Kellam High School - Challenger Yearbook (Virginia Beach, VA)

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Block Classes Instituted ln 1970 Prove Successful For Current Year Mr. Radke, assisted by a student. goes over a business chart. ll pl Une of the most diversified departments at Kellani is the Business Department. Mr. Hubert Eason and his department teach many different skills which range from the steno block and typing to bookkeeping and general business. i sr' Mr. Edward R. Radke Mr. Robert Stahlin Mr. Hubert T. Eason Distributive Education Distributive Education Clerk-Typist I, Clerical Old Dominion Old Dominion Accounting I University, BA. University, B.S. College of William and Mary, B.S., M. Ed, T4 of speed. The four-channel listening system in one of the typing moms en- ables students to type from different dictations at different rates The block classes instituted last year have proved to be most successful. There are three of these courses currently being taught: stenography, clerical accounting, and clerk-typist. In Typing I the student learns the basic mechanics of typing and machine care. Business Law and Notehand, taught on a semester basis are both interesting and useful. Bookkeeping urges the student to discover the facts for himselfg gener- al business offers a wide range of general knowl- edge on all facets of business. Distributive Education is another important section of the business department. It is headed by Mr. Edward Radke. In Distributive Education, the student has the opportunity to get a credit and get paid for it. To qualify for Distributive Education, a student must be at least sixteen and be either a junior or senior. -. 5. . ,W , J. Ly., I . ,I hi Ak' . 1- E' Mrs. Iacqueline Foster Stenography I, General Business Madison College, B.S. Miss Phyllis A. King Clerical Accounting II, - Stenography II Longwood Co lege, B.S

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i Mullins examines plant roots along A ES- other students. ix Mr. Elgia Easter Horticulture Virginia Polytechnic Institute, B.S. .l The Horticulture Curriculum which is headed by Mr. Elgia Easter, has completed its second year at Kellam. Instruction in this curriculum first takes place in the classroom where students learn the principles of horticulture, and then, in the greenhouse where Nature demonstrates these principles to them through their projects. Projects in the curriculum this year included a bedding plant business, the raising of poinsettas at Christmas. the raising of Easter lillies, the raising of Easter corsages for mothers. An added feature v ,QI 5, QSN, ,r 5 .- it l' f of the curriculum this year was landscape design which is taught to second year students. Through the great facility of the greenhouse. classes have been able to grow and study many unusual plants otherwise unsuitable to this climate such as pineapples which. having been rooted last year. are just now beginning to bear fruit. Other tropical plants which have been raised in the greenhouse include six hibiscus plants and a banana grove consisting of seven trees. .fi Horticulture Prospers In Second Year f 1

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S1-vx, Law Classes Visit irginia Beach Courts During First Semester K i . ll. 1 nl. Vera Mittlesdorf busily adds figures for one of the business teachers. Mrs. Zee H. Pohler General Business, Business Law Marshall University B.A. S xx . I lrlvi l Q X V ' Riff, The basic business skill, typing, is becoming a necessity for Q fix 'Q 3 nearly all professional-bound students. N x 1 wg? . Miss Judith Harless Clerical Accounting II, Stenography ll University of North Carolina, B.S. Mrs. lane E. Mrs. Mary Richardson Mrs. Iudith A. Scharle Mrs. Rosalie A. Quesenberry Lypingql, II, Notehand Clerk-Typist I, II ,Wendelin Typing I, Bookkeeping orfol State College, Fairmont State College. Typing I, Personal Longwood College, B.S. B.S. A.B. TYPU18 Illinois State University, B.S. 75