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

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HOLLIS SANDIDGE reads blueprints as part of the training received by the Technical Secretary students SKILL IN THE USE OF THE DICTAPHONE is required of all business stu- dents. As part of clerical practice, Salma Funari types letters from the dicta- phone belts TODAY'S SECRETARIES must be prepared to meet the many demands placed on them by industry. They must be accurate stenographers, swift typists, knowledgeable of world events, poised, and neat in ap pearance. To prepare our students for such highly-skilled secretarial positions, the Technical Secretary course requires the stu- dents to study such subjects as: stenography, typewriting, clerical practice, business machines, blueprint reading, busi- ness English, and economic geography. Our girls receive extensive training in the operation of the dictaphone, flexo- writer, fluid duplicator, and the Executor typewriter. To provide working experience for the Secretarial students, each senior is assigned to work with the principal and the secretaries in our Main and Guidance offices. Here they are given opportunities to make use of their many skills and to gain confidence in their abilities to meet the challenges that await them.

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FOOD SERVICE MEALS TO WHET the appetite of our students and teachers are prepared by our Food Service students In the three years of training, our students are instructed in the principles of nutrition, menu planning, cooking and baking techniques, and the use and care of commercial food equipment. The daily assignments of preparing and serving food to our students and teachers provide experience that will prove valuable to them in obtaining positions in hospitals as dietician' s assistants, well-known restaurants and hotels. A TRAY OF FRESHLY PREPARED SANDWICHES is enough to satisfy any high school student's appetite. Barbara Rizzolo prepares to place the sandwiches in the showcase so that they may be purchased A Eleanor Hardin prepares a tray of cookies to be sold with ice cream to the teachers PREPARING AN ATTRACTIVE SALAD requires a bit of artistic ability. The Food Service girls are taught the proper way of slicing the fruit and arranging it on the plate

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SHIRLEY SCAVONE continues to practice her typing « 0 SORRY, WRONG NUMBER.” Learning high levels of speed and accuracy required of the Secretar still a r business stt Ange Castellano take harge | t 4 MRS. KANTROWITZ DICTATES a letter as Secretarial students Gino De Vivo, June Pantano and Paula Anello recor