Lansdowne High School - Lahian Yearbook (Lansdowne, PA)

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Miss M. An eny and S. Van Siclen listen attentively to visiting guests. M. Mellon and S. Van Siclen talk over the forthcoming business convention. onyentionjc BIND NA TIONS R. Shoudt displays trophy won by Distributive Education Students C. Hooven, Fitch, and B. Dougherty admire it. The adding machine helps C. Martin calculate large sums. B. Schoener checks for typ- ing errors. Typing class is conducted in businesslike manner. Seventeen

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ftaoeeae joooooo aoooooi ooooooo B. McDonald sells cards for F.B.L.A. to B. Caudioso and J. Kniland. M. Gouse sells crackers to J. Ranier. S. Kryzanausl as scans magazine. Miss B. Capece corrects N- Stone’s typing position as A. Kegel loo s on. TRADE AND COMMERCE As economic practice is one of the essential com- ponents of the difference between the United States and Russia, the quality and knowledge of our busi- ness leaders will figure importantly in the outcome of the international situation. Business courses were offered to those students who wished to enter this field as typists, secretaries, file clerks, machine operators, and other related posts. Business schools will lie entered by many students after graduation. Others will enter their field of work immediately. Students learned the principles of general business, typing, bookkeeping, business law, shorthand, and office machines from their fresh- man through senior years. The noise of typewriters often echoed through the halls. An investigation of these sounds showed the eager typists hard at work learning such tilings as the form of letters or how to type columns of figures. The highest-ranking first and second year typists entered a national typing contest. The complicated-appearing machines in the busi- ness room often aroused the curiosity of students who did not understand them. To business students these posting machines, comptometers, and mimeo- graph machines were easily understood and operated. A majority of the business students were members of the Future Business Leaders of America club. This club was noted for its active members who always seemed to have an item for sale. Through this group, the typists were provided for teachers. They were depended on to keep records, type mimeo- graphs of tests, or type information sheets for stu- dents. In this way business students were established as an integral and valuable part of the school. Russia’s largest department store is named Gum. Sixteen

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BACKBONE OF OUR SCHOOL’S POLICY Dr. E. Carlton Abbott. Superintendent Mr. Wa ne A. Klinger. Administrative Assistant Mr. Joseph D. Mo ore. Principal until Dec. 1959 Eighteen Mr. H. Stanley Klecl(ner. Acting Principal