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

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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 —

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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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Math students are taught “one plus one Math is a subject known to all Radford High students from the time they enter as an eighth grader until the time that they are graduated. Advanced arithmetic is the curriculum for math 8 and senior math com- pletes a student’s more difficult studies. Two credits are required in mathematics to be graduated, and a student may elect to take math 9, business math, algebra I or II, geometry, trigonometry, and college algebra. Raymond Singleton tries to learn math 8 from a classmate as he and Terry Cash work at the board on distance problems. Having a handy classmate helps when you are teaching the class as Patty Turner has found out. Community property is the best answer to hard problems in business math, or is it? John Whitehead and Sue Shiflett find that drawing figures in geometry helps in seeing the relation of sides to angles and i i — 26 —