Palo Verde High School - Olympian Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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urse and Secretaries Aided Students Mrs. Anna Nord was the school's nurse for the '68-'69 school year. She cared for students who became ill or hurt during school hours. The girls in the nurse's office worked one class period a day assisting the nurse. They tiled cards, checked stu- dents in and out and answered the tele- phone. At the beginning of the year the nurse gave them a schedule to fol- low while working in her office. Secretaries in the attendance office were kept busy recording and averaging daily attendance records. They supplied the answering service when parents called in to report the absence of their child. They also took care of students' class admit slips making sure the stu- dent had obtained a signed note stating the reason of absence. The admits were classified A, B or C depending on the validity of the students' excuses. To be excused for absences, students were required blue slip which was checked and stamped by the to bring a note from their parents and fill out a secretaries in the attendance office. The school nurse, Mrs. Anna Nord, required the assistance of student helper Judy Moore to keep accurate records of students leaving or entering the office. .Qs is 5. 1' . Attendance secretary Mrs. McCalIey answered calls from parents notifying the school of their child's absence. She recorded and averaged all absences. Mrs. Huisinga, along with other secretaries in the main office, handled pro- blems of registering students into the school and taking care of absentee slips.

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Girls interested in business or secretarial careers were given the chance to pany. Students were acquainted with office forms, procedures machines and work in an office atmosphere at the model Titan Missile Manufacturing Com- etiquette. The company was set up in a business education classroom MADGELENE WANDA L. SUSAN CALVIN WALDEN VIRGINIA ALFRED ZAMMIT MORRIS RODGERS SHOEMAKER Bookkeeping WILSON DeP0f'm9nl Secretarial Cooperative Exploratory Busi- Record Keeping Shorthand Chairman Practice Office ness Training Personal Typing Typing Shorthand Typing Education Typing General Business Typing Notehand TYPLHSJ School Work Shorthand Experience A ,U se ff fl L ? M J ' TQ? 3' ymf, gn ',-- A H K- I 'YQ l K l v i 'P' , .,. is 4+ C ' i P SM ' + YT? , 4. trys ,rk, 'K'-Arif? -1-.,.,,, L2 ' N 9,5 ,E ,gl :H iz , 'V I A 3 J- K 4. 3, V, , , J,f , - .,J :I I 3 '- ,'l,lrf'V: W, . - ' , ff fl . 2 AEG! 5 . A c,c, -'A We Ml Gutside Was Qffered ' Bus' Ed t' Senior Barb Baker worked after school at Roy Long Realty typing and an- swering the telephone. She obtained her iob through Cooperative Education. ,A 4,1 xf 'i Personal typing was a one semester course teaching the basic skills of typ ing. Florence Pratt did practice drills in class to improve her technique.

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WILLIAM M. MITCHELL Librarian 1 . if J DOLORES POWDRILL Librarian 41 Q2 MLL r is VA-. . .r 'I 1 T A Jas. J IL: Human Relations Steve Hazelbaker took advantage of listening to tapes through earphones. Tape Clllb recordings and phonographs were available with permission of the librarians. Library facilities were open to students each school day Monday through Friday. Student librarians helped Mrs. Powdrill and Mr. Mitchell during the day. They sorted, filed, checked books in and out and helped with many other things. Stu- dent librarians were selected through the honor service and Youth Corps, and some were volunteers. Many references were offered by the library. Among them was the Readers' Guide. This was useful in locating mag- azines and periodicals. Other useful items were filmstrips, records, news- papers and college papers. These were helpful to students with term papers and extra curricular activities. Conference rooms were available for discussion groups. Anyone could reserve these rooms with permission from the librarians. Framed art pictures could be checked out for use at home. The microfilm pro- jector played an important part for stu- dents looking up information. Microfilm Helped Students With Term Papers Students discovered that using the card catalogue helped them to find books and non-book material. Librarians Mr. Mitchell and Mrs. Powdrill helped demonstrated use of the Reader Printer microfilm students to find books in the library. They also machine which made prints of magazine articles.