Downey High School - Volsung Yearbook (Downey, CA)

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Driver Education-nerve racking but necessary DALLAS MORGAN STEVEN ARIAS EDWARD ANDERSON DONALD COLLIS Driver Education Driver Education Driver Education Driver Education Dept, Head Art Coach Coach Downey Senior High has one of the finest programs ot driver education in the state. It consists ot one semester ot study including trattic laws, causes ot acci- dents, care and use ot automobile, tirst aid, and actual behind the wheel training. It is a required course, usually in the sophomore year. Officers of the city's traffic division often visit 'I to give practical advice on I how to avoid tickets for violation Ot traffic laws. PHIL JONES JOHN KASSER WILLIAM SEXTON Driver Education Driver Education Driver Education Coach Coach Coach Letterman's Club Sponsor ,JB ' , Issac, Y NICHOLAS COMITAS GALEN L. CROSLEY SUMNER H. FELDMAN FRANK GUZMAN Driver Education Driver Education Driver Education Driver Education Drafting I Coach I5

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Business Education from English to machines fi 5'-uf rffsa ww- ,,,.,-e MRS. PEARL BOUCHER JAMES BENNETT MRS. MARY COSTA MISS DONNA HALVERSON Business Dept. Head Bookkeeping l Typing ll Business Machines Shorthand Business English Business Machines Secretarial Practice Typing Future Teachers Sponsor -df Q. ,N ssvD 'vzg 'QJ X U4 f I . fx Xxiqu.. W, ff A ,. ,naw 4 Ng We -,. -:sL'K5s.s. C .f S L- sses if ,fs s eesi -,T V A 1 , C K .V X , ' The business department at Downey High is a great step in introducing students to the wide world ot busi- ness. The department has eight teachers who conduct classes in typing, use ot business machines, business law, bookkeeping, shorthand, secretarial practice, cler- ical practice, economics and business English. Each day approximately 45 per cent of the student body attends a class in the business department. Typ- ing is open to all students in the beginning sections, complete fundamentals ot Gregg shorthand and tran- scription are taught to develop skill for business use, secretarial practice correlates the general office skills, bookkeeping obiectives are to equip the student with a working knowledge ot the basic principles ot ac- counting that will be useful in later lite, business machines include calculators, adding machines, liquid and ink duplicators, and many others, business law helps to develop an awareness ot legal points which attect people in their business relations, and business English stresses the fundamentals ot grammar, punc- tuation, and spelling, as well as the forms of business letters and reports. v -M1-----z- . MRS, MATTIE MAE LEE LEONARD WITKIN RICHARD WRIGHT CLARENCE KNUTSON Vocational Typing TYDWWQ l 51 ll BL-'5l 'e55 l-BW B00kkeeD5f1Q l 31 ll Clerical Practice Business Practice Typing l Economics

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P English is words and grammar. . Q, lb--af ff ,W .M-4'kf 2. MRS. SERENA BECK English Xl DON CONNORS English XII ED COHEN WARNE BOLANDER English Xl English Dept. Head CSF Sponsor Sword 81 Shield Sponsor English XII .V MISS DOROTHY RIETKIRK Book Fair, sponsored by CSF, proved a English Xi stimulus fo the study of English GLS' I Fil MRS. LGUNA BELLE COURTNEY TED CRAWFORD WILLIAM S. FURMAN MRS, ELEANOR JOHNSON Emlisi, X English XII English X English XI -f:,E5Q,f,,5 5---X M- Speech I English Xl AFS Spnnszr