Hellgate High School - Halberd Yearbook (Missoula, MT)

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BEHIND THE ADDING MACHINE doninid. ’ic'uiL Missoula high trackmen take orders from Mr. Guy T. Stegner, track coach for the last four years. Before coaching track exclusively, Mr. Stegner was foot- ball, basketball, and track coach for eight years. Teaching typing and bookkeeping fills his teaching schedule during the day. For outdoor relaxation he golfs and fishes. Mr. Stegner has given much time to teachers' retire- ment laws and is considered an au- thority on that subject. Typing and junior business teacher, Mrs. Carrie Gilham, is one M. H. S. faculty member without a hobby. Mrs. Gilham is outstanding in one respect for she is the only teacher with a class after school. Scraping feet annoy this usually even tempered teacher. Her -utside activities include card playing, cooking when she has to, and tennis, which she has played more or less all her life. One thing I do dislike is be- ing quoted, says Mrs. Gilham. Energetic Mrs. Florence Keeton trains future stenographers and keeps the Junior class on its feet. The climax of this latter job is a successful Junior Prom in the spring. She collects stamps md cares for numerous plants around her room after school hours. An ap- j reciative traveler, she plans to go to Berkeley, California, this summer to at- tend school. Able advisor of the Konah for the r t semester was Miss lone Lake. . larting with greenhorns at the first of I he year she turned out polished jour- nalists. Teaching typing rounded out her full day. A ski enthusiast, she larted and sponsored the Ski Club which took trips every Saturday under ■i leadership. At Christmas she left 1 become a happy bride. MRS. CARRIE GILHAM MISS IONE LAKE MRS. FLORENCE KEETON MR. GUY STEGNER 21

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TOOLS OF THE TRADE FAST FINGERS donimeiciat Her love for animals is demonstrated by the fact that she is intensely inter- ested in the Humane Society and its work. Commercial subjects are among the most useful taught in school for the student can often use the knowledge gained in such courses to secure a job immediately upon leaving school. The department lists as its aim not only to prepare students to earn their living but also to provide students with in- formation useful for their personal con- venience. Typing and shorthand are practical not only for stenographers but also in everyday life. Students find a knowledge of bookkeeping to be valu- able in the domestic and business worlds alike. Junior business, a course for freshmen, prepares the young ones for later problems of bookkeeping. Not necessarily for future lawyers, com- mercial law deals with the every day problems of the young men and women in business. Commercial geography involves the study of commercial prac- tices in all parts of the world. While commercial courses require, as a rule more outside preparation than other school subjects, most students feel that the time is well spent. MISS MINA CARR Head of the commercial department is Miss Mina I. Carr who has the dis- tinction of having been on the faculty of M. H. S. for over twenty years. Her department includes such subjects as typing, shorthand, bookkeeping, junior business, commercial law, and com- mercial geography. Miss Carr instructs classes in advanced shorthand, ad- vanced typing, bookkeeping, and one class in beginning typing. She has oc- cupied the position as head of the com- mercial department for fifteen years. 20

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MISS ELSIE WADELL J ancjiiacjd The Dean of the foreign language department is Miss Elsie Wadell, teach- er of second year Latin and commercial geography. Miss Wadell has seen the most service in the foreign language department of M. H. S. and is therefore the guardian of this department. Her keen sense of humor and her wide- spread general knowledge add interest to her Latin classes as they study the campaigns of Caesar in Gaul. The foreign language department is perhaps one of the most interesting de- partments in school and surely it covers the greatest amount of territory of the world because it is a foreign language department. In M. H. S. French, Latin, and Spanish are taught and for each of these there is a special club. The pur- pose of these clubs is to give the stu- dent a better understanding of the language and the people who use that language as a native tongue. Small papers written in French and Spanish help in this work. The student may obtain them through the foreign lan- guage department for a small fee. One of the many opportunities available to the student of other languages is the foreign service field, where one may be employed either by the government or private business. Thus the foreign language department opens new hori- zons and points out the way for better understanding between the people of this country and the people of France, Spain, and South America. PASSPORTS TO FOREIGN PORTALS 1 s nv mu s