I C Norcom High School - Greyhound Yearbook (Portsmouth, VA)

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How to Make Machines Your Slave — Data Processing Do machines fascinate you? Have you ever been amazed at what a computer can do? Data Processing may be the place for you. Students in this department have access to adding machines, printing calculators, keypunch machines, sorters, 402 accounting machines, bookkeeping machines, an NCR computer. The stu- dent learns to process data by manual, mechanical, punch-card, and computer methods. Seventeen students were enrolled in Data Processing this year. Mrs. Lynette Whitley was the instructor. She briefly outlined a few of the requirements for the course. The student should have taken typing and should pass certain IBM aptitude tests. The concentration of these Data Processing students is obvious. 23

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Medical and Legal Office Procedures Is a business career for you? If so, maybe you want to specialize. Norcom’s new program makes this possible. Enrolling in Legal Office Procedures will enable you to receive training for the execu- tive secretarial position of legal secretary. In its first year, the program trained eleven stu- dents on the junior level and five on the senior level. The department is equipped as an office would be. Each student has her own desk in the modern newly decorated office. Mrs. Lynn Williams is the instructor of this career study. Mrs. Helen Williams teaches Medical Office Procedures. Perhaps you feel that you could be performing a worthwhile service in your commu- nity if you worked in a medicine-related area. Medical Office Procedures prepares a person to work in a doctor’s office or in a hospital doing secretarial work. Similar work would be available in insurance companies. Students enrolled in this program also work in a simulated office, including the luxury of air conditioning.

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Para-Professional Students Contribute to Community | Thirty young men and women were enrolled in Norcom’s Para-Professional Career Study in 1973. These students were preparing themselves to teach recreation, physical education, or to coach. Besides covering sports and activities that are usually presented in physical education classes, these students also covered fishing, archery, camping, water skiing, and scuba. Mrs. Coffey, Mr. Banks, Mr. Schwab, and Mrs. Reed shared teaching responsibilities in this area. The community benefited from this new program. Mt. Hermon and Truxton schools had the services of Para-Professional students seeking on-the-job training. Para-Professional students are able to help others as they learn. 24