Key West High School - Conch Yearbook (Key West, FL)

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if X.! K Nellie G. Panfaleo Helen T. Wirmusky Frances C. Sands Shorthand I, Typing I, Shorthand Il, Business Typing II Office Machines English, Bookkeeping 22:22 :III-W illlill , 4 You guessed it. These are busy commercial teachers. -- .. 245 X 72 Our wr- ,f Clack, Clackf' go the typewriters as the girls in Typing ll try for perfect papers. Watch your figures, Kay. You certainly don't want the wrong bill figures, says Mrs. Pantaleo. to send someone K 5355'-

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Jeanne Weatherford tries hard to balance her bookkeeping accounts in Miss Wirmusky's class. It's really a job! You can see pencils fly over shorthand pads in Miss Wirmusky's class second period. 7 xv. I vc. 1, - , --.1 1 -.a iiri F . ....-. lit. Commercial The commercial department is housed in the first three rooms in the building of the new high school, quarters adequately equipped for business students. Bookkeeping and short- hand students meet in the first of these. Book- keeping students become acquainted with all common business forms and learn the use of all standard record books. Bookkeeping for a sole proprietorship and for a partnership is studied in detail and corporation records are introduced. Students in Gregg shorthand take between TOO and T20 words per minute at the completion of their second year and have had practice in the transcription of their notes. The office machines room has such up-to- date equipment as completely automatic Friden calculators, 10-key adders, dictaphones, comptometers, electric typewriters, duplica- tion machines, a bookkeeping machine, and other miscellaneous equipment. In this class, office etiquette is taught during the first six weeks. Then, students are rotated from one machine to another. In a well-lighted room with twenty-five new typewriters out of forty, students learn to type between fifty and eighty words per minute. Business mathematics and business English are shared with other departments ofthe school. Two highly competitive awards, a type- writer and a medal, are given at the end of the year to faculty-selected outstanding stu- dents. l sure wish l had these machines for bookkeeping class. -'E

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Kathryn Lowe Helen D. Pease Home Economics I and II Home Economics l ,..J L X Step one in sewing is correct cutting of the material, says Miss Lowe to Joyce Toonk and Annette Dion. 1, s...A 2 Getting in practice for the future are Dorothy Jacques and Bernice Celani. ' 28 Home Economics Since the building of the old high school on White Street, Home Economics has been offered. This course is given to prepare girls for home and family life. Every girl is required to study in this depart- ment for one year, the second year is optional. Food and nutrition are studied for one semester, clothing and textiles for the other. Attention is also given to child care and development. The sewing classes make the costumes for school performances. Every year they present a fashion show for the Parent-Teachers Association. The Woman's Club Homemaking Medal is given to a Senior girl who has done outstanding work in this course. Under the auspices of this department, the Betty Crocker Test on general homemaking is given to every girl in the school year. The winner of the Search for Future Home- makers of Tomorrow test was awarded a trafari pin. Physically, the department has been greatly enlarged and enhanced in the new building. Two completely equipped laboratories, foods and clothing, and one homemaking room simu- late the most modern and up-to-date working environment in which the girls could find them- selves in real life. The foods lab boasts of six unit kitchens, each containing a stove and a set of dishes, aluminum utensils, and a laundry unit with an automatic washer and drier. The clothing lab has five cutting tables, twelve varnished ma- chines, and abundant closet space. The horne- making room has a living room and dining room combination. 4.3 aSf 'lx iff. I tit Look, Mom! I told you I could do it, even if it is iust boiling water.