St Mary Central High School - Renard Yearbook (Menasha, WI)

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Bookkeeping students Kay Daigle, Sharon Fredericks and Rick Jungen find that adding columns is a totally new experience. Each year the competitive business world presents a greater challenge to our graduates. Here at St. Mary, the students in the commercial courses are prepared to meet these chal- lenges with a self-assurance enabling them to succeed. Gen- eral business previews all the aspects of business. It is the springboard to the more detailed courses, and it serves as a background for the complicated procedures concerned with insurance forms, semi-annual interest, and timetables. In ofhce practice, future receptionists, file clerks, and pri- vate secretaries gain the necessary knowledge ence with the various machines used in most on how to keep the boss happy, and hints grooming are also explored. The primary skills and experi- ofifices. Tips on personal of the typist are developed in Typing I classes, in Typing H classes these skills are built upon to insure a maximum of speed and a minimum of errors. Speed and the ability to get something readable down on paper is stressed in both shorthand classes. Transcription class gives the students a chance to translate their shorthand notes on the type- writer into neat, mailable letters, thus initiating them into the routine of daily oflice work. Bookkeeping affords the students enough practice in figuring columns, numbers, and ledgers so that they can balance the books instead of juggle them. With these courses mastered, the students can successfully enter into the Held of good business. OHice practice student Gary Levandowski is the picture of the future junior executive. 'ss-az:-...V F We Christine Harris decides that shorthand is not as easy as it looks, though Eileen Redfield would have us think so.

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,Lf Typing H student Janet Schrnitzer knows that in a timing one's never saved by the bell, and Bill Beisenstein is no exception. SPRINGBOARD TO THE CLERICAL OFFICE Patty Harold, Mary Kampo, and Sandy Porsche demonstrate the many positions that a secretary often assumes in the business world. General business student Dick Larsen finds that it's easier to check the balance than to balance the checks. E

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The face is familiar, but I can't remember the name, muses sculpture student Sue Rueckl. The boundaries of an art classroom are limitless for Lee Pritzl, Marty Singer and Ken Reimer. Be careful! Don't point that torch at meli' exclaims Art II student George Birling to Kathy Weigman. PERFECTIO THE ULTIMATE GO L Perfection is the goal of every artist. Under the guidance of Sister Mary Regine, young Picassos,, and 6'DaVincis', turn out finished products, which vary from chalk drawings to wood carvings to delicate plaster figurines. All these require an artis- tic eye, a taste for color coordination, and most im- portant, nimble, creative lingers. These qualities are all developed and perfected in Art I, Art II, and sculpture. Industry, likewise, requires precise, imaginative people to help us keep abreast of modern trends. Mechanical drawing fulfills this demand by in- structing the students in the solving of basic con- struction problems. With the cooperation of Menasha High, boys receive training in machine shop, which contributes to their understanding of the complex nature of our most modern mechan- ical wonders. This training assures them of success in the Held of skilled labor.