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

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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

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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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SGCIAL SCIENCES Qbelowj Pointing out election procedures, Mr. Ken McCul- lough gave last minute voting instructions to homeroom representatives for the first presidential preference election. Qrightj Mr. Monte Rassner's freshmen class was initiated to one of his more difficult world culture examinations. iwlglg,-,ill ills ig ...M pull i il pil XX1 iii'i?ai Killian's First Mock Election Results Echoed National Tally Seniors took part in an experimental American History and Government course this year. The course was divided into three twelve-week units covering economics, government and communism. With an election year at hand, the government classes under the direction of Mr. Victor Manos staged a mock presidential preference election. County voting machines were brought into the school and students followed the true election procedures from registering to voting and the electoral college. Richard Nixon was the students' choice. Field trips and guest speakers were included in the Economics and Americanism versus Communism courses. Humanities was offered to both juniors and se- niors. Teacher aides tutored small study groups which were supplemented by the social studies re- search lab. ln depth study included such topics as the analysis of Freud's psychoanalysis and key Su- preme Court decisions. With the completion of the audio-visual complex, the department hoped to use the closed circuit tele- vision to improve large group and individual study. Who will be next? was the thought as Betsy Vance led her Humanities classmates in a game of spin the bottle . 4 W , I l ,.,... , My WW Wm, Vg V 2' , ,'w.,Li 2, , 4, ,