Saint Alphonsus High School - Arrow Yearbook (Dearborn, MI)

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Students Prepare for a Business Future Our Business Department certainly prepares capable students for a career in business. The experienced leadership of Sr. Clare Charles and Mr. Pachla along with the charm- ing style of Mr. Vanderwill, a newcomer to St. Al's, blend together to produce able-bodied bookkeepers and secretaries. Just walk into any Shorthand class and you'll hear the familiar sounds of a few years ago led by Sr. Clare Charles, P-i-e-s-: please. Then up the stairs and around the corner to 201, the 'click-clack' of busy typewriters rings through the halls to the beat of Mr. Pachla's, f, space, g, space. Or, if you wish, you could visit one of Mr. Vanderwill's General Business or Bookkeeping classes. There you'd discover that Assets equal liabilities plus proprietorship. This is the Book- keeping Equation. Students appreciate good instructors — those who know their work and teach it well. Teach- ers also appreciate alert students who learn and study well. In a combined effort, both teachers and students learn the mechanics of business.

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28 ABOVE: Mr. Vanderwill emphasizes the Articles of Proprietor- ship to his students in General Business. UPPER RIGHT: Sr. Clare Charles dictates Shorthond to Senior girls who easily transcribe it. BELOW RIGHT: Nancy Kalinowski seriously approaches her conditioning exercise for the day in Typing I. FAR LOWER RIGHT: After prayer has opened the class, Mr. Pachla informs his typists of their directives for the day.

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Fine Arts Brings Out Talents in Students Today we hear the expression Express Your- self and that is what the students of St. Al- phonsus are doing this year in Art, Band and Choral. It is through our instructors that the stu- dents in these fields bring out the best in what ever they try to accomplish. Sr. Marie Harold tries to give her students the best possible background in art. She directs the students in her classes through the channels open to their creative individual talents. Mr. Leo Tallieu brings out the best in the mem- bers of the band. It is through his guidance that our band is able to look so spectacular on the football field at half time. It is also through the enthusiastic response of the students that it per- forms so well. Sr. Grace Adelaide's job is one of the hardest. Channeling the energy of the students into that of singing, she tries to get the students to sing as loudly as they cheer at our games. She has them express themselves through classical as well as the more popular tunes. While all of these are ways of expressing oneself, the whole force of the Fine Arts De- partment is shown in the School Operetta. Art, Band, and Choral join forces to express the spirit of the school itself. 30