Ridley Township High School - Archive Yearbook (Folsom, PA)

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or flee Z?u5ine:55 mr ing of the mechanical principles involved, and accuf racy in work. Students learn to type straight copy and to set up letters. Only toward the end of the year are the speed tests introduced. The second year's work stresses speed with accuracy, and each student has a budget to complete. During the third year the typing course is expanded into general secretarial training. It deals with filing, transcription, speed tests, work with the dictaphone, tabulation, setting up letters, and filling out forms varying in range from telegrams to income tax returns. The work in hookkeeping is continued through two years. Students receive hasic training in handling journals. ledgers, and financial statements in the first year. ln the second year the students hecome ac' quainted with machines used in husiness ofliccs adding machines, calculators. bookkeeping machines. comptometers, and ditto duphcators and mimco' graphs. Commercial students are also taught the elef ments of husiness law. The Commercial Department also offers a course in personal use typing for general and academic stu' dents to enahle them to acquire enough skill to do their own typing work. The Commercial Department has the responsif bility ot placing graduating xniors in jobs. Nlrs. Kline takes care ot the girls and hir. Martiii the boys. ln thc past several years many students have obtained positions as a result of the departments recommendations. 'I'u'e1ityfmie Above Left: Typing II class strives for accuracy and speed. Above: E. Spardoski demonstrates use of dictaphone. Filing in Office Practice class. rg

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Ill lt is the purpose of the Commercial Department to give students the training necessary to enahle them to secure positions in the husiness world. By taking ei -ininercial courses through three years students may hecome stenographers. typists, tiling clerks. or book' keepers, Many graduates from Townshipis commer- cial course hold responsible positions in the husinesses and industries of Philadelphia and Delaware County. COMMERCIAL TRAINING Elf, M R. As early as the ninth grade students may elect Junior Business Training, an exploratory course in commercial work. In this course students may dis' cover that they have an interest in and an aptitude for business training. The suhject matter of the course includes the handling of personal hank accounts and check writing, money orders, the use of the mail service. transportation, personal budgets and costs- information needed hy people in all walks of life whether they are in the husiness field or not. Most commercial students take work in shorthand for three years. During the first year students learn the theory of shorthand. and hy constant practice they acquire the ahility to write this fascinating language. ln the second and third years the students are given dictation for transcription, and as the ahility of the student to take dictation increases, the speed of dictation is gradually increased. The first yearis work in typing stresses the acquirf ing of skill in the use ot the machine. an understand- Upper Left: Bookkeeping II class learns to operate office machines while working on bookkeeping practice set. Middle Left: B. L. Wien illustrates correct shorthand forms to class. Lower Lcfl: Shorthand class takes timed dictation.

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avg ai ,fir Sewing machine is operated by M. Lindreth. VOCATIONAI. clothing class. onstrate how to set up a dinner table. Home Eeonumies is offered through the six years of our -piiniorfseiiior high school curriculum. During the seventh, eighth and ninth grades all girls Lire re' quired to take eourses in whieh they receive instruef tion in the fiindaimentgils of sewing :ind cooking. During the senior high school years girls may elect Vi mini 1n.il Home Economies as their inzijor study. Un the high feliuul level the course includes zi study of the nutritional needs of the family, food selection :ind preparation, rind meal plzinning: shelter and home sanitationg thrift, etiquette, and home man' agementg home nursing, child care and guidanceg laundering and the selection and care of clothing and a study of the relations of the members of the family to each other and to society, and of their responsibilities to the family group and to society. The work is planned and carried on in such a way that the girls not only acquire skills in the home arts, but also develop selffconiidence, initiative, leadership, cooperation, judgment and efliciency. Besides the work carried on within the school, each girl whose major work is Vocational Home Eco' nomics is responsible for extra school work in the form of home projects. Each project is carefully Mrs. Culver helps L. Founds in a senior L. Founds, S. Prichard and D. Vavra dem