Myrtle Point High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Myrtle Point, OR)

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Practical Training for the Future at MPHS were taking Typing I and 26 students were enrolled in Typing II. Twelve students were members of Miss Duke’s shorthand class. Typing I students learned finger placement, tabulation. letter forms, and manuscript form. Timings were given to test the student’s ability. Typing II students conditioned fingers for speed and control. If a student wished to learn a quicker and more uniform way of taking notes, shorthand was the an- swer. The course consisted of taking dictation, daily lessons, and transcribing. After completing his second year at MPHS. Mr. Or-die Hoye instructed 62 students in the fundamentals of bookkeeping. After learning how to work ledgers, trial balances, journals, and balance sheets, bookkeeping students did practice sets with complete business transactions. Commercial courses offered at MPHS prepare students in various business fields. and the typewriter is ready to go again. Mary Bones, Typing I student, finds that cleaning her typewriter is just as important 29

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 NO, IT HAS TO BE A CREDIT ENTRY. R. F. Savage is an account receiveable. That account is decreasing therefore is a credit.” These thoughts are running through the minds of Vicki Furman and Judy Van Vlack as they work together in finding their mistake in bookkeeping procedure. MISS JULIA DUKE Typing I, II, Shorthand MR. ORDIE HOYE Boys' PE, Bookkeeping IN ORDER TO BECOME more proficient, Sharon Burris and Byrl Winningham practice shorthand forms at the blackboard. Com mercial Courses Offer Tick-Tick-Tick. . . rang out the seemingly unorganized din of confusion. MPHS students were busy doing daily lessons in Typing I and II. The fundamentals of bookkeeping and shorthand are also offered. At the completion of Julia Duke’s twelfth year as typing and shorthand instructor, approximately 117 students A LITTLE DAB, a wipe, another dab, and swipe as practicing the home row.

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EYEING IN THE TARGET during their freshman archery unit are Kathy Kendall, Rhonda Mitchell, Denise Floyd, and Linda Key. Physical Education Strong Minds, Bodies Are Principle Goal Learning to strengthen the body as well as the mind were the principle aims of the MPHS physical education department. This was achieved by several new and different programs. The activities in girls’ PE included archery, basketball, gymnastics, volleyball, pingpong, and badminton. Miss Rose Marie Jackman, girls’ PE instructor, set up an obstacle course with the highlight being a ladder with a bell, which students had to ring when reaching the top. Junior girls, led by Mrs. Marjorie Lane, took the Oregon Motor Fitness tests four times during the year and noted with surprise their improvement. Boys’ PE classes, instructed by Mr. Ordie Hoye and Mr. Doug Muck, were taught the importance of strong body through the use of new equipment,such as the uneven parallel bars. Indoor activities for the boys included prisonball, volleyball, mushball, pingpong, and basketball. Muck and Hoye each helped to aid the coordination and alertness of their students by teaching a six week program of gymnastics. When good weather was at hand, outdoor activities consisted of football, soccer, fleet-ball, baseball, gatorball and rugby. These activities, especially soccer and gatorball, greatly improved stamina. 30 Junior boys and girls also had a three week course in the fundamentals of first aid.