Griffith High School - Reflector Yearbook (Griffith, IN)

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In Secretarial Practice getting each filing card in the right place was important for Dorothy Krause and Lynn Fuhrmark. English and law added to business curriculum Nimble fingers, sure of letter positions, typed forms and manuscript guides. Two new courses, Business English and Business Law, were offered to seniors taking a business course. Both one-semester classes could be taken in place of regularly required English. Aspect s of English and law that would be useful in business procedures on a job were taught. Thoughts of future careers were present as students moved swift fingers to strike correct letters on the keyboard or make the right character combination in shorthand. In bookkeeping students learned to balance books and recorded business transactions. Clerical procedures and secretarial practice classes worked authentic practice sets with business forms found in a real office. 13

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-v “Check and double-check was the motto of all beginning business students as Cindy Walker rechecked long columns of numbers in bookkeeping class. Practicing sales demonstrations, Mike Johnston put to use modern techniques learned by students in salesmanship classes. Shorthand students learned to rapidly transcribe and translate symbols.

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Language students read novels , wrote stories Vocabulary, grammar and practice in the laboratory composed first and second year foreign language courses. Students read short stories while games made learning fun. Experience was gained through the reading of novels and the writing of themes in third year classes. This gave students a chance to apply knowledge gained in the early years of study. A book of short stories was formed by the third year Spanish class. Students were divided into groups and each was required to write a story. The French version of El Cid was studied by French III students while Spanish III students read La Gitanilla. Third and fourth year courses also dealt with the historical, geographical, and social aspects of the countries involved. The geography of France caught the inter- est of Gordon Dilling and Pat McTaggart. Practice in the lab was included in the language course for Kathy Greichunos.