Essex County Vocational Technical High School - Athena Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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Honor Roll--continued er M inch Millinery-2 B Office Practice Ba Costume Design and Illustration The study of design is one of the most practical of all eourses open for girls and women. It de velops a taste for good things, viz: proper clothes, colors, lines, house furnishing arrange ments, etc. If rightly trained, she may use this knowledge asa means of livelihood and at the same time be lappier in her home. She saves money in the purchasing of her clothes for the simple reason that she is sure of herself anc buys the cor rect garment at once. Students who have gone out from this department during the past year have been successful. Never before has there been a greater demand for women who have been trained to do pen and ink work, to know good color and combinations of color, to know the human figure and its construction lines, not only artistic but appropriate. This demand comes from the commercial field, catalogue houses, department stores, new spapers, fashion magazines, dress making establishments, millinery houses, etc. There is nothing manufactured which does not develope in the hands of the designer and artist. The study produces harmony as well as a means of earn- ing a livelihood.

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Office Practice | ahle 2f al Je us to operate in our отс positi phone, addi! dictaphone, gelatin ing and nonlist After becoming acquainted with the proble ms for practical experience such as going out о! C errands for the school and making deposits for the We are taught to make out 1 | 7 | money orders, and checks. We learn à AME 1 н А : time drafts, and travelers checks. 'Thines taught are: be Ing system: alert. Neatness, courtesy, and enthusiasm are also im If you keep your mind on these things which I have men tioned and work accurately, you will be the kind of a girl that is wanted in an office.