Homestead High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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Lester Hill? Who is Lester Hill? Lester Hill? Who's Lester Hill? lt's not a who, it's a what. Lester Hill is the name of a simulated office which is set up in the business department. Department Head, Mrs. Jana Hughes, commented on how professional-like the office was. Students called her if they were going to be absent or 10fMs was deducted from their paycheck, which was actually their grade. The call-in system was set up to enforce job reality. A student must be interviewed and placed into a department by Mrs. Hughes, and the student manager of the simulated office. Students could be placed into an accounting or personnel department along with a number of oth- ers. Lester Hill provided an opportunity for students to acquire experience with a boss and working with people they may not like. lt also gave students a chance to improve skills they already had such as typing and shorthand. Distributive Education was a new tech- nique of teaching students how to cope with the business in the outside world. This was its second year, with approxi- mately 29 sophomores, juniors and sen- iors involved in the program. Nine of those were employed by places like Nlr. Wigg's, Platt Pharmacy, and Bellmont. An extension of DE fDistributive Edu- cationj in action was the Backroom, the school bookstore. Mr. Richard Schroe- der, the new director of the class, dou- bled as teacher and boss . He said the Backroom brought in a gross of 5250.00 and a net of 550.00 a week, which made the profit approximately 5200.00 a month. The money was used to pay off debts owed by the store. The motive of distributive education was to produce future leaders for the business world. Business can be a wide field of achievement whether one is going on to college or straight into a business profes- sion. All of the courses offered, anything from Lester Hill to personal typing, better prepared students for future careers. It helped to develop their skills but it also taught them patience with fellow workers. WHILE COUNTING OUT her lines, freshman Peggy Sorg concentrates upon her typing page. WORKING WITH their secretarial equipment, sen- iors Cindy Farmer and Carla Hoover type up their departmental assignments for Lester Hill. 12-Business

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45 Faint into hislher arms! C. . . something may become of ity 55 If none of these work-PRAY! Ill Rewards of Cheating The rewards of cheating are numer- ous. You may get a three day vacation prepaid to your own home. How about a full hour a day to destroy the toilet seats in the john. Maybe even a chance to meet the principal. Great-right?- Good. This concludes Homer Stead's famous book of cheating etiquette. Just remem- ber-Do Not Be Obvious!!! As for any further instruction in this sport, the reader could receive more sat- isfaction from the non-edited version. This will give you an insight on advanced cheating methods such as hiring a streaker to run through your classroom, screaming rape in the middle of a test . . .etc. . .6tC. . . GIVE The class was tense. The exam was tough. There were only forty minutes remaining. The stage was set. To cheat or not to cheat entered several minds. Unfortunately the thoughts of honesty influenced fewer. Any student willing to cheat was either lazy, over his head academically, plain stupid or some combination of the three. The consequences of their decision was an automatic zero for the test and the solution would be to teach that the cheater never wins in the long run. The reaction from the students was 'let the chips fall where they will'. The nonchalant attitude about cheating may not affect you now, but in the future you will realize that your knowledge is in the trash can on your cheat notes.-Mr. Don Kline on cheating. SENIOR JIM KLINGER demonstrated one techni que of cheating from Homer Stead's famous book

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14 . fn? it X iinvs. AS SHE READS over her paper, checking for mis- takes, senior Beth Bollinger sits at her typewriter. JUNIORS EDDY JONES and Mike Johannes go over a bookkeeping problem in general business. An Old Program Tokes New Form - M ..-. 4 --v-r - 1 4' . .2 li I, :T l,! AFTER CHECKING OVER his work sophomore Rick Morey seems to be content with the results. .15 s. N' . fi' J ie, 41. WHILE ESCAPING from the monotony of typing, ' senior Teresa Venderley relaxes with a smile. Business-13