Niles Township High School East - Reflections Yearbook (Skokie, IL)

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WE TRAIN TO ENTER THE BUSINESS, INDUSTRIAL . .. Senior Darlene Thomas, a stu¬ dent in the diversified occupa¬ tions program, trains to be a dental assistant by working with Dr. Robert Donovan. The industrial arts curriculum is designed to prevent excessive repetition and permit broadening a student ' s educational experience to more than one industrial area. Consequently, a freshman takes Industrial Arts Laboratory 1, which is a survey course, introducing the student to various shop courses. As a sophomore, a student chooses auto mechanics, electricity, industrial draw¬ ing, metals, printing, or woods for one semester of study. As a junior or senior, a student chooses one of the above areas for more specialized study. However, the industrial art department recommends that students be limited during grades ten and twelve to fifty-four weeks in any one area of indus¬ trial arts . For students who wish to work while attending school, Niles Township High School offers the diversified occupation curriculum. This program is organized so that all required subjects and technical related classes are offered in the morning; in the afternoon, students receive on-the-job training in a rotated laboratory experience in business or industry in the community for a minimum of three hours and a maximum of five hours per day. 28

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FOR MANY OF US SCHOOL WILL END WITH GRADUATION . . . Because graduation will be the end of formal schooling for thirty-five per cent of the students, Niles Township High School offers courses to pre¬ pare graduates for entrance into the business, in¬ dustrial, or homemaking world. Future secretaries, clerical workers, typists, and bookkeepers are trained in the twb business cur¬ ricula. Students in the stenographic and secretarial curriculum, in addition to two years of typing and shorthand, study General Business and Record Keeping 1, 2 and Business Practices and Business Law, 1, 2. Students in the clerical curriculum, in addition to typing and General Business and Record Keeping 1, 2, take Clerical Practices 1 and 2 in the fourth year. This course provides training in the use of office machines. To welcome their parents to short¬ hand class on Parent ' s Day, senior Janet Ryerson and junior Beverly Wauthier pin up greetings to the Moms and Dads and display work done by the class.

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Making steel punches on the engine lathe, seniors Wayne Johnson and Bruce Peterson work in the metals shop. Before adding a finish of shel¬ lac, juniors Dave Horseman and Bill Yant sand a table made in woodshop. 29