San Pedro High School - Black and Gold Yearbook (San Pedro, CA)

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1 In Office CareiTs. Shirley Tokicfi idds up deduc lions to get tfie net pay for payroll cficcks. 2 In Office Careers, students are divided into learning units In the banking section. Ann Ryan. Shari Carswell and Cindy Newton sort out checks and deposit slips 3 4 Beginning each school day right after the tardy bell, students Tammy Fizufich and Liz Stavros practice shorthand by taking letter dictation 5 Typing up the payroll checks is one of the many things Delores Finka does in her Business Careers class 6 Getting acquainted with business machines, stu- dents like Mary Ann Lauro must clock in and out each day in Office Procedures fiusiness Careers

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IT S fflY Business! What classes contain all ethnic groups, all majors and all abilities? Give up? Try Business classes. Majoring in business gave students a choice of immediate transition into work or up to the professional level of business. Enrollment was as always very high due to the activities involving using hands. The end product was being trained for professional work, stated Mrs Gloria Willard. The most popular business classes taken were Business Machines, Typing, Accounting and Office Job Training. Stu- dents who majored in business were pre- paring for secretarial, accounting, book- keeping, sales and clerical jobs. What was new about business classes? Office Careers! In this vocational class, students achieved the abilities of clerical, notehand and typing review skills

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RCflDinG.UIRITinC AnD ODDinC 1. As part of a class project in Vocational Wood. Tom Flaherty saws off the trimming brace on the supply: shed the class constructed for track equip- 2 In Advanced Placement History. John Donnellv waits to ask a question about Jacksonian Democ- raci . Students who pass this class can receive college credit. 3 In Notehand, instructor Nick Van Lue checks the worksheet of Maria Jovanov on which she practices notehand symbols. Many college prep students find this class very useful in learning skills for college lectures. 2 For college preparation, special classes were offered. AP (Advanced Placement) English and History classes gave the stu- dent a taste of what college classes would be like. In addition the students could receive college credit, if they passed the year-end exam. Cal State Dominguez Hills offered a class on Basic Logic on campus in the spring. Approximately 25 students received college credit. In classes such as Mr. Richard Ber- geron and Tony Scirocco ' s Advanced Composition, students learned vocabu- lary and writing skills necessary for college entrance. College Adviser George Patton played a vital part in helping students get finan- cial aid and applying for universities He ' s a wizard at getting scholarships for students, ' ' remarked one teacher. Academics or sit-down classes, were not the only subjects to fit the College Prep category. While most people thought of college prep as meaning get- ting ready for Harbor, Long Beach State, etc. , there was at least one other category. Drafting students often con- tinued their work at Harbor College. Another junior college, LA Trade Tech, had a national reputation of excellance, carpentry or graphic art students found their way there. Whatever it was, students found them- selves preparing for college. 4. Readin ' . writin ' and . . Many academic classes fall into one of the three basic categorie s. Mary Valgellini studies her Italian. Dan McCrae takes notes in Physics, while Morton Erinson uses a calcu- lator to compute his answer. But in many academic classes, long-winded teachers also send students into trances. Mark Erbacker stares off the spread. just as many students also stare off into space dur- ing class. .m ms