Miami Killian Senior High School - Catamount Yearbook (Miami, FL)

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BUSINESS EDUCATION Business Education Created New Way to Teach Material A telephone teletrainer designed for high school instruction purposes by the Southern Bell telephone and telegraph Company, was used in the Business Education Department to prepare select students for positions in com- munications industry. ln addition to becoming proficient at posi- tions of switchboard operators and computer programmers, students investigated other facets of business education such as account- ing, good display construction, shorthand, busi- ness law, and typing, all of which provide a foundation of basic knowledge needed to secure secretarial and clerical work. Though the total enrollment in all business courses was large, the typing classes proved to be the most popular with all the different grade level students. m .. hi.. Shorthand sometimes had shortcomings felt Deborah Wells as she asked Mrs. Virginia Norton, business teacher, for a helping hand. 2-fs-fssssswisfwivss-vis-size K is NN-Sl if 'UNK wx w'.'fl..-str IT IS USUALLY WHAT IS UP FRONT THAT COUNTS, EXCEPT WHEN MR. DAVID COLE WAS LECTURING EVEN THE REAR WAS HIP.

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. N 3 as s . Cabovej The dream job of the Industrial Arts department was in the hands of Mr. Art Thornton who helped and watched as Alice Miller and Mary Bradshaw demonstrated for the boys the correct way to prepare a tool box. fright! Hoping for one more turn to do the job Mr. Thornton completed the finishing touches as he reassembled the boat motor which he used to demonstrate the components of an engine to his shop classes. Girls in Shop Sparked as Much Interest as the Boys in Home Economics Yes, Virginia, there are such things as coeducational shop and home economics courses. The old beliefs that neither was possible were discarded and the new arrange- ment offered motivation and incentive in class studies. As a new branch of the traditional Home Economics department, the Home and Family Life section departed from strict cooking and sewing lessons and its students obtained practical skills for future homemaking. For Young Men Only was offered the second semester for future bachelors who wished to obtain a basic under- standing of home management and personal and house care. At the same time that boys were studying meal planning, the females in shop courses explored the intracacies of woodshop, electricity, and household mechanics, the first course of its kind offered in Dade Count-y. Three hundred dollars bought the cast iron table top for composing type in the Graphics laboratory, and three mockup demonstration devices were obtained for Power Mechanics to allow complete viewing of the entire opera- tion of the cycle of an engine. The Home Economics department introduced Home and Family Life students to a different realm of homemaking through lectures by doctors, economists, lawyers and demonstrators from large commercial firms. These teach- ers heightened participation from class members by as- signing and personally checking various home projects students executed in their homes. The Industrial Arts department did not have college and university students as interns, but rather the Neigh- borhood Youth Workers Corps aided instruction in all phases of the technical arts. ln the future, innovations in shop curriculum might be Aerospace Technology, American Industries, Building Analysis, and construction courses. Class Workrooms were also included in proposed department completion. 37

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DISPLAYS OFTEN MEAN A SALE DISCOVERED IVORY MILLER AND SHEDRICHA WESLEY. gi ix- MMA, Cleftj To keep in step with industry, classes were automated. Sherry Funk operated a calculator while Ken Jacobson studied an adding machine. Cabovej CDE classes prepared students for the business world. Fruit of the Loom was a theme chosen for this display by Janice Hill and Kat Adderly. 39 New