La Porte High School - El Pe Yearbook (La Porte, IN)

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Using the dictaphones, Sheila Terry and Connie Ewart do advanced work. Mr. Bauer is the chairman of the commercial de- partment. Mr. Hannah was the addition to the staff of commercial teachers this year. The commercial courses are designed to make the students intelligent consumers and producers of goods and services. Many students take a commercial course before they graduate, and a large percentage of them go into the commercial, field after graduation. The commercial field improves as new ideas and inventions enter the field. Students acquire special- ized training in the typing classes. The LPHS com- mercial department receives some new typewriters every three years. The department is also equipped with a few electric typewriters, adding machines, and two dictaphones of the latest style. To improve their knowledge of business and busi- ness terms, the commercial students rake a course in business law. Terms of contracts, deeds, and financial reports are studied. Joe Barker define the terms of his outline to Cathy Otter. Mr. Hannah instructs Sandy Adams and Gary Brainerd on how to use the electric adding machine. 17

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Every typing class must learn the proper methods involved with typing. We Prepare {[er cur Juture On rhe second floor of the annex we find the commercial department. Many opportunities are provided for those who will be entering the busi- ness world. In general business, one studies in- surance, banking, record keeping, and the system of debits and credits. Bookkeeping teaches good financial practice in keeping important records. Business law cases are studied in business law. The basic fundamentals are taught in the first year of typing and the application of them in the second year. The same process is also used in the study of shorthand. Students may also have actual office practice to enable them to graduate with the experience obtained from working in the different offices in school. The business department and the local Whirl- pool plant make it possible for several students to learn how to operate the IBM machines by go- ing to classes twice a week at night. This program enables the students to find better jobs after grad- uation. Mr. Tarnow discusses a Business English problem with Dauretta Mcnta. 16

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I’cnnic Christie uve her knowledge of algebra to solve a geometry problem. Formulas, equations, triangles, and spheres are only a few representatives of La Porte High School's math- ematics department. Math courses offered in LPHS are general mathematics, algebra, advanced algebra, geometry, solid geometry, trigonometry, and college algebra. Every student must take one year of math- ematics to meet his graduation requirement. One will find many freshmen in the algebra classes. In Algebra I and II one learns all the basic funda- mentals of algebra. In Algebra III the students learn to do more complicated equations, and they also learn logarithms. Geometry works in much the same way. In Geometry I and II the students work with flat sur- faces. while in Geometry III they work with solid objects that have depth and height. Trigonometry and college algebra arc taken by the college bound stu- dents. ftlathematicJ kaA became Multiplying with a slide rule is easy, says Janet Islington to Alan Chlupacck. 18