John Marshall High School - Marshallite Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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28 Miss Raffo Mr. Fowler Mrs. Burnett Miss Gooch TOP LEFT: Mr. Bowling reads income tax form to ICT students. TOP RIGHT: Mrs. Flemer shows stu- dent proper dictating methods. MIDDLE: Mrs. Farmer lectures on distributive education. FAR MIDDLE: Business students practice typing skills. RIGHT: Mr. Fowler corrects Reggie Clarke’s typo- graphical errors. FAR RIGHT: VOT students run off extra copies on the mimeograph machine. Business proves valuable in jobs Training students for office employment was the main purpose of the Business Department. Students were trained not only for secretarial, bookkeeping or clerical work but for college and everyday living. A course in stenography was offered which included typing, shorthand and filing. In the bookkeeping classes, students were taught how to keep budgets and accounts. Dictat- ing machines were utilized by-students learning shorthand. All students were encouraged to take at least one business course before they graduated since knowledge of business has been a necessity in most areas of work. Mrs. Flemer Mrs. Mosher

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Mrs. Belk Mr. Johnson History department provides field trips to interest students Early in the year, the government classes and an eleventh grade history class went on a trip to Washington, D.C. In the morning, the students toured Arlington Cemetery, then went to the White House and saw President Nixon welcoming a foreign dignitary to the United States. The group also visited the House of Repre- sentatives and the Senate which were in session. Lunch was served in the Rayburn Building. To- wards the end of the day the classes went to the Supreme Court. A variety of field trips were planned by the history department. Some of the ninth grade classes went to see a movie and in November, Mrs. Lowry’s eleventh grade class went to Nor- folk. For the government classes, the movie “Advise and Consent” was shown. Many improvements were made in the effi- ciency of the history office. A copying machine was added and materials were reorganized. 27

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Mr. Bowling Mr. Roesner Mrs. Farmer VOL, IDE ACTF supplement regular business courses In addition to the regular business courses, John Marshall students were offered supple- mentary courses for those wishing to go into specialized areas of business. In the Vocational Office Training program, many students attended school for half a day. The remaining part of the day was spent working at jobs related to their special field. Class study gave instruction in the Distributive Education program. Students were given experi- ence in D. E. jobs. Industrial jobs were offered to students through the Industrial Co-operative Training program. A special class was taught in the afternoon for adults wishing to further their education in the field of business. HELEN ARNITA RAFFO, B.S., St. Joseph College, M.Ed., University of Pittsburgh, Head of Business Department. MARY T. BURNETT, B.S., Mary Washington Col- lege. JEAN D. FLEMER, B.S., Mary Washington College, M.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute, VOT Coordi- nator, FBLA. WALTER L. FOWLER, JR., B.S., Richmond Pro- fessional Institute, Tennis Coach, GAIL ANNE GCOCH, B.S., Longwood College, SCA Sponsor. BETTY P. MOSHER, B.S., M.S., Virginia Common- wealth University, FBLA, Sponsor of the Senior Class, VOT Coordinator. H. HAYES BOWLING, B.S., West Virginia Tech, M.Ed., University of Virginia, Athletic Director, ICT Sponsor. CAROLYN R. FARMER, A.S., Averett College, B.S., Virginia Commonwealth University, Cheerleader and DECA Sponsor. CLARA NORFLEET, B.S., Longwood College. JERARD W. ROESNER, A.B., Southern Illinois University, B.S., Virginia Commonwealth Univer- sity, DECA, Advisor of SCA Character Committee.