Mishawaka High School - Miskodeed Yearbook (Mishawaka, IN)

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Timed Writings, Dictation, and Work Sheets Fluster Commerical Students SENIOR Joyce Ochampaugh gains practical office experience while transcribing a business letter from a dictabelt on the dictaphone machine during her office practice class.

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and Concoct Delicious, Nuttitious Meals FOODS I GIRl.S kaiu to use good table manners, set an attractive table, and prepare ap- petizing food. Here Cheryle ' Wade passes the cream for her oatmeal to Mary Naugher. pineapples, cherries, beans, and corn. In Foods II, stu- dents baked pies, cakes, and hot rolls. They also planned well-balanced meals using the basic seven foods to meet the body ' s nutritional requirements. Beginning seamstresses fashioned cotton school dresses in Clothing I. More advanced students made wool skirts and lined tailored suits. To be well dressed at semi-formal dances and to surprise their beaus. Clothing III girls created their own evening gowns. During the one-semester home management course, girls learned to analyze floor plans, to care for home furnishings, and to budget money and time. They also visited model homes. The home nursing students studied the human body, kinds of diseases, and the treatment of a patient at home. Stuffed toys, such as teddy bears, humpty dumpties, and clogs, were made as special projects in child care where the growth of children from birth to the lively age of five was studied. IT JUST FITS! exclaims Sharyn Lymangrover to Sharon Strombeck as they lay out a wool skirt pattern in Clothing II. 27

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HEADACHES over trial balances that don ' t balance plague these advanced bookkeeping students, Alvin Kanouse, Phil Derrickson, Bill Paulus, and Carole Miller. Eyes on copy, write! called the typing teacher. This phrase started typists on what they hoped would be record-breaking timed writings. Commercial stu- dents combined their knowledge of grammar, oper- ative skill, and a proper letter form to produce mail- able business letters at record speeds. By the end of their first year, pupils were required to type 26 words per minute and were aiming for 50. At first shorthand students found that reading Gregg characters was like reading hieroglyphics. After mastering the symbols and building a vocabulary, they could take letters from dictation and transcribe them. Bookkeeping pupils learned to find the net worth and net income of a business. Advanced students learned to use the voucher system and simple cost accounting records. The Commercial Department held a contest near the end of the year. This aroused the competitive spirit. Hoping to win, students flexed their fingers and reviewed shorthand characters. At the May banquet prizes were awarded to the top three individuals in each division. Ball Band gave a trophy to the out- standing senior of the department. Ruth Foulke Mary Dunn Ruth Galles Sandra Card Martha Miller Audra Rea Donald Streets 29