Plymouth High School - Mayflower Yearbook (Plymouth, IN)

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 Commerce then, I business now A look at todayS requirements in the field of Busi- ness Education finds the list of Business courses offered to the student arc long and numerous, from beginning typing to on the-job training in Business is made easier and more efficient with the modern and automatic office equipment available to the students. Back when it W3S the Commercial Department of Plymouth High School, business students were required only to take shorthand and typing. At the same time though, there was only one typewriter in the whole school, and the typing class had to borrow it from the school office. Today there arc 35 manual typewriters used by about 197 beginning typists and 35 clcctnc typewriters used by the advanced typists and other business dassev The Business Department also has 13 adding machines, 6 electronic calculators. 4 dictaphones, a microfilm reader- printer. also a voice transcriber that b connected to 20 shorthand stations, and mimeograph machine with its various accessories. Today there arc 355 students cnrolf cd in business courses of some kind compared to those first few In the first business class of P.H.S. There are also classes of Business Law-, Mathematics. Bookkeeping, and General Business which do not require mechanized or electronic equipment. ABOVt A book- keeping clatt of 1913 being tew- ed on then knowledge of bookkeeping RIGHT The 1913 typing d«i» tested on theu knowledge of thetf typing tfoUi in the tugged blind fold test

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Through years of practice, talents increase Basketball had its official start in Plymouth in 1903. Organized by Fred Koonzc and A. R. Randall, the team traveled to all their game by train. Mistak- ing a girts rulcbook for boys, the first team practiced following girts rules. They soon discovered the right way to play during their first game which they lost. The year 1921 found the team playing ball in the old amory. Although playing in an inadequate gym. the team scored many victories including a victory over arch rival Rochester. This fast moving sport has grown quickly over the years and now holds first place in the field of sports at P.H.S. RJGIfl The yen IW brought Huosttf Hy uena to Plymouth llgh. The team member» wxw Hubert Tanner Lloyd Boweii. Lari McLaughlin. Fouler Hr Inn Giron tmkrwood. and ABOVE: 1913 found gut ipoiti emerging en the form of a Johnson, Father McCux). Irene Lacher. Frances Love. Mildred I . l,!j Me |flu C. .1 'I | Re • M 3uttiur 6trie ttankr! Sail cram 6 • Yesterday and Today