Meyers High School - Colophon Yearbook (Wilkes Barre, PA)

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BUSINESS EDUCATIO 'ra- Qbv. -Q- f 4 Sharon Kingeter and Margie George Typing class doing daily assignment working with business machines on modern machines. l Miss ANN Hucurs Miss CATHERINE MCMANMON The Business Education course at Meyers is designed as a terminal course. This means that, when a student maintains the standards set by the department and completes the prescribed study, he is ready for employment in the business world. The subject matter trains the students for the following positionsg secre- tary, stenographer, bookkeeper, typist, business machine operator, and general ofiice worker. The course of study in this department includes business mathe- matics, beginning and advanced shorthand, dictation and transcription, begin- ning and advanced typewriting, beginning and advanced bookkeeping, accounting, and office practice. Students are considered in the second semester of the twelfth grade for placement in business ofiices under the Business-Co-operative Work Experience Program. Under this plan students are dismissed from school at 1:40 P. M. and work in local business offices at the minimum wage rate authorized under the Wages and Hours Law. This department has made many changes from year to year. This includes the purchase of new and better equipment and the teaching of more up to date methods. This year's new equipment includes electric typewriters, adding machines, and oiiice machines. V g 1 X A ' M Miss RxTA MURRAY Mus. BERTHA PARK Mas. L0nnA1N5 RIOFSKI 20

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LANGUAGES Meyers students are well versed in the language of other nationalities. Through the efforts of the teachers in the language department, the basic fundamentals of French, Spanish, Latin, and German are taught to many of the students who pass through our school. These students are drilled in gramrnarg they begin to enjoy the beauty of the spoken wordg they appreciate classic literature of foreign authors. The students learn not only to appreciate the language they are studying but also the entire culture of the people. Recordings, conversation, reading, songs, and games are employed to enable the student to develop an understanding of the spoken language and an ability to use that language. All of these things have helped the languages play an important part in Meyers' years of progress. The languages learned by the individual student will be quite useful in the years to come. It is becom- ing more and more important for people to be able to communicate with each other, if progress in world peace is to be made. Miss Muu.4M WATKINS Supervisor , LL Mrs. Sayes and Paul Shovlin lead the German II class in singing Schnitzelbank. M l Us 19 W MISS ALETHEA BRENNAN Miss MARY BURNS MRS. MILDRED FREY Mus. LOUISE SAYES Miss ELSIE WEAVER

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GUIDANCE MR. ENSO FROSINI fa T r E. Miss Louxsz Fiscmzn MR. ROBERT SABATINO ng. Ma. Roamu' JACOBS MISS MARY BURNS The Guidance Office is well-equipped with information pertinent to students in every grade. Until the school year of 1958-9, Meyers had no facilities for a guidance department. Students with problems discussed them with their teachers, and students, intending to further their educations, went to the library for catalogs and other materials. Recognizing the need for such a department, the school remodeled the old seventh grade homeroom, 105, into our present-day Guidance Office. The staE had graduallybincreased and presently, we have two full-time counselors. And 3 part time counselors. Teachers with outside training in this field, serve as guidance counselors for the different grades. Without fear, students can discuss private problems freely, and often recommendations to alleviate or erase the troubles are given. All students are helped in choosing courses and careers. Numerous pamphlets are in the odice and posters exhort the students to plan ahead, and balance their time. Seniors interested in colleges are aided in making their choices, in securing admissions, and sometimes, in obtaining scholarships. In fact, the Department seems to do a remarkable job in finding schools and academic assistance for certain students. Each fall a survey is made on the last graduating class, and it reveals the number of students attending colleges and nursing schools, and those working or unemployed. After interpreting the results of the battery of tests administered by the Guidance Department, the counselors are assisted in the determination of the student's aptitude and interests careerwise. Class standings, so very important to Seniors, are compiled by the Guidance Department. During individual confer- ernces, these facts are discussed. By its advice, its tests, and its knowledge the Guidance Department tries to direct the students into making the right decisions for themselves and to become better citizens of this complex world. The addition and assistance of our Guidance Oflice has been a most wel- come innovation to the educational structure of our school. It is hard to con- ceive how we could manage without it. 21