Perry High School - Perryscope Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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THIS COMMERCIAL DICPARTME 'i Yon cannot hit if you do not aim It is the aim of the Commercial Depart- ment of P. T. H. S. to educate young men and women, giving them a practical knowledge of its fundamentals, such as Book-keeping, Short- hand, Typewriting, Spelling. Arithmetic, Per- sonal Iilfciency, Salesmanship, Science of judg- ing Men, Law, Ofliee Practice, Concentration, Thought and the preparatory Academic sub- jects. It does not make any difference what a man is or Las been, if he can be induced to be- come interested, and has access to something he likes to do, having proper instructions plus backbone, he can and will succeed. Let me say here, the Commercial Depart- ments of our schools are not the dumping grounds for illiterate, stupid pupils. If you stop to think, you can see that it takes personality, alertness, and initiative to run a successful busi- ness. It is our boys and girls, who graduate XVhat a Grand and Glorious Feeling When Wendell does not have dictation, When Pauline can have all afternoon to do Bookkeeping. q When Bertha gets more copies than Hazel in typewritiug or vice versa. lNhen Beulah can go to the Freslunan room. When Lida can use lxer wings and does not have to walk to school. W hen Mary can cat lunch providing the lfe'l rings before she starves to death. When Les only hears his motl1er's voice and not her foot steps. XVhen Bertha can come to school in an acro- planc and avoid Fuller's Hill. XVhen Hazel lets us all into the movies for nothing and no one says to licr-- Vk7l:o brougl.t you home? When we all get an accountant's degree and can take dictation at two hundred words per lninulc. from thc Commercial Departments, who take up and keep up the affairs in the business world. and does not the success of our town, district. county, state and nation, depend upon business carried on successfully? If our Commercial Students do not have the above mentioned assets, they can not and will not do their share of the work. Waken up, boys and girls, rally to the call of the business world, through a four years Com- mercial Course, as the boys rallied to the call ' 'To Arms. You owe it to yourself, and above all never cheat yourself. Honesty with your- se'f and others is the only policy. Put something in your head, which will start it to work for you. and you can be what you will. You are entitled to something that will be the means of your success in the future, for your parents pay for the upkeep of our schools. We solicit your patronage and your hearty co-opera- tion. OFT HEARD EXIJRkiSSIf,NS', XVho is the Vamp in this Commercial room ge- now '4How many pages of shorthand have you? I got clear down to the last line and hit an s for an a May I have some change, please? it Park your chewing gum here, please? Oh, I hate to give it up VVell, I don't care. but l don't mean I d-'in't care. but I d0a't care. Q What is the matter with this ! ! ! ! ? ? P ? ? Trial Bala 1ce?' Do not yell so loud, you are not personally Ifliicientf'

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F i ily Rf HAZEL BAKER II,xnov Pinto: COMMERCIAL Mix a little folly with your serious thoughts Hazel is Il girl who lives in town, She has blue eyes and hair of brown, You'll Kind her most any place you go, lispeeiully in Mike Kurolick's show, A writer is she of no small fume, In long hand or short hand it is the same. l l BEULAH LAYHEW UBOOLAU PHILO: COMMERCIAL TAKE LIFE EAsv Beulah is another girl ill our Commercial Class You'll search f ar for a nicer lass. She's short and heavy and has dark brown hair When it comes to cooking she sure is right there. After every game you'll find the team At the place where Beulah serves ice cream. BIERTHA VARGO HBERTH Thesiang Basket-Ball, Commercial. ALWAYS ON TIME This little damsel with eyes of brown, Comes from Whitsett, the well known town, And though it is far she never is late, For she knows too well what would be her fate. Bertha is a guard that is hard to surpass, She works very hard and plays very. fast. A commercial she is and is high in repute, She rloesn't talk much and never disputes.

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VVliCn de ji xniors Try iW'l'l'll Al'0l.OGlE5 TU PAUL LAURIENCE DUNRARE G'wuy an' quit your talkin', all yo' classes, Put yer lesson books away: Wllllt!S de use to keep on tryin'? lil' you study twell you're gray, You can't make de grades reeitin' Lak de ones dat seems ter ily F'om de teachers to de grade cards When de Juniors try. You ain't got de nachel o'gans Fu' to make de thoughts come right, You ain't got de brains and 'bility If you'd stay up all de night Tell you one thing now, you classes, An' I'm tellin' you fu' true, When hit comes to raal down thinkin' l'1'ain't no easy thing to do. Easy 'nough fu' folks to hollah, Vlfatchen' on from de side line, But when it comes to de basket-ball Yo' want de juniors ev'ry time An' fu' real melojous music, Dat jes' strikes yo, hea't and clings, Jes' you stan' an' listen wif me' When de Juniors sings. Have you ever heard our speakers At de contest, speak their part? ll' you hain't yo' sho' hev missed it Fu' in dis we're mighty smart. Now to name all ob our virtues Would tak' so long 't would mak' yo' sigh S0 jes' yo' stop and listen, classes, When de juniors try. 4 l