Forest Lake High School - Forester Yearbook (Forest Lake, MN)

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Current events of the day interest even seventh graders as they earnestly read the Junior Scholastic magazine in their social studies closs, taught by Mr. Dahl. Social Studies Time for o test in Mr. Terry's eighth grade social studies class. This class concerns itself mainly with world geog- raphy. EDMUND GRUND Bachelor of Science degree from University of Minne- sota. Social Science. FRANK J. TERRY Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Minnesota and St. Thomas. Social Studies and World History. VERNON P. DAHL Bochelor of Arts degree from University of Minne- sota. Social Studies and American History. THOMAS MATTESON Bachelor of Science degree from St. Cloud State. Social Studies and American His- tory. 16

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Wide Variety of Courses Offered in Business Field Realizing that many students will enter the business world after graduation, FLHS has a large commercial department to prepare students for office jobs. Typing is offered as a one-year course to any student in grades 9—12, with adult evening classes offered to members of the community, under the guidance of Mr. Buys. In these classes a student learns the basic skills of typewriting, with emphasis on speed and accuracy. Office practices, which has typing as a pre-requisite, further develops a student's typewriting ability, while teaching him how to operate business machines such os the adding machine, mimeograph, and dictating ma- chine. The course followed by an office practices' student represents the job of an office worker in the present business world. Shorthand prepares a student for a position as a stenographer. In bookkeeping, a student is introduced to the bookkeeping processes of many businesses. JACK L. BUYS Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of The- ology degrees from Allegheny College, Meadville, Penn. Shorthand Office practices. Typing. GRETCHEN GOODMAN Bachelor of Science degree from Uni- versity of Minnesota. General Business. Bookkeeping. LEROY STANG Bachelor of Science and Master of Sci- ence from St. Cloud State. General Business, Consumer Mathematics, Typing, Assistant Basketball Coach. Practice! It takes practice, and plenty of it, to learn to handle office machines. Gary Nelson uses the model switchboard, Sharon Behm, the dictaphone, while Henrietta Gregoire prac- tices on the electric typewriter as a part of on office practices assignment. A trial balance comes in for close scrutiny by Mrs. Goodman as Sandra Rioux puzzles over the mechanics of bookkeeping in this senior high commercial course, where students examine ma- terials and procedures of the modern business world.

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Keeping abreast of the times are students enrolled in junior and sen- ior high social studies classes. Seventh graders study American history and government, while the geography of the world is ex- plored in eighth grade. Freshmen do not take social studies, but the course is picked up again with American history in the sophomore year. Social studies is not required in eleventh grade, but many students enroll in World History and Af- fairs, an elective. Completely re- vised this year, the course, taught by Mr. Nelson, is now a two year subject, featuring current events. The students are responsible for spot quizzes on the big news sto- ries of the day and current events tests. All seniors are required to take social science which covers topics such as voting, communism, and political parties among others. A class dealing with people and so- cial problems rather than history and geography, social studies re- quires a year's project of each student. The projects include poll taking, visitations, oral reports, term papers, and drawings. THE CHANGING WORLD. Here Jeannette McPhail, Cynthia Franzen, and Arthur Kost observe the world's affairs in Mr. Nelson's advanced history course. HERE IT IS. says Howard Nielson as he points out a foreign land on the globe to Faith Radtke and Ken Maclean in Mr. Matteson's American History 10 class.