Southern High School - Southerner Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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Pounding away diligently at the keys, Typing I neighbor. In addition to acquiring speed and ic students strive to achieve that GO words per minuten curacy, they also learn how to type letters, themes ind or perhaps simply to score higher than their next door outlines. CPZLIFHIGHI Bookkeeping can bring frowns and headaches to its learners, but here Ellen Mize and Tommy Smith seem to be enjoying all those figures ind balances. Bookkeeping involves journalizing and posting the dif- ferent transactions that occur in a business. It also makes the student more business-minded and more aware of his own business transactions, Shorthand is a necessary skill, for being able to take notes quickly and to transcribe them gives the future busi- ness leaders of our world a greater opportunity. Such skill may be acquired in the shorthand and office practice classes. Office Practice acquaints the students with the general procedures followed in an office. This course continues Typing, Shorthand, and Bookkeeping at a higher level and ntroduces the students to office machines. The Commercial Department also helps cut stencils ind mimeograph copies of programs for assemblies, exami- iations, and many other papers. This department is cer- ainly an asset to our Southern world. juniors selecting the general course select General lusiness. Interest is one topic of study. Tommy Goodwin nd Mike King are shown here explaining an interest prob- emi' to the class. .Sfevenly-Nine

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Bookkeeping classes have enjoyed the abundance Mrs. Newton is shown explaining exercises to her h 'ded. Bookkeeping I class. of spaciousness that our new quarters ave provi l Students in Office Practice develop additional skills in shorthand, as well as learn how to operate various office machines. lane Perry and Io Ann Crissman are shown operating the mimeograph. Preparing those students who desire a job after higl school is another important phase of our curriculum. Sucl preparation is offered by the Commercial Department. We especially want to recognize this department whicl has this year occupied the new wing built particularly fo: business work. The department consists of three large typ ing rooms, a bookkeeping classroom, a shorthand classroom and an office practice room. Many students have found that business subjects hav: practical value in addition to vocational value. For thi reason, many students choose typing since they find it bene ficial in typing term papers, book reports, and miscellan eous papers. Some further their typing skills by continuing into Typing II. Bookkeeping I and II are offered in the junior an' Senior years. Transcribing shorthand notes is no easy trick as thes4 three girls will tell you. Pat McLean, Nancy Tillman, an' Becky Bullock soberly and confidentally eye their notes a they prepare the finished product of Mrs. Newtonis dictz tion. Commcrei:

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Sciene 1 Dr. Cithens, a noted physicist, is shown at the Word because this was the day that Dr. Cithens ex- board explaining the powers of ten rotation of num- plained the operation of the slide rule and its won- bers to his experimental class at Southern. drous speed of calculating. The students seem to be listening to his every XVoody Cribb and Tommy Parrish are pic- tured explaining and demonstrating the distilla- tion of alcohol before the other members of the Senior Science Class. The Biological Brood of Sciences are pic tured here as they appeared in one of the dis- play windows in the Science Department. 'DA no Because the science courses at Southern are all electives except Biology, the science department is probably the most enjoyable of our school. Many Freshmen elect General Science and receive a well- rounded picture of our broad scientific world. All Sophomores take Biology for a more- detailed picture of the worlds of plants and ani- mals. Chemistry has become a very popular subject for Iuniors at Southern. The challenge of compli- cated experiments lures many students into the study of the elements. Armed with flasks, test tubes, and graduated cylinders, they venture into an ex- periment hoping for results rather than an ex- plosion. One further step up the ladder is Physics.