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

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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

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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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Surrounded on all sides by the machines used in the business world, Donna Johnson practices her clerical office procedures. Hands poised over their typewriter keys, students in business class prepare to drill and improve their typing skills and grades. Directors — 23