Monmouth High School - Maroon and Gold Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

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M002 BUSINESS CU-Ol' The Business Co-op class not only attends school, hnt they also hold down good johs in dif- ferent Monmouth firms. The class hegins at one. under the direction of Miss Pauline Perry. At 2 :3U the girls go to work uptown. The class learns typing, shorthand, and all other things pertaining to office work. Office Practice, as it is generally called, gives the girls valnahle experience and assures them of a good job after graduation, - SALESMANSHIP lfor thc first time this year Salesmanship has a full year in which to teach the fundamental principles of selling. This takes a lot of personality training done hy Miss Esther Scott. The main class project is door-to-door selling. Convincing people that they need greeting cards and stationery is where their training comes in handy. The profit from this project is used for a class party, equipment and charity. The class also had several speakers during the year. wgg-

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BOCJKKIQEPING Lfndcr the direction of Mr. Richard Cambridge, the bookkeeping classes learned all the fundamentals of bookkeeping. Both beginning and advanced classes were held. Besides reading in the text book, the bookkeeping students also worked in their work- books and finished some practice sets. Mr. Cambridge is to be thanked for his able direction of these classes. SHORTHAND Room 209 is a room of ambitious people! Here is study at its best. For 209 is the room used for shorthand during the fourth period. Here a group of students gather to increase their knowledge in the field of secretarial work. Typing goes right along with this shorthand course, so most of the students go to the typing room from shorthand. Miss Scott teach es this shorthand and typing class. Much know- ledge is gained here. TYPING This year's typing classes have been under the auspices of two very capable teachers, Miss Esther Scott and Miss Pauline Perry. This year's classes were divided in two waysg the one semester, or personal typing course, and the year course known as commercial typing. Exercises, speed tests, timed writings, and many other typing activities were part of the curriculum. .-.21..

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MATH XYho could ever forget the good old math Remember how we struggled with algebra how willing she always was to help us? classes? under Bliss Klclieown our freshman year, and Those students preferring a more generalized course took general math, taught by Mr. Robert Talkin, instead of algebra. Then in our sophomore year Came plane Miss MeKeown. How those axioms, postulates, Last. but not least, was advanced algebra was a semester under Mr. Lester, but how much geometry directed by Mr. R. G. Lester or and theorems ran through our heads! and trigonometry for the bolder students. Each we learned in this short time. .-23,