Muskegon Heights High School - Oaks Yearbook (Muskegon Heights, MI)

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102 THE OAKS iii ., Q tx.Vi.l au I V10 First Row. Left: Koziak talonel. Second Row, Front to Back: Gardner, Nordstrom. Panks. Third Row. Front fo Back: Bendus. Dnalek, Shunta, Simpson. Fourth Row: Front to Back: Pearson. Krueter thiddenh, Hislon, VanderVeen. I. Thomas. Fifth Row, Front to Back: M. Wilson, Beecham, Korstanie. Whittum, A. Smith. Sixth Row, Front 'o Back: 1. Anderson, Danford, Roliison. Clawson, A. Shunta thiddeny. Standing: Miss Irene Brief, instructor. SHORTHAND Clara Workman Shorthand is the art of writing words and phrases by the use of shorter sybmols, sometimes jestingly called turkey tracks. Classes in this subject are taught by Miss Irene M. llrief. During the lirst semester Q11-ll, shorthand students begin their study in the Gregg Shorthand Manual, with accompanying and supplementary work in the Speed Studies. The stu- dents are allowed from one minute to one minute and fifteen seconds to transcribe each shorthand plate in the Manual. The students are also given work at the rate of from forty to fifty words a minute. In the latter chapters, material is dictated from sixty to sev- enty words a minute. Most of the stu- dents in the 11-1 class are capable ol reaching this speed. Others have the ability to take dictation even faster. During the second semester, before Turkey tracks! Thousands per hour! proceeding with their work, students are given a complete review of the first semesters principles. Business letters are dictated to the students at the rate of eighty words a minute. Students in third and fourth semes- ters are given a thorough review. By this method, the student is taught the special speed building principles. Miss Brief dictates the material to the 12-1 students at an average of from 75 to 90 words a minute. In both classes students are given various kinds of business letters to be transcribed on the typewriter. A speed of 100 words a minute is required for a fourth se- mester student. Miss Brief also gives much practice at the rate of 120 words a minute. This two year course enables com- mercial students better to secure a po- sition of a clerical nature in business offices.

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FOREWORD MICHIGAN CENTENNIAL 1835-'37 -- 1935-'37 For a hundred years, Michigan has extended a mighty hand in the direction of progress. As far back as September, 1835, when Michigan was a frontier community filled with daring men and women who stood ready to defend their homes and rights with rifles, the spirit of progress was uppermost. Governor Horner, on the occasion of his first speech in Detroit, received a bullet through his hat and is reported to have said, I apprehend no danger! That is the sort of courage upon which our great state is founded. But in their feverish zest to build a state by carving and hewing their way through a wilderness, our pioneer fathers found no time for cul- ture. Indeed, there was no need for culture in those days. Yet in the history of every civilization there comes a time when culture is necessary to progress. Our forefathers realized this fact. It was during the Constitutional Convention of 1835, therefore, that a basis was laid for what is now a fine school system. Only a little had been accomplished before this time. Much has been accomplished since. Much more re- mains to be done. We have chosen the Michigan Centennial as the theme of the 1937 Oaks, not for the sake of flowery tribute, but simply out of gratitude. We are glad for what we have and what our state has been. The problem is nevertheless ever before us. We need strength to carry on, and we shall carry on, for we feel that in the schools of today rests the future of the next one hundred years even as our good fortune of the hour depended upon the foresight of men and women of a century ago.

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T H E O A K S 103 - SENIOR OFFICE TRAINING Listen to the clatter of the keys! Senior Office Training is designed to lit students for future secretarial work. The usual activities with which the stenographer-secretary is concern- ed are studied. The main object of Senior Ofhce Training is to develop and perfect the secretarial students ability as a shorthand writer and typist, and to broaden his knowledge of business procedure. lt provides practice in the laboratory in solving secretarial prob- sufficient materials lems, so as to add not only to the student's equipment as an effective business worker, but also to provide for his future growth. Certain factors typical to a large number of businesses are woven into the text, Secretarial Studies, so that they will be valuable in any business the student might enter. JIJFIICB Van KHITIDBI1 Hn Monday of each week the stu- dents are given an assignment long enough to keep them busy the entire week. Un Monday a budget is handed in by each student containing the com- pleted assignment. Every day three accuracy tests are given, out of which one must be perfect. Besides these, speed tests are offered twice a week to help build up the speed of the stu- dent on the typewriter. The students also are required to finish ten lessons on the adding machine and ten lessons on the comptometer. Each student has the use of a type- writer two hours a day, of which part of this time is devoted to doing work for teachers, and practice on the add- ing machine and comptometer. Miss Kathryn Reid is the instructor. Standing tat hack of roomj, l.eft to Right: Workman, Mss Reid, instructor, Starks tat bulletin boardi Back Row Cseatedl, Left to Right: Burandt, E. Pettrson. Goranson. Cincush. E. Hansen thalf-hidden! Second Row, B:ck tseatedl: Marek, Papuan, Jedrezak. Melin tface hiddenb. J. Veeneman, Praskac Third Row, Back tseatedlz Spence. Chris'ophersun, Barr, Felber, Katt, Roth Fourth Row: M. Earle tstandingl. Hulka, Clark. Hendricks, Pomuer, Lorenz, Trosko, Walker Front Row: Skodack tall but scalp, hiddenl, Ouellette tnose hiddenl, G. Veeneman, Benedict, Shears, Fling s, ,, wwe- ' H