Radford High School - Oak Leaf Yearbook (Radford, VA)

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Students are taught vocational Radford High School offers a well-rounded business course for both the academic and vocational student. Included in its curriculum are typing I and II, general business, bookkeeping, office practice, two years of shorthand, personal typing, a distributive education class, and an in- dustrial cooperative training course. Students planning to go into busi- ness can obtain a thorough preparation through these classes. Business courses are usually not begun until the freshman year when one is offered an introduction course through general business. Sophomores may take either typing I or personal typing. Juniors may elect to continue with tj ping II, shorthand, bookkeeping, or any combination of these. Seniors take their second year of shorthand, office practice, and may take a course in typing for their own personal use. Janice Bain, Jimmy Sims, David Gilmore, and Carol McDaniel use the mimeograph to make copi es of a stencil in their typing II class. This is an example of one of the many varied activities taught to advanced typing students. Glenda Richards helps Bonnie Myers with some calcu- — 24 —

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right and wrong ones are English courses Stout, Susan Haynes, Gary Goodwin, and Rebecca Silverman are talking over the new issue of the paper. Students in the eighth, ninth, and tenth grades are busy with regular English courses. In this ninth grade class, Bobby Nicholson, Billy Akers, Barbara Hall, and Jackie Pugh are learning the fundamentals of debating. Larry Price reads the answers to a test recently taken by his class on some uses of the noun. Martha Townsend and Phil Cochran show an oil painting to their tenth grade class which is studying the English novel. English is an important course of study not only because it requires five units for graduation, but because it involves a basic skill needed in other subject areas. A firm background in this subject helps to insure success in further studies. 23 —

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skills in Business courses lating in their bookkeeping class. These students learn the basic rules for bookkeeping and apply them to problems given them to work. A first-year typing class does a conditioning practice before attempting their regular work. Each student works individually in office practice class. They are taught to use all the types of machines that could be found in an office. Gather Blackburn fills out a check and explains the reason for the information given to his general business class. Zelda Simpson has a question to ask in her shorthand class. Answers are often needed to questions concerning outlines, transcription, and dictation. The distributive education and industrial cooperative training courses are taught in the morning classes and students work at their particular jobs in the afternoons. Members of the distributive education class dis- cuss the qualities that each employer look for in his potential employee. Students in the industrial cooperative training course work on speeches they have made on the tape recorder. Through listening to and study- ing these tapes, the students may learn necessary corrections which will help them succeed in their training. — 25 —