Ottawa Hills High School - Legend Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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Students Meet Business World Typing to Sousa's March is not unusual for beginning typing students, as records are fre- quently used to increase the smoothness and rhythm in their typing. Business courses are not restricted just to those wishing to enter the business field. In addition, personal typing is offered to those who are going to use typing at home or college. For those planning to follow business as a vocation, shorthand, office practice, advanced typing, retail selling, business arithmetic, and bookkeeping are offered. Pointing out one ol the charts used in the com- mercial department are: MRS. DOROTHY HILL, typing, shorthand, and office practice: MISS ALMA STACE. typing and shorthand: and MR. CHARLES CHANTER, bookkeeping, retail selling, business math: and commercial law. The cardinal rule of typing. never watch your hands. is observed by these students who want to gain speed and accuracy. In retail selling, students learn that the lay-out ol a store is as important as the selling techniques. This chart shows the correct layeout.

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Music Has Full Year Musically, Ottawa has been a very busy school. The operetta Iolanthe was presented by the A Cappella choir and orchestra in Feb- ruary. Ottawa's Choraliers, part of the A Cap- pella Choir, gave many community concerts, especially at Christmas time. Glee clubs, also participated in several assemblies and con- Certs. Both the junior and senior orchestras were honored with an invitation to perform at the Vlusic teachers, ARTHUR GORMAN. ROBERT Mid West and Western Michigan conferences, PRP-TT' Gnd MERWYN MITCHELL' me Milking respectively. The band added to the football games by performing half-time shows for the spectators. aver plans for the music department. Beginning instrumental students practice every day to prepare for the time when they will be members ot Ottawa's band or orchestra. Singing provides a welcome change from academic subjects tor the eighth grade chorus. 24

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Planning assignments tor their junior high arithmetic classes are MR. CORNELIUS KOETS and MR. OWEN EISTER. Mr. Koets also is in charge of the Visual Aids Department. 'S-. Math is also the field of DAVID NEWTON, algebra and gen- eral science: GORDON LANGERIES, math: and DONALD KOOIMAN, geometry and algebra. MISS LENORE BADER algebra, trigonometry and geometry, teaches algebraic symbols to her class as MISS LELA DAVIS. arithmetic. and MISS DOROTHY BORDEN, geometry, look on. Math Program Enlarged Who needs mathematics? Everyone! Stu- dents taking a college preparatory course must have two years of mathematics, algebra and geometry. Many other courses are offered at Ottawa, including algebra III and IV, solid geometry, and trigonometry. Persons who hope to enroll in college courses such as engineer- ing, architecture, medicine, or forestry all need a strong four year foundation of mathematics. This is the first year Ottawa has offered a four year mathematics program. Students inter- ested in a business course may take business mathematics or bookkeeping. Students who have been successful in sev- enth and eighth grade arithmetic are urged to go on to these advanced courses. Using math experience gained in algebra and plain geometry, these students are working out advanced equations in their solid geometry class. 26