Morenci High School - Copper Cat Yearbook (Morenci, AZ)

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COMMERCIAL Skill in business techniques becomes pupils’ main objective. Mike Garcia, Joe Corona, Priscilla Luna, David Gonzales, Zeke Sanchez, and Virginia Patton follow directions given by Mrs. Lawton. Miss Marjorie Johnson received herB.S. from Ball State, Indiana, and her M. S. in business administration from the University of Arizona. She teaches typing and shorthand, and sponsors the Copper Cat. Her community in- activities include Greenlee County Society for Crippled Children, President of Morenci Teachers' Association, Recording Secretary of Delta Kappa Gamma, and Morenci Public Library Board. She enjoys water color paint- ing and photography. To the business minded students of M.H.S. the commercial department offers various courses to help them personally as well as vocationally in later years. Basic skills and correct care of the typewriters are taught in beginning typing classes. Advanced typing brings forth an introduction to indexing and the modern day office machines such as mimeograph, ditto, vari - type, calculator and adding machines. The IBM electric typewriter is something new for the students to master this year. 20

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ART Originality and talent are revealed through amateur artwork. Art classes this year were directed by Mr. Loren Wilson. He has a B. A. from Northwest Nazarene College, Nampa, Idaho, and a M. S. from the University of Oregon. Mr. Wilson was the photographic advisor for the Copper Cat. RIGHT: D. Apodoca, L. McGrew, L. San- chez, E. Morales, R. Mendoza, and C. Esqueda, learn to use perspectives. BELOW: V. Esparza, G. Gomez, G. Peete, D. Molz, R. Salcido, and G. Arguellez work on their leather projects. According to Webster, an artist is a person who creates something beautiful, such as a painting. However, art students soon found that there was more to it than this as they removed paint and cleaned brushes. Encouraging them to do better work was Mr. Loren Wilson, who stressed originality and creativeness. Among their projects were basic techniques in sketching, working with pastels, painting with oil, tempera, and water colors, leatherwork, copper enameling, and silk screening. This by no means ends the selection, for linoleum block printing, poster work, perspectives, and many more were offered in art classes.

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COMMERCIAL Typists learn vocational and personal use of office machinery. ABOVE: Richard Creary pays close attention as Mr. Lemons explains the error in his work. Mr. Paul Lemons received his B.A. in Education from Arizona State University. He teaches general business, business economics, and bookkeeping. He sponsors the sophomore ABOVE: Aurora Gallegos, Betty Duarte, and Carolyn Clemmons work earnestly at learning to operate the calculating machines, in advanced typ- ing class. class. Mr. Lemons is a member of the Latter Day Saints Church and is activity director of the youth group at this church. His hobbies include hunting, bowling, and insurance. Knowledge gained from bookkeep- ing, shorthand, business economics and general business, as well as typing, sets the student on the threshold of the business world and acquaints him with economic problems of everyday living. Bookkeeping presents the basic principle of accounting and shows the student how to prepare inventories and financial statements. General business and business economics inform the student of business procedures as they affect the consumer, such as handling money, budgeting income, buying goods and services, and life insurance, using communications and travel services. BELOW: Gloria Martinez, Duvi Con- treras, and Celia Guerrero attempt to operate the mimeograph machine after receiving instructions in typing II.