Groveton High School - Tigerama Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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Grovetonites Prepare for the Field of Business Jean Ragen Oliver, Joan Jenkings, Joan Clark, and Gay Whited practice their ability on several types of office adding machines. Mary Fenton practices the art of cutting a stencil. In clerical practice, Paul Wease and Dorothy Staats acquire skill in using dictaphone machines. Patsy Miller Hunt and Pat Pilkington operate the mimeograph machine. How would you like to be a typist, a clerk, or a private secretary? These are good jobs and 640 Groveton students are being well trained for them in our Busi¬ ness Education Department. Courses in Typing I and II, Short¬ hand I and II, Business Math, Book¬ keeping I, and Clerical Practice are of¬ fered to students from grades nine through twelve. The classes are held in rooms well- equipped with manual and electric type¬ writers, dictaphones, and other essential office equipment. These advantages give students actual experience on the ma¬ chines that they will handle on their jobs. Page Fourteen

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... as a Foundation for the World Around Us. Challenges in the world of Science are made available in laboratory classrooms to our students starting with a one semester course of General Science in the eighth grade and ending with a full year course in physics for juniors and seniors. In between, these the 681 future scientists cover General Science I, biology, and chemistry. They peek in test tubes, dissect insects and work with electricity—all building on previous knowledge to explore the fascinating unknown. This year eighteen physics students visited the VEPCO Electric Generator Plant to parallel their study of electricity. Last summer the science department offered courses in biology, chemistry, and physics to interested students. These classes are planned again for this summer. Richard Graus views workings of a furnace Robert Phillips and Dody Kennedy check the water in the 8th grade Science classes’ aquarium. Mr. Hawkins demonstrates the principle of radio to Gil Lorenz and Pat Quigley. the inner at VEPCO. Page Thirteen

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Members of a V.O.T. class prepare themselves for future jobs. V.O.T. Combines Studying and Job Experience. Jean Bowler’s work is checked by Mr. Newton, a Cotton Technologist for the Agriculture Department. Any senior with an over-all “C” average who has completed the first year of his “skill” sub¬ jects such as typewriting, shorthand, and book¬ keeping may enroll in Vocational Office Train¬ ing. In this program, students attend morning classes at school and work on a part-time basis in the afternoon. Because of this arrangement, it is necessary that an interested student have suf¬ ficient credits so that he would not need to take more than four subjects. During the morning, eleven V.O.T. students study office conduct, office procedures, office machine operation, English, and Government, then leave for their various jobs in the afternoon. It is necessaiy for Mary Via to handle various types of office machines while at her job at the Alexandria Armature Company. Lorraine Sonner, a clerk-typist, works with her employer, Mrs. Mildred Hendry, a resident agent for an Insurance Company. Vd c Fifteen