Patrick Henry High School - Orator Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Itusimvss Skills WANTED: Patience and Fortitude REWARD: Speed and Accuracy Staccato report of typewriter keys struck by nimble fingers ... a race against the clock ... a prayer for perfection ... a mastery of (Jregg’s mystic symbols . . . trial balances that balance . . . checks . . . invoices . . . all the minutiae that turn the wheels of modern business. In a true business atmosphere, Henry’s commercial students are conditioned to the pace ol competitive effort. In order that student may obtain a working knowledge of the machines which speed up the mechanic of modern business, I lenry provides equipment for use by the class in office machine training. Pictured arc Jane Burge at the mimcoscope; Barbara Trosvik at the mimeograph: Diane Kolberg at the file ease: Jean McNral stamping incoming mail: Marilyn Maag transcribing her shorthand notes, ami Arietta Halverson operating the adding machine. A knowledge of bookkeeping is important to ever office worker, whether books are kept by hand or by machine. Henry’s bookkeeping students cover two sets of books in a one year course, the first set giving experience in keeping accounts for a one-owner business, ami the second set. the technique of keeping partnership accounts. Miss Olive Packer: Shorthand, typing, secretarial practice. Mr. Orville Moe: Shorthand, typing, office practice. Mr. Clarence Ohland: Bookkeeping. In charge of lockers Right: The class in secretarial training transcribes shorthand notes within a set period of time. Row I—Virginia Jackman, Jeanne Brennan. Willctta Ferguson. Row 2—Barbara Trotsik, Arietta Halverson. Nadine Anderson. Row i— Marilyn Maag, Margie Burnett, Ruth Holmhurg, Margaret McCormick. Row A—Rosanne Rickcrt, Mary I.ou Rickcrt.

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Clothing Learning that there arc more difference in the quality of fabric than those shown by the price tags, student of clothing learn how to appraise wearing qualities and to determine the stele in which a fabric can he smartly fashioned. A girl knows it's one thing t » exclaim: I just love that material!” Hut it's quite a tragedy when she has gone through the agonies of cutting, sewing, fitting, and finishing a dress, and is forced to sigh, What a bag! Henry students make field trips to fabric centers to extend their knowledge of warp and woof lieynnd the materials they choose for their own use. They learn how to select styles most suited to their faces and figures, and how to wear their clothes with dash and verve. These girls arc the ones whose future husbands will never hear them wail: I haven't a rag to wear! Above: Pat Pearson (at the machine) and Janice Larson ponder the fabric ami design of a dress. Below: Three smart girls model dresses of their choice: Donna Fleming, tweedy cape dress: Barbara Adams, apple-green formal: Joyce Nelson, gay plaid. Miss Estelle Clitty Mrs. Frances Soderquist Clothing and Foods Clothing and Foods

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Shop Skill Patrick Henry’s woodworking shop, under the direction of Vern Wobig, i% the only one among Minneapolis high school woodworking shops in which a hoy receives the technical instruction enabling him to build a boat. Here Kenny Peterson, second from left, proudly displays his partly completed craft to Wayne Modeen, Tom Johnston, and Vernon Stewart. Henry’s print shop trains boys in the trade of their choice. They put their training to test in the printing of dodgers and posters, advertising contracts and forms, of banquet and play programs, of Cumulative Reading Record Cards and other items necessary to the functioning of a smoothly operating school. Pictured arc Harry McDaniel, William Modeen, James McKcvitt, Kenneth S abla, and Robert Iverson. Lower left: Many boys enroll in the Machine Shop and Metals classes to learn the operation of precision machinery ami prepare themselves for jobs in private industry. Pictured arc Jack Sandberg and Tom Lipinski engaged in precision-grinding .1 lathe center with a tool post grinder. Lower right: More than two hundred students arc registered in Senior Drawing classes where they learn the techniques of drafting ami mechanical drawing. Pictured are Betty Johnson, Neal Nelson, and John Kurvers inspecting Jim Roop’s drawing of a breech block. Vern Wobig Woodwork Paul Smith Mechanical Drawing. Woodwork Joe Mullcry Metals, Machine Shop Gilbert Hardy Printing, Drafting James Erickson Mechanical Drawing, Electricity