North Side High School - Legend Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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Redskin Businessmen Prepare for Future Vocations and speedily. Here, members of one such class try to develop these skills by comparing card files and checking each other ' s for mistakes. Mrs. Maryannc Chapman checks the progress of her Shorthand 1 class, offering helpful advice to those students who are having difficulties. Dear Mr. Rogers: In answer to your correspondence . . . Stop. Transcribe. The voice of a shorthand teacher dictating to his class is one of the many business-like sounds echoing through North Side ' s 220 corridor during the week. Students learn to perform tasks varying from the changing of typewriter ribbons to the developing of an efficient office staff in business classes. Future secretaries take and transcribe dictation and learn proper forms for business letters. Students in business man- agement and clerical practice file, sign contracts and keep books as they acquire vocational skills. Redskin typists develop speed and accuracy as their progress is determined by frequent tests. The first two years of business courses cover junior busi- ness training and bookkeeping, while Business 5 and 6 deal with consumer economics and law, respectively. The last two semesters concern the organization and manage- ment of a business enterprise and business mathematics and accounting. Students may elect to take one or two years of typing, one or two years of shorthand, and one year of clerical practice. The adoption of more modern business textbooks in all courses and the introduction of new teaching techniques in several classes were notable changes in North ' s Business Department this year. 18

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Tape Recordings, Magazines Alter Language Routine While their classmates examine the work for mistakes, two French 3 students present their translations. With the addition of two tape recorders during the past year, the Foreign Language Department was able to give French, Spanish, and Latin students a more complete knowledge of the language which they are studying. In the first two years of foreign language, each student learns the fundamentals and becomes familiar with the history, culture and customs of France, Spain or Rome. Students may supplement this knowledge by taking an additional one or two years of any of the languages. In the third and fourth years of modern language study, emphasis is placed on strengthening the student ' s ability to read and speak the language effectively. College text- books are used in these courses, and pupils ' conversations in foreign tongues are recorded and examined for mistakes. Magazines printed in French and Spanish offer a frequent change from the course routine, and students find them a test of their acquired skills. The third year of Latin mainly deals with the study of Cicero ' s letters and orations, while the translation of Vir- gil ' s Aeneid, offered for the first time in two years, and other works by Roman poets highlights the fourth year Latin curriculum. 17

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People Study Other People in Social Science Classes The girls know the answer; but Miss Bash ' s question, Which state was first to ratify the Constitu- tion ? has the boys stumped. To help students obtain a better understanding of man ' s relationship to man and government in both the past and the present, and to prepare them for roles as responsible citizens in the future, are the aims of North Side ' s Social Science Department. For this reason Redskins are offered six social science courses. In world history, usually taken during the sophomore year, pupils trace the development of civilization from the city-states of ancient Greece to the world of today. This course is followed by United States history, in which stu- dents acquire a more detailed knowledge of our country ' s past. Government, which deals with the workings of a de- mocracy; and either economics, the study of the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth; or sociology, in which a knowledge of the nature and problems of com- munity life is gained, are taken in the senior year. Geography and world affairs, the study of foreign lands and their involvement in current affairs, may be elected by North Siders who wish to take an additional social science course. Frequent speeches by natives of foreign countries are one of this subject ' s highlights. 19