New Athens High School - Vespa Yearbook (New Athens, IL)

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Business opportunities galore! The many business courses offered give the students a better understanding of the functions of the business world. Miss Shaughncssy’s actual secretarial experience proves very valuable in helping the students recognize and cope with the problems they may encounter. Shorthand students learned the basic fundamentals of Gregg shorthand while the transcription class strived for mail-ability in transcribing their notes. Future bookkeepers were kept busy working with journals, ledgers and work sheets. I he tvping classes learned many techniques, which help them in both personal and professional work. Filing, business machines and advanced typing are the major secretarial duties covered by the secretarial practice class. Each girl served as secretary for a faculty member to gain some practical business experience. Betty Jane Shaughnessy, B.B.A., M.Ed., C.P S Bookkeeping projects con be frustrating, but a smile is always in order when everything balances. . . . The transcription class types, corrects errors, and checks the letters just dictated. . . . After being instructed on the proper form for typing minutes, the secretarial practice class prepares to begin their work. . . . The afternoon typing class strives to increase their accuracy and speed through one-minute timings. . . . Having learne the basic fundamentals, the shorthand students begin letter dictation. . . . The stoff photographer caught these students typing intently on their six weeks exam.

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Before starting a new project, Mr. Pieron instructs the industrial arts students to draw up specific plans to guide them . . . Tim Chilton and Allan Birkner demonstrate the technique used in bending metal . . . Terry Worms, Roy Legendre, Kenny Kraus and Joseph Pieron, B.S. M.S. Eugene Napier work at their own speed to complete the articles they are making in woodworking class . . . Mr. Pieron teaches the freshmen how to read an official air force map. Do it well and do it once. The industrial arts department offers a wide variety of equipment for teaching the boys of NACHS crafts and skills in woodworking, metal working, mechanical drawing, and electrical essentials. These classes are under the supervision of Mr. Joseph Pieron. One of the f avorite phases of the program is woodworking in which the students can make not only items for themselves hut also beautiful gifts for others. By acquiring skill in other crafts the student is prepared for a non-professional occupation upon his graduation from high school. Mr. Pieron also teaches boys’ physical education and coaches junior high varsity sports. 12

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 Be sure the sides of the steer feeder ore in perfect alignment ' Elroy Parker advises Albert Winter and Herbert Parker . . . “Did you know there were so many parts to a petunia?” Mr. Taylor asks Karen Lischer, Ruth Ann Roe, Karen Nadler, Lorraine Brown, Patsy Bruns, Betty Mohr, Sharon Bald, Evelyn Miller, Joyce Weidemonn, Ronald Kniepkamp, Carolyn Emery, Harold Weigand, Roy Albert, Dennis Breithaupt, Dave Skorcz and Lela Mae Falkenhien. . . . Please move my sheep feeder over in that corner” Bonnie McBride, one of the two girls now enrolled in agriculture, asks Charles Lompc and Lonnie Schuetz. . . . Guests at the FFA Barnworming anxiously await the announcement of the Chapter Sweetheart. Agriculture-producing for lining Through the study of biology and agriculture Mr. Dennis Taylor helps the students gain knowledge relating to living organisms. The biology class took walks through the fields in search of examples of the plants which they had studied from their textbooks. One of their most interesting projects was the collection and identification of insects. In order to learn the various muscles, organs, and respiratory systems of mammals the class disected frogs and crawfish. Crop rotation, contour and strip farming, and the most effective types of fertilizers are a few of the modern ideas of farming covered in Mr. Taylor’s agriculture classes. In the spring and fall the students offered to test soil for farmers living in the surrounding area. In addition to studying the soil and planting, the students also constructed farm eejuipment such as hog houses and cattle feeders and learned how to care for and operate various farm machinery. A visit to the Purina Experimental Farms in Missouri, where the agriculture students saw examples of the farming theories they had discussed, climaxed the year’s studies. Dennis Taylor, B.S. . . . Karen Lischer, Lela Falkenhein, the minute organisms in biology. . . . Accurate soil testing Joyce Weidemonn, Evelyn Miller, Sharon Bald and Carolyn by members of the agriculture class determines the correct Emery find that microscopes are indispensible in studying amount of fertilizer necessary to increase farm produce.