Robert E Lee High School - Leeway / Record Yearbook (Staunton, VA)

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Proper poise and self confidence are necessary in being successful in the business world as Craig Green demonstrates. Directors — 21

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DE Offers On The Job Training Continuing to be a very popular depart- ment, distributive education offered to Lee students high school credits while earning a good salary. In DEI students learned the fundamentals of the business world while DE II and III 20 — Directors students left school at 12:36 and contests the Lee High DECA went to their respective jobs. The chapter was honored for having students received on the job the largest membership in the training and acquired the necessary capitol region. Several Lee skills to become successful in contestants in regional competition the world of business. Lee DECA won first place, making this the members had avery successful year. largest number of Leemen to enter At the regional and district DECA contests in recent years. = eS ie i f i BE = DECA club officers Debbie Whitesell and Ricky Kite preside over a club meeting as they listen to a representative from Woolworths. , Ve

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Students Learn Typing Skills In Office Machines Looks of frustration characterized the business classes. The one semester course of personal typing gave students the basic skills of typing. Students eager - for more experience joined the typing class where they developed skills in let- ter writing, business forms and correct typing habits. Clerk typing taught fu- ture business leaders how to use various office machines, basic business prac- tices and general office procedures. Shorthand class enabled students to further their office proficiency by teach- ing them a method to increase their speed of writing. In deep concentration and peering attentively at her typewriter manual, senior Phoebe Vines pre- pares an assigned task for class. In an unusually quiet, empty typing room, smiling Steve Davis decides he must brush up on his type- writing skills. 22 — Directors In the midst of books, typewriters, adding ma- chines, and calculators, students industriously learn proper office procedures. ree =. eee eee Ee