Lew Wallace High School - Quill and Blade Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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BUSINESS CLASSES. IMPLANT PRINCIPLES OF ACCURACY Many students not planning to attend college look forward to positions in the world of business. Preparation for these voca¬ tions may be made in many of our business courses. Classes are offered in shorthand, typing, office training, bookkeeping, and general business. Junior and senior boys and girls are eligible for these courses. Shorthand is offered for two years. Students perk up their ears, wear their fingers to the bone to achieve dictation at the rate of 110 words a minute. Typing I students look and peck. Their first goal is accuracy, then speed. It is hoped that they will be able to type 45 words per minute at their year ' s end. Students desirous of advanced secretarial work enroll in Typing II. Proper form and style neces¬ sary in manuscripts, legal papers, and business letters are taught in this class. With an eraser worn down to the very tip, a bookkeeping student may heave a sigh of relief, at last this column checked. Bookkeeping helps a student learn the basic fundamentals of business financing and accounting. With understanding of general office needs and continued perserverance students go far in the business world through the application of their knowledge. Mr. Robert Yates checks his class group to be sure that accuracy, supplemented by speed, is the by-word of his typing students. Shorthand II students are motivated by their keen desire to enter the world of business sometime in the near or distant future.

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Betty Pavol is pleased with the speedy totals given by the electric adding machine. Before using the mimeograph machine, Leslie Piatak checks her proof copy. 26

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Mr. Reinhardt Tauck explains the fundamentals of a metal shop machine to Bob Cochran. Eyes gleaming, Mary Kay Mathews and Barbara Bastion watch Linda Komisarcik withdraw a pan of delicious meatloaf, that was prepared in cooking class. Steve lesicko finds furniture refinishing a pleasant and satisfying experience in the well equipped woodshop. VOCATIONAL CLASSES . . . PROMOTE SKILLS AND INTERESTS The ever growing need for trained man power makes it apparent that continued emphasis will be placed on vocational education. Such courses as metals, woodworking, radio, printing, me¬ chanical and architectural drawing help prepare many of our young men and women for technical school, industry and the trades. Classes in cooking, home nursing, sewing and home eco¬ nomics introduce new concepts of living to our girls. Pride is manifest in all who have worked diligently to finish an end table, book shelf, leather purse, or dream house plans in our vocational classes. Our ink fingered print shop students work diligently preparing commencement programs, signs, posters, and game schedules in our well equipped print shop. The tantalizing smells from our cooking room classes do much to bolster feminine morale and continually entice more students to these courses. Homemakers learn baking secrets as well as helping the modern miss become a perfect fashion plate and excellent housewife. Creative accomplishment is the goal of students enrolled in our vocational programs. Nearly 900 students are enrolled an¬ nually in these courses. Having engineered our station W.G.V.E. ' s basketball broadcasts with Glen Park Business Men ' s funds, Ernie Nims indulges in his first love, broadcasting games from our school station. 28