St Mel High School - Knight Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Typewriting is not too hard the way beginners type, from books. The hard part is putting back into words the shorthand notes we took in dictation. Plenty of practice makes us good at both. Once like all high schools, St. Mel was almost exclusively a Commercial Academy. Nowadays about 40 per cent of the Seniors are in either the Secretarial or General Commercial Courses. Both groups are carefully trained for business, but the General group is given more immediate preparation for employment while the Secretarial Course usu- ally looks ahead to further schooling after high school. Informed by commercialists of an open field for male secre- taries, they spend long hours mastering the Gregg symbols and become well-trained in Stenography. At the present time the valuable skill of typewriting is only available to Commercial students, but plans seem underway to allow an increasing number to benefit by this necessary training, which is nearly indispensable in many types of work, and helpful in almost all. Brother Eugene, with forty years' experience of teaching in the Commercial field is dean of this section, while Mr. Bowler, who began teaching here twenty years ago, teaches Bookkeeping and Brother Bernard handles Stenography. Mathematics of some kind is es- sential in every field of instruction and in every walk of life. A wide variety of courses are offered at St. Mel. All students take at least three years of Math adapted to their par- ticular course of studies. Here Fred Laccabue explains a theorem from solid geometry, the most advanced course, to Harry Bardwell and Don- ald Baumgartner.