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

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Tammy Ladig appears tangled in typewriter ribbon as she prepares to change the ribbon for Mrs. Kathleen Paddock. Gentlemen . . . begins Mrs. Marilynne Curtis as she dictates to her advanced shorthand class. locations and Commercial Careers in Business World The effects of a lest vary with students in Mr. Donald Hanim ' i first semester business law class. Mr. John Walter looks on as his fifth period class ponders over a difficult exercise in bookkeeping. 23

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Developing speed and accuracy, Marsha Collins types from her shorthand notebook. Students Accumulate Important Techniques (or Future Regardless of future occupational plans, business students prepared themselves for everyday business activities. General business gave students an insight for preparation. Among other classes offered in this department were typing, bookkeeping, shorthand, clerical practice, and business law. The basic skill of clerical practice was learning to use business machines. Taking this course pre- pared students to get a job right after graduation, stated Mrs. Wilma Ashe. The various new machines added this year were rotary and printing calculators, ten-key adding machines, and electric IBM typing machines. Bookkeeping students concentrated mainly on the course used by most businesses and then went into further detail concerning the operation of sole pro- prietorship, partnership, and corporation. Concentration on speed and accuracy composed the study of shorthand and typing. Linda Jantz works diligently on the rotary calculator, one of the new business machines in the Service Center. 22

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Numerical Knowledge Fills Minds of Mathematicians Immense change took place in the mathematics department this year. The difference was the new math which devoted more time to each topic, and stressed the why rather than the how of com- putation. Proving algebraic theorems, definitions, and struc- ture became a more important part of the algebraic courses, although solving for the unknown still re- mained the primary goal. Geometry, which included plane and solid geome- try, dealt with basic logic, congruent triangles and loci, and then delved into the study of cubes and spheres. Trigonometry and analytic geometry, combined with some college algebra and an introduction to calculus, were offered to seniors and advanced jun- iors. Determining the relationship between the sides of a right triangle and its angles constituted the major part of the trigonometry class. Mathematics furnished a vital foundation to science and engineering, homemaking, and business and technical skills. HP - l L ma M 9 v mKa K .■■• » -. J Mr. Charles Clark explains a few points on an algebraic graph to junior Cindy Klejnot. Working on his trigonometry assignment, Joe Housman bends over his slide rule to solve quadratic equations. Fellow students watch with interest as Roxann Waters and Marilyn Kelder prove the congruency of two triangles. 24