Orangeville High School - Red and Blue Yearbook (Orangeville, Ontario Canada)

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GLIVET DEMONS TRATTEON Cn February 23, 1962, Mr. Petch, representative of the Olivetti Machine Company? presented the commercial class with a fine demonstration on the different types of adding and calculatglng machines. Mrc, Petch demonstrated an efficient manual adding macheine, the Prima 2,00 This is a compact machine and very easy to move from place to place., The Electrosunnma, and Multlsumma enables you to add, subtract., and m,ul.tilplly. With the pressing of different buttons, :it is possible to do long problems qu.ickly and accurately.. Last of all he displayed the Dilvgisumma which adds? subtracts, divides, and multtiplles., lndeed, this would be a valuable machiene in every office. ' We, the commercial class, appreciated Mrg Petchls demonstration. ll am sure everyone enjoyed it, and lt will be very helpful to us in the future. Shirley Ward Commercial DEMONSTRATEON OF VICTOR MACHlNES On February lb, l962,, Mro Gordon Murray, repress entative of the Victor Adding Machine Company, presented the commercial class with an excellent. demonstratzlon on the different types of adding and calculating ma Chine s L, He displayed the fullakeyboard and the ten skey adding machines. These machines are most helpful in business and are able to lessen your mathematical workt The printing calculator enables you to do the simplest method of addition, subtraction., multlplllcfatrlone and dflvlslon and with the pressing of different levers it is possible to do the most complicated pros blems, We, the commercial class, appreciated Mr., Murrayls visit and interesting demonstlrlatieon.. l am sure it. will be most valuable and profitable to us., Dianne Nodwell S eniol' Commer cial

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MRLQQAMES WARD-LAK sPEAgKs- On January 2.3, after completing our study of Law this year, Mr. James Wardlaw came up to the school and spoke to our class on the topic of Conditional Salest. Conditional Sales Contracts were distributed to every member of the class and then Mr. Wardlaw proceeded to go through the con- ditions of the contract with us. I-Ie pointed out that before signing one of these contracts., you must be very sure of what will be encountered if ever a payment 15 m1ssed His advice was never to sign a Conditional Sales Contracts Either secure a loan from the bank or wait until you have enough money to cover the entire payrnent. After Mro WarCllaw's talk, we had a brief questxon and answer period in which Mr. Wardlaw answered all questions that we had to ask. Joan Eve rt son, Sem or Commercial MONROE CALCULATINC MACHINES On Wednesday, February lt-4, Mr, Brien of the Monroe Calculating Machine Company, Inc., of Kitchener came to talk to our class about their business machines., He brought with htm a tenskey adding machine, a fulls key-board adding machine, and a calculator. Mr. Brien showed our class how to add., subtract, and multipl.y on the adding machines. On. the calculator, Mrn Brien showed us how to muls tiply, divide, check invoice figures, along with finding the answers to some complicated science problemso This demonstration was educational and interesting to the commercial class., We feel we have benefited greatly from thiso Ritchie Coeppinger Senior Commercial 1 3