Lansdowne High School - Lahian Yearbook (Lansdowne, PA)

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ZJrentl ant It7, •eat lofC t ommerce • Typing Under the skilled and watchful guidance of Mr. Kraber and Mrs. Petty, a battery of typewriters is operated by those students who wish to enter the business world and by those who feel that the peck, cuss, and erase system is, as a theory of operating the machines, far inferior to the more scientific and less haphazard touch system. The object of typing is, of course, to put as many characters on paper accurately in the shortest possible time. Most students soon become speedy operators at the machines, but a few students have the misfortune to be forced to work with typewriters that refuse to either spell or punctuate. Proficient exponents of the art of typing are in great demand about the school, and these hard-working boys and girls are glad to do their bit in keeping the school records in apple-pie order. If the high speed tick-tickers were not with us, more of us would be forced to read our own chicken tracks that pass as handwriting. • Shorthand Since secretaries arc made, not born, shorthand is a must to commercial students. After the fundamentals of this strange language of curves and angles have been learned, the potential secretaries strive for speed and accuracy; consequently, under the supervision of Mr. Kraber and the time watch, many stenographic speed-demons are born. Practice makes perfect” is their slogan which is put to use not only in the class room, but in taking letters from other teachers to help with the various school activities. • Bookkeeping Mr. Kramer’s bookkeeping course should be of great help to Lansdowne girls who will have to know how to juggle their budgets so that hubby won’t find out that the five dollars he gave them to pay the gas man was used for a new bonnet, and to the boys that expect to be business big shots. Seriously though, balancing the books of a corporation or small company is a job that requires considerable technical training, training that is given under the direction of Mr. Kramer to most of the commercial students of the school. Students are taught the correct business forms for making entries and listing items, and they arc also given practice in adding columns of numbers; adding them so that the sum is correct down to the last penny. Those who take this course will find that their budgets will balance and their company’s finances will be kept straight; while those who go through school without coming under the influence of Mr. Kramer’s course, court financial disaster. • Office Training Each year office training, which covers almost every important phase of office life, produces Lansdowne’s gift to the business world. Under the guidance of Mrs. Petty, the students learn to operate complicated machines with ease and accuracy, to file papers under the right folder, and to do most of the school’s mimeographing. Also, the daily drills in mental arithmetic have knocked the dust off many a brain. Then, of course, that very important subject How to win jobs and influence employers” is being continually stressed and emphasized. E. Hefner, I). Wunderlich, E. (Joeller Helen Townsend Betty Saunders Irene Durant

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SHORTHAND Upper, left: Mr. Krabcr, Figgs, Rutter, Wetzel, West, Beck, Johansen, Miller, Hefner, Pile, Coffelt. OFFICE TRAINING Lower, left: West, McCully, Ayers, Figgs, Durant, Coffelt, Miller. TYPING Upper, right: Shaw. Yeager, Rebstock, Beyer, Eagle, Twesten, Chapin, Gardner, Hahn. Brusstar, Reynolds. BOOKKEEPING Ijower, right: Sell mucker, Kramer, Stnyrl, Grey, Steel, Nahill, Waggoner, Kalemkarian. Mann, Kiefer, Bonsall, De Forge, Ole-wine, Lambert. 28

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Our Social Whirl • Many a telephone buzzes on a Saturday morning, and many a feminine voice starts the same, inevitable and weighty discussion: W'hat are you going to wear tonight?” Then ensues the usual and very debatable argument— Heels or saddles?” This may seem quite unimportant and frivolous to you, but to us Lansdowne High girls they are very important questions. It is very necessary that we appear at the many and varied social functions sponsored by the school, properly, becomingly, ethically, and conventionally attired. And in manner of dress and custom the mighty Seniors are given the privilege of patronizing the greatest number of activities during the year. Undoubtedly the Senior Final is the most important of all these. From the very day the wee Freshmen enter high school, they begin to plan and dream of this affair, it having always been a closed dance to which each and every Senior has been given an invitation. Every girl or boy who has even the slightest interest in dancing or social life attends. Many of the shrinking violets in the class are drawn from their hiding places only to go to the dance and find what a lot of fun they’ve been missing. In its modest way our dance can be compared in importance to the Main Line Assembly,” and at the time, all worries, such as the foreign situation, are pushed from our minds. Two other .dances are also presented by this aloof and so- Top: Mr. Horner and Betty Bonsall. Middle: La Blanc. Ebcrhardt, |. Shoemaker, Haaycn, O'Rourke. Bottom: Horn, Finn. M. Shoemaker, and Powers, Feher and Gill. 30