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

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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

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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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104 THE OAKS BOOKKEEPING Income, two bucksg outgo, one buck: prosperity! Louise Cardd A very well organized course of bookkeeping is given in Muskegon School under the ablc Mr. Roy A. Peterman. Heights High supervision of Two years are required for the course. There are two hundred thirty-one stu- in this department. dents enrolled The lirst semester work consists of: bookkeeping equations, journalizing, trial balance, work sheet, statements, cash journal, cash book, sales journal, purchase journal, general journal, and Potters' Practice Set involving all the foregoing headings. ln this section are enrolled forty-seven students. Second semester students are given a bookkeeping practice set in addition to their other work. ln this section one hundred tive pupils are enrolled. In the second year bookkeeping there are seventy-nine students. The text-book that is used is Twentieth Century Bookkeeping' which offers practical bookkeeping transactions. During the second year some actual office practice is given. Mr. Peterman has a really worthwhile method of teaching this course. During the fourth semester, a iinal examination consisting of two months' work, is given. The students are instructed in detail for the first month, but the second month's work is completed entirely by the students. This test is of exceptional value to anyone desir- ous of doing bookkeeping work in the future. The class is so organized that the pupils may govern themselves. It has proved successful in other high schools and also this one. At the end of a two ycar term the students are ready to meet the business world's needs. This course is equivalent to any good commercial college. Single Rows Beginning on Left, Front to Back: J. Johnson thidden in cornerj, Walicki, Ochs, D. Smith, Kelly, unidentified. Second to Left on Outside Row, Front to Back: Mellow, Wiscll. Gould, Atkins, J. Wilson, Dodds. Third Single Row from Left Wall: Sandy, emnty seat. Frisbie. Dougherty, Zona, Cardd, empty seat. Monitors at Back Tables: Vandervelde, Braley, Howard, E. Peterson. Standing: Mr. Roy A. Peterman. instructor. Fourth Row from Left Wall. Front to Back: Pehr, Clark, S. Wagner, Fowler,VanderVeen, McArthur, J. Thomas. Second Row frotn Right, Front to Back: Melin, Shuttie, Engle, Lutz. Fortier, Prus. First Row on Right, Front to Back: G. Veeneman, Steiner, Keefer, Arnold, Sweet.