Dowagiac Central High School - Wahoo Yearbook (Dowagiac, MI)

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14 Busy Bus:ness Booster Heap b:g chuef over the commerc:al department :s M:ss Ela:ne Sheltraw Rooms 210 and 2'l'l are devoted to commerc:al tra:n:ng and work M:ss Shewchuck and M:ss Thomas are the two other teachers work:ng w:th M:ss Sheltraw Shellys classes consust of shorthand typ:ng and office pract:ce mostly made up of g:rls Both the shorthand and typ:ng classes are composed of second year students The second year shorthand :sts don t have much trouble gett:ng the curves to curve consequently work:ng a great deal on d:ctat:ons F:ve m:nute d:ctat:ons are often held everyone str:v:ng for s:xty to 120 words per m:nute As :n other advanced typ:ng classes legal documents statements and post cards are typed More practucal typ:ng :s also done such Us typ:ng :nvo:ces monthly statements form letters and tabulat:ons These are bound to come :n handy sometame whether work:ng :n an office or not M:ss Sheltraw :s co ord:nator of the co operat:ve program wh:ch :s :nnovated th:s year F:fteen g:rls from the commerc:al department are chosen to work :n var:ous offices These g:rls have the:r school classes :n the morn :ng devot:ng the:r afternoons to office work They work for I' Ela:ne Sheltraw several teachers and :n the offices of var:ous agenc:es and fac tones :n the commumty Offices located at the Dowag:ac Steel Furnace Co Heddon Ba:ts The Fa:r Store Burl:ngame s Wolver :ne Insurance Co Tr:ple A Monaghan Insurance and Prem:er cla:m some of these g:rls Shellys gu:dance of the program :s a real success and she hopes that :t may be expanded :n the comung years The office pract:ce group learns how to run mach:nes such as the d:tto m:meograph, and gelat:n dupl:cator All these mach:nes are located :n the two rooms of the commerc:al department d:v:ded from the regular class room Theres also a var:ety of addlng and comput:ng mach:nes Shelly and her commerc:al :tes run off announcements for us also makmg our play programs and programs for the Chrnstmas and spr:ng vocal fest:vals and the band concert F:eld tr:ps and speakers are also on the agenda to help students :n the:r office technlque Men from the Wolver:ne Insurance Co and Amersdorfer s Insurance talk to the commer c:al :tes on the quollficatlons necessary for a good office worker Another essent:al :tem for a good office worker :s learned :n office pract:ce when telephone :nterv:ews are rehearsed Th:s :s done so mnstakes wont be made on the :ob A tr:p to Ch:cago :s on the agenda for Apr:l The Ill:no:s Bell Telephone Co Gra:n Exchange and the Gregg College are v:s:ted Topp:ng off the day :s dunner at the Normandy House Shelly s fr:endIy adv:ce and help are always welcomed by he sen:ors She also :s faculty adv:sor for the Commerc:al Club a act:ve organ:zat:on of sen:or g:rls :nterested an the bus:ness field Joyce Thomas Commercral Capers The blond of the commerc:al departments b:g three :s M:ss Joyce Thomas M:ss Thomas has classes of bookkeep:ng typ:ng shorthand and Bus:ness Engl:sh to cope w:th Her day beg:ns w:th a class of advanced typ:ng These typusts cl:ck the:r way through legal documents and statements An other lesson that proves to be worth wh:le :s learn:ng how to type post cards At first the first year shorthand :sts have trouble try:ng to get l:nes to turn to curves correctly but w:th a b:t of pers:stence and M:ss Thomas coach:ng results worth not:ng are obtamed The first year shorthand members orgamze a club w:th M:ss Thomas as sponsor The profits earned from sell:ng :ce cream bars cook :es and candy net a tr:p to Ch:cago The bookkeepers have a bullet:n board wh:ch they attend to On :t we may see some of the notebooks they have made In these are l:sted all the :mpor tant processes of bookkeep:ng that have been learned In her Bus:ness Englush class a struggle for the betterment of grammer takes place Mondays are devoted to :mprov:ng vocabulary and the spellnng of :t Here varlous types of bus:ness letters are stud:ed and notebooks conta:n:ng them are also made M:ss Thomas chores do not end w:th her classes for she :s adv:sor to the cheerleaders and has two classes of baton tw:rlers under her d:rect:on We can often hear her pract:c:ng w:th the cheer leaders as we stroll by the aud:tor:um or gym M:ss Thomas :s also head of the pep meet:ng comm:ttee wh:ch :s someth:ng new at D H S It :s :n charge of all sk:ts for the basketball and football games The cheerleaders fpart of the pep comm:tteeJ co operate w:th the d:fferent clubs and organ:zat:ons around D H S to pre sent these sk:ts Each club or group of students must s:gn up before hand for the game whose pep meet:ng they des:re S:nce so many g:rls turned out for baton lessons the four tw:rlers p:cked for the band next year were chosen on a compet:t:ve bas:s Last but not least M:ss Thomas helps adv:se the Freshman class SESSION of bookkeep:ng

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fr Olga Shewchuck Da ydreamlng Done Introduclng Mass Olga Shewchuck Thus rs Mlss Shewchucks tlrst year of teachung at DHS Another confederate of hers new In the commerc a' dept IS Mlss Thomas Dark brown eyes and haur Cwnth quute a but of daydreamlng thrown Inj typnfy Mnss Shewchuck On her schedule we flnd classes of World History Engllsh and typsng lnsted One class of history and Englssh are combined unto a core class third and fourth hours The world hlstoruans use the Story of Natnons as their standby throughout the year In world hnstory the class ns divided unto groups throughout the year and as each new unut rs approached a new group IS asslgned to t Thus group presents rt to the class guvung the test or any other asslgnments necessary to understand the chapter Mlss Helen Mann of New York IS one of the speclal vusstors to the tenth grade In Shewchuck s classes The purpose of her vrslt as to obtain lnformatlon on the drtterent ways cur rent events are taught The students prepare for her vlsut by wrltlng and presentnng a qulz show qurzzung the contestants on current events nssues Make belreve cash awards are given for the correct answer It IS presented as a radno program over the public address system Miss Mann also vlsrted many other schools beside D H S seeking Information on the same toprc We also have a study of the classics supervnsed by Mass Shewchuck The well known classlcs are all read from abrndged addrtrons Among those we chose to read are House of Seven Gables Les Miserables and The Three Muskateers In November we take trme out from the classroom to stage a vnsrt to Chrcago We traupse around seerng many sughts plus what we really lntend to do to see the Museum of Science and Industry The Fueld Museum and the Aquarium One of the hugh lnghts un our day takes place when we get rn on a raduo broadcast at Goldblatts Store A few of us also tourney over to the Plan: torlum to Increase our knowledge of astronomy ln between these vlsuts we also manage to find time to do some shopplng In April Shewchuck vnsrts Chncago agann this time she travels with the Commerclal Club In the afternoon Miss Shewchuck goes down to 2l2 and Intro ducesL C Smlths Remington Rands and Royals to the beglnmng typlsts Strains of Toreador tloatung from 212 In the afternoon may fool you unto bellevlng a music class IS underway but nt IS really one of typung Beglnnung typlsts plug away In tome to the musuc untnl finally by the end of the year we re practucally speed demons C75 Our typung classes also receuve a certaun amount of practuce typtng buslness letters and envelopes Tnme tests are also thrown In as added attractlons but only after we become more famrllar wlth the keyboard -A! S-4 .Z Speed test commg p Keepnng books 7 Busy doing nothing Y

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