I do!!” Actual lab work was also a favorite in chemistry. Be¬ sides memorizing valence tables and chemical reactions, experimenters learned many excit¬ ing things not in the text book—such as how to make explosions and that acid actually will eat holes in clothes. Seniors climaxed scien¬ tific study with physics, in which the prin¬ ciples governing matter were studied, again with experiments ranking high. TESTING AND PROBING, Jim Francis observes the effect of reduced pressure on hot water as he operates a vacuum pump in physics class.