Greenwood High School - Under the Greenwood Tree Yearbook (Springfield, MO)

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ANU B4 ND FOB HJQINEQQ W l ? E LEOLA SPELLMAN, Supervisor of Business, had the AB degree conferred from Drury College and the MS from Oklahoma State University. She is advisor to the Yearbook Staff. Those chicken tracks may not mean anything to you, but they mean a lot to Suzy Knabb and Linda Quinn in Shorthand. Miss Spellman says, You must write legible notes so that you can transcribe them easily if you would be a top- notch secretaryf, Students in the business department received train- ing for personal use as well as further study for those wishing to take up business administration or secre- tarial Work as a career or in college, Tenth through twelfth grade students took advantage of beginning typewriting where they learned to type for personal use. Those desiring further work in type- writing took the advanced course which offered train- ing in manuscripts, business reports, legal documents, etc. Shorthand was offered those who would like the benefit of easy note taking. Bookkeeping Qwhich alter- nates yearly with business law and economicsj taught keeping of records with interpretation of financial re- ports. Office experience becomes real to Ad- vanced Typewriting students. In the background joe Spielman and Libby El- liott check spelling of student names and get ready to duplicate student di- rectories. Sue Burgess, Liz Pummill, Kathy Retallick, and Steve Moore make out class cards. Get busy, Sue!

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BUSINESS EDUCATION - - Carolyn Taylor explains her net income on her income statement to Randy Sutton and Steve jones while they study their bookkeeping lesson. From the looks of things, it seems Steve's interests are somewhere other than just the lesson. I just c:1n't seem to hit the right keys, discover Karleen LeDuc, Ronnie james, and Sandy Ketch in the beginning typing class. However, they feel sure that with lots of practice, it will some day be easy. You have to take your time and p-r-a-c-t-i-c-e making your letters over and over, says Dr. Trentham to penmanship students john Scott and Paula Millsap. They wonder if their handwriting will ever look like Dr. Trentham's. 1 PERSONAL UQEAQ O. P. TRENTHAM, Supervisor of Business, re- ceived the BS degree from SMS, the MBA from Northwestern, and the PhD from New York University. He sponsors Senior Class.

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ENGLISH -Tl-IOUGI-HQ, IDEAS, CHARLES R. BAIRD, Supervisor of English, re- ceived the BS degree from SMS and the MA from the University of Arkansas. He sponsors Tenth Grade, Cub Standard, Dramatic Club, and directs all speech work. Grade English. Caesar, beware the Icles of March. Peace, ho, who cries Caesar? Budding Thespians David Yancey, Harold Weather- wax, and L. D. Stevenson present Julius Caesar for Tenth The attention of three junior English members is caught by the screen on which Mr. Baird has trained the all-seeing eye of the theme pro- jector. Sam Harper, Nancy Northcutt, and joellyn Hickman look cautiously -perhaps to see whose paper it is. Margaret Scott practices a speech. And this is my assistant, Skipper, she remarks. Skip- per is a very unusual parakeetf'