Palmer High School - Terror Trail Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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BUSINESS To compete in modern business not well prepared by education or experi- ence is not as easy as it used to be. The aim of the commercial department is to furnish the education and experience so that none of the students who finish this course will be unable to compete in any portion of the business world. Three years of typewriting are con- tributed to perfecting speed and ac- curacy. Those who finish this course are prepared to meet all the trials of business life. Enter any typewriting room Hlled with the din of pounding keys and see for yourself the efficiency of this department during a speed test. Shorthand is offered for two years and helps round out the course. In addition to this side of Commercial, courses are offered in Window Trim- ming, Consumer Materials, Consumer Chemistry, Commercial Law, Office Practice. Bookkeeping, Retailing, and Advertising. The class in Window Trimming has a window on the second floor which they decorate weekly with supplies from downtown merchants. Then, too, this department owns an imitation store in which the students perfect their sales ability. No student who finishes this course can go out into the business world without the fundamentals of good business dwelling in his mind. Every kind of business is taken care of by this department, and it is one of the most demanded courses in the school. Clothes lor the young man. A la Beau Briimmt-ll. Sixty words per miriu Horner, C. W. Preston, W. H- Iuden, Nancy Pratt, Lucile N. Allen, E. G. Turner, Pearl V. Lee, Edna M. Hoinko, Marjory Pittman

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S Dessaint Edna Hunter Frances Anne Carmody Frank Patterson Ruby M. Bateman Lillian G Vhinburne 'Nlewton IANGUAEES When we studx people through their language and customs they become 1 erestmg and lixe l C S H there are enough languages offered to keep any linguist busv all three years Along with a xerx hne English course the students are gixen choice of four foreign languages There are three xears of Latin axailable at C S H S and since the English languages is made up almost entirely of Latin this is a xaluable course The trend toward Pan American unity s n c re is ed the popularity Spanish Students translate articles from Selecciones de Readers Digest and also gain more from the course through Latin American moxies For the French students there are two xwrieties of newspapers LAmer1gue 1 typical French newspaper and La Vxe a current exent paper much like those used in history There are numerous ways a German student may become more interested in German traditions and life Une of the most popular is the introduction of speakers who haxe done research in th1s work or haxe xisited Germany No matter which of these classes a student spends time in his viewpoint is broadened. and he grows to under- s nd his own language more thoroughly. sf