Douglas MacArthur High School - MacArtair Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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And L-L-L-L-L-L, goes the typewriter as ' Sharon Cox, Julie Molina, Virginia rf 8. Lozano, and Sondra McCann try to get i ff the right letters typed as instructed. nl Let's take a Sharon Cox says to irginia Lozano as the rest of the class. Elda Rausch, Claudia Ritchey, Anita Hodges, Jackie Jones, Pam Kindle, Rob- ert Lee, and Julie Molina finish their Tl' Ax Finished at last, Vickie West says after assignment. the job done in typing class. Norma Alvarado, Yvonne Ortig, Camelita Newsome, Judy Gurka, - and Mary Corpus demonstrate as they finish their assignment. fy nl practice makes perfect B3

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In the beginning there was journalism and typing. Am the administration looked upon them and saw that the were good. Next there were students and the administr! tion looked upon them and said they could be good with' little practice. And so there was journalism and typin, and another year. Typing students suffered with a tape-recording in a effort to practice and become perfect. Everyday for th first 6 weeks were a.a.a.a.a.a,s.s.s.s.s.s,d.d.d.d.d.d., c 'The sly brown fox jumped quickly over the lazy dog repeatedly, grinding into them each letter on the kei board. Frustrations mounted as the weeks crept on whe typewriters, fingernails, erasers and tempers broke. An so, on to letter writing lessons. ln a sense it was easie than a constant pecking at the poor 'a'. But for those wh didn't pick up and memorize the sometimes unlettere keyboard, danger lie ahead because letters got Ionge tests were taken more often. All the while over in journalism there were numeroc other students pulling out their hair over a headline the was one count too long or a lead that contained wht where, when and how but not who or what. Photo-journ ism students suffered with darkroom cockroaches only get them in the dark. And yes, publications staffers wer in a world of their own wondering where those missin pictures could have gone. When it was over, and the practice left them far fror perfect, the administration said, pass them. Practice ma make perfect but in this case it probably would tak longer than one school year. Hey, there is film IH here! Bobby Hall I says as he opens the back of the camera.

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T Words, words, words. Trying hard to copy the assignment from the shorthand book, Raynell Nicklas, with the help of her finger, has everything under control. A Shorthand, foreign part of everyday life S me Curls, loops, flips. Shorthand is not just Q for girls as Darrell Strothers' activity dis' M plays his work. 84 practice makes perfect lf at first you don't succeed, try, try again, Take tl bull by the horns, Don't go out on a limb, One goc deed deserves another, and You're as stubborn as mule, are only a few cliches commonly used in the En Iish dialect. But one that might be more applicable to st dents is Practice makes perfect. As most commonly known, school can be one of tr most important focal points to exercise this particul cliche. Many daily routine classes can be perfect exar ples of practicing. One of high school's hard-working courses can cor monly be voted in as being shorthand. No, this class doi not require one to cut part of one's hand off. But due the amount of work you have to do in there to keep up a passing grade, you feel like you wore away about tvf inches just writing all the time, says Cindy Weaver. St dents take dictation for five minute periods at 80 wor per minute. Then they transcribe it on the typewriter quickly as possible. Papers are graded for accuracy a length of time taken to transcribe. Practicing for perfection is even harder in the eyes t foreign language students who tackle the art of speakir a whole new language. Spanish, French, Latin and Ge man are all taught in their correct forms. lt is very hard ' teach young Mexican-Americans how to speak Spani correctly when they've been around people who used t slang all their lives explained one language teacher. Comparing answers. Team work is the name of the game as Liz Marroquin shows Flosie Pequeno the correct way to do the Spanish work.