Pleasant Mills High School - Spotlight Yearbook (Pleasant Mills, IN)

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Due to the war we have edfed a ?athemat.: refresher. In this course we are stressing the principles of Arithmetic, 5931102 with such subjects as equations, percent, and for- mu as. CGVHERCIAL CUHHIFULUM . Pupils et Pleasant Hills are offered two curiculums in which they may major, the academic and the commercial. This Year the commercial curriculum includes Junior Business, Bookkeeping, and two years of typing. None of the courses are requireu, but there is usually little escape from Junior Easinesa. The Four classes have an enrollment of eighty-two P 8. Tgxing 1 Here the pupils learn the fundamentals of typing, and for aims there are twog An exploratory course, and typing for Personal use. As a first semester renuirenent, they rust be able to type twenty-five words per mi ute on a fire minute SP995 test. 'During the second semester the students are all PrOceed5ng at their own rate, some fest, others slower. The enrollment is 16. They are--Jack Allen, Fern Case, Bettv Death, Ellen Draper, Pauline Haskins, Donna Johnston, Betty Litchenberger, Wanda Mann, Fayma Hiller, Doyle Painter, Robert Sipe Roy Taylor, Bonita Thatcher, Barbara white vnu Phyllis Wolfe, A The best typing students in the class are Fayma Killer and Phyllis Wolfe. For the pest 4 or 5 weeks the class has been working out Fudtots as a requirement of the course. The students may work at their own speed and ability in completing this as- Siinment. The teacher gives many time tests in order to see what progress is mace by the s+udents. Most of then make an average of 20-25 words per minute. A few of the faster ones make 30-40 words per minute. e .ma.a..1 11 h In this class the finishing touches may be put on for vocational typing if the student desires. During the most of the Year the class had a weekly four-point program. MTBBY were to C11 Pomplete certain required co,y work from the textvbook, C21 actively raise their typing speed at the rate

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ll J' .U .. of one x-.ork per minute per seek, C33 suffer serie kind of test, usu.lly e dictated letter, old Q47 Jrite one letter ter Meet to sons friend, the lezter being soiled by the telcgerc ' at the beginning of the Iirst Seuester the enrollnent woo I4 students. Vary few of these 14 ere figuring on office jobs einer greduetion but it in still o fine subject to tgge. The close is going -long just fine and st full speed. They hove done most of the exercises in the hook end ere now nor - ing on the Yearbook of l94b-43- The students also helped on the legiltretlol of gescllxe end foodstuffs. The students who enrolled in it ere: Dorothy shine, Alice Luginbill, Hee Sill, hotle keinhnrt, sinlfred Shear, Gloria Shoaf, Helen Funk, Ivan Allen, Janes Kyyers, Lloyd Lichtcnberger, Floyd Huffman, Bob Norkinger, Rolond Jolie, sod Harry Speekmanv Dorothy Jnits, Lichtenbergor all have meds 55 aords BOQKKEEFING The Bookkeeping class, through diniired Snoaf, and Lloyd per minute or more. the introduction of one new thing ot e time, is leerning the double-entry system of recording bookaeeting. The elle sf tns.course ,re to slplore the sulj ci, to g.io a knowledge for personal recordfxeeping, to learn a vocation, and to learn some of the accounting principles used in business life of todey, st this sriting the students ere deep in the Spencer Retail Practice Set- Here they assume they ere working for Mrs Spencer, and for. a two month period, keep the some rec- ords uS can actually be found in any smell-toon Hardware, store. Those who entered Bookkeeping et the beginning of the school term ere: slice Luginbill, Dorothy shite, Gloria Hee Shoaf, ninifred sooaf, Hee Hill, Mabel Reinhert, Helen Funk Maurice Teeple, Ivan Allen, Floyd Hufimen, Cnhrles Frey, Lloyd Lichtenterger, Lyle Bailey, Miles Jones, and Forrest Hhikins. V The first Semester didn't go so 'good with some of them and at Christmas Charles Frey and Virginia Beam dropped it to take other irportent subjects. The girls seemed too good for the boys. The tts bright- est Bookkeeping students are both girls, Dorothy unite and Gloria shoaf. Gloria raked up the lsrgest score on the first semester test, getting 107 right out of e possible score of 107. - 6'