Plainfield High School - Silhouettes Yearbook (Plainfield, IN)

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botfi duruMj ktCjk school CtM l 0 c(u6tto i Susie Baldwin and Carol Young receive help from Miss Durr while using stencil equipment in an office machines class. The commercial department at P. H. S. is growing rapidly. Perhaps it is because more studentsare entering the field of business and perhaps it is because our daily lives call for this training more now. Typing and shorthand are becoming a must in our everyday lives. Teaching these courses for personal use, for school, and for future jobs is the objective of these classes. Office Machines courses are designed to acquaint commercial students with equipment they will probably use on the job. Business, bookkeeping and sales classes are planned to be beneficial to any student preparing to enter the field of business. Here, would-be business men and women learn gen- eral office practices, techniques, and man- ners. Although the commercial department is specialized, each year more students are en- rolling in these courses. The future will see great growth in this department. Using the ditto machine are advanced typists, Faith Friel and Jo Ann Gosnell. This machine is used by teachers and students to run off tests, pro- grams, and announcements for the school. z Shorthand is fun (that’s what it says) and practical, too, says Bonnie Buis, one of sixty-three shorthand students. 13

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cowM ptefxUG $tu Wts (p jobs Explaining to Betty Andrews how to change her typewriter ribbon is Bill Wise, a fellow Typing I class mate. The twenty-eight typewriters in this room serve approximately eighty-eight typists. An adding machine and a Monroe calculator are machines used by Sandy Schlegel and Mary Ann Mclndoo in office machines class. Jane Stamper adds figures on one of the adding machines available for use to any bookkeeping student. 12

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pMtriteol is ofjfj ifids by vmo cwjoJI Martha Jones pins on a pattern for a skirt she is making for herself in her Homemaking class. Stirring the chocolate at a stove in the Home Ec. kitchens is Dorothy Barnaby. Beside her, Carolyn Atkinson heats the milk for the cocoa they are making. Allan Simmonds, student in a drafting class, draws house plans on his drafting board in a shop class. 14