Hall High School - Hall Light Yearbook (Spring Valley, IL)

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Commercial Courses Give Ex- cellent Business Training. Too few people realize the im- portance of a business education. Everyone will be able to use the knowledge that business education has to offer. There are many courses at Hall to train students for this. To begin with there is the personal typing class. This is to learn the fun- damental typing skills. To further these skills there is the typing one class which includes business letter writing, outlines, manuscripts, and statistical reports. Office practice is the second year of typing. Here along with increasing speed and accuracy in typing, the general procedure is that of working in an omce. Filing, telephoning, telegraming, mailing, and composing business letters are included in an office practice set. Machines that are used during this A class in beginning typing. Advanced typing class. Beginning shorthand class. Advanced shorthand class.

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to these boys There IS a begtnnung and an advanced class In machnne shop for boys who are Interested nn this llne of work The mechanical drawing depart ment has both a beglnnnng and an advanced course In drawlng The students begun wnth simple drawnngs and by the end of the course they have progressed to some complicated work ln draftlng ll they learn arch: tectural draftnng and how to make blue prtnts Thus as a very nnterestung course and the knowledge ganned an tt can be very useful In finding work later on Agriculture ms a very useful course to the farm boys who attend Hall Hugh Movies are shown they study methods of farmung and they have a small plot of land on whlch they have some actual experuence In the work of the farm They make prolects of their own and have plots of grain for demonstratnon They are also taught how to weld Thus course should and the boys In becoming good farmers Adult courses In ag are also oflfered Draftmg Ag boys learn weldung The Farm Board The Adult Weldnng Class 1 - 1 1

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time are the dutto rnimeograph Monroe educator calculator Ediphone voice writing and thel B M electric typewriter Typing is not the only business training course Shorthand is an essential factor There are two sections to this The first year one learns the brief forms and characters and prac tlces reading and writing these In the second year of shorthand students scribe It on the typewriter in mallable forms Bookkeeping is to give a general idea of the form in which transactions are entered in books General business and business law are steps toward giving information about the laws and legal forms of all types of bus: ness All of these help tremendously to give the students a good start in life whether continuing in school or for a career Business law class holds a mock trial Business practice A class un bookkeeping practice taking dictation and tran-