Southside High School - Southerner Yearbook (Muncie, IN)

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Business trains for careers or just goodt pin abilit The clicking of typewriters, add- ing machines, and stenotypes were familiar sounds of business students at work, Many students took typing as a general road to easy legibility of papers. Those working towards a business career continued with shorthand, business law, otlice machines, and bookkeeping courses. In the fall the Business Depart- ment sent approximately seventy students to Ball State this year for a day long seminar on uMoney Man- agementfl an important concern for teenagers contemplating adult re- sponsibilities in family and business finances. Perhaps even more vocational in nature were the DE and DCE class- es. Distributive Education students spent half the day at Southside learning the testbook aspects of particular occupations, such as effec- tive sales techniques and artistic window display arrangement. Fourth period they went out to work, gaining from experience what could not be taught in school and earning money in the process. Distributive Cooperative Educa- tion was similar to the older course except that the jobs tended to be in service fields instead of marketing. ABOVE: At the Open House Business Depart- ment demonstration, seniors Pauline Bell and Lois Jones exhibit skills in shorthand dictation acquired in class work. RIGHT: Senior Phil Brown computes sums on the adding machine. Phillip Carey .3 I 'B 'NK'nqg,.4. I Carl Humphrev Mrs. Edith Neiman

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v.. ..+.... New math and lab Work encourage analytical thinking i'New mathematics isn't new at allg it is just an attempt to know the rea- son why we perform certain opera- tionsf, This phrase demonstrated the ap- proach Soutside used in the teaching of math. The college prep courses were sequential, the student often traveling from geometry to algebra to advanced math, each course closely connected with the last. Business math and general arithme- tic taught the student practical meth- ods of solving common problems en- countered in personal finance and public accounting. A sudden explosion from the chem- istry lab, the smell ofa dissected pig, the well-trimmed court-all were signs of the sciences in action. And they did keep on the movel Protective goggles, now required by state law, were used in laboratory work. Plans were made for the con- struction of an animal house to give the Zoology animals living space as well as the botany plants. Chem. Study was discontinued, making all chemistry classes identical. Physics, botany, Zoology, chemistry and advanced biology were offered. ABOVE: Gayle Bothhaar, sr., observes skin tissue cells in advanced biology. LEFT: A physics experiment on mirrored light re- quires some explanation by Mr. Scheerer for juniors Virginia Swan and Ann Bell in fourth period. 37

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