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

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WHAT BEAUTIFUL NAILS! Jennie Capanear believes in the “velvet-glove treatment when administering a manicure — eth Lai TODAY'S MODERN WOMAN is conscious of fashions, colors cosmetics, and, of course, the latest in hair stvles. To satisfy our students who desire a career in the beauty field, we offer a program of study in Beauty Culture In the first vear of training. these students are introduced to the fundamentals of hair cutting, setting, combing, shampooing and manicuring. With the assistance of their fellow classmates the girls perform suc h tasks on each other and begin to master the skills of their trade As time passes, beauty culture students receive instruction in the art of applving make-up chemistry of cosmetics, hair styl- ing coloring permanent Waving and shop management To be able to set and comb out hair is not enough in our beauty culture course. Each girl must study osteology, myology, neu- rology, and nail diseases She must be knowledgeable in the chemistry of cosmetics, dves, rinses and creams that she will be using on her customers As seniors, beauty culture students are exposed to the public Women from the community soon become regular customers providing our students with opportunities to perform varied tasks that will be required of them by future employers IT MUST BE FRIDAY: The senior beauty shops are filled with customers wanting to look beautiful during the weekend. Marv Jane Liaci. Sheila Cosi- mano and Zoveida Camacho accommodate them with a “smile

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DIANE NASO hopes that she has not made a mistake in allowing Dianne Damato to style her hair. Ninety iter, Diane Naso was a picture of lovelines PAT ROVIELLO AND DIANE UPSHAW demonstrate their skills the chemistry clas Has anyone a — ACCIDENTS WILL OCCUR, but the work goes on as usual. Bandages and all, Rhon- da Thompson continues to please her customers

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BECAUSE OF INDUSTRY'S NEED for highly-skilled ottice workers a three year course in business ma- chines is offered to our students. During these vears of intensive training, our students acquire the know ledge of and the skill in the operation of many of the latest office machines found in bookkeeping and accounting departments of business establishments todav In their junior vear the students receive additiona training on the rotary calculators, 10-key adding ma- chines, bookkeeping, billing and payroll machines s part of their clerical training, they are instructed in the use and operation of the flexowriter, dictaphone, mimeograph and fluid duplicating machines provid- ing our business machine students with a well-rounded business program In order for our students to gain confidence in them- selves and to realize that they have received the basic training that so many employers require of a highly- skilled emplovee, each student is assigned to assist the school's principal, secretaries and bookkeeper in carrving out a variety of clerical duties Mter completing the business machine course, our students enter the labor market with confidence know- ing that they have been prepared to meet tomorrow's challenges today FINGERS FLY over the keyboard as the business stude tion of the comptometer nts acquire skill in the opera BUSINESS MACHINE STUDENTS are trained to operate such machines as the comptometer, rotary calculator, billing, bookkeeping and payroll machines