Rome Free Academy - De O Wain Sta Yearbook (Rome, NY)

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GUARDIANS OF RFA Keeping the school in orderly condition re- quires the custodian staff to be on duty twenty- four hours a day. Under the direction of Oscar Beer, the staff keeps the school both safe and clean. This year, with a decrease in the size of the student body, Rome Free Academy has once : again returned to two lunch periods. Besides A : the daily lunches, the cafeteria staff also pre- BY ) pares the meals of Colgate Seminar, French - Club, Block “R” Club, gymleaders, and the oF 4 — — ¢ ' varsity football team. ABOVE: R. Witt, P. Muldoon, D. Tomeo RIGHT: A. Pettinelli, A. Bertone, J. Bar- tolotti, D. Orians. LEFT: M. Mosca, A. Garafalo, R. Hosley, P. Demarco, C. Harrington, K. Ferrucci.

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OFFICE STAFF Doris Davison Office Staff Betty Heberlig Office Staff Doris Messenger Nurse Helen Anson Office Staff Eleanore Doty Library Bernice Hirtenstein Guidance Staff ) LUV CAs Marie Pangburn Office Staff 22 Helen Bostwick Office Staff Joan Guy Nurse Anne Imler Guidance Staff Loretta Wolzmuth Nurse

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FUTURE BUSINESS LEADERS “I'm not going to type that!” Dear Abby. . . Even computers are not infallible. Rome Free Academy has taken great strides towards the future in its ever-expanding business program. The installation of such IBM data pro- cessing machines as the sorter, the reproducer, the printer, and the key punch machines repre- sents a milestone in business education, not only in Rome, but throughout our entire state. We are one of a few schools that have ventured to in- clude this as a scholastic rather than a vocational course in our curriculum.This course presents an opportunity for students to learn the operation of data processing machines and gain a broad background knowledge of the field. Initiating his first computer course this year with a select num- ber of seniors, Mr. Hickey is enthusiastic in mak- ing this IBM course a success. It is the ambition of the department to develop an interest within the student for his work in later life. Our school is proud of its farsighted leaders who initiated this unique program. Although other schools are using data processing machines in administra- tional work, RFA is one of a very few schools in the entire state which actually teaches data pro- cessing courses. Our business department, with its fourteen in- structors, offers a wide variety of subjects: typ- ing, shorthand, bookkeeping, transcription, sales- manship, business management, office practice, business law, and business and commercial math. It is the ambition of the business department that, through future expansion, they will be even better prepared to provide the college-bound student with courses which he will find beneficial in further studies and future life and to provide the business major with a well prepared back- ground for his future career. “Must I repeat it again?”