Gavit High School - Futura Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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New to Gavit this year was the course in shorthand Here junior Anne Rodovich prepares her assignment for the daily class Nancy Pickett, sophomore, begins her typing lesson. This year two courses in typing were offered to Gavit students

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Business Department Supplements Curriculum With Introduction Of Equipment, Additional Courses Besides adding new manual and electric typewriters, business depart- ment increased its curriculum with the introduction of new courses. After they had learned the funda- mentals, students who took shorthand worked with special dictation records designed to improve their shorthand speed and note-taking accuracy. When a student had successfully taken and transcribed the dictated material, she qualified for a Gregg certificate. Transcription, another new business offering, also involved the knowledge of shorthand skills. The course was available to students who had complet- ed the first semester of shorthand. The members of this class took notes either during shorthand or transcription class and then typed them. Miss J. Baker also instructed her students in some of the basic clerical skills. To determine their typing speeds, students took timed writings. Miss F. Grunkemeyer instructed the classes in typing special projects like letters, orders, manuscripts and business forms. Basic fundamentals of bookkeeping such as filing, making entries in their books and organizing figures were skills learned in bookkeeping class. Business law, taught by Mr. J. Shields, was concerned with the proper ways to transact business matters and ways to cope with difficult business situations which might be encountered. Business English and management were offered in conjunction with the general business program. These sub- jects taught business fundamentals. Typing seemed to be the most pop- ular of business courses since there were a total of four classes of it. Bookkeeping IV and General Business II both had two classes each. Barbara Wiclgos and Charlene Sylvester add their clippings to the business bulletin board

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Physics, Equipment Add To Science, Math Curricuh New equipment and a new course served to brighten the science and math departments’ 1963 school year. Mr. L. Mann and Mr. R. Johns taught the University of Illinois Com- mittee on Secondary Math (UICSM) course for its second year at Gavit. This four-year math course, a new approach to math, is designed to make the students reach math conclusions. For the first time, Gavit offered physics, which was taught by Mr. J. Jeffries. Through their discussions, lab periods and experiments, the physics classes made studies in energy, me- chanics, sound, light and heat. Health and safety students received several new pieces of equipment, some of which were models of the organs, the human torso and the human skele- ton. Each class also saw such movies as Heart, Lungs, and Circulation”. In biology, students dissected worms, starfish, frogs and fish under the super- vision of Mr. C. Smead, their instructor. Bill Thcgzc works on putting a geometry problem on the board for Mr. M. Horoda’s class. Juniors Doug Klein and Lester Core by using the pulley perform an experiment for physics class, a course instituted at GHS this year.