Lowe High School - Towers Yearbook (Windsor, Ontario Canada)

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Tli Windsor-WnllrefyiHu Twlumnl School Year Hook 63 Our course at present is divided into two regular department s: the Accountancy and the Secretarial, in both of these Departments, all students to jrraduate. must take literature, business English, and oral and written composition, pub¬ lic speaking, business arithmetic, history of Commerce, commercial geography, economics, typewriting, office praetics (including tiling and business machines), junior ac¬ countancy, business law, science of materials, spoiling and penman¬ ship. When one considers the above comprehensive course of study, three years are all too short to ab¬ sorb everything as thoroughly as desired and for that reason we recommend all to take a fourth year, if possible. We have no apo¬ logy to make for our commercial courses or the length of time it lakes. Our courses have been ap¬ proved by a commercial advisory committee chosen from the most prominent business managers in lli border Cities. These men, em¬ ploying office help for years, know the education required for the sev¬ eral positions and so we are certain ' hai our courses are the most effi¬ cient ever devised. To provide for the lulls and gaps that occur our pupils take the add¬ in-. and listing machines, compto- m- or work and billing, and in their fourth year the Bookkeeping ma¬ chine and Dictaphone. To those in their 3rd year who have reached M) per minute on the typewriter, the pri iloge of taking the Dicta¬ phone is given. •V- office typewriting is one of the most important subjects in the modem office, pupils have to take this subject in all years of their coiiisc end the majority reach 50 and 60 words per minute. Medals galore for 50 per minute and over have been taken by our pupils in the past few years.

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r 2 The Windsor-Walkcrvilie Trrhnicnl School Year Book OUR COMMERCIAL DEPART¬ MENT With the greatest number in at¬ tendance of any vocational school in the Province outside of Toronto, ihe Border City communities should he proud of their Commer¬ cial Department in the Windsor- Walkerville Technical School. This attendance has increased over el¬ even times in the last sixteen years. With a staff of eight Commercial Specialists to lake charge of Hie special commercial work along with Graduates and Specialists in the English and Mathematical bran¬ ches, 1h is school is ' equalled by none in the thorough business and all round efficient training it gives. A commercial education not only should enable one to earn a liveli¬ hood, bul be such that will fit one to enjoy life in the future and make of one a good citizen. Such an education should be broad and practical in English and Business ; l;dhematics, ana lead One to ap¬ preciate good literature, music and art. The above, combined with the sciences allied to commerce, toge¬ ther with a thorough commercial education, should amply tit one for life ' s work. The great success of our Com¬ mercial Department has been ow¬ ing to the fact that we have en¬ deavored to give our students such an education. For our girls we add cooking, millinery and dress¬ making, knowing that the ideal of women is home-making; and these, added to our Commercial Depart¬ ment course, give an efficient edu¬ cation for a successful life. In the accountancy department we give the boys in addition to the regular subjects, blue-print read¬ ing. drafting and auto mechanics, while the girls are taking part in the household arts: thus our boys are more efficiently fitted for all round office assistants and execu¬ tives.

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64 The Windsor-Walkervtllc Technical School Year Book BOOK-KEEPING. BILLING MACHINE, FILING CABINET As legibility and rapidity in writing is one of the great require¬ ments in the business office today our specialists in penmanship do not slight that subject. From the “Ford Motor Co. came the follow¬ ing statement: “It is very appar¬ ent in our every day experience that the value of being able to write legibly is demonstrated many limes in the course of the day.” In the rush today of business life we also demand rapidity with the legibility and our specialists de¬ mand these two qualities in all pupils’ work. Owing to the superior training our girls taking the Secretarial c ourse receive, they are able to take the best positions even though they are very young. They take the work from the start that one would expect an experienced girl to take. A young girl just 17 was chosen by one of the largest corporations in our Border in competition with all classes and ages. Another, a graduate of last year, only 17. and who stood Ifith in her class, is to¬ day secretary to the. medical ad¬ visor of one of the largest corpora¬ tions in Detroit. She takes in shorthand his lectures to the vari¬ ous branch plants he visits and her salary is $125.00 a month. In our Accountancy Department our boys take advanced account¬ ancy instead of stenography and are trained for accountants, audi¬ tors, and general office assistants. All other subjects of the Commer¬ cial course are taken by the pupils of this Department. One of our past graduates was the youngest ever to take the Cer¬ tified Public Accountant’s degree of Michigan and today he is audi¬ tor and office manager for a De¬ troit firm at a very large salary. We never have enough good boys in our Accountancy Department to supply the demand. One of our graduates just 21 is now head of the office for a Windsor firm at a salary of over $2,000.00 a year.