St Ferdinand High School - Crusader Yearbook (Ferdinand, IN)

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Busy Business Students Battle To Build Skill Clogged keys, flying caps, and errors galore make life a never-ending battle for Typing I students. Having weathered one year of typing, some courageous few try another and end up fighting figures on add- ing machines and calculators—not to men- tion occasional encounters with the ditto machine. Bookkeeping students attack with fin- esse their financial difficulties. With care- ful accounting they keep track of their straying nickels and dimes and keep out of the red. Meanwhile business law students are learning to wiggle out of law suits, and shorthand students are running a wild chase to keep up with the dictator. Sister Mary Aquin Typing Mr. Leon Olinger Business ABOVE: “Two heads are better than one,” say Urban Klem and Pat Haake, “especially when filling out bookkeeping forms.” LEFT: it’s a five minute timed typing exercise that holds Judy Steltenpohl and Debbie Lueken in such suspended concentra- tion. FAR LEFT: Face to face with numbers and machines, Mary Lou Gudorf and Barbara Hedinger prove themselves very adept. 25

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Seams Awry? Dough Like Glue? Avoid Disaster - Take Home Ec! Sewing machines are clattering away. Patterns, pins, and material are strewn over all the tables. The oven is on and something smells scrumptious. A dress just made is being pressed. And hidden away in the corner are two girls strug- gling to straighten out their budgets for the month. What is this happening? In the home- ec room of St. Ferdinand High. Yes,G6 is a hive of activity. There are girls everywhere learning the “hows” of the modern woman. So look out! Here come our future homemakers! Sister Josepha explains to her girls how to cut bias tape.