Frankfurt American High School - Focus Yearbook (Frankfurt, Germany)

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A hushness follows over the auditorium, the audience stands at attention waiting expectantly. Mr. Ried's baton drops and the chorus and band burst into a spirited rendition of the Hallelujah Chorus, the long-awaited climax of the Christmas Program. The beauty of a song such as this takes long hours of instruction and practice. The responsibility for the words falls upon Miss Virginia Johnson. At the beginning of each year she takes a group of students who have had little choral experience and, during three class periods a day, developes their musician- ship to the point where they can sing four part harmony. Each class is a mixed chorus in itself, with an equal number of Sopranos, altos, tenors and basses. The Melloteens, a group of specially selected students, also has a class period of its own and is the core of the chorus. Mr. Ried provides the instrumental part of the performance. He works with four different groups each day, the advanced band, band supplement, inter- mediate band, and beginners band. The aim of these classes is to provide an outlet for musical talent and to stimulate student interest in playing instru- ments. The advanced band plays for any necessary assemblies, while the other classes work toward the goal of membership in this group. Singing is more than just putting together notes and words. One of Miss Johnson's chorus classes ftopl realizes that the meanings of the words are important too, as they struggle through a dif- ficult passage in the Hallelujah Chorus while preparing for the Christmas Program. Individual attention Qsecond rightj helps these students learn the intri- cacies of harmony and perform to the best of their ability. Mr. Ried explains a few tricky points of phrasing to his Advanced Band fthird rightj under the watchful eye of the band mascot, an old archery target borrowed from the front of the Frankfurt Messe. Scott Clark ffourth rightl, alone in the Band Room, decides whether to do his homework, read a book, or take a nap. The Marching Band in F Formation ffifth rightj honors Frankfurtites by playing the AlmaMater during their half-time presentation at a football game. The members of the Band Supplement Qbottom rightj wait patiently as the clar- inets rehearse aparticularly dif- ficult part. The invigorating strains of the Pep Song soar across the field to spur the foot- ball team on to victory. ' A h' wa.- -N-1, if., -I ,. P M ,S F nw? wr? 'wxug 1fK fuuxaH.,1 qua--W -'+P' M 3 q.g......w..., 12 521 Seat my as me qi Egg, H fa, msg, Wg ., ,V EA QQ -wig, aww fr- , las, .. . 'fi1 :er,, ' ' W i iww fsrfaffvwz , E-Eiafjffali. N - 'Vi al' , like ni. , ii, . V V V W. fa , ia,.,,w sr . TV' :Hifi-'?i 'FT' ff-7--:'5ff'f,-: : NVQ RE Q 2Z,f7ti3?l.aX Y4?' si? if p -I' 'I t' -, '- - 'W a 2125521 L' l'2 ' tfl ,gefvemt .. Z , -M-tra, :.z.'-isa:-..' . 'f.. ,, .W fe

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ammezciozf Depcnlmewt The head of the business education department is Mr. Lowell Kraft. Typewriting skill is offered to tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades. The primary aim is to build useable skill in typewriting. Typewriting H stresses increased skill in operation to meet the high standards required for jobs. The theory ofGregg Shorthand is learned duringthe first year of shorthand, In Shorthand II the vocational skills aimed for are taking dictation between 100 and 120 words a minute and producing mailable letters. Bookkeeping is designed to familiarize and give practice to the student in the complete double-entry bookkeeping cycle. Office Procedures includes letter- writing, filing, using office machines, and typing business forms. Some students work in school offices for on the job experience with machines,shorthand, and typing. General Business is an introductory course in basic business offered primarily to sophomores. It deals with the economic concepts of everyday business activities as banking, buying, credit, insurance, invest- ments, communications, and personal records. One of the many typing classes, ftop rightl of F.H.S. is con- centrating on which finger goes where in order to complete their assignments which a minimum of errors. Alrita Laverentz fsec- ond rightl appears to be intent on the work at hand and is perhaps visualizing a future in the bus- iness world. Phil Steele, Myrna Estrada and Marion Evanoski fthird rightj gain skill at manip- ulating adding machines. Phil is relaxed now, but if it were a real business office of the future instead of a classroom . . . Mr. Yandoh Cfourth rightj demonstrates to his students the method of balancing accounts. All businesses can certainly use able, young accountants - so listen closely! Jane Kadlec fbot- tom rightj assists Mrs. Waid in the Business Office by lightening the ever-present office load.Jane is getting valuable experience in office work as early as possible. One of her variousjobs is running the mimeograph machine --today it's announcements for Mr. Schoferg tomorrow it's something else, but it is allpart of preparing for the business world.