Durham High School - Messenger Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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' COMMERCE school paper, The HI'-Rocket, and the annual, THE MEssENeER. Besides performing many such jobs which have helped Durham High to func- tion more successfully, Miss Thompson, this year, was in charge of the typing of four thou- sand envelopes for the Red Cross Campaign- an outstanding community service. Mrs. Merritt, a from Winthrop who has done graduate work at Columbia, is another one of our favorites. Because of her unusually amiable disposition and her personal interest in the students, we were in hopes of having her for a number of years. ln Ianuary, however, when she became Mrs. Merritt, it was all we could do to keep her with us this last semester. Mrs. Merritt specializes in the teaching of Ofhce Practice. In her classes, students are trained to do actual olfice work. Booklets, discussions, and typed reports are made on different phases of business, including filing, travel, and sten- ographic qualifications. The library is freely used to secure information on all aspects of busi- ness to which the student will be initiated upon graduation. Mr. Grubbs and Mr. Scott, both graduates of Bowling Green Business College, are in the ac- countancy department. This year has meant the use and adoption of state textbooks and the building up of a new course of study. Durham High students will go out well pre- pared in the field of accountancy he- cause of the conscientious work of these two men. The culmination of every efifort in the commercial classrooms comes in the spring with the state contests. For several years Durham High students have been entered-it is needless to say that they have won many honors. The members of the advanced short- hand classes have been so outstanding that they deserve special mention, for they have won in the contest four times in the last ten years. Indeed, half of Durham High would be gone if we were to omit the Com- mercial Department! PACE 29

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T' f1,f' D E P A R T M E N rl l3Us1NEss-LIKE procedure in every detail is the keynote of the Tlurhani Clonnnercnd Ileparv ment. Its superiority in every phase is a source of pride to each student of Durham High School. Every moment in the business class- rooms is fully occupied as each forty-Five min- utes flies by. The steady pace seldom lags. Only occasionally is a class interrupted by an an- nouncement from the Commercial Club Cabinet or by Miss Solloway, rushing in to tell of some nexv acccnntdishnaent naade by rule of her prize graduates. There are eight instructors in the department, three of whom teach in the junior high schools of the city where elementary business principles amtdkummd m dm Cemxd Bmhmw dawm. This task of starting boys and girls on their liusniess careers is die nib of Ddiss Laiuise lierry of the Central Iunior High School, Mrs. Louise Crowder Rightsell of liast Durham, and Mrs. Margaret Noell Dailey of E. K. Powe. Six classes in Shorthand and Typing are held ckuly here ai Senior Iiigh xvnh chcnnion,tran- scnptknp and speed tems,ten in Bookkeeping, one in Commercial Law, and two in Office Ijractice. Miss Solloway, who has been the head of the department for a number of years is, without a doubt, the 'ibackbonel' of every enterprise under- taken near the commercial olhce. One can readily account for her capable management of everyone and every- thing with a glance at her training- teacher naining xvork atthe Phihulek phia Business College, Iohns Hopkins, Temple, Duke, and Harvard Univer- sities, and the Universities of Pennsyl- vania and Southern California. The special held of Miss Thompson, who received her B.A. from Converse and hastakmiconunenid Uannngtn Bowling Green Business College, is in- structing students in typewriting. She is ai charge of advanced typexvrning y and serves the school as no other per- l son could through the typing of the PAGE 28

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V'l YV'Y1g,f,lJ V14 tl -v K wsu, cimiars PII 11.1.1 I s. Htixxrnu DEPARTMENT OF Tins lfo1tE1GN correspondent had just interviewed Miss Michaels' and thou h she ma not have i g Y learned how to spell HI love, you love, he loves in Latin, she did learn of the benefits received from studying a supposedly dead language. As conveyed to the students through competent instructors QMiss Michaels has to her credit an AJS. degree from Duke, an A.M. from Colum- hia, and graduate work at U. N. C., Duke, and Tennessee, Miss Hohgood has an A.B. from Dulieg and Miss Phillips, also of the French de- partment, received an A.B. from Salem and an A.M. from U. N. CQ Latin affords excellent men- tal training, forms a basis for the study of other languages, opens the door to the whole world of ancient customsand manners,and clarifies our own language, for fully two-thirds of the Latin vocab- ulary has entered English in one form or another. In first year Latin, Roman life and customs, as well as grammar, are taught. The second year consists of the reading of Caesar's Gallic Wars, while third year pupils are familiarized with Cicero's orations. Virgil's L'Aeneid under- goes 'ismooth translation by the fourth, and last, year students. Latin may he dead, but you won't Find many in D. H. S. to testify that it has heen buried-its haunting powers are terrificl Now for a little umon sewer-ing and hah jooringf' Contrary to all evidence presented ahove, our two French teachers have succeeded PAGE 30