Julia Richman High School - Spotlight Yearbook (New York, NY)

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lpizgdica jdaining The word, athletics, calls up in our minds the picture of a football or a baseball field. Wre hear again the cheers of the excited crowd and We feel the thrill of excite- ment that is aroused in us by our favorite team. That, however, is not all that ath- letics should mean to us. What sort of a person does the adjective, athletic, call to mind? Why, a healthy, clear-skinned, bright-eyed, handsome person of course! Any athlete that you can think of is healthy and it is mainly for this reason that physical training is taught in the school. Remember girls, you cannot be beautiful if you are not healthy. Posture, another important attribute of beauty,' is stressed in physical training. Exercise, too, for which we have little time during the school year, is given us in gym. Athletics, especially tennis, swimming and golf, are very interesting to girls and afford a means of spending leisure time in the open. Dancing is also stressed in physical training. This is quite important for the de- velopment of grace and ease of movement. There. are many girls among us who have special apttitude for dancing. This is a real talent whether it is in ballet or tap danc- ing. ln musical comedy, there is a demand for tap-dancers. A ballet dancer can find her place in the ballet, on the stage, or perhaps in motion pictures. The physical training department helps to develop many of our talents, but most important of all, it leads to HEALTH, the most valuable of our possessions. lltzs

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Secretarial Training is a fairly new subject, and it is not offered in many schools. It aims at giving the girls business technique along particular lines teaching them how to cooperate with others in business, and giving them character education. This is accomplished through the means of the Universal Publishing Company fa fictitious namej where every girl is given an office. There are ten departments in all where the girls take care of mail, gather statistics about the books printed, use the telephone, transcribe letters from the dictaphone and ordinary dictation, collect statistical information on the adding machines, operate the switchboard. The most recent office added to the course is that of being secretary to various teachers. Certain girls are assigned each week to act as secretaries, and they may do only secretarial work for the teachers. This gives the girls a little training outside of the classroom. The department feels that this course is a real aid to girls who seek secretarial positions. Of course it is up to all of you potential secretaries to prove it. For girls who intend to be stenographers or secretaries, a four term course of bookkeeping will give a good working knowledge of bookkeeping. However, a six- term course enables a girl to enter the working world with a thorough knowledge of bookkeeping. Many good positions are obtained by girls who started as bookkeepers. Besides regular accounting, the department offers other subjects, there are Commer- cial law, business arithmetic, business laboratory, and also a fairly new course in Salesmanship. This course is a very interesting one. The girls start from the beginning by learning all about various materials. No one can sell anything if they do not know what they are selling. This course is a very good one to take if one is interested in selling. It offers good opportunities. Many of the large department stores offer good opportunities for these girls. Of course, one must start from the bottom up, in the packing department for instance, but by starting there one may end up being a first rate saleswoman or even a buyer. Naturally, a girl must show that she has the ability, initiative, and personality which are the qualifications for a position of this sort .1 ti 1 l oo' das dd fl-if T I4 s ecrefaria jaining unc! .zdccounfing 3-. ,