Rock Island High School - Watchtower Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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Surrounded by ledgers, occounts, files, and red pencils, amoteur CPA’s Donna Meredith and Nancy Branch tally endless rows of numbers. Machines Whir; Fingers, Minds Fly in Business Classes Despite language barrier, Mr. Houlton demonstrates mechanics of typewriting to newly-arrived Greek student, Elizabeth Anton. 28 business education

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Mr. Berchekas pauses during orchestra rehearsal to tune Walter Hulstedt ' s violin, as Caroline Neal profits by in¬ struction. I Employing their talents in depicting the Nativity scene in a wall-length mural for the Christmas season are art students, John Butler, Sandra Longacre, and Janette Sproul. Brush, Voice, Instrument Release Creative Expression GEORGE A. BERCHEKAS, MA, Director of Instrumental Music. ROBERT l. MAU- RUS, MA, Senior Glee, Girls’ Glee, Soph¬ omore chorus. Barbershop chorus. Plenty of paper, paint, metals, chalk, and creative thought are necessary to the art department in teaching stu¬ dents to appreciate and enjoy art. Through hours of group and individ¬ ual practice and actual performing, the band and orchestra members earn a musical education and exercise their talents. The speech department, through plays, interpretive reading, original monologues, and extracurricular per¬ formances, equips students to comm¬ unicate and express themselves better. Up and down the scales go the members of the vocal music depart¬ ment as they develop better tones through proper breathing and learn the value of good music and the en¬ joyment of singing. SARA MAE McElHINNEY, MA, Art. E. DOROTHY PETERSON, MA, Speech, Di¬ rector of Dramatics. Dramatic club.

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Addition is no problem for Donna Shultz, Barbara Randalls, and Rosemary Shepherd as they master the technique of the adding machines under the direction of Miss Marjorie Anderson. Typical school activities like spell¬ ing contests, typing and shorthand tim¬ ings, math tests, balancing budgets, and writing assignments may never be repeated in the business world; but the knowledge they provide and the skills they develop will be utilized in future careers. These practical prepar¬ ations are carried on in the shorthand, accounting, personal records, clerical practice, secretarial training, and com¬ mercial arithmetic and law classes. The effective teaching of instructors and the mechanically well-equipped business education courses are respon¬ sible for ably preparing the 90 per cent of the students in this depart¬ ment who enter some type of busi¬ ness. MARJORIE ANDERSON, BA, Clerical Prac¬ tice, Stenography. EUGENE E. BUCK, BA, Typing, Accounting, Hi-Y, Y Canteen, Sophomore girls’ chorus. CARRIE EKBLAD, BA, Secretarial Training, Stenography. FRED R. HOUITON, MS, Stenography, Typing, Sophomore basketball. HE¬ LEN LEARY, BA, Business Law, Accounting. CHARLOTTE STONE, BA. Accounting. business