Notre Dame High School - Maryscript Yearbook (Moylan, PA)

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Urban Cflzveazk af Wbloffyn mlb . . Yifanmfiolzbn, Typing and Office Pmdzbe . School was 'L work and no play, often thought the Commercial Department while Sister Ivlagdalena gave dictation. Taking letters at the rate of 90, 100, or 17.0 words per minute, the girls hoped that hy June they would reach that coveted 140! The surprising thing was that even early in the course the class could read its letters hack! These future secref taries acquired iinesse as they learned to transerihe their notes in type, Some students mastered the intricacies of liling while others heeame adept with electric machines such as thc comptometer, the dictaphone. the electric typewriter. High typing averages merited for many girls the role of typists for The Turret or, possihly, for Maryseript, How important they were in keeping the world ahreast of Notre Dame news! Such practical experience was supplemented hy a rclfgious training whith helped to make them true Christof phers for the husiness world. Qilice Practice and Bookkeeping classes hccame skilled in the techniques of filing and accounting, and the use of husiness machines. The do's and don't's of oflice etiquette were carefully studied. As they prepared for the approaching step into the future. everything, from securing plane reserva' tions to working agrecalwly with other memlwers of an oflice staff, was investigated. Notre Dame commer' cial students have striven always to heeome perfect secretaries. capahle and eflieient. The clicking of typewriter keys can be heard echoing from Room 308 as the Office Practice class brushes up on speed while Elinor Simcox, Nora Lyons, Barbara Magyarik, Marcella Smith, and Mary Ellen Fitzgerald, seem deeply absorbed in work. 'Twentyfeight

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Sister Jeanne Marie demonstrates that the centuries'-old facts that the class studies in the Religion text are still of vital concern in the latest books and magazines in senior English classes. Thermometers are calibrated for their boiling and freezing points by Marie Canavan, Theresa Zalcrzewslu, and Barbara Robinson in science class. Roberta DeNight points out to the National Problems class the difference between credit in a factory, a mill, and a store.

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'TVN' Betty Kasprowicz is busily looking through the Hle cabinet for information for Elise Lindsay, who is acting as executive for a day while Marie Campbell whizzes about the keys of the typewriter. These three members of the Transcription Class are experiencing a few of the things that make up a day in an office. Busy typing away to get the material ready for the printer are our selected group of Transcription typists. Left to right: Ann Boyd, E. Kern, M. McCann, E. Niedzialkowski, M. Canavan, Zeuger, M. Buckley, D. Zakielarz. These typists for The Turret devote their precious time after school to our beloved school paper. Kathleen Mortimer and Barbara Boyle try to beat Father Time as Eleanor Casey dictates a letter during a time test. But they also remember that accuracy counts even more than speed. nil it Tu'enly'nin6