Rockford High School - RHS Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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HIE Commercial course, which is offered by the Rock-- ford High School is one of the most complete and practical to be found in the high schools of the state. The embryo of the Commercial department was in pen- manship and commercial arithmetic. The four years of the high school course are devoted to the teaching of modern business essentials. The aim of the department is to pre- pare its students in such a thorough and efiicient manner. that they will be able to enter upon all active business career immediately after graduating from high school. Accuracy, neatness and speed is the motto of every commercial stu- flentg accuracy is the first requisite of a successful business man and with this qualification neatness is closely allied, and lastly speed is encouraged. Arithmetic, spelling, penmanship and business corre- spondence are the foundation upon which the work ill ac- counting and advanced book-keeping is based. This divi-- sion of the commercial course is covered in the first two years of high school. The work covers the fundamental principles of accounting in private and partnership concerns and in the advanced course deals with corporations. ln close connection with this is the study of banking. The last two years are devoted to stenography. The Gregg system of shorthand is taught, and in typewriting the student may choose between the Underwood, Reming- ton and Oliver machines. The first year in shorthand and typewriting is spent in manual work, in order that the student may become familiar with the principles of each. Speed is the object of the second year of study, and for graduation the student must be able to write at least forty words a minute on the typewriter and take the dictation of new matter at one hundred words per minute and make a perfect transcription of those notes. Twenty-live

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UU U az':x:'.'::.::mLr'z'f.i r: .:.11'..L:.2.L :5:7L.:,.' ..'.. .- ..: . A A' :u.g::a.1axa mi' ll ll llllll E RADUALLY, more and more of the girls are taking up some branch of the Domestic Arts now offered in our school. This course comprises Home Economics, Cooking and Sewing. Cooking is probably the most important partnof this de- partment. As foundation for this, Home Economics must be taken. In this study, the basis for the whole course is laid. The testing of materials for their heating. nutritive and tissue building properties and experiments with com- binations and mixtures form an important part of the work. The concoction of varied and delicious dishes is the most interesting part of cooking, and also the most advanced for the plainer food must be made first. This year the furnishing and serving at the Gym. dances has made the work unusually interesting. The breakfasts, luncheons and dinners served by the classes to each other and to the faculty have given the girls a useful knowledge of setting the table for the various meals and serving as well as cooking them. The sewing classes are a very beneficial part of the Do- mestic Arts department. Here the girls are taught to draft their own patterns, which insures originality in dress. Each girl makes an entire outfit for herself during the year. The teachers of this department are very competent. Miss Janet Cation is the head, with the Misses lflelah John- son and Helen Reber as her assistants. Miss Cation is a graduate of Bradley Institute and has taught in the Chicago schools. Miss Johnson graduated from the D. S. depart- ment of Rockford College. Miss Reber is receiving her training under Miss Cation. Twenty-seven 0