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

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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

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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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On« of the most rewarding ways of attaining new clothes ?s experienced by seamstresses Nancy Maysfield, Judith McConaughy and Carol Schmacht as they pin their patterns and baste seams. Home Economists Become Chefs, Seamstresses, Models Learning the way to a man ' s heart by pampering his stomach, Judith Kaiser and Carol Whan put together the ingredients for a chef ' s delight. Contrary to the customary classroom equipment of paper, pencil, and text¬ book, the girls of the home economics classes employ pots, pans, needles, thread, and cloth. Their homemaking arts are displayed at faculty teas and open house where the students prepare the refreshments and at style shows where the seam¬ stresses model their own creations. FLORENCE CASTEN, MA, Home Econom¬ ics, English, Y-Teens. BLISS MAPLE, MA, Home Economics, FHA. 30 home economics